Dell in Talks with Google over Dell Branded Chrome OS Netbooks

by Chromebook.co.uk on June 22, 2010

Amit Midha, a top Dell executive in Greater China and South Asia said on Monday, “We have to have a point of view on the industry and technology direction two years, three years down the road, so we continuously work with Google on this,”
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