Microsoft has already experienced the power the netbook has to open up operating system options for PC consumers, since it saw Linux distributions being included as the default operating system on consumer-oriented machines for the first time with the advent of the small, affordable, feature-light m...

Android Dev Phone 1 owners are pretty much expected to handle their own business when it comes to firmware updates, but those of you who like to kick it official take note: El Goog's just released Android 1.1 for its totally unlocked version of the G1. Most of the fixes are to do with POP3 accounts,...

Lots of respectable geeks have been looking into their crystal balls, foreseeing the day, sometime soon, when Google Android, the Google OS for phones — the gPhone — moves up the developmental totem, jumping to the netbook, then to the laptop, and finally to the desktop, resulting in an integrat...

As Berin and I have noted here before (here and here), there seems to be no shortage of competition and innovation in the mobile operating system (OS) space. We’ve got: Apple’s iPhone platform, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Symbian, Google’s Android, BlackBerry, Palm OS (+ Palm’s new Web...

It was a good year for computers -- if you don't think of computers as simply a combination of monitor, keyboard, hard drive, CD/DVD burner, and some version of Windows or Mac OS X....

It was a good year for computers -- if you don't think of computers as simply a combination of monitor, keyboard, hard drive, CD/DVD burner, and some version of Windows or Mac OS X....

It was a good year for computers -- if you don't think of computers as simply a combination of monitor, keyboard, hard drive, CD/DVD burner, and some version of Windows or Mac OS X....

Despite a decent selection, we get the feeling Android developers have really been holding back until they can make a little money for their hard labor. Google exec Eric Chu is telling registered Android Market members via email that the rollout of paid apps is still coming first quarter of next yea...

The handset itself is hardly anything new, and we had a pretty good indication that Android was heading its way, but there's still nothing like a few good 'ol fashioned blurrycam shots to make a plan really come together. From the looks of it, the handset doesn't appear to have gone under any major ...

It’s that time: predictions for the year ahead and a look back at how we did in the year past. Several of last year’s predictions proved highly accurate, as many of the topics we devote attention to – social networking, startups, and increasingly mobile apps – evolved according to plan. Look...