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 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…
Tags: hardware, LG, maximum tech, microsoft, mobile, News Worthy, operating system, OS, Smartphone, Software, Windows Phone 7, wp7
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January 14, 2011
Major kudos are in order for a band of modders known as The Dark Forces Team who went and released a Windows Phone 7 ROM for HTC’s HD2 handset.
You can find instructions on the XDA-Developers.com forum, which aren’t terribly hard to follow. You’ll need…
Tags: firmware, hardware, hd7, htc, maximum tech, mobile, modding, News Worthy, operating system, OS, rom, Smartphone, Software, sp7, Windows Phone 7
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January 12, 2011
According to security software maker Trend Micro, Apple’s iPhone trumps Google’s open-source Android platform when it comes to viruses.
“Android is open-source, which means the hacker can also understand the underlying architecture and source code,” St…
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January 6, 2011
Google posted a video promo of its upcoming Android 3.0 OS (Honeycomb) a little prematurely, and though the sultan of search tried pulling it offline, it’s a futile effort trying to hide anything in cyberspace. The video is back up again, and it shows …
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