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Google CEO says Chrome OS is keyboard-oriented, not touch

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, at the Web 2.0 summit, clarified the strategy of his company for Chrome OS devices. He stated again that Google designed the operating system for devices which provided a hardware keyboard to be used as input device, rather than a touch-only alternative common to the majority of the tablets present on [...]

Symbian – no longer desired at Samsung in 2010

Published on: 13th November, 2009

It is already clear that Symbian has no future related to Samsung smartphones. It will be completely replaced with the in-house-made operating system bada. Analysts’ forecast had Symbian use decreased to a few percents and anticipated the complete exit in 2011, but Samsung’s officials decided to eliminate Symbian use in 2010. The replacement of Symbian [...]

New open mobile operating system launched by Samsung

Published on: 13th November, 2009

Samsung entered the mobile OS arena with bada, designed to compete directly against Android, LiMo and other rivals. Based on universal standards, the mobile platform will support developers of mobile phones applications for millions of Samsung devices. bada is considered a developer-friendly environment, especially for those applications using web services. In Korean, “bada” means “ocean”, [...]

Windows 7 Seems to Boost Sales in a Spectacular Manner

Published on: 10th November, 2009

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer recently revealed a spectacular increase in Microsoft’s sales after launching Windows 7. Early sales have generated more revenue in the first ten days after the release date than any other previous version of the operating system ever. Ballmer said that the first results were fantastic, so there is hope to see [...]

New Operating System for VAIO P – Windows 7

Published on: 10th November, 2009

Sony upgraded the VAIO P netbooks to keep synchronization with Windows developing and they are running now Windows 7 instead of the controversial Vista version. This enables the extra-small Sony netbooks to run much faster. Some updates also refer to a new 2GHz Atom processor and a 256GB solid-state drive, as well as a champagne-coloured [...]

Windows 7 SP1 already rumored

Published on: 6th November, 2009

It seems that Windows 7 is already on the way to its first service pack, even if it has only been launched for two weeks now. At least this is what certain sources sustain. Wzor, one of the first sites that have released beta versions of the new operating system in the beginning of the [...]

New Symbian Smartphone Platform Offers Massive Change

Published on: 21st August, 2009

It looks like Symbian S60 v3 is living its last days (and even its successor, Symbian v5), as the Symbian Foundation is considering a complete redesign of the operating system codename Symbian^4 (a number they have previously skipped). Qt will replace the Avkon UI engine and this leads to app incompatibility – older Symbian apps [...]