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 »

Microsoft hit with software sales ban in China - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Microsoft is in hot water in China this week, after a court ruled that it infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property by including certain fonts in its operating systems. The ruling ... 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 »

Imation's USB hard drive goes wireless - Nov 23, 2009

Crave The Pro WX wireless USB external hard drive. If you've wished you could connect your external hard drive to your computer without having to use the USB cable, now you can. ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS: Do you believe the hype? - Nov 14, 2009

Blogs As with most products that have the name Google attached to them, Google Chrome OS is generating a lot of hype--and, if this TechCrunch post is true, then Google Chrome OS ... 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 »

New standard lets browsers manipulate files better - Nov 25, 2009

Crave The World Wide Web Consortium has published a draft of an interface that browsers can use to manipulate files better, one of a series of steps aimed at gradually improving the ... 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 »

Google Chrome OS test drive - Nov 22, 2009

Blogs Know why they call it the "bleeding edge of technology"? Because most of the time you feel like slitting your wrists. The ubber-developer-only version of Chrome OS is barely out of ... Read story »

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