This one’s been kicking around the interwebs for a few weeks now, but it has managed to grow into something of a beast during that period. Frankly, we couldn’t think of less fitting way to send the glorious Nexus One out than to completely deface it and ruin what Google has worked so hard to perfect. But regardless of what we think, that’s exactly what has happened here
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Tweaker ports Samsung’s TouchWIz UI onto non-rooted Nexus One for reasons unknown
The release of Chrome OS looms ever closer, but still there are a number of enhancements and changes being rolled in that should make for a somewhat nicer experience, and TechCrunch has highlighted a few. Perhaps most major among those changes is the ability to browse the internet without signing in, but if you want to update your bookmarks or save any form data you’ll still need a Google account
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A look at some of Chrome OS’s latest bits of polish
Whoa.
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Nokia N8 to be final Symbian N Series device, all MeeGo from here on out
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard any major news about Jolicloud , but it looks like the upstart, Linux-based OS is about to get a pretty significant upgrade — the company has just announced that version 1.0 of the operating system will boast built-in support for touchscreens. That includes a whole array of standalone touchscreens and netbook displays (full list at the link below) and, as you can see in the brief demo video after the break, it certainly seems to be responsive enough when using Jolicloud’s new HTML5 interface on a Samsung NB250 netbook. Continue reading Jolicloud promises touch support in version 1.0, gives a demo now Jolicloud promises touch support in version 1.0, gives a demo now originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:49:00 EDT.
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Jolicloud promises touch support in version 1.0, gives a demo now
As friends very near and dear to us have confessed, ” soon ” is a relative term. If you’ll recall, we heard from Palm (in)directly that the next webOS update was “coming soon” back in the early days of May, and here we are a fortnight from July without so much as an update regarding the update. Well, without an official update
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webOS 1.4.5 reportedly coming any day now… except for AT&T users
It’s easy to lose track of the number of times that Windows XP has been proclaimed dead , but it looks like this particular cut-off date is indeed the real thing — Microsoft is now reminding OEMs that they’ll no longer be able to install Windows XP Home on new netbooks after October 22nd of this year. The venerable operating system could all but disappear from new netbooks well before then, however, considering that Microsoft itself notes that a full 81% of netbooks sold as of April of this year shipped with some form of Windows 7 pre-installed.
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Microsoft: no more Windows XP on new netbooks after October 22, really
Well, this one’s come a bit out of left field, but it looks like Chrome OS could be set to get a pretty big new addition: a remote desktop feature dubbed “Chromoting” (at least for now). That word comes courtesy of an apparently authentic message from Google software engineer Gary Kačmarčík posted on a Chrome OS mailing list, which goes on to explain that the feature would let you run “legacy PC applications” right in the browser, and that it would be “something like” Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection. No more details than that, unfortunately, nor is there any indication that the feature will actually be included in the initial release of Chrome OS that’s launching this fall , with Kačmarčík only going so far as to say that Google is “adding new capabilities all the time.” Google adding ‘Chromoting’ remote desktop functionality to Chome OS
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Google adding ‘Chromoting’ remote desktop functionality to Chome OS?
It’s oftentimes easy for us to get swept up in Android mania and forget that Google’s mobile platform is still in its infancy. Then we get cold hard numbers like these — showing iPhone OS owning 28 percent of the US smartphone market and closing in on RIM’s leading 35 percent — and we face up to the realization that Android handsets still account for less than one in every ten smartphones owned by Americans today.
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‘iPhone vs Android’ report finds Apple has three times Google’s market share
Microsoft certainly made a bit of splash at Computex with the introduction of Windows Embedded Compact 7 , but it’s not necessarily the easiest thing to wrap your head around right off the bat (or say three times fast).
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Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 explained, trial download now available
Microsoft’s Steve Guggenheimer may think that Android on tablets is still just an experiment , but it looks like NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang would beg to differ. Speaking at Computex , he said that “Windows is too big and it’s too full featured for smartbooks and tablets,” and that Android is instead finally an “operating system to unite behind.” He also admits, however, that Android isn’t quite ready for primetime in its current incarnation when it comes to tablets, but he says that Google knows this, and recognizes that Android “has to evolve, and be enhanced in certain capabilities, in order to be a good tablet operating system.” According to Huang, “we’ll have to wait until the Fall” for that to happen, but he seems confident that it will indeed happen, adding that the “operating systems are coming together” and “the devices are coming together.” NVIDIA CEO says Android is an OS to ‘unite behind,’ will be better tailored to tablets this Fall originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:04:00 EDT.
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