Articles on Operating Systems

Motorola to launch at least 20 smartphones in 2010 - Oct 30, 2009

Crave Is Motorola finally making a comeback? According to gadget blog Gear Log, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said at the launch of the Verizon Motorola Droid that the company will release at ... Read story »

OOMouse has more buttons than a shirt - Nov 9, 2009

Crave First impression of the OOMouse? Wow! Never have we seen so many buttons on a pointing device (18 at last count). And to top it off, it may even be the ... Read story »

The most significant thing this week: A new genre of phones defined--the App Phone - Nov 6, 2009

Blogs I've never called the iPhone or Android phone a smartphone. Somehow, the smartphone was reserved for phones which were much more limited in capability. My first smartphone was the Sony Ericsson ... Read story »

Is Windows 7 slower in different languages? - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs Earlier today I was discussing Windows 7 with a colleague in the tech department at work. We're both impressed by the slick new interface and how the Win 7 bootup and ... Read story »

Running Windows programs in Mac OS X with VMware Fusion 3.0 - Nov 2, 2009

Crave Want to run Windows side-by-side with Mac OS X on your Intel Mac? VMware Fusion just released a major update putting the software at version 3.0 and there's a lot ... Read story »

Windows 7 compatibility sticker: Netbooks not included - Oct 1, 2009

Crave Now here's an oddity: Microsoft's "Windows 7 compatible" sticker that will be affixed to nearly all Windows computers around Windows 7 launch doesn't seem to include current Atom Netbooks. The reasoning, ... Read story »

IDF 2009: Intel continues to pursue Moore's Law - Sep 23, 2009

Features At today's Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini showed that Moore's law was alive and well, with the 32nm, 22nm and Sandybridge chips on their way. Alongside an app store.  Read story »

Snow Leopard on a first-gen MacBook Air - Sep 8, 2009

Features Read how the new OS X version worked on a notebook that needed some help with its performance. Read story »

Five questions with Russell Brown - Oct 29, 2009

Features Adobe's senior creative director of Photoshop Marketing, Russell Brown, gives us some insights on new features in the software and the future of mobile image editing.  Read story »

What Bill Gates says about Google's Chrome OS - Jul 16, 2009

Crave To Bill Gates, Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux. "There's many, many forms of Linux operating systems out there and packaged in different ways and booted ... Read story »

5 smartphones with WVGA displays - Aug 13, 2009

Features With 800 x 480 pixels packed into their touchscreens, these smartphones can show you more information in one glance. Read story »

Dell feels that Chrome OS is just another Linux for Netbooks - Jul 16, 2009

Crave Though Dell didn't have much to say about Google's Chrome OS announced last week, the PC maker said in a blog post that it is indeed looking closely at it. But ... Read story »

Panasonic and NEC announce new open source LiMo phones - Aug 12, 2009

Crave Panasonic and NEC announced nine new cell phones on Tuesday that use the open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system called LiMo. As the mobile phone market evolves, software is becoming more crucial ... Read story »

Do we really need a Nokia mini-notebook? - Aug 25, 2009

Features Nokia's foray into the Netbook market marks another milestone as the phone maker branches into the PC segment. Read story »

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