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Be operating system to power Sony Net appliance
News Electronics giant Sony is licensing software from operating system maker Be to power its consumer Internet browsing appliance, the e Villa. Under the agreement Sony will use the BeIA Client Platform, a version of the Be operating system (BeOS...
[March 26, 2001, 15:01]
Be launches mobile operating system
News At the Demo 2000 new technology show in California Monday, Be launched BeIA, an operating system for the fledgling Internet appliance market. The new operating system enters a fiercely competitive market with Symbian's Epoc, Microsoft's Windows CE...
[February 8, 2000, 10:08]
News Burst: Be to launch mobile operating system
News At the Demo 2000 show in California Monday, Be is to launch an operating system for the fledgling Internet appliance market. The BeIA operating system -- formerly code-named Stinger -- will be aimed at wireless multimedia devices such as Web pads...
[February 7, 2000, 11:18]
Be stings Microsoft with lawsuit
News Operating system maker Be on Tuesday said it has filed a federal lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant's anti-competitive practices stunted the growth of the Be operating system. In its lawsuit, Be charges that Microsoft's...
[February 20, 2002, 8:52]
Apple holds back Leopard's release
News A "near final" version of the operating system — Mac OS X 10.5 — will be distributed to developers at WWDC for testing. Last month, Digitimes correctly reported that Apple was planning to delay the operating system release until October, but it...
[April 13, 2007, 8:56]
Microsoft lays out plans for Windows Server
News Microsoft said on Wednesday that the follow-on to its Windows Server 2008 operating system will be an interim release due to arrive in 2009. The initial Windows Server 2008 release, due to be finalised late this year, will be offered in 32-bit and...
[May 17, 2007, 10:22]
Debian tipped for February release
News The long-awaited next version of the Debian open-source operating system is most likely to be released in February, according to members of the Debian community. In addition, most of the software bundled with the operating system will be updated to...
[January 26, 2007, 11:22]
Apple's Snow Leopard to get early release
News According to the company, the operating system will be sold through Apple's retail and online stores, and via authorised resellers. The next version of the OS X operating system, code-named Snow Leopard, will become available on 28 August.
[August 24, 2009, 16:58]
Psion plans 32-bit products, reports profits up
News As well as progressing in the handheld computer market, Psion expects its new operating system to be at the heart of smart-phones and portable network computers. Palmtops based on the 32-bit EPOC32 operating system will lead the way as the UK firm...
[March 11, 1997, 13:44]
Linux heavies play version name game
News Linus Torvalds and other central Linux programmers are debating whether the next version of the operating system should be numbered 2.6, or if its new features merit the grander designation 3.0. Amid a discussion of some storage-system features in...
[October 3, 2002, 7:46]
Google names Chrome OS hardware partners
News The operating system will be lightweight and initially run on netbooks, although it is also being built for desktop PCs, according to the company. Google has named the hardware companies that will make products tailored for its recently announced...
[July 9, 2009, 12:49]
SGI warns of Web server vulnerability
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) machines running the Apache Web server on SGI's IRIX operating system are vulnerable to attack by hackers, who may be able to gain administrator-level access, the company has warned.
[March 20, 2002, 13:53]
BeOS to take the Linux road?
News That's the thinking behind operating system developer Be's move on Tuesday to make its flagship BeOS freely downloadable to consumers -- a move that also puts it in competition with its open-source role model, Linux.
[January 19, 2000, 8:34]
Microsoft unveils optimised sat-nav OS
News Microsoft has released Windows Embedded NavReady 2009, its first embedded operating system to be specifically optimised for manufacturers of portable navigation devices. Redmond unveiled the system, which is one of its first category-specific...
[June 16, 2008, 14:00]
BeCrypt releases secure OS on USB drive
News A secure operating system that can be carried around on a flash drive will be unveiled at the Infosecurity conference in London later this month. Trusted Client will not be the first bootable operating system to appear on a flash drive.
[April 17, 2007, 14:52]
Microsoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown
Talkback Regardless of whether or not a microsoft operating system could be held liable for aircraft falling from the ai, or a third party software riding on top of it, It does appear that when you mention reboot that it truly was due to a windows...
[September 19, 2004, 5:33]
Ballmer dismisses Google Android threat
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believes it to be financially unsound. Ballmer said that, although the idea is Google gives away the operating system and in return gets to...
[November 6, 2008, 7:26]
A Year Ago: Sun and IBM tie the knot with JavaOS for business
News The operating system will be backwards compatible with current Java applications and is scheduled to be available to computer manufacturers by mid-1998. Lomberg said he did not know how parts of the operating system effort would be allocated...
[April 6, 1999, 7:02]
News Burst: Hitachi-BeOS PCs for Christmas... in Japan
News Be Inc's operating system will be included in some Hitachi PCs it has been announced this week. The operating system was originally designed to run on Macs, but Be is keen to target multimedia applications in the mainstream Intel PC marketplace.
[November 19, 1998, 14:14]
Microsoft releases Windows 7 worldwide
News The launch came one year after Microsoft said its next operating system would be sold under its code-name of 'Windows 7', and almost 10 months after the OS's first beta release. Microsoft released Windows 7, the latest version of its market...
[October 22, 2009, 12:37]
