Archive for December, 2010

Nokia shows off the future look of Symbian, coming in 2011

While the iPhone and Android OS are known for their gorgeous UI candy, Nokia’s Symbian OS isn’t going to win any beauty contests. Nokia is hard at work on something much, much more attractive for Symbian^4. The mobile company has … Continue reading

Windows Mobile 7 coming in February, maybe with gestures

Rumors have been flying about an update to Windows Mobile next month, but it was an open question whether it would be Windows Mobile 6.6 or 7. Well, the gadget blogosphere is leaning toward 7. Our sister site, Engadget, saw … Continue reading

Steam shows massive adoption of Windows 7 by gamers

So, get this: while Windows 7 only accounts for 6% of the global operating system market, 23% of Steam gamers are using Windows 7! The breakdown shows a lot of statistics, including average processor speed (2.5GHz) and NVIDIA (65%) versus … Continue reading

The iPad and you

You’ve probably noticed a complete lack of iPad/iTablet/iSlate news around these parts. That’s because we don’t cover gadgets, nor do we cover hyperbolic crotch-grabbing fanboy speculation. But now that it’s finally been announced (forever will it go down in history … Continue reading

Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history

I don’t like reporting news without exact numbers, especially when making claims like this, but the Director of Marketing at Microsoft is fairly confident about this one: “Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling Operating System in history.” He … Continue reading

Hexxeh releases Chromium OS Zero

Freescale just demonstrated a tablet at CES running Chrome OS, and there will no doubt be plenty of other manufacturers joining them later this year when Google finally releases their finished code. But why wait – and why shell out … Continue reading

Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 Series

In its ongoing effort to give every new version of its smartphone operating system a confusingly different name, Microsoft has pulled back the veil covering Windows Phone 7 Series, which will replace Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which in a roundabout fashion … Continue reading

Windows Mobile 7 reportedly delayed until 2011

An announcement from Microsoft regarding Windows Mobile 7 has been a long time coming. There was even talk of simply abandoning the ailing Windows Mobile platform. News today would suggest that it is coming though, but not until 2011. It’s … Continue reading

Microsoft roadmap leak — Windows 8 in 2011?

Ah, speculations. Where would we be without them? Now that the iPad is out, we can finally start speculating on other things. One of these is Windows 8. I’m actually not convinced it’s all that fascinating — the paint is … Continue reading

Windows Phone 7 Series demoed on video – a lot

Earlier today Microsoft introduced the world to the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system: Windows Phone 7 Series. While we aren’t expecting any phones running this OS to be available until later this year, the company had a … Continue reading