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Chrome OS Unveiled, Focused on Netbooks, the Cloud
Chrome OS is a natural evolution of the work thats been done on the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, and Chrome OS engineering director Matthew Papakipos said when they unveiled it at Googles Mountain View campus on Thursday. The operating system is designed to imbue web applications with the "full functionality of desktop applications." As for the reasons behind the development of the new platform, they pointed to rapid growth in the netbook market — where Chrome OS is ...
Broadband penetration continues to rise in EU
Broadband penetration has continued to rise in the European Union this year, according to a new report from the European Commission, which finds that 24% of the EU population had a broadband access line subscription in July 2009, up from 21.6% one year previously. The report also found that mobile broadband is gaining momentum in Europe, having posted a 54% increase since January and now having a penetration rate of 4.2% per 100 citizens. Broadband Internet connections are also found to be increasingly ...
MS denies Win 7 backdoor rumours
Microsoft has once again denied rumours that it built a backdoor into Windows 7. Long standing conspiracy theories that Redmond outfits Windows with a covert entry point for law enforcement resurfaced after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official told Congress it had worked with Redmond on the operating system. Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, told a Senate homeland security sub-committee on Tuesday that the agency had worked with developers on Windows 7's operating ...
Industry Predicts 21 Mbps to Be Next Mobile Broadband Baseline
Mobile broadband is continuing to grow at a fast pace due to the ever increasing introduction of new technologies, new networks, new devices and competitive innovation in the market. In July, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) announced that 7.2 Mbps had become the new baseline for mobile broadband globally, since at that time half of the HSPA networks in commercial service globally were capable of supporting a peak downlink data speed of 7.2 Mbps or higher, supported by almost 600 user devices ...
Cable industry joins MPAA in asking FCC to allow them to stop your DVR
Ars Technica has allowed the cable industry lobbyists' top lawyer to explain why the cable industry supports breaking your DVR in a misguided effort to add more windows to movie releases. Not surprisingly, he simply repeats the MPAA's flat out lies and misrepresentations on this particular issue. For example, he claims that the movie studios need this or they won't get content out to the industry early enough. But that's wrong. There is nothing stopping the movie studios from releasing content whenever ...
