Tag: operating systems
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Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: One platform will not rule them all
Monday, May 13, 2013 · 12:02 pm · 9 Comments
There are narratives circling the technology industry…
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Apple’s iOS ups massive lead over Android in U.S. Web traffic with 69% share in April
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · 8:47 am · 19 Comments
Apple’s iOS is tops in mobile Web traffic…
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Apple iPhones and iPads likely to pass U.S. Pentagon security review within days
Friday, May 3, 2013 · 9:31 pm · 20 Comments
Apple iPhones and iPads will likely soon pass a Pentagon security review…
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Pentagon ready to approve Apple’s iOS for high security use
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 · 4:36 pm · 18 Comments
The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant Apple’s iOS…
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Apple in deadline crunch mode for WWDC as Jony Ive’s team works on ‘deForstallization’ of iOS 7
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 · 2:31 pm · 29 Comments
iOS 7 is so significant a re-imagining of Apple’s mobile operating system that…
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Watch out Fragmandroid, Samsung plans big push for Tizen mobile OS
Thursday, February 14, 2013 · 4:45 pm · 24 Comments
Samsung appears to be prepping a big push behind its own operating system, Tizen…
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Apple’s ‘new wave’ anti-malware patent a new riff on Qubes OS memory isolation
Monday, February 11, 2013 · 11:37 am · 4 Comments
Apple has been awarded a patent for a computer system architecture …
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard stubbornly rejects retirement
Thursday, February 7, 2013 · 11:41 am · 92 Comments
Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard, which shipped in August 2009…
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Apple consistently convinces users to upgrade OS X
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 · 10:26 am · 55 Comments
Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion…
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Jean-Louis Gassée: Apple can finish what Microsoft’s Sinofsky started
Sunday, November 18, 2012 · 2:43 pm · 33 Comments
Now that all OS X and iOS software is under one hat…
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It’s time for Apple to unleash a major software overhaul
Saturday, November 10, 2012 · 5:38 pm · 62 Comments
All signs point to 2013 being a big year for Apple and software…
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Intel CEO Ottellini says Microsoft releasing buggy Windows 8 before it’s fully ready, sources say
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 · 7:22 pm · 48 Comments
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told employees in Taiwan…
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How Apple killed the Linux desktop and why that doesn’t matter
Monday, August 27, 2012 · 5:44 pm · 51 Comments
It’s hard to say exactly what percentage of desktop and laptop computer…
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10 reasons to drop Windows for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion
Sunday, July 29, 2012 · 12:01 pm · 51 Comments
Now that OS X Mountain Lion is here…
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Apple’s Mountain Lion brings iOS one-level folder logic to OSX
Thursday, July 26, 2012 · 11:46 am · 37 Comments
Apple has been working on its file system and with iOS it had almost killed the concept of folders…
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How to prepare your Mac for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion
Friday, July 20, 2012 · 1:32 pm · 19 Comments
Mountain Lion, Apple’s next version of OS X (10.8), is due any day now…
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Smartphones reignite the OS wars
Saturday, May 19, 2012 · 11:28 am · 22 Comments
Smartphones have become the preferred computer of the masses…
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Chitika: Microsoft’s Windows shows decline, Apple’s Mac gains in September 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 · 11:00 am · 16 Comments
Apple’s Mac operating system share, propelled by the released of Mac OS X Lion, increased its share…
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The tell-tale signs suggesting a platform’s demise
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 · 11:06 am · 11 Comments
An OS, as a platform, usually has a finite life….
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HTC considers purchase of mobile operating system
Monday, September 12, 2011 · 9:46 am · 22 Comments
Cher Wang, chairwoman of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp…
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Apple iOS devices, Mac laptops the majority at University of Texas at Austin
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 · 9:15 am · 23 Comments
The University of Texas at Austin has an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students…
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Apple’s iOS doubles worldwide market share over past 10 months; now world’s #3 OS
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 · 11:44 am · 12 Comments
Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is the now the world’s third most widely-used OS…
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