OS, Reports
Apple Updates iPhone OS 3.1 SDK, Claim Reports
According to multiple reports, iPhone OS 3.1 offers some bug patches and a number of improvements, including updates to the Voice Control functionality, which now also works with Bluetooth headsets. [...] Sometime in the wee hours of 1 July, Apple reportedly pushed out iPhone operating system (OS) OS 3.1 beta software and its software development kit to developers. The update comes just two weeks after Apple made the free iPhone OS 3.0 download available. [...] Apple Updates iPhone OS 3.1 SDK, Claim Reports. eWEEK Europe UK. [...]
GFI LANguard 9.0: Network and Security Scanner for SMBs
Executive reports provide overview and trend analysis with such reports as Network Vulnerability Summary and Network Vulnerability Trend. Statistical reports provide information related to vulnerability and operating system and include OS Service Pack Distribution, Vulnerability Distribution by Host and Vulnerability Distribution by OS. [...] Technical reports provide technical information on vulnerabilities, missing patches and open ports, including reports such as Installed Patches Grouped by Host, Missing Patches Grouped by OS, Open Trojan Ports by Host and Vulnerability Listing by Host. [...] A feature that made my life easier is the ability to bookmark the reports that I found the most useful. However, I found the mechanic of running scans in one application and running reports in another to be unwieldy and cumbersome. it's best to filter (by workstation, for example) before exporting from LANguard, but that requires knowing what you want to see in a report before even launching Report Centre. [...]
Apple comment and opinion on the latest Apple software and products
Reports are emerging that Microsoft could be developing a new mobile OS, other than Windows Phone 7. Tom Jowitt asks if Redmond has taken leave of its senses. [...]
Apple iPad Predicted To Beat Off Tablet Rivals
Verizon and Google have also announced that they're working on a tablet, and iSuppli reports that rumors have Google releasing a Chrome OS-based tablet 26 November. However, citing sources that say Chrome OS doesn't offer support for a touch display, iSuppli finds this unlikely. [...] More than likely, states the report, Google will take an interim step up to the smart book market before jumping into the tablet fray with the Chrome OS. [...] Research firm iSuppli has announced in a new report that Apple is to retain a commanding presence with its iPad tablet, at least through to 2012. [...]
LG Ties Mobile Future To Google Android
On 10 March, LG officials introduced the Android-running LG-KH5200 in South Korea, and after being vague in January by declining to specify how many phones on its 2010 roster will feature the open-source OS, now say they will include Android on 10 of their 20 planned handsets, according to reports from Reuters. [...] In the third quarter of 2009, LG shipped an all-time high of 31.6 million handsets, though it was Samsung that broke through the psychologically important 20 percent market share position, Strategy Analytics Analyst Neil Mawston wrote in a 30 Oct, 2009 report. [...]
Review: Apple IOS 4 Is A Worthy Upgrade
Although some reports indicated that customers were experiencing problems when downloading the OS update, I must have been one of the lucky ones, as my download of iOS 4 (for an iPhone 3GS) at high noon of release day passed without incident. Because I'm the cautious type, I'd made sure the phone was fully charged, and that there was nothing on the device that I couldn't easily replace. [...]
Apple Patches Older Version Of Leopard OS
New OS Market Windows / OS Developers Reports / New Windows Operating system st. [...] Only days after the launch of its new operating system (OS), Snow Leopard, computer maker Apple is alerting users to a Java security patch for its older, Leopard OS X. [...] However, late last Friday the blog revealed that accessing Print & Fax System Preferences can reconnect the computer. In addition, there have been reports of DVD playback stopping unexpectedly and problems regarding automatic account setup in Mail. [...]
Chrome OS: Is Google Just Chasing Microsoft’s Gazelle?
And news has kept coming. Chrome OS might come sooner, even this year according to reports. At a press conference, Google execs had to make a point that Chrome OS was not going to displace the Android OS (despite the likelihood of Android also appearing on netbooks ). [...] But some commentators are pointing out reasons to stay calm. Jack Schofield says Chrome could be seen as a copy of Microsoft's Gazelle (more detail in a PDF here ), or even of Splashtop, the instant-on OS used by companies like Asus. [...] Last week's announcement of Google's Chrome OS got masses of attention - deservedly. Here's an operating system, coming from Microsoft's most visible rival, and pitched at precisely the opportune moment - the point of greatest uncertainty in Microsoft's own operating systems strategy. [...]
Apple iPad Hacked And Slated For 24 April UK Release
According to various reports, MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team which is committed to hacking the iPhone OS, jailbroke the iPad after just one day of experimenting with the tablet device. [...] Apple is of course keeping mum on the reports and the official word on its UK website is that the iPad will arrive in the UK sometime in late April'. [...] Hackers have reportedly already cracked open the iPad. Meanwhile another report has suggested the device will hit UK shores on 24 April. [...]
Is Microsoft Developing Another Mobile Operating System?
Next month Microsoft is betting its mobile business on the next version of the Windows Phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. But reports suggest it has another mobile OS in preparation. [...] All the while, Microsoft still has no OS that works across multiple portable devices. Windows Phone, Zune and Slate use different OSes. [...] According to a number of blogs from Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft is indeed working on a new mobile OS. Whether this is just an internal skunkworks project remains to be seen, but Foley has apparently spent several months looking for details of a Microsoft project that goes by the name of Menlo. [...]
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