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PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003 review
Reviews Neither OS is particularly difficult to master, but there's no question the Windows Mobile learning curve is steeper. Windows Mobile is the better contact manager, offering a lot more data fields than the Palm OS and an easier method of searching...
[February 26, 2004, 11:25]
Mac OS X With 100 Bugs: Still Safer Than Windows?
News Apple has plugged around 100 vulnerabilities in OS X so far this year, but the malware threat to Mac customers is insignificant compared to users of Microsoft Windows. The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X...
[July 11, 2007, 16:30]
Have Apple Got It Wrong With The IPhone?
Blog Comment However, you neglect to consider the iPhone has 500MBs of desktop-class Unix-based OS X on some pretty high performance hardware compared to the ~50MB of Windows Mobile, Symbian etc with a far more robust and easy to use software update mechanism...
[November 15, 2007, 21:12]
Best And Worst Products, 1996-2006 review
Reviews As the huddled masses of Windows users endure the seemingly interminable wait for Vista, it's all too easy to forget that the Apple Mac faithful have had an OS with many of Vista's advantages for some time now.
[July 13, 2006, 16:15]
Apple And Microsoft Fall Out Of Sync
News Relations between the two companies had soured over slow sales of Office for the Mac, which Microsoft in part blamed on Apple's marketing of Mac OS X. IDC estimates that the market share for Mac OS dropped to 3.1 percent in 2001 from 4.6 percent...
[January 2, 2003, 15:27]
OSX 'at Risk From Attack'
News Security vendor Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors. In its seventh bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec said over the past year, security...
[March 21, 2005, 7:55]
Windows Chief Fields Readers' Questions
News Steward Hardt, a software consultant from Rancho Cucamonga, California, asks how you respond to comments that many of the new features in Vista are already in other operating systems, like Mac OS X? With Mac OS X coming out more often, isn't...
[January 30, 2006, 9:35]
Have Apple Got It Wrong With The IPhone?
Blog Comment Users of Apple’s computers hold onto their machines for far longer than the average PC as each version of OS X has sped up their old hardware and added new features - I think the same will likely happen with the iPhone - it is after all running OS...
[November 16, 2007, 1:19]
Floola
Downloads Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.
[January 11, 2008, 21:46]
Floola For Windows
Downloads Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Floola can be run easily directly from your iPod and needs no installation.
[August 7, 2008, 17:07]
Mailclad Communicator Love
Downloads Mailclad Communicator Love is a totally free to download and use full functional E-Mail Client available for Windows ME/2000/XP Home, Professional and Apple Macintosh OS X. In dissociation to the lite and above versions of mailclad Communicator the...
[June 20, 2006, 22:31]
Ringtone Converter
Downloads This gadget allows you to add new ring tones to your mobile/cellular phone using your Mac OS X system. A Windows-compatible version is also available. The application supports many phone models, including Audiovox, Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola...
[July 16, 2003, 13:42]
Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Downloads Server support for Linux and Mac OS X platforms is also available. The application offers over-the-air sync to today's most essential mobile clients including Palm Treo 650, Treo 700 w/p, Nokia E-Series, and Motorola Q (all Windows Mobile 5 devices).
[March 7, 2007, 14:46]
Skype Flaw Puts Users At Risk
News Skype clients are available for Windows; Mac OS X v10.3 (Panther) or later; Linux; and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, Skype said. Skype on Tuesday released updated versions of its software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that do not contain the...
[October 26, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft's Death Knell For Windows Mobile
Blog As part of the process of re-engineering the kernel code, the basic heart of the operating system, the Windows team has produced a very small (for Windows) kernel that obeys the classic OS design rules.
[October 22, 2007, 13:45]
OSX 'at Risk From Attack'
Talkback If you keep your system (OS X system) patched, and use sound passwords, and then implement the excellent FileVault technology on your home drive (especially for mobile users), and OpenFirmware password etc etc.then the likelihood of getting a...
[March 21, 2005, 8:39]
AOL Instant Messenger Beta 4.8 review
Reviews One bright spot: while AIM 4.7 works only in Windows, this IM client comes in versions for a range of other operating systems, including Mac OS (separate versions for 68K users, PowerPC people, and those using the new OS X), Linux, Palm OS and...
[February 17, 2002, 23:00]
Orange Rolls Out Its First Wireless PDA
News Orange's SPV mobile phones compete with Symbian OS-powered devices from most major mobile phone manufacturers and with Palm OS-powered phones from PalmSource licensees. Mobile operator Orange this week began selling its first wireless handheld...
[February 6, 2004, 12:05]
Skype Releases Beta For Mac OS X
News Skype has released a beta version of its latest client for Mac OS X users. He claimed it would be "exactly the same" as Skype for Mac OS X 1.5 Beta, but would include the video capability. Skype allows users to make free calls over the Internet to...
[July 26, 2006, 16:45]
Apple Holds Back Leopard's Release
News However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and [quality assurance] resources from our Mac OS X...
[April 13, 2007, 8:56]
