All the stories tagged with: operating system
Boot to Gecko mobile operating system undergoing testing
11/07/2011, Back in July Mozilla announced its intention to enter the mobile operating system wars with its own offering called Boot to Gecko (B2G). Since then we haven’t really kept up with the project, but according the latest reports online, it [...]
Samsung considering bringing Bada into US market
10/12/2011, Samsung’s very own mobile platform, Bada, has done well for itself in Europe, and with the smartphone platform market in the US starting to look a bit crowded with Android, iOS, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone and Symbian just to name [...]
Tizen OS effort by Samsung and Intel
09/28/2011, Don’t you think that there are too many mobile operating systems going around already? While we know that MeeGo is not going to go too far, what with having the first device by Nokia running on MeeGo also being the [...]
ReactOS Windows clone needs more funding
09/13/2011, What happens when you want to clone one of the most successful computer operating systems of all time? Why, apart from talent, you will also need plenty of money – and even that is no guarantee of success in any [...]
China’s Baidu displays new mobile OS
09/02/2011, We first heard that Baidu might be making their way into the mobile operating system market more than a year ago, and with the top search engine on China developing their very own Web browser, here is the latest on [...]
Windows 8 confirmed to be getting their own app store
08/18/2011, A few months back there were rumors circulating Windows 8, and one of them was that the upcoming OS by Microsoft would be featuring an app store. Given the tablet-esque nature of the platform, it’s really not surprising that there [...]
Are Android phones really that hard to use?
08/10/2011, Some results of the latest research from ClickFox, an analytics company, show that most Americans find Android and BlackBerry phones difficult to operate. ClickFox recently did some research on smartphone service costs and transfer rates, and it turns out that [...]
USB version of OS X Lion install to be offered free to some customers
08/05/2011, Unlike Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion will not be available in disc form, which I guess is Apple’s way of trying to reduce dependency on the optical format. Instead users will be given the choice of either downloading OS [...]
Google Chrome OS successfully hacked
08/05/2011, One of Google’s Chrome OS strongest selling points was the fact that it had much better built-in security than other operating systems. The OS split up between different hard drive partitions: one swap partition, one encrypted user partition and one [...]
Boot to Gecko: Mozilla enters the OS wars
07/26/2011, Boot to Gecko - Mozilla has announced that it will be developing a new operating system for devices that will run apps primarily on the web
Mac OS X Lion downloaded over one million times in one day
07/21/2011, Apple released Mac OS X Lion yesterday, and in just 24 hours it’s managed to reach over one million downloads; setting a record for the hottest-selling operating system in Apple’s history. Despite a few minor hiccups (some programs not working [...]
Apple confirms the release of OS X Lion as today
07/20/2011, The release date of Apple’s OS X Lion has been debated for weeks, with some who have put the release date on the 14th of July last week. Since it’s already the 20th, it’s safe to assume that they were [...]
Microsoft says that they will only provide 1,000 more days of support for Windows XP
07/12/2011, Windows XP users, if you thought that you could get away with running Windows XP for the next 10 years, you’re in for a disappointment, as Microsoft has recently come out and said that support for Windows XP will be [...]
