August 9, 2012
With all due respect to Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and any other mobile platform not named Android or iOS, you’re all just a bunch of also-rans in what’s becoming “unquestionably a two-horse race,” according to data and analysis by Internation…
Tags: android, Apple, Google, ios, mobile, operating system, samsung, Smartphone
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August 8, 2012
Valve’s Gabe Newell appears to have struck a chord with other game developers in his criticism of Windows 8 as a “catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.” He said Windows 8 will ultimately force some top-tier PC/OEMS out of the market, and not long a…
Tags: games, microsoft, operating system, OS, Software, Videogames, windows, windows 8
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March 7, 2011
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform was fashionably late to the smartphone party, but in the slate shindig, Microsoft’s Windows platform is just going to be late. Citing “people with knowledge” of Microsoft’s plans, Bloomberg reports there won’t be a …
Tags: hardware, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, operating system, OS, slate, Software, tablet, windows
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January 26, 2011
Going forward, Ubuntu’s developers decided it is in the best interest of the open source OS to ship with LibreOffice for its productivity suite, replacing the Oracle-owned OpenOffice that previously came pre-installed. That includes Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty…
Tags: libreoffice, linux, News Worthy, open-source, openoffice, operating system, oracle, OS, productivity, Software, ubuntu
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January 25, 2011
Want to see what the MeeGo OS will look like on a Nokia tablet? So do we, but unfortunately for us all, the leaked photo that’s making its way through cyberspace isn’t a very good one.
Regardless, this is likely the first shot of the new MeeGo tablet. …
Tags: hardware, maximum tech, meego, mobile, News Worthy, Nokia, operating system, OS, slate, Software, tablet
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January 24, 2011
Play.fm today announced that its Play.fm Mobile App is now available for download in three flavors, including Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7.
“With our mobile Apps music fans now have access to the probably biggest collection of DJ mixes regardl…
Tags: android, Apple, apps, Google, ios, iPhone, microsoft, mobile, News Worthy, operating system, play.fm, Smartphone, Software, Windows Phone 7, wp7
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January 16, 2011
The Windows 7 RC has been available since late October, but a leaked copy of the official release has us fairly convinced we can expect to see Windows Update pushing out the final build by the end of the month. Microsoft confirmed on Friday that it co…
Tags: microsoft, News Worthy, operating system, service pack 1, windows, windows 7, Windows Server 2008
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January 14, 2011
LG is happy with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform and believes there’s a lot of potential there, but the company is less than thrilled with the platform’s launch.
“From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of…
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