News Analysis: Android beat Nokias Symbian platform in the fourth quarter to become the top mobile OS in the world. But how did it do it? With strong marketing and handset-maker support. – After slowly marching its
way toward the top of the smartphone OS market, Googles Android platform is
now the most-popular smartphone operating system in the world, according to
research firm Canalys.
The companys platform had a 33.3 percent share of all shipments in the fourth
quarter of 201…
RIM’s BlackBerry Dakota will run BlackBerry OS 6, according to a new report, suggesting that the porting of the PlayBook tablets OS onto smartphones is still far away. – Research In Motions BlackBerry Dakota will launch with
BlackBerry OS 6.1, according to rumors. That suggests the companys plan to
port the PlayBook tablets QNX-based operating system to smartphones is still
far in the future.
RIMs 7-inch PlayBook will be the vanguard of an aggressive
strategy t…
RIM’s PlayBook offers a sleek and powerful user interface, but success will depend on factors like third-party apps. RIM offered eWEEK a brief PlayBook hands-on. – Research In Motion hopes its upcoming PlayBook tablet can carve a place for
itself in the burgeoning tablet market. It certainly faces some tough
competition in that quest, from not only the Apple iPad but also from a growing
number of Android-based devices.
But RIM’s 7-inch tablet possesses so…
News Analysis: Googles Chrome OS platform will undoubtedly take the tech world by storm in 2011. But that doesnt mean it has what it takes for long term success. – Googles Chrome OS platform could potentially be a
major headline-stealer in 2011. Not only does it come from one of the
most important (and prominent) tech companies in the industry, but it
delivers a unique operating system experience that consumers and even
some enterprise customers will be ke…
Google defends Chrome OS and the cloud from Richard Stallman, who characterized the effort as designed to push people into "careless computing." Analysts weigh in. – When it comes to cloud computing and the idea that
Google’s new Chrome Operating System can be a reliable portal for that
movement, people either like the idea or hate it.
Chrome OS is Google’s operating system to the cloud, running
Web applications
in the Chrome Web browser. Google stores thes…
Google Dec. 8 began rolling out the Cr-48, an unbranded notebook equipped with its Chrome Operating System, the Web operating system that enables Web applications run on Google’s Chrome Web browser. The Cr-48 lies at the heart of the Chrome OS Pilot Program, Google’s effort to seed the market with the notebooks, get feedback and polish the product prior to launch on branded machines from Acer and Samsung in mid-2011. Google is issuing the gadgets& which run on WiFi networks and also sport 3G radios with 100MB a month of data free for two years& to partner companies, friends, some lucky consumers and the media. In December, eWEEK got its hands on one of these plain, black no-frills notebooks. It sports a 12.1-inch screen, delivers 8 hours of use time and allows no internal data storage. The notebook is a true cloud machine, which has its limits. There is as yet no capability to port photos from cameras and smartphones to the Chrome OS netbook. But this is compensated by a raft of possibilities. For example, Google has created its Google Cloud Print solution to give the Cr-48 access to Web-based printing. Take a look at this run-through, and see a review here. – …
Google’s Chrome OS Cr-48 notebook is a fine Web surfing machine, but it assumes too much of people with its slow directional pad. We’re not sure people will want to do work with it. – Google’s Chrome operating system Cr-48 notebook is a
newfangled mobile Web computing device that does a lot of what a netbook does,
serving Web applications via a browser.
It’s how users access those Web apps that is different
than a netbook. Not better, but definitely different.
Cr-48 is the …
News Analysis: Google’s Chrome OS platform might be in its infancy, but it is extremely important to the future success (or failure) of Google’s business. – Google’s
Web-based operating system, Chrome OS, is getting considerable attention as of
late, due to the company’s recent unveiling of more of the platform’s features.
Google is testing Chrome OS on computers to see how it holds up as a standard
operating system for users. There is some question…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said his company is looking to Chrome Operating System to take Google farther into the cloud as an alternative to Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac computers. – Google is betting heavily on the cloud with Chrome Operating System, a Web
platform for netbooks that Google CEO Eric
Schmidt said is predicated on leveraging reliable networks and diskless
machines.
While Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac machines rely greatly on software
residing locally on the…
Google Dec. 7 didn’t shock anyone with the announcement that Chrome Operating System netbooks wouldn’t arrive until 2011. But that doesn’t mean that the Chrome OS update event in San Francisco didn’t come with some surprises. There was the unveiling of Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, the Chrome JavaScript engine responsible for making the browser so speedy. There was the formal launch of the Chrome Webstore, which has more than 500 Web applications, including two programs from Amazon and one each from The New York Times and Sports Illustrated. Think of the Chrome Web Store as Apple’s App Store, but for Chrome OS netbooks (and, eventually, Chrome OS tablets) instead of iPhones and iPads. Finally, in the biggest surprise of all, Google launched a pilot program using black, unbranded Chrome OS netbooks. Google is passing out thousands of these machines to media, friends of Google and business partners, including the U.S. Department of Defense and American Airlines. Here is a run-through of the news using slides from Google’s Dec. 7 demonstration. – …
Citrix Systems has pledged its support for Google Chrome OS in 2011. The company will pair its Citrix Receiver virtualization app with Chrome OS netbooks for its customers. – Google’s Chrome Operating System isn’t yet ready for prime time on notebook
computers, but the company has landed corporate remote-access powerhouse Citrix
Systems as a partner.
Google Dec. 7 said at an update event that consumers would be able to
purchase netbooks based on its Web operating sy…
News Analysis: Google’s Chrome OS platform might not be available yet, but if it catches on with PC makers and users after its release it could eventually become a major threat to Microsoft. – Google
spent some time on Dec. 7 talking about Chrome OS, the company’s Web-based
operating system that’s designed to provide users with a fully online
experience from their computer. Although there are still several question marks
about the platform and the products it will run on, the details …
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Google is delaying the launch of Chrome OS on netbooks to consumers until mid-2011, when Samsung and Acer will offer machines. For now, Google is offering Cr-48, a pilot device. – Computers running Google’s Chrome Operating system won’t
ship to consumers until the second half of 2011, with netbooks slated to come
from Samsung and Acer at that time.
Google is instead making unbranded, Chrome OS-based
netbooks available to qualified users, developers, schools and businesses…
Google will unveil a Chrome OS netbook Dec. 7. Key questions include: when can the public get them, and will the iPad and Android machines allow them to prosper? – Google is hosting an event
Dec. 7 where it will likely demonstrate a netbook based on its long-awaited
Chrome Operating System.
Chrome OS is Google’s
support platform for its increasingly popular Chrome Web browser, which accounts for 9.27 percent of browser use, according to Net Applications.
…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has long been a trusty go-to operating system option for most server roles, if not in its official Red Hat branded form, then in one of its respun incarnations, such as the fee-free CentOS or the Oracle rebrand Unbreakable Linux. Based on my tests of RHEL 6, I expect this new release to continue in that tradition& the new release performed as solidly as ever, and benefits from a support term that’s been lengthened from seven to 10 years. While aimed primarily at server roles, RHEL 6 can also perform well as a desktop operating system, as it ships with recent versions of all of the usual suspects of the Linux desktop, anchored by Version 3.2 of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Version 3.6 of Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser. For a look at RHEL 6 in action, check out the slide gallery below, and be sure to read eWEEK Labs’ full review here. – …
Google’s Chrome browser jumped to 9.27 percent in November from 8.5 percent in October, which could be a sign that Chrome OS netbooks are being used by Googlers. – Google’s
Chrome Web browser surged to 9.27 percent market share in November, up from 8.5
percent in October, according to the latest statistics from Net Applications.
The
.77 percent gain appeared to come at the expense of Microsoft Internet
Explorer, which dropped to 58.41 percent from 59.18 p…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Chrome Operating System has been delayed, though no one at Google or computer makers believed to be building Chrome OS netbooks will say why. – Google’s Chrome Operating System launch has been delayed, and the platform
won’t be available to launch on netbooks for at least the quot;next few
months. quot;
Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed as much
to reporters in a Q amp;A session at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 15, adding that
the platform co…
Undoubtedly, its core “Operation System” becomes one of the decisive factors to win the smart phone battle. So what OS are very popular now? What are their differences? Here will give you some clue.
