Chromebook 11 & Office (Finally) for iPad?

Google has announced the HP Chromebook 11. Like all Chromebooks, everything’s in the cloud, but it’s the price of a smartphone at $279, and has a very sharp 11 inch screen. The case is very similar to the polycarbonate MacBooks of a few years ago.

A small Silicon Valley startup called Kumu Networks is working on radically reinventing wireless communications. Their system would effectively double the capacity of both cellular and wifi systems, according to the Wall St Journal.

Some very long awaited news for people who are really trying to make the iPad more of a productive device- following the introduction of a touch interface Office on Windows machines, Microsoft will release Office for iPads. It’s way past about time. Could the release of Apple’s suite on the web for free have pushed them a bit on this?