The browser-based smartphone operating system, formerly called Boot to Gecko, has won over two hardware makers and six carriers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Chrome OS started out pretty much as a glorified Chrome web browser turned operating system but it has shed that identity a long time ago. It has almost become the one OS that runs them all, ...

PalmSource, developers of the Palm Operating System, announced Tuesday the release of PalmSource Web Browser 3.0, a new browser designed expressly for smartphones and wireless devices running Palm OS ...

Google has announced that forthcoming releases of its Chrome browser will be able to run apps in the background. Essentially, the feature moves Chrome one step closer to becoming a true application ...

Some memes in the online conversation are like songs that get played often on the radio. Remember the radio? That medium we used to listen to before we all became pod people? If you like the song, ...

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After over a decade on the Mac platform, the alternative Camino browser for OS X will no longer be developed. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

The OS/2 community is getting close to obtaining a modern browser on their ancient platform. For those who are not old enough to remember OS/2 was released by IBM and Microsoft in the late 1980s and ...

If the world needs one browser-based operating system, why not three more? With the interest Google’s Chrome OS has generated, can operating systems based upon Firefox, Internet Explorer, even Opera, ...