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Why Windows 7 should be free in China
Insight commentary Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Open source, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Baidu.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, China, Income, Open source
ARM to wrestle x86 as low-cost PCs thrive
News By end-2011, ARM will become a significant PC processor architecture chipping away at x86's dominance in the industry, says Gartner.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Google Inc., Netbook, Notebook, Intel X86, Notebook Pricing, Google Android, Mobile processors
Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines
News Country's private sector is unexpected early adopters of open source, which analysts say will be further boosted by entrance of Google's upcoming Chrome OS.
Tags: Open source, Support, Open-source Software, Philippines, Google Inc., International Data Corp., Survey, Asia-Pacific, Open source, Melvin G. Calimag
Google has its own plan for netbooks
News No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the netbook of today.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux desktop OS, Personal Computers, Google Inc., Operating System, software, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Hardware
Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge
News Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one.
Tags: Operating systems, Open Source, Google Inc., Computer, Phone, Operating System, Smart Phone, Android, Sergey Brin, device manufacturer
Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly
News Canonical's newest versions of Linux are due Thursday. Notable features: synchronization for PCs and a built-in replica of Amazon Web Services for servers.
Tags: Linux, Operating System, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, EC2, software, Amazon.com Inc., Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Web Service, Amazon Web Services
Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS
News Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Google Inc., Mitchell Baker, Operating System, revenue, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Will the OS not matter in time?
Blogs It was late Wednesday afternoon here when news of Google's plans to unveil a desktop operating system (OS) first broke, ...
Microsoft criticizes privacy in Chrome 3.0
News Latest version of the browser logs every search keystroke and sends it back to Google, Microsoft executive points out.
Tags: Privacy, Web browsers, Google Inc., Security, Microsoft Corp., software, Web Browser, Privacy, software company, Google Chrome
Donut SDK for Google's Android ready
News Google's latest version of Android, version 1.6, is now available via a software development kit for developers to use prior to wider availability in October.
Tags: Open source, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc., Smart Phone, Sprint Communications, Developer, SDK, API, Google Android, CDMA
Schmidt: Enterprise is Google's next opportunity
News Next big source of revenue for Google is selling services to big business, CEO Eric Schmidt says. Also, consumer and enterprise customers aren't that far apart.
Tags: Services, Business applications, Google Inc., advertisement, CEO, Information Technology, Business applications, Chrome OS, Web Browser, Gartner Inc.
Intel to pitch in on developing Chrome
News Chipmaker will work with Google on the Chrome OS in the same way it contributes to other Linux distributions, which take in parts of Intel's Moblin code.
Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Corp., Linux Company, Chip Company, Graphics, Novell Inc., Linux, Netbook, Processors
Embedded Android code goes open source
News Company behind Mips has released the source code for porting the Android operating system to that processor architecture.
Tags: Operating systems, Digital Television, Smart Phone, TV, Electronics, Android, IP Telephony, processor, Internet, manufacturer
Microsoft: Windows 7 will trump Chrome OS, Apple
News In a speech at an investor conference, Microsoft executive says the rise of the netbook need not spell doom for its flagship operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, marketing, PC, Netbook
Light cloud signals change of climate for IT
Insight perspective Light operating systems and cloud computing are the final nails in the coffin of traditional practices, says Bob Morris.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web sites, Web services, Development/design, Mobile Broadband, Device, Mobile Device, Cloud computing, Web, Netbook
