Hackers at Pwn2Own to compete for $US100K in prizes
A hacking contest next month will award cash prizes of $US15,000 to anyone who can break into an iPhone, BlackBerry Bold, Droid or Nokia smartphone.
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Nokia CEO underscores support for Symbian
Symbian's future on Nokia's smartphones has been questioned lately, but Nokia's support for the OS remains unchanged for the foreseeable future, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said during a keynote at the company's Capital Markets Day on Wednesday.
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Windows 7 passes Mac OS X in market share race
Windows 7 passed the 5 per cent market share milestone last weekend, which put it, if only temporarily, above the total market share of all versions of Apple's Mac OS X, a Web measurement firm said today.
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Google Chrome OS will not support hard disk drives
Google said today that the upcoming release of its new Google Chrome operating system will not support hard disk drives in favor of solid state drives (SSD).
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Google goes for speed, security in Chrome OS
Google released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community on Thursday and said it has designed the netbook OS to be faster, simpler and more secure than existing ones.
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Ubuntu 9.10 Linux creator calls Windows 7 'excellent release'
Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, not only claims to be "delighted" that Windows 7 is out, but calls the new operating system an "excellent release."
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Barrelfish OS will speed up future multicore systems
Without a radical change in the way much of it is written, software, sadly, just can't go much faster anymore.
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Microsoft: In-place Windows 7 upgrades can take up to 20 hours
Microsoft said Friday that some 'in-place' upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users more than 20 hours to complete.
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Snow Leopard goes on sale in Australia (updated)
Apple has started selling Snow Leopard, its newest operating system
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Clue surge points to Aug. 28 launch for Snow Leopard
Mounting clues point toward an Aug. 28 release date for Snow Leopard, the next version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
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Windows 7 will run 120 days for free, Microsoft confirms
Like its predecessor, Windows 7 can be used for up to 120 days without providing a product activation key, Microsoft confirmed today.
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Microsoft shutting off Windows 7 RC downloads Thursday
Microsoft will turn off the download spigot for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on Thursday around 11 a.m. ET, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
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Google Chrome OS shows limitations of Android
Google's decision to create a new Internet-centric OS for netbooks shows the limitations of the Android mobile OS for netbooks and raises questions about its future on those devices, developers and analysts said.
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Google's OS security claims called 'idiotic'
Google, while announcing its new Chrome operating system late Tuesday, said users would no longer have to worry about viruses, malware and security updates, but security experts disagreed on whether Google can deliver on those promises.
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Google's new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns
Google's announcement Tuesday that it is developing an open-source operating system raised questions among privacy advocates about the amount of personal data Google will be able to collect.
