O2 UK has signed up Qualcomm to provide its user interface platform. The deal - the first of its kind for Qualcomm in Europe - will see the company's uiOne platform being used to develop a single user interface for O2's X signature device range...
Longhorn, the next major version of Windows for desktop PCs, will debut in 2005 and will usher in a new level of graphics for PCs, Microsoft executives said on Wednesday. While Microsoft plans to release "a couple of beta" versions of Longhorn in...
The analyst firm said the initial beta is likely to include long-awaited search and metadata tagging functions but will focus on the new application programming interface (API) set, known as WinFX, and other kernel-level changes.
But Apple will still have copyright rights over the interface and so could still assert those in any action. But as Microsoft added more features in Windows 2.0 and later in 3.0, Apple in 1988 filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against...
Some observers have likened Microsoft's lucrative operating system dominance to a 'toll bridge', Raikes wrote in an exchange that The Wall Street Journal first reported on Wednesday. In the trial in Minneapolis, which began this week, lawyers who...
Java's security model works by limiting the areas of the computer the code can manipulate. In the next major version of StarOffice, Sun will introduce more fine-grained security control, giving system administrators the ability to restrict access...