operating systems multiple in news
Google prepping Chrome for Mac and Linux
News Google has revealed it's already working on a version of its Chrome internet browser for Mac and Linux operating systems. Sometimes even code written with multiple platforms in mind (as much of the Chromium code already is) will turn out to have... [03 Sep 2008]
Interference on the radar for FCC "white space"
News O is for Operating systems Mark Brunner, Shure's senior director of public and industry relations, said: "Simply stated, the prototype devices were unable to consistently identify operating wireless microphones or distinguish occupied from... [12 Aug 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News O is for Operating systems White complained that business users were having to employ 'Heath Robinson' solutions such as mobile VoIP and multiple SIM cards because of disparities in data-roaming pricing around the continent. [22 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News Parallels' Containers partition an operating system into different operating environments, rather than following the VMware/XenServer model of virtualised operating systems sitting on top of a hypervisor software layer. [03 Jul 2008]
Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear
News O is for Operating systems Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce... [08 May 2008]
Microsoft mobile - king of open world?
News Smith would like to see mobile phones head in the same direction as desktops, which allow users to run everything from multiple operating systems to a free range of applications. The world has been turned upside down for Linux developers, thanks to... [20 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia
News For Microsoft, the deal with Nokia is a step in its pledge to make Silverlight "ubiquitous", that is, capable of running on multiple operating systems. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia... [04 Mar 2008]
Cyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'
News Schneier counselled calm, saying it was not known whether supervisory control and data acquisition (Scada) arrays, which many critical national infrastructure organisations use to control and measure systems, had been compromised. [24 Jan 2008]
Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency
News While open source can offer "considerable cost benefits" for educational establishments, people may need skills in the use of multiple operating systems in the future, according to Knight, who said one of his main objectives was to equip people... [10 Jan 2008]
Windows Vista - why you shouldn't skip it
News For example, while Microsoft will support business versions of Windows for at least 10 years and Windows XP will be supported with security fixes into 2014, many software vendors won't support their products on Windows XP that long and won't... [07 Dec 2007]
Is Apple letting virtual Leopards roar?
News Users of systems and software from PC manufactures such as Dell or Lenovo, cannot run Leopard on these systems legally. Apple will now allow versions of Leopard to be run in a virtual machine, after initially saying it would not permit users to... [02 Nov 2007]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Virtualisation enables hardware to run multiple virtual machines, offering benefits such as the ability to run different operating systems on one server and to increase flexibility, availability and speed of deployment of computing resources. [14 Sep 2007]
Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars
News The company's open source "hypervisor" software, called Xen, lets a single computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously, which is a useful way to replace servers with one, more efficiently used computer. [16 Aug 2007]
VMware IPO set to raise $740m
News Virtualisation lets a single computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously in different partitions called virtual machines. VMware, the EMC subsidiary that brought virtualisation software to the mainstream, said it expects to raise $741.4m... [10 Jul 2007]
OpenOffice worm in the wild
News Malware targeting OpenOffice documents is spreading through multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows and Linux, said Symantec. According to the security company, the worm is capable of infecting multiple operating system platforms and... [08 Jun 2007]
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