With the new OS as a foundation, Apple will probably kick its software release schedule into overdrive.
After all, the tablet uses the same OS as the iPhone, which he and other researchers have hacked repeatedly since 2007.
I'd ask the same about Chrome and Chrome OS as well.
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Those with truly ancient PCs (we're looking at you, corporate customers) can even bring over personal files from an OS as dated as Windows XP SP3.
Interest in the Android OS as a malicious code writers fave will continue this year, yielding more mobile viruses and new malware codes for users to dodge.
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From that perspective, it helps to think of Chrome (the browser) as the platform and the OS as a way of delivering the purest expression of what that platform can do.
One vendor, HandEra , has recently announced that it is getting out of the business of selling Palm-based PDAs, specifically citing an increase in the cost to license the Palm OS as the reason.
Mapping to key Firefox footprints around the globe, leading operators Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telenor are backing the open Firefox OS as an exciting new entrant to the smartphone marketplace.
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It does seem likely, however, that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform could play host to Home before even iOS, as Zuckerberg's referred to the live-tile OS as falling "somewhere in between" due to the licenses involved.
Stalwart RIM made a leap into the top three with its BlackBerry OS, as aging Symbian saw its usage decline further.
From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts.
We definitely cannot attest to the reliability of Mac OS Rumors as a, um, rumor site, but they're reporting that Apple is working on some sort of high-definition satellite TV network.
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It's now available on OS X as well as iOS X, and even makes it possible for programmers to write games that let Mac owners compete against iPhone and iPad users.
Microsoft, knowing that Nokia has no alternative OS available as a platform, will lead Nokia by the nose, and certainly Microsoft will attempt to bear-hug Nokia so that Microsoft gets significant cut of the revenue as Nokia recovers.
Nielsen's just released a study confirming what some other studies have already concluded -- that Android devices account for the single largest swath of smartphone users in the US, with 39 percent OS share as of the second quarter.
In addition, given that RIM appears to be experiencing difficulties with porting its enterprise applications to the new OS (BB10), it is far from clear whether these applications could ever be ported to a third-party OS such as Android or Windows Phone.
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Linux is still viewed by the majority of gamers in the same light as OS X in terms of its viability as a gaming platform.
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There's little reason for new vendors to try and tackle the general-purpose PDA, as Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) and Sony have that market--at least as far as the Palm OS world is concerned--to themselves, while Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) has been producing Palm OS devices that double as phones.
Last year, jailbroken iPhones were infected with an iPhone OS worm known as Ikee.
Apple turned off Java by default for its OS X users as a precaution.
People are likely (not certain, but likely) to stick with whichever OS they choose as their first smartphone.
Until today, it's been tough for even Chromebook sympathizers to defend Chrome OS' status as a bona fide operating system.
If ASUS is keeping two OS's as per the AiO prototype, that processor caters for only one Microsoft product -- Windows RT.
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Apple makes both the hardware and the OS, and as such has always been able to show better margins than a hardware-only manufacturer such as Samsung.
IBM, for example, will offer solutions running on any real-time OS, such as QNX from QSSL, that requires as little as 8MB to 16MB in the car.
Born in Pittsburgh, Rice spent his childhood by his father's side, learning the Xs and Os while serving as a ballboy and engaging in lengthy debate over the dinner table.
That's because a lot of core functionality is still missing from the OS, such as the ability to play music files or import real-life contacts, and there's a long way to go if it's to be signed off as "code complete" in October.
The reason, at least in part, that there was so much written for Microsoft OS was that it was such a popular OS. And as other OSes become more popular then I would expect to see attention being paid to writing malware for them.
As it was with the Lumia 920 and 820, so it is with the 8X -- that is to say, we weren't allowed to play with the OS. Much as we've said this before, it bears repeating: Microsoft's holding back elements of WP 8 for its own major reveal later this October.
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