Chrome OS gaining support for iPhone tethering via USB soon
Chromebook owners will reportedly soon be able to get 4G data via a USB-connected iPhone, saving power versus tethering over Wi-Fi.
Chrome OS
Roger Fingas
iPad wins again, Google cancels upcoming tablet products
Google is officially abandoning its tablet efforts, including two unannounced devices, a spokesperson revealed on Thursday.
Another F for Alphabet: after abandoning Android tablets last year, Google retreats from Chrome OS Pixel notebooks
After dumping support for its last remaining Android Pixel C tablet last spring, Google is starting off 2019 with another major retreat in its hardware lineup — including the cancellation of various concepts in development.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Google unveils Pixel 3 phone, Pixel Slate tablet & Google Home Hub
Firing its latest salvos at Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, Google on Tuesday announced several new devices, led by its Pixel 3 and 3 XL Android smartphones.
Apple's Macs and iPads fall to third place in US classroom use
Apple's Macs and iPads have lost significant ground in the U.S. educational market during the last three years, in 2016 slipping to third place behind Chromebooks and Windows devices, according to new research.
Google to fold Chrome OS, Android together into new OS strategy for 2017
After two years of exploration work, Google is said to be "folding" its web-based Chrome OS into its mobile Android platform, creating a single operating system strategy that it expects to unveil in 2017.
Google unveils new $149 Chromebooks, Asus-made Chromebit stick computer
Devices running Google's budding Chrome OS cloud-based operating system continue to fall in price, as the company announced two new laptop models from Chinese manufacturers Haier and Hisense, alongside a convertible Chromebook and thumb drive-sized "Chromebit" from Asus.
AppleInsider Staff
Claim that Google Chromebooks "overtook" Apple in U.S. education is false
Last week's Financial Times headline claiming that Google had overtaken Apple in U.S. education—based on data from IDC—was not just technically inaccurate but wildly misleading and served to obscure far more meaningful trends occurring in the PC market, particularly in education as well as the broader emerging segment of new computing form factors.
Google "dismantled" Android hardware initiatives after buying Nest, claims disputed report
A report seeking to profile both Google's Sundar Pichai (who replaced Andy Rubin as head of Android) and Nest founder Tony Fadell claims that Pichai appointed Fadell to run Google's hardware. Fadell retorted that the story "is 100% wrong," but neither he nor Google have refuted any of the more titillating details about Pichai or the search giant presented in the article.
Katie Marsal
