pilot program

We've had plenty of pre-knowledge on this, but surprisingly this is our first actual glimpse of Google's new unbranded Cr-48, the very first Chrome OS laptop, which will Google will distribute as its Chrome OS Pilot Program, in a sort of public beta.

Amazon pitched its Kindle Dx as a perfect replacement from having to lug around heavy textbooks in college, but it seems that the drawbacks to the technology have students pining for the old textbooks (found via Slashdot).

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have established a pilot program for enterprise Windows Server licensees.

Picture a "test pilot" and you'll probably imagine a dashing personality ready to risk life and limb in order to test the latest technology.

The Mozilla Test Pilot program is a lot like that, except you don't have to risk life or limb, and it might not give any great stories to tell at the bar.

But you could help the project with very little effort, and isn't that almost as good?

Web Crawler: "It's been just under four months since Mozilla launched its pilot program for contributions, a way for users to donate to add-on developers for their time and effort."

Research institutions that are part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence have launched a "Tools as a Service" (TaaS) cloud computing pilot program with IBM in an effort to provide researchers, students and faculty with access to business software and software development tools.