Computerworld - Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is ...
Shares in Research in Motion(RIM),maker of the BlackBerry handheld devices,rose by 17.3 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange yesterday,as investors demonstrated their faith in the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system and a new range ...
Tags: BlackBerry, RIM, smartphone
Tablets will outsell laptops for the first time ever this quarter,at least in North America,and will continue to outsell them next year. That's according to NPD DisplaySearch,whose Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report suggests ...
Tags: Tablet, laptop, North America
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen has slammed Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system, accusing the company of hiding everyday features, imposing a tablet paradigm on desktop users, as well as a single-window user interface instead of ...
A scout hut in Aldershot has become the first to test drive Fubra Limited's new initiative to introduce young people to the world of programming. The Fubra Universe has launched as a pilot with 2nd Aldershot Scouts through a 100Mbps ...
Tags: Aldershot Scouts, Fubra, introduE the scouts to coding, Arduino-powered
The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S.plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone,citing performance issues. The iPhone 5 smartphone will replace the NTSB's existing BlackBerry ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Apple's iPhone, NTSB, transfer
The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
Jolla,the mobile operating system start-up founded by Nokia refugees,has finally unveiled Sailfish,the smartphone operating system based on Linux. The company had been in"stealth mode"for almost a year before it launched in the summer,and ...
Tags: Windows Phone, operating, system
Microsoft's decision to put two user interfaces (UIs) inside Windows 8 was a strategic mistake that fails novice and experienced computer users alike on both tablets and traditional PCs, a usability expert said Monday. "That was the true ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, user interfaces, tablets, PCs
Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud,and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the.Net framework. AWS isn't the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new ...
Tags: Windows Server 2012, Amazon Web Services cloud, server operating system
BT is deploying the Windows 8 operating system(OS)to 5,900 engineers in its Openreach division in one the largest roll-outs of the most recent Microsoft OS. Speaking at the Dubai launch event for Windows 8,Peter Scott,director of end user ...
Tags: BT, Windows 8 OS, Dubai, Panasonic Toughbook convertible
Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
Computerworld-Apple has told Mac owners running OS X Lion that the beta of Messages,its replacement for both the older iChat instant messaging service and SMS(short message service)texting,will expire Dec.14. To keep using the ...
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PC World-The tablet arena already includes countless contenders featuring Linux-based Android,but a company currently seeking funding on Indiegogo aims to produce a new line of what it calls"true Linux"devices. We've already seen ...
Tags: Linux-based Android, true Linux devices, Linux-powered tablets
Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
Tags: Windows 8, Apple's iOS, iPad, Johnson