Operating system

Apple has unleashed OS X Mountain Lion and Gizmag goes hands-on with some first impressions.

XP Mod is an Android Launcher, or home screen replacement, that recreates the look and feel of Windows XP.

Ubuntu for Android effectively turns your phone into a full Ubuntu desktop computer when docked and connected to a monitor.

Microsoft Research is looking to unify electrical appliances within the home with the development of HomeOS, a lightweight "smart home" operating system.

Just seven months after Lion hit servers, Apple has released OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) to developers.

Apple's Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets OS X Lion users create their own recovery disk - or rather, recovery USB drive.

The mission for Mac OS X Lion was clear - make the Mac OS comfortable and familiar to the new Apple mobile user audience

Apple today officially unveiled iOS 5, the latest version of its mobile operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface offers faster boot times for computer users over its predecessor, BIOS.

Robotics company Willow Garage is giving ten of its PR2 robots to deserving research groups, in hopes of creating an open-source robotics platform.

Lockheed Martin’s new IronClad “PC on a stick” USB drive offers military-strength security for out-of-office computing. It shrinks a laptop’s hard drive, including the entire operating system, software applications, and files, onto a flash drive

Gateway has introduced its One ZX Series all-in-one desktop PC's, harnessing the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7.