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Japan Could Get Mozilla Firefox OS Smartphones
01/21/2013, Japan has been identified as a possible market where smartphones running on the Mozilla Firefox operating system will appear, despite the fact that smartphones on that mobile operating system would mainly target emerging markets such as South America, and with [...]
Microsoft Working On A Low-Cost OS That Can Be Upgraded Annually [Rumor]
11/28/2012, Microsoft seems to be working on a new low-cost operating system that can be upgradeable annually. According to The Verge, Microsoft is developing a Windows software that will work across Windows and Windows Phone devices. Sources say that the new [...]
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 [...]
Seesmic abandons support for the BlackBerry operating system
06/20/2011, Poor RIM. After reporting financial losses and poor sales for its recent quarterly report, product delays, upset shareholders and consumers; the company hasn’t exactly been having a ball of a time lately. Now, it looks like even developers are beginning [...]
Mozilla introduces Webian Shell 0.1
06/07/2011, Mozilla has just announced a new project called Webian Shell 0.1. While at first glance a lot of people might think “a Chrome OS competitor!” it’s not at the same level yet (at least for now). Webian Shell is exactly [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook OS Gets In-App Payments
06/07/2011, We all know that the BlackBerry PlayBook is one great piece of technology, but its success has been marred mostly due to the lack of apps available for the system, and its dependence on having a BlackBerry phone to tether [...]
Symbian Anna update from Nokia
04/12/2011, Nokia did confirm that they have closed Symbian to the prying eyes of the world, but that doesn’t mean it is the end of the road for the operating system as there will be a new overhaul of the operating [...]
Windows 8 heavily focused on mobile devices; will it affect the desktop experience?
04/11/2011, We all know that Windows 8 will be designed to run on tablets and according to some recent reports, the next version of Windows will put a heavy focus on mobile devices. Windows 8 will supposedly feature a welcome/unlock screen [...]
Windows 7 finally overtakes Windows XP’s desktop OS market share
04/08/2011, According to the latest results of the desktop OS market share in the US for April 2011 collected by StatCounter, it looks like people are finally leaving Windows XP behind and getting an upgrade to Windows 7. For the first [...]
Symbian now a closed platform, says Nokia
04/08/2011, Nokia, a company that has long been working with Symbian and utilized their operating system in most of Nokia’s handsets, have come forward to confirm that the Finnish cell phone manufacturing company has decided to remove online distributions of Symbian, [...]
Motorola to create its own OS?
03/24/2011, Motorola has recently been on a hiring spree, adding experienced web engineers from Adobe and Apple to their payroll, reigniting old speculations of the company working on their own operating system. The rumors started last year when Motorola acquired Azingo, [...]
Google Chrome OS receives touch-friendly tab page
03/21/2011, Google has always maintained that their Chrome Operating System will first see action on laptops while working on a tablet-friendly version later on, but it seems that developers have already started to work on what a future Chrome version might [...]
Asus to release Google Chrome netbooks?
03/17/2011, Fans of Google’s Chrome OS might have a reason to rejoice soon. Asus, creators of some of the hottest selling netbooks around, has been rumored to be releasing new netbooks that run on Google’s Chrome OS. The rumored netbooks will [...]
