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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle… What have they got in common? One anonymous reader of the story even offered their sophisticated barter-based price list for IT jobs on the side: a case of beer for a 'simple... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News With Google's web-based Chrome operating system likely to have gained further momentum by the time Windows 8 emerges, Yarmis suggested Microsoft will be focusing more on pushing a similarly internet-based technology. [08 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News Most major smartphone platforms will support the software - Google Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile - but Apple has yet to sign up. Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop - now Adobe is hoping... [05 Oct 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Torvalds set up the Linux Foundation in 2007 to build momentum for Linux uptake and includes members such as Google, HP, IBM, Intel and Novell. Finnish software architect Torvalds initiated the development of the open... [29 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's web-based Office: First taster goes live
News While Google Apps lets users share a document directly, Office Web Apps enables sharing at the folder level - meaning that to share a document, a user must save it into a folder on Windows Live SkyDrive and then share... [18 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News Google Apps, which covers communication, collaboration and security apps, is a major front in Google's battle to gain control of the desktop. As students get ready to head back to... [09 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News VMware showed Google's Android system running on a Windows CE mobile phone through VMware virtualisation software (photo credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) Specifically, they showed a mobile phone using Windows CE 6.0 run... [04 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News Krishnamurti says mobile phone application developers have long complained about having to create different versions of applications for a wide range of handset operating systems, including the iPhone, Google's Android,... [03 Sep 2009]
Google Chrome for Linux, arriving soon in 64 bits
News Google has begun work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux, a move likely to whip Linux loyalists into a lather of excitement. Chromium is the open-source project behind Google's branded and supported... [21 Aug 2009]
Apple hunts for replacement for Google CEO Schmidt
News Both are players in the mobile phone market (Google's Android operating system competes with Apple's iPhone) and soon will compete in desktop operating systems, when Google releases its... [14 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Nokia: 'We're going after BlackBerry with mobile Office deal'
News For Microsoft, the move helps the software maker in its goal of fending off competition from Google and extending Office from the desktop into the larger world of web, PC, and phone. While the iPhone may... [13 Aug 2009]
Microsoft's Office coming to Nokia phones
News The deal comes even as Microsoft is trying to figure out how to keep its Windows Mobile operating system in the game amid stiff competition from Nokia in Europe as well as Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry, and an emerging threat from... [12 Aug 2009]
Google's Android coming to a set-top box near you
News Android was unveiled as a smartphone platform by its main sponsor, Google, at the end of 2007. Work is also underway to release low-cost Android subnotebooks later this year, although Google is also... [06 Aug 2009]
Firefox reaches one billion - browser wars in full swing
News Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Opera Software, and others all want to be the gateway to the world's most vibrant medium, the internet. Opera's desktop browser has been downloaded more than 270... [03 Aug 2009]
Microsoft lays down developer challenge for Windows Mobile apps
News The winners' spoils are paltry in terms of quantity and heft when compared to Google's first Android Developer Challenge, which gave 10 teams a $275,000 award, 10 teams a $100,000 check, and each of the top 50 finalists... [28 Jul 2009]
