Articles on Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5.8 update released - Aug 6, 2009

Crave Apple released an update to its operating system Wednesday, version 10.5.8. The update is said to fix issues related to compatibility and reliability when trying to connect a Mac to an ... Read story »

Microsoft's plan to get back in the phone game - Aug 20, 2009

Features The company's long-rumored "Pink" plans will start revealing themselves next year, as a long-delayed overhaul of Windows Mobile hits the market. Read story »

Windows 7 on MacBook Pro is nice, but doesn't impress - Aug 3, 2009

Crave I have had Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (release to manufacturer) for a few days. This is, of course, a legitimate copy, not the leaked copy that you can download from the ... Read story »

Symbian OS to get new user interface - Aug 9, 2009

Crave At last, a piece of good news we've waited an eternity for: The Symbian S60 user interface will be completely reworked in the not-so-distant-future. We've said it before that the ... Read story »

Sony says no to Windows 7 XP mode - Aug 11, 2009

Crave A small but vocal group of tech enthusiasts is raising a fuss over Sony's plans to disable the hardware virtualization required to run Microsoft's Windows 7 XP virtualization technology. Answering reader ... Read story »

Adobe Creative Suite drops PowerPC support - Aug 13, 2009

Crave (Photo credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) It's probably time you said goodbye to your PowerPC-based Mac. Adobe confirmed that future versions of its Creative Suite will run only on Intel-based Mac computers. There ... Read story »

China-made laptop drops below US$100 - Aug 14, 2009

Crave The US-based OLPC project may have started with the lofty goal of manufacturing a sub-US$100 laptop, but it's China which has managed to make it a reality. The eBook LY-EB01 from ... Read story »

CrunchPad touchscreen tablet: Apple tablet killer or overhyped Netbook? - Aug 3, 2009

Crave We started seeing prototype photos of the CrunchPad back in April. Back then we described it as, "a mobile computing device as envisioned by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The project's ... Read story »

Viliv MIDs hit Singapore and Malaysia - Aug 4, 2009

Crave First revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 in Las Vegas, the sleek Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) from Korean maker Viliv are coming to Singapore and Malaysia. Based on the Intel ... Read story »

Windows 7 RTM "special product key" leak confirmed - Aug 3, 2009

Crave Alex Kochis, Microsoft's director of Genuine Windows, posted a blog late Thursday addressing the "leak of a special product key" of Windows 7 RTM (release to manufacturers). This confirmed the ... Read story »

BlackBerry App World now archives apps - Aug 3, 2009

Crave One of my biggest complaints when BlackBerry App World debuted this past April at CTIA 2009 was that applications installed to Flash memory, giving you no option to store more apps ... Read story »

Windows 7: Internet browser compulsory - Aug 3, 2009

Crave Microsoft's proposed "ballot screen" that would let users in Europe choose which browser they want on their PC. It looks like there won't be a browserless version of Windows 7, ... Read story »

HandMarket Apps for Windows Mobile - Aug 5, 2009

Crave The countdown is well under way for Microsoft's Windows Mobile app store, called Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which is slated to arrive in early fall alongside the Windows Mobile 6.5 ... Read story »

Adobe's next Lightroom drops PowerPC support - Aug 18, 2009

Crave Adobe Systems, taking the same course with its forthcoming Creative Suite applications, will offer the next Mac OS X version of Photoshop Lightroom only on Intel-based machines. Apple has chosen to ... Read story »

Making sense of the new Omnia smartphones - Dec 9, 2009

Features With a bit of help from our quick guide, you don't have to be confused by Samsung's lineup of Windows Mobile phones. Read story »

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