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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Fans of the Lincoln-Kennedy coincidences can appreciate similarly contrived dynamics in comparing Nokia and RIM (neither of which, contrary to the occasionally expresse…
It’s safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we’re still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of its…
It’s safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we’re still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of its…
Everyone loves a happy ending, and it’s with this in mind that we share the latest round of good news from the Kubuntu team. Starting with version 12.10, the popular KDE variant of Ubuntu will have sponsorship from Blue Systems. Previously, Canonical …
Android on a mainstream digital camera? Yes, you could live to see the day. We’re at Samsung’s Korean headquarters this week, where we had an opportunity to sit down with the company’s research and development team to talk about the past, present and …
We don’t have 100 fingers — theoretically the supported limit of Windows 8 on the 82-inch capacitive touchscreen display we just had a chance to go hands-on with at the company’s latest OS demo at Mobile World Congress — but things looked pretty imp…
If you’re Microsoft and in the process of overhauling Windows so that it’s equally at home on PCs and tablets, it would make sense to unveil a semi-final version at the world’s premier wireless show. That’s exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow, wh…
Here it is, folks: Mozilla’s assault on the smartphone. Known as Boot to Gecko, the OS is geared toward hobbyists and consumers alike. Mozilla tells us that all Android users (with unlocked bootloaders) will be able to install the operating system ont…
Clearly, cats are in. But Mac, it seems, is out. Apple has quietly dropped the Mac name from its latest OS X Mountain Lion operating system, while also retroactively changing the Lion branding on its website. While it’s clearly a marketing move and wo…
