Tag Archive: Acer

The Chromebook Is Leading Sales on Amazon

According to the online retailer, one of the highest selling laptops is the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. While this may come as a shock to many specialists, considering the netbook’s lack of offline support, as well many networks currently struggling to cope with the mobile data transmissions, the reality behind Google’s sound success simply boils…

Google Sued In Chromebook Trademark Dispute

ISYS Technologies has launched a lawsuit against Google and its partners for their choice of the Chromebook label for the upcoming Chrome OS powered notebook devices, which will be initially be manufactured by Samsung and Acer. ISYS is the parent company of Xi3 Corporation, whose ChromiumPC Modular computer (see picture below) we wrote about recently…

Acer Chromebook Renamed – Acer Cromia AC761

Ever since the annocement of Acer’s Chrome OS powered notebook we have always thought that this device would simply be called the Acer Chromebook. Well, a recent update to Amazon’s listing of this device shows that they have been directed by Acer to name it the ‘Acer Cromia AC761′. Acer’s Croma notebook will be released…

Congratulations To Developer Contest Winners HootSuite and MyXMLia

A few weeks ago we decided to kick off our first ever (and definitely not last) contest to win free advertising on ChromeAdvisor.com. This contest was focused on developers of Chrome Web Apps in honor of the 2011 Google I/O Developer Conference that was held on May 10 and 11 and which led to some…