mobile operating systems

Microsoft has given its users an unprecedented view into the development of Windows 8 but nothing matches the scope of the latest unveil.

Steven Sinofksy himself has descended from his lofty throne and taken up pen and paper to describe Windows on ARM (WOA) in great detail.

The full article is available at the Building Windows 8 Blog, though calling the 8,000+ word treatise a “post” stretches the definition of the word like Rosie O’Donnell slipping in to one of Kate Moss’s bikinis.

Technology is accelerating at an exponential rate. If you need proof of this, look at the kind of tools that we had in the 1800s (looms, steam engines), 1900s (airplanes, nuclear bombs, supercomputers), and 2000s (touchscreens, brain-computer interfaces, and who knows what else).

This ever-accelerating bleeding edge creates two very noticeable effects: a) The world of today looks very different to the world you grew up in, and b) You never quite know what’s going to happen next.

CPTN Holdings has altered some of the terms of their patent purchase from Novell in response to antitrust concerns raised by the U.S.

Department of Justice (DOJ). The DoJ announced on Wednesday, that “as originally proposed, the deal would jeopardize the ability of open source software, such as Linux, to continue to innovate and compete in the development and distribution of server, desktop, and mobile operating systems, middleware, and virtualization products.”

By 2015, IDC forecasts Android smartphones will account for 45.4 percent of the worldwide market, followed by devices running the Microsoft Windows Phone/Windows Mobile operating systems with a 20.9 percent market share.

AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui on the last round of changes to Apple’s iPhone SDK developer agreement:

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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has just made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

He discussed Twitter, advertising, Bing, and answered audience questions.

AdMob, a company that specializes in mobile advertising, has released another mon