desktop systems - pcs in news
Qualcomm Brews up an SDK for mobile OS
News Adobe said the installed base of Flash on mobile devices has now surpassed that on the desktop, with the number of devices shipping with Flash expected to surpass one billion early next year. Brew MP is comparable with... [18 Nov 2008]
Canonical readies its latest Ubuntu Linux for launch
News Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex in the company's alphabetically ascending naming convention, is the latest instalment of Linux for desktop computers and servers in the company's six-month release cycle. [28 Oct 2008]
More wisps of Windows Cloud from Ballmer
News Ballmer also talked about desktop Windows at the event, first addressing Vista and then talking briefly about its successor, Windows 7. We need to bring the benefits of both of those things together on Windows and... [03 Oct 2008]
Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in... [12 Sep 2008]
Sun goes for virtualisation x-factor
News Sun already offers the desktop virtualisation system xVM VirtualBox and the virtual desktop consolidation application, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Although the product is free to... [11 Sep 2008]
Red Hat invests in virtualisation
News Through the deal, Red Hat picks up Qumranet's server and desktop virtualisation portfolio and takes on its team of developers and support staff. It also sells a virtualisation desktop infrastructure... [08 Sep 2008]
CIOs ready for flexi-time law
News In response to that trend, we invested in a corporate infrastructure that gives staff access to their desktop and data in a highly secure manner but from any PC or thin client with internet access. Steve Williams,... [03 Sep 2008]
Liverpool midwives cull paper with 3G laptops
News My technicians use the new Asus Eee PCs now and that would have been even better because that's an 8.9-inch screen and they're extremely lightweight and they support 3G and they also support SD. I wish I'd had the Eee... [27 Aug 2008]
iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner
News The report also considers the implications of running iTunes in an enterprise setting - as it must be running on the desktop of every iPhone user - a situation that is not ideal for businesses. In the longer term,... [11 Aug 2008]
BBC reveals iPlayer user habits
News Just over half of users (51 per cent) access iPlayer via a desktop computer, with 32 per cent using their laptops. But following the introduction of iPlayer for Mac and Linux late last year, just five per cent use Mac... [06 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News Department for International Development: 1,798 out of 2,467 staff have been issued with laptops instead of a desktop PC to allow them to work from home on a regular or ad hoc basis. The number of civil service staff... [30 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers in favour of lone laptops. Second permanent under secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Sir Ian Andrews, told the committee the ministry would reduce... [16 Jul 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News During his keynote yesterday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, Ballmer said enterprise users will come to expect web-ready interfaces that are both familiar and as responsive as their desktop counterparts. [10 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The cost of implementing the revamped FCO Telecommunications Network (FTN) has ballooned from £180m to £240m, while the Future Firecrest project to upgrade its desktop systems worldwide is expected to... [07 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs
News The vast majority of businesses out there are supported by his company's server software and services and they are delivered to the end user via his company's desktop operation systems and applications. [26 Jun 2008]
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