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American Way Magazine Digital Edition

ISSUE: November 1, 2009

Articles about operating system

In Search Of A Green Machine - 2-15-2008

ConserveWith all the sky-is-falling news these days — global warming, crashing fisheries, mercury contamination even on mountaintops — you probably haven...

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...access remote applications — even the operating system — which cuts down on...

Sorry, Dad. Now, It's Both. - 2-15-2001

EVERY Paren't SINCE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL HAS WARNED THE KIDS, "ITS A TELEPHONE, NOT A TOY."

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...a PDA (using Symbian’s EPOC operating system) with a touch-screen menu, Web browser, built-in...

These Handy Helpers Are Worth Toting To The Pool, Beach, Or Backwoods Hideaway. - 6-15-2001

IOMEGA ZIP250 USB POWERED DRIVE ($179.95) Got a big job you can’t quite wrap at the office? Take it on vacation, along with this mini-drive and a laptop. It weighs less than a can of soda, but its companion disk stores u...

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...necessary. Using the 16MB of RAM, Windows CE operating system, and a touch-screen stylus, you can get a jump...

Reboot - 2-1-2002

HANDHELD COMBAT HAS PALM LOST ITS GRIP? For years Palm ruled the handheld sector, racking up 70 to 75 percent market share against rivals like Microsoft’s Windows CE devices. No more. Last year, Compaq’s CE-based iPAQ and Microso...

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... bleeding this year. “Palm needs a new operating system as fast as possible,” says Todd Kort,...

Classy Tablets - 9-15-2002

Laptops may fall into the pass pile this fall when early adopters hit class sporting notepad computers with write-on touch screens. Pushed hard by Microsoft, developer of the Tablet PC Windows operating system due out in early November, a slew of th...

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... by Microsoft, developer of the Tablet PC Windows operating system due out in early November, a slew of the biggest...

Breakthrough - 5-1-2003

PENGUIN'S PROGRESS LINUXinux, the open-source operating system (OS) started in 1991 by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, has embarked on what futurist Watts Wacker calls “the migration to the mainstream” — a hot idea that s...

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...PROGRESS LINUX inux, the open-source operating system (OS) started in 1991 by Finnish programmer...

Tech Power - 12-1-2008

The PC Edge The world's smallest computer, right in the palm of your hand. $300, www.thepcedge.com Gyration Air Mouse Perfect for traveling, this little baby works just as well in the air as it does on a flat surface. $100, www.gyration.com DXG-5...

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...to be powered by Google’s Android operating system. It gives the iPhone a run for its money. $180,...

Your Next Laptop - 9-1-2004

Whether you work on the road or on the couch, your computer has to fit. So We've searched far and wide to find the perfect one for you.

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...blue IBM button on the keyboard and an embedded operating system lets you access the hard drive. ...

Cloudy Days Predict a Rosy Future - 10-1-2009

Savor the irony: Previously, parents would chastise daydreaming children by saying, “Get your head out of the clouds.” But thanks to cloud computing -- the practice of running software programs on remote servers, with results beamed in real time to your PC or mobile device -- that’s exactly where it should be glued going forward. Featured applications don’t just operate like everyday desktop counterparts, sparing users the need for expensive hardware and incessant load times, they also promise to revolutionize the entire software industry with an anticipated $42 billion business by 2012, per market-research firm IDC. Here’s how cloud computing is already reshaping the way we work and play.

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...we work and play. COMPUTING Google’s Chrome operating system, due out next year, actually makes standardized...

American Way Cover - 11/1/2009