In January of this year, Neverware brought their CloudReady platform to BETT in London and offered up to users the opportunity to have the Chromium OS-based software installed on an old device. The goal behind the collaboration with Google is to give life to old devices that would otherwise find themselves purposeless and banished to […]
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“Off Hours” For Managed Chrome Devices Is Live
Last July, we uncovered an obscure commit that referenced a new Chromebook feature simply called “off hours.” After some research, I found that this was being developed as a method to remove restrictions on managed devices during specific hours that could be set and managed via Chrome’s Admin Console. We haven’t seen or heard much […]
Continue ReadingAcer Chromebook Tab 10 Gets Landing Page, Resellers Offering Pre-Order
The world’s first Chrome OS tablet is now a thing and based on Acer’s press release, the Chromebook Tab 10 will be available officially later this month. Acer has updated their website and added a dedicated landing page for the new Chrome OS tablet and it is a sight to behold. Complete with grand-scale photos […]
Continue ReadingApril Fool’s! Get Your Chromebook Pranks On
Pranksters Unite! The holiday made just for the jokster in you is now upon us and our favorite Google Educator John Sowash is back with some fun and friendly Chromebook pranks to liven up your classroom, get on over on your coworkers or maybe just annoy your wife a tad bit.
Continue Reading3 More Chromebooks Launched By CTL
Oregon-based hardware maker CTL is on fire as of late. Dropping not only the Apollo Lake-powered, 180° J41 Chromebook but what will likely be the most cost-effective Kaby Lake Chromebox to hit the market this year.
Continue ReadingAcer Chromebook R11 Not Charging? Here’s The Fix
If your Chromebook hasn’t been taking a full charge as of late, you’re not alone. It appears that a bug has found its way into the popular C738T model of the Acer Chromebook R11 and users are reporting as little as 40% battery level after a full day on the charger.
Continue ReadingCTL Takes The Chromebook J41 On Tour With Mimicking Birds at SXSW2018
CTL has been hard at it out of the gate in 2018. The Chromebook manufacturer from Oregon has already launched two Chrome devices in the past month and they’ve only just begun. While keeping busy in NYC at a Google EDU Summit, other members of the CTL team have headed South as they teamed up […]
Continue ReadingGoogle’s Song Maker Exemplifies What Is Possible With Current Web Technologies
We’ve not talked expressly about Google’s Chrome Music Lab, but it falls into the same category that Chrome Experiments does: it is a place to showcase what is possible in Chrome from different perspectives. We have discussed Voice Experiments and the Music Lab is quite similar. Take really amazing web-based tech and push it as […]
Continue ReadingCTL Announces Apollo Lake Education Chromebook
BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 6, 2018 – PRNewswire Press Release: CTL, an Oregon-based company specializing in comprehensive 1:1 solutions for education, announced today the upcoming release of the CTL Chromebook J41 for Education, the newest addition to their lineup of rugged designed CTL Chromebooks tailor-made for student use. At a glance, the new CTL Chromebook J41 […]
Continue ReadingGo-Box Chrome: Mass Chromebook Deployment In A Box
K-12 IT Administrators are often faced with the daunting task of deploying hundreds or even thousands of Chromebooks in a very short amount of time to prepare for the upcoming school year. One at a time can be an exhausting undertaking while paying for white glove services can quickly become taxing on even the biggest […]
Continue ReadingDell Launches Chromebook 5000 Series For Education, Starting at $289
Apparently, January is the choice time to launch education-focused Chromebooks in 2018. Granted, between CES and the BETT (British Educational Training and Technology show), the time is pretty ripe for announcements. Additionally, these new Chromebook offerings are now all in line for upcoming budget decisions for school systems that don’t routinely stick to to a […]
Continue ReadingMobicip: Supervised User Alternative For Chromebooks And Much More
If you have found yourself looking for an alternative to the abruptly deprecated Chrome Supervised Users, Mobicip may be exactly what you’re looking for especially if you are homeschooling or looking to monitor and restrict web activity for your family. I know there are a number of options out there for web filtering and parental […]
Continue ReadingBETT 2018: Google And Neverware Revive Old Computers
Late last year, Google stepped in to back Neverware’s latest round of investment funding and in doing so, reinforced the validity and sustainability of the Cloud Ready product that breathes life back into old PC and Mac devices. This year, at London’s annual Bett Show (formerly known as the British Educational Training and Technology Show) […]
Continue ReadingLenovo Expands Educational Chromebook Lineup
Lenovo has been busy gearing up for upcoming Educational conferences taking place in Orlando and London this week and in preparation, they have just announced multiple Chrome and Windows devices that were designed specifically for today’s classroom. Following the lead of other manufacturers, Lenovo has added two Apollo Lake devices as well as another ARM-based […]
Continue ReadingHP Bolsters Their Ranks With Two New Chromebooks
HP has been relatively quiet on the Chrome OS front in 2017. Apart from the latest HP Chromebook x360, it had been nearly a year and a half since the PC giant released a Chrome device but that all changed quite drastically this week. Along with the beast that is the HP Chromebox G2, Hewlett […]
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