With many area schools using Chromebooks in their 1:1 deployments, the title of this post may have got a lot of hearts racing! ARS Technica is reporting that Google might be looking to combine Chrome OS and Android. Some have said this means Chrome OS is going to be killed off. While others believe it won’t. Like many news bits in tech, it seems to early to tell.
Hiroshi Lockheimer, the new senior vice president of Android and Chrome OS weighted in on Twitter why you shouldn’t be worried about Chrome OS. Does it placate you?
There’s a ton of momentum for Chromebooks and we are very committed to Chrome OS. I just bought two for my kids for schoolwork!
Ars Technica recently had a piece about the Australian Prime Minister running his own private email server. Politics aside, there was a paragraph that caught CMLE’s eye regarding self-destructing messaging apps. In the article, they talk about the messaging apps Confide and Wickr. Both of which use encryption to ensure privacy for their users. Confide promises that you can:
Communicate digitally with the same level of privacy and security as the spoken word. With encrypted messages that self-destruct, Confide gives you the comfort of knowing that your private messages will now truly stay that way.
Where as Wickr uses peer-to-peer encryption to promise that ” We protect messages with multiple layers of encryption and set your messages to expire by default.”
Is this the new level of messaging that will protect our privacy?
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How do you interact with your devices? A mouse? Speaking? Touch? Typing? Many of these ways we use without even thinking about them. But what interface changes lead to these modern conveniences?
The staff from Ars Technica checked out the Vintage Computer Festival East to find out. This festival examined the periods of interface innovation in many of our devices – young and old. From looking at an old Commodore 64 to exploring the Palm Pilot, the exhibits looked at how interfaces have changed but also what changes those interfaces lead to.
With many area schools using Chromebooks in their 1:1 deployments, the title of this post may have got a lot of hearts racing! ARS Technica is reporting that Google might be looking to combine Chrome OS and Android. Some have said this means Chrome OS is going to be killed off. While others believe it won’t. Like many news bits in tech, it seems to early to tell.
