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Tag: operating systems

Wall to wall Apple: How iOS could make its way into your home

Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:04 pm13 Comments

Our residences are long overdue for a technological makeover…

Apple seeds fifth beta of OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Friday, February 7, 2014 11:25 amFriday, February 7, 201414 Comments

Developers can now download the fifth version of OS X Mavericks 10.9.2…

The ROI of free operating system updates: Who wins, Apple or Microsoft?

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 3:02 pmTuesday, February 4, 201421 Comments

Last month, OS X 10.9, aka Mavericks, accounted for 68% of all Macs…

Apple signals end to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:29 pmTuesday, December 17, 201341 Comments

Apple has apparently decided to kill support for OS X Snow Leopard…

Apple is winning the OS war

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:45 amWednesday, December 4, 201357 Comments

Apple is winning the OS wars, setting the agenda for the future of computing…

Apple seeds iOS 7.1 beta to developers

Monday, November 18, 2013 3:54 pm26 Comments

Apple has made iOS 7.1 beta available to developers…

Much still to come from Apple this autumn

Monday, September 30, 2013 11:26 amMonday, September 30, 201327 Comments

Apple watchers know that the fall season usually brings a bountiful harvest…

The tiny changes make you fall in love with Apple’s iOS 7

Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:29 pmThursday, August 15, 201358 Comments

There are a number of relatively small tweaks and additions that have really sold me on iOS 7…

Samsung slows Tizen development, sources say

Monday, August 12, 2013 3:31 pmMonday, August 12, 201314 Comments

Samsung Electronics reportedly has slowed down the development of its Tizen OS…

Apple’s iOS 7 and the changing medium of screen design

Monday, July 29, 2013 3:31 pmMonday, July 29, 201317 Comments

As with many discussions on the web the debate around skeuomorphism and flat design…

Will Apple’s OS X Mavericks be free?

Monday, July 8, 2013 12:28 pmMonday, July 8, 201343 Comments

In the past, a copy of Mac OS X has cost as much as $129 beginning with 10.0 Cheetah…

Apple may have opened Pandora’s Box with iOS 7

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 2:03 pmWednesday, June 26, 201331 Comments

Software developers who create apps for Apple’s iOS platform…

Gartner: Apple to ship nearly 300 million devices this year

Monday, June 24, 2013 10:34 am4 Comments

Worldwide devices (the combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to reach…

Is Apple’s iOS fragmenting? Not nearly as much as Google’s Android

Sunday, June 23, 2013 2:10 pm33 Comments

93 percent of Apple’s customers use iOS 6, a figure about which Google can only dream…

More nonsense about OS X from the pundits

Friday, June 21, 2013 4:31 pmFriday, June 21, 201333 Comments

I could probably devote every one of my columns to the silly comments…

Apple reportedly extending OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 testing beyond developers

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:29 amWednesday, June 19, 20137 Comments

Following the announcement of major updates to both OS X and iOS…

Apple’s iOS 7 changes much more than skin-deep

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:29 amTuesday, June 11, 201319 Comments

The most striking things about iOS 7 are the rather dramatic changes that Apple has made to…

Apple unveils completely redesigned iOS 7 with new user interface, new features

Monday, June 10, 2013 3:27 pm84 Comments

Apple today unveiled iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone…

Windows 8 continues to flop hard

Monday, June 3, 2013 4:10 pmMonday, June 3, 201343 Comments

Windows 8 continues to fall behind…

Apple’s OS X 10.8.4 to deliver WiFi compatibility, FaceTime fix, 802.11ac, and more

Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:12 pmSaturday, May 25, 201395 Comments

What’s inside Apple’s OS X 10.8.4 12E55…

Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: One platform will not rule them all

Monday, May 13, 2013 12:02 pmMonday, May 13, 201310 Comments

There are narratives circling the technology industry…

Apple’s iOS ups massive lead over Android in U.S. Web traffic with 69% share in April

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 8:47 amTuesday, May 7, 201319 Comments

Apple’s iOS is tops in mobile Web traffic…

Apple iPhones and iPads likely to pass U.S. Pentagon security review within days

Friday, May 3, 2013 9:31 pmFriday, May 3, 201320 Comments

Apple iPhones and iPads will likely soon pass a Pentagon security review…

Pentagon ready to approve Apple’s iOS for high security use

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:36 pmWednesday, May 1, 201318 Comments

The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant Apple’s iOS…

Apple in deadline crunch mode for WWDC as Jony Ive’s team works on ‘deForstallization’ of iOS 7

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 2:31 pmWednesday, May 1, 201329 Comments

iOS 7 is so significant a re-imagining of Apple’s mobile operating system that…

Watch out Fragmandroid, Samsung plans big push for Tizen mobile OS

Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:45 pmThursday, February 14, 201324 Comments

Samsung appears to be prepping a big push behind its own operating system, Tizen…

Apple’s ‘new wave’ anti-malware patent a new riff on Qubes OS memory isolation

Monday, February 11, 2013 11:37 am4 Comments

Apple has been awarded a patent for a computer system architecture …

Mac OS X Snow Leopard stubbornly rejects retirement

Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:41 am95 Comments

Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard, which shipped in August 2009…

Apple consistently convinces users to upgrade OS X

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:26 am55 Comments

Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion…

Jean-Louis Gassée: Apple can finish what Microsoft’s Sinofsky started

Sunday, November 18, 2012 2:43 pm33 Comments

Now that all OS X and iOS software is under one hat…

Intel CEO Ottellini says Microsoft releasing buggy Windows 8 before it’s fully ready, sources say

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:22 pm48 Comments

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told employees in Taiwan…

How Apple killed the Linux desktop and why that doesn’t matter

Monday, August 27, 2012 5:44 pm51 Comments

It’s hard to say exactly what percentage of desktop and laptop computer…

10 reasons to drop Windows for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion

Sunday, July 29, 2012 12:01 pmSunday, July 29, 201251 Comments

Now that OS X Mountain Lion is here…

Apple’s Mountain Lion brings iOS one-level folder logic to OSX

Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:46 am38 Comments

Apple has been working on its file system and with iOS it had almost killed the concept of folders…

How to prepare your Mac for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion

Friday, July 20, 2012 1:32 pmFriday, July 20, 201219 Comments

Mountain Lion, Apple’s next version of OS X (10.8), is due any day now…

Smartphones reignite the OS wars

Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:28 am22 Comments

Smartphones have become the preferred computer of the masses…

Chitika: Microsoft’s Windows shows decline, Apple’s Mac gains in September 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:00 amTuesday, September 27, 201117 Comments

Apple’s Mac operating system share, propelled by the released of Mac OS X Lion, increased its share…

The tell-tale signs suggesting a platform’s demise

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:06 am11 Comments

An OS, as a platform, usually has a finite life….

HTC considers purchase of mobile operating system

Monday, September 12, 2011 9:46 amMonday, September 12, 201122 Comments

Cher Wang, chairwoman of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp…

Apple iOS devices, Mac laptops the majority at University of Texas at Austin

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:15 amTuesday, July 26, 201123 Comments

The University of Texas at Austin has an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students…

Apple’s iOS doubles worldwide market share over past 10 months; now world’s #3 OS

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 11:44 amTuesday, May 3, 201112 Comments

Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is the now the world’s third most widely-used OS…

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