What's the next step after web-based applications and thin clients? Web-based operating systems, apparently. An interesting idea known as YouOS is a project that strives to create a full computing ...

Figure 1. Mozilla's Firefox OS is designed for mobile platforms like smartphones providing functionalitysimilar to Android and iOS. The front facing browser interface makes it easier to customize. In ...

Google likes to say that Chrome OS is an operating system that lets you do everything on the web. Don’t believe it. Until now, I’ve been pretty optimistic about Google’s web-based operating system.

Just a few moments ago, Steven Sinofsky took to the stage at the Anaheim Conference Center in California and announced the imminent arrival of Windows 8 Developer Preview. If you want a sneak peek at ...

Chrome OS notebooks won’t arrive until later this year, but Google is already planning for tablets. CNet’s Stephen Shankland found lots of tablet evidence among the Chrome OS source code, including a ...

Xcerion works from within a browser, which developers can use to build Web-based versions of existing software or new applications quickly A venture capital firm has given a $10 million boost to a ...

A former high-level Google employee says a that a lightweight, browser-only operating system has been a long-time coming but it won’t cause enterprises to abandon Windows. The following is a ...

Its market share may now be in decline, but few would argue Android hasn't delivered good business for Motorola the Droid one of the platform's best selling devices. Speculation, however, suggests ...