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Asian firms still like their desktops
News Despite rising popularity of notebooks and netbooks, desktops still have a place in region's consumer and commercial markets, say industry watchers.
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales strategy, Product marketing, Hewlett-Packard Co., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Graphics, Notebook, Japan, Lenovo Group Ltd.
Is Adobe replaying Sun's Java tape?
Insight commentary Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handhelds smells strongly of Sun Microsystems' attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. Will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Protocols and platforms, Adobe Systems Inc., Phone, AIR 2.0, mobile, Mobile applications, Smart Phone, Stock
Desktop apps on mobile remain 'niche'
News update The ability to carry desktop applications on mobile devices will remain niche, with users choosing apps written natively for their devices, say analysts.
Tags: Development/design, Open source, Citrix Systems Inc., Security, App, Virtualization, Asia-Pacific, Mobile Device, phone, Facebook
IBM launches cloud virtual-desktop service
News IBM enters virtual-desktop market with eye on cost savings and manageability.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Virtual Desktop, Virtualization, Web Browser, Service, Cloud computing, Server, Thin Client, Hardware
More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up
News Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Snap, PayPal, Boku, Phone, mobile, Web 2.0, game company, payment
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, ...
Red Hat to step up developer efforts
News CEO Jim Whitehurst pledges to boost open source vendor's efforts to drive developer activity, and says company is unfazed by desktop competition.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, Ubuntu, software company, ISV, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, desktop, Open source
My favourite new features of Windows 7
Blogs I'm a happy user of Windows 7. I have been doing heavy multitasking with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 every day for t...
Intel motherboards suffer Bios flaws
News Chipmaker releases updates to address privilege escalation holes in a number of its motherboards, and says to its knowledge the flaws have not been exploited.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Rootkit, Motherboard, Flaw, BIOS Update, Environment, Server, BIOS, desktop
Western Digital releases 1TB laptop hard drive
News Company's new hardware significantly shrinks the storage-capacity gap between notebook and desktop drives.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Storage, Western Digital Corp., Storage, hard drive, Laptop Computer, disk, desktop, Consumer Technology
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, Chrome OS, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, EC2, software, Amazon.com Inc., Ubuntu, Web Service, Amazon Web Services
Why Apple leaves low-end computers to the competition
News Apple with its luxury-goods maker strategy adheres to graceful design esthetic and limits lineup keeping margins sky-high.
Tags: Personal Computers, Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., Computer, laptop computer, Apple iMac, Apple Macintosh, keyboard, NPD Group Inc., desktop
Browser-based Office shows its face
News Microsoft is launching a "technology preview" this week for the online versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint, but users still can't edit their Word docs.
Tags: Business applications, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Windows Live, Web Browser, Web Application, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), desktop, Microsoft Word, Zoho
What makes a good Linux distribution?
Techguide Take the proprietary driver system and installation tools of Ubuntu, add the desktop of Elive+Compiz, add the foundation of Debian, and the security of Bastille Linux and you would have one killer distribution.
Tags: Linux, KDE, GNOME, Tool, Ubuntu, Standards, Hardware, Linux Distribution, desktop, MP3
Adobe takes Flash to smartphones
News The update is set to arrive as a beta on phones early next year, and aims to extend Flash's popularity on the desktop to mobile devices.
Tags: Mobile applications, Business applications, Palm Inc., Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, mobile, Business applications, Barclay, Mobile applications
