Is Linux Ready for You?
DIY Geeks have loved it for years, but is the open-source OS alternative finally easy enough for the rest of us? Dept.: Geek GuideTech: LinuxCost: Free-$316Beta | | | | | Final… Dept.: Geek Guide Tech:...
View ArticleThe Fastest Boot in the West
DIY A Linux OS build that'll boot your system's pants off The countdown is on, my friends. The countdown to the fastest booting OS, that is. Forget those operating system sloths, Mac OS X and Windows...
View ArticleThe Smallest OS in the West
DIY An operating system so small, if you drop it on the carpet you might lose it Are you torn between two lovers, thinking back lovingly to those simple days of disk-based operating systems that could...
View ArticleCould Robots Unite Under One Operating System?
Technology A common robot operating system could lead to a robotics revolution -- scientifically speaking, of course Today's robots represent islands unto themselves that don't share either software or...
View ArticleWindows Phone Series 7 Takes Aim at iPhone, Android
Gadgets iPhone, meet mPhone Gadget lovers are nothing if not fickle, always ditching their older tech for pretty young things. And recently, all the attention on the iPhone and Google's Android OS...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Print Will Allow Printing From Any Device to Any Printer, Anywhere
Gadgets Google also wants device makers to start churning out cloud-aware printers Computer users who hate installing a new driver for each printer they use might want to keep an eye on the Google...
View ArticleComputers With Google's OS Do All You Need With Little More Than The Web
Gadgets You might have heard of Google's Chrome OS, and how it's essentially a computer with a web browser...and nothing else. How can a web browser replace all the other elements of… You might have...
View ArticleThe New Windows Allows Consumers to Replace Their PCs With Tablets
Gadgets Seventy-three million tablets were sold last year, and analysts predict tablet sales to surpass those of traditional PCs by 2016. Yet despite such swift adoption, tablets… Seventy-three...
View ArticleWhy Is Amazon Going To Stop Selling Chromecast and Apple TV?
Technology Android, used in Amazon's own Fire TV devices, bites Google back Amazon is pulling Apple TVs and Google Chromecasts from its digital marketplace, effectively waging a war with Apple and...
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