Google's Cr-48 Chrome OS Netbooks Are Over

Google has beat its accumulation of Cr-48 Chrome OS netbooks and will delay until afterwards on this year to address notebooks with its partners.

According to a March 8 cheep by Google's controlling Sundar Pichai, the aggregation has beat its food of the Cr-48 netbooks, which the aggregation began aircraft aftermost year afterwards the barrage of the Chrome OS.

"Sorry, we accept alien all units for now," Pichai wrote. "Thank you for your interest, and we will accept accomplice accessories out mid-year."

Pichai's cheep was accepted by a Google spokeswoman. "The acknowledgment to the Pilot affairs over the accomplished few months has been fantastic, and absorption in aerodynamics Chrome notebooks has abundantly surpassed our expectations," she said in an email. " At this time we are no best accepting fresh applications for the Pilot affairs and no best aircraft units. We are attractive advanced to our accomplice accessories afterwards this year."

The netbooks were basically beta devices, seeded to reporters and developers to alter their accepted notebooks. Although the Cr-48s booted bound to the Chrome Web browser, bound functionality, including the disability to affix to a VPN and bound USB support, fabricated them difficult to assignment into a circadian business routine.

However, Google approved to be a bit altered with its netbook.

Out of the box, the Cr-48 conjured images of the Black Apple MacBook, from the plain, rubberized anatomy to what looks like the aforementioned chiclet-style keyboard.

The full-size keyboard doesn't attending like the ones on your boilerplate Windows laptop. There is no Caps Lock key. Instead you get a Search Key with a Magnifying Glass figure that launches fresh tabs in your Chrome browser/OS. If you absolutely absence it, Chrome OS will let you to backslide aback to a Caps Lock key in its settings tool. The Function keys, or the top-most row of keys begin in best keyboards, are axed save for the ESC key. Replacing the Function keys are buttons for brightness, volume, and power, as able-bodied as aberrant ones, such as aback and advanced (for Web pages), refresh, abounding awning and "next window" keys.

Now, it's up to Google's ally to chase through. In December, Google said it affairs to absolution two, Intel-based Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung in mid-2011, with Verizon Wireless accouterment cellular connectivity. No appraisement advice has been appear for the accessible Acer and Samsung devices; Google has said its ally will authority their own barrage contest in the approaching with added details.

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Google's Cr-48 Chrome OS Netbooks Are Over

Google has beat its accumulation of Cr-48 Chrome OS netbooks and will delay until afterwards on this year to address notebooks with its partners.

According to a March 8 cheep by Google's controlling Sundar Pichai, the aggregation has beat its food of the Cr-48 netbooks, which the aggregation began aircraft aftermost year afterwards the barrage of the Chrome OS.

"Sorry, we accept alien all units for now," Pichai wrote. "Thank you for your interest, and we will accept accomplice accessories out mid-year."

Pichai's cheep was accepted by a Google spokeswoman. "The acknowledgment to the Pilot affairs over the accomplished few months has been fantastic, and absorption in aerodynamics Chrome notebooks has abundantly surpassed our expectations," she said in an email. " At this time we are no best accepting fresh applications for the Pilot affairs and no best aircraft units. We are attractive advanced to our accomplice accessories afterwards this year."

The netbooks were basically beta devices, seeded to reporters and developers to alter their accepted notebooks. Although the Cr-48s booted bound to the Chrome Web browser, bound functionality, including the disability to affix to a VPN and bound USB support, fabricated them difficult to assignment into a circadian business routine.

However, Google approved to be a bit altered with its netbook.

Out of the box, the Cr-48 conjured images of the Black Apple MacBook, from the plain, rubberized anatomy to what looks like the aforementioned chiclet-style keyboard.

The full-size keyboard doesn't attending like the ones on your boilerplate Windows laptop. There is no Caps Lock key. Instead you get a Search Key with a Magnifying Glass figure that launches fresh tabs in your Chrome browser/OS. If you absolutely absence it, Chrome OS will let you to backslide aback to a Caps Lock key in its settings tool. The Function keys, or the top-most row of keys begin in best keyboards, are axed save for the ESC key. Replacing the Function keys are buttons for brightness, volume, and power, as able-bodied as aberrant ones, such as aback and advanced (for Web pages), refresh, abounding awning and "next window" keys.

Now, it's up to Google's ally to chase through. In December, Google said it affairs to absolution two, Intel-based Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung in mid-2011, with Verizon Wireless accouterment cellular connectivity. No appraisement advice has been appear for the accessible Acer and Samsung devices; Google has said its ally will authority their own barrage contest in the approaching with added details.

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IE8, Safari, iPhone, BlackBerry exploited in Pwn2Own contest

Researchers competing for $15,000 awards were competent to successfully knock Net Human 8 on Windows 7, Expedition on Mac OS X, the iPhone 4, and the BlackBerry Burner 9800 in an period cyberpunk repugn at the CanSecWest safeguard association this hebdomad.

For a variety of reasons, no efforts were prefab to onslaught Chrome, Firefox, Humanoid or Windows Sound 7, the arranger of the Pwn2Own repugn told CNET today.

One group of experts that had an tap prepared to try against Windows 7 had to take because of jaunt issues, according to Aaron Portnoy, administrator of assets search for HP DV Labs and pass for the ZDI (Nought Day Initiatory) programme that sponsors Pwn2Own.

Windows 7 also was feat to be a train for Martyr Hotz, who goes by the programmer folk "Geohot," but he withdrew to point on his ratified denial, Portnoy said. Hotz has been sued by Sony for allegedly violating copyright laws by distributing tools that jailbreak the PlayStation 3, which allows abode brew and pirated applications to be played on the console.

Other contestant who was achievement to mark Safari, Humanoid, and iPhone withdrew at the substance of his affiliate, Portnoy said, declining to refer the contestant or his employer or to theorize why. And Duo Guard researcher Jon Oberheide said he blew his chances at exploiting Humanoid in the contend by wrong assuming that a bug he newly plant and rumored to Google directly was undesirable for the circumstance.

The unit that successfully victimised the BlackBerry also was cerebration to attack Chrome, but spent their period on exploits for else targets, he said. Portnoy said he believed they would hold been competent to utilize Chrome because he "can evidence to their attainment."

On Wednesday, Chaouki Bekrar of Nation safeguard accompany Vupen was fit to blast Safari by using a drive-by download. Ireland-based researcher Writer Few of Compatibility Guarantee victimised various bugs to licking the memory protections in IE8, as fortunate as bypass DEP (Data Enforcement Bar) and ASLR (Tact Grapheme Layout Randomization) on a laptop lengthways Windows 7.

Few's IE utilise was the most signal of the contend, according to Portnoy. "He had leash disparate vulnerabilities he used in bike to work IE and bust out of IE's shielded average, which is Microsoft's equal to plaything structure," he said. "It was a single skillfulness he determined."

Meantime, Cyberspace Mortal 9 does not hold the bug Fewer utilised in the competition, according to Microsoft. A fix for IE8 is state worked on, Jerry Bryant, a forgather trainer with the Microsoft Guard Greeting Centre, told Computerworld.

Yesterday, leash researchers--Willem Pinckaers, Vincenzo Iozzo, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann--used triplet bugs to utilize the BlackBerry application and run their snipe encrypt on the pattern. Charlie Dramatist, who successfully thwarted Expedition on the Mac the other terzetto period, victimised a new utilise he created with associate Dion Blazakis to run cipher on the iPhone after surfing to a Web diplomatist hosting spiteful code.

Writer, a investigator at Unaffiliated Guard Evaluators, noted that the iOS 4.3 software Apple free on Wed includes ASLR, which would somewhat mitigate his employ. "The vulnerability I constitute is allay in there, but it would be harder to correspond for it today than it would make been a few days ago," he said in a phone discourse.

Finished the Cypher Day First the Pwn2Own winners distribute the exploits with the companies whose software is stilted so they can be patched. Researchers who see exploits they weren't able to try in the competition can also report them through the revelation thought and get freelance.

"It was nice to see that some of the platforms that didn't go downward last period went descending this year, equal the BlackBerry," Portnoy said. "Media and open representation makes it seem that these devices are thick if they weren't hacked at the competition," which is not the mortal.

In element to currency prizes, winners in the contend get laptops or smartphones, depending on the document they target. Google also had said it would pay $20,000 to anyone who successfully attacked Google code as share of the Plate contest. CanSecWest was held in Navigator, Canada, this hebdomad.

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