The strategy of giving everything away often creates as many hassles as it solves. Why charging just a little can be smarter than charging nothing at all.READ»
Almost twenty years ago, a little company called Be created the BeOS, a robust little system that was light-years ahead of Windows and the MacOS. But the BeOS never had a future--until now.
To understand its resurrection, you ...READ»
Yesterday we discussed the prospect of a new Apple TV. But why watch TV on Apple's schedule when you can build your own, and have twice as many features?
If you're a Mac die-hard, follow MacWorld's DIY Mac Mini media center project. ...READ»
Theoretically, Apple's Mac OS X can be installed on nearly any machine running an Intel processor, and even AMD-based machines--including netbooks, laptops and desktops. But the process of installing OS X on these devices gets ...READ»
With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that RooftopComedy came up with.READ»
It's really Nokia's week for new gizmos--first the news of its first netbook, and now it's pulled the veil from the N900, a high-end Linux-powered touchscreen device. It's basically a smartbook--the device that could supersede the ...READ»
With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»
I've suffered slow computer performance, system crashes, and inexplicable Internet outages for 10 long years. I officially ditched Windows two weeks ago...and, so can you. Long story short, I decided to find another operating ...READ»
Tech guru Michael Arrington made a booboo last night, accidentally leaking details of a nearly ready-for-production CrunchPad--a large, tablet PC designed for browsing his website, TechCrunch (and other Web sites, if they exist). ...READ»
Brazil's government is about to create the world's largest desktop virtualization project, in schools across the entire country. And it's not just a move to advance educational computing for the country's kids while saving cash--it's ...READ»
Emtec is jumping on the crowded netbook bandwagon with its Gdium Liberty 1000. It's a pretty standard machine with one oddly innovative exception: It has a main solid-state drive that's designed to be easily undockable.
This ...READ»
As our software becomes more Web-centric and our devices cheaper, Linux is becoming the operating system on everyone’s lips for 2009. Sorry, Microsoft. If this week’s news is any indication, you’ve been served. The biggest ...READ»
Businessweek is hypothesizing that HP [NYSE:HPQ] might be ready to ditch Microsoft's [NASDAQ:MSFT] Windows and develop its own operating system.
According to the magazine, HP is a little disappointed with many of the unpopular ...READ»
If you're asking, "What's Ubuntu?" then listen up; the answer could be "the future of the PC."
Ubuntu is a version of the open source Linux operating system, like RedHat [NYSE:RHT] and others, which has been ...READ»
Red Hat [NYSE:RHT], makers of open-source software, has entrenched itself a little deeper into the virtualization market today by purchasing a company called Qumranet, the Israeli-based firm that developed open-source kernel-based ...READ»
"Google, is starting to suffer something that could have an equally significant impact: a drain of some of the entrepreneurial energy that drove its early growth and on which its unique culture depends heavily.” While Google ...READ»
