Google now offers two separate operating systems: Android OS – used by smartphones out there, ported by companies onto a bunch of other consumer electronic products including netbooks. Chrome OS – a browser-based operating system, which essentially lives within the browser. Oh, and people are starting to think of placing it on netbooks as well. Why would any sane company go and invest their resources on two operating systems that just… do the same? Which OS would
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 28th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Hi everyone for another new and interesting week. This time the carnival is again in Israel, where we are currently enjoying our Sukkot holyday. Before I start off with the interesting set of posts on our carnival, I want to invite you on behalf of WIP Jam to their UnPanel event on October 8 at CTIA in San Diego. They’ve got a day chocked full with great speakers – one of them is Lauren Thorpe, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Qualcomm
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
When you work with standards it is hard to differentiate. Take for example the browser market. Not all browsers are created equal. Taking a look at the 4 major browsers on the market today, and trying to summarize each one in a sentence, this is what you will get: Internet Explorer – Largest “customer base”, not adhering to standards Firefox – Full of plugins, liked by developers and
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 20th, 2008 | Filed under Standardization
