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TP-Link MR-3020 portable 3G hotspot
Mobile broadband for PCs has not taken off quite as much in the UK as was hoped when it first appeared, but it is still a very handy technology when you’re out and about or live in a broadband-less area. Most smartphones have a personal hotspot feature that lets you share the 3G connection…
Apple MacOS X Lion
Apple’s MacOS X Lion wasn’t promised to be revolutionary. Steve Jobs himself said so. What the company’s late CEO left out was that Lion is so reactionary that it has reached near-brilliance for a machine that doesn’t cook your meals or do your laundry. Jobs said that Lion would be the next step in integrating…
Replacement for Windows Professional 6.2 by On-Disk
Software is one of the biggest driving forces in hardware upgrades: offices making the transition to the latest and greatest packages are frequently left with serviceable but outdated machines that just can’t cope with the latest version of Windows. It’s this market that the Replacement for Windows Professional Edition distribution is targeting: bundling commonly required…
Windows 8 BUILD ‘developer preview’
Microsoft took a bold step at its recent BUILD conference for Windows developers by releasing a public preview of Windows 8. It makes perfect sense to give developers advance access to the new software, so they have plenty of time to write the juicy apps that will help drive the new platform forward. The unusual…
Game Drift Linux
The GNU/Linux platform as an alternative to Windows is gaining ground, but there’s one area in which the open-source operating system trails its proprietary equivalent: gaming. One new distribution, Game Drift Linux, looks to change all that, equipping the user with everything they need to play the latest games without having to pay the ‘Microsoft…
Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical
The growing popularity of Linux has led to a resurgence of interest in the open-source operating system, which – in turn – has led to a profusion of new distributions, spin-offs, and custom platforms which cater to a wide variety of niches. Sometimes, though, you just want a standard desktop distribution. Ubuntu, created by UK-based…
Joli OS 1.2 Linux by Jolicloud
With the launch of the Chromebook, a new breed of cut-price laptop running Google’s Chrome OS software, the interest in so-called ‘cloud computing’ has never been higher. It’s easy to forget, however, that before Google came along, there were other companies offering remarkably similar software packages that can be installed – for free, even –…
Choosing the best mobile operating system – iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
When you’re in the market to buy a smartphone, there’s one choice you need to make before you even think about comparing handset features and specifications: which mobile operating system you want to go for. Faced with the choice of iOS, used on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 2, as well as the many…
Choosing the best smartphones, tablets and e-book readers: IT Reviews.com Buyer’s Guide
If you often find yourself needing to access information when you’re out and about, you’ve probably discovered one of the major drawbacks of a laptop: they’re only really usable when you’ve got a nice, flat surface and somewhere to sit. While netbooks make this slightly easier, they’re still not always the best solution for a…
Nokia E7
Nokia’s recent deal with Microsoft means its higher-end smartphones will soon be coming with Windows Phone as their operating system. But in the short term, Nokia’s top-of-the-range OS is ^3, a touch-friendly version of Symbian. ^3 isn’t universally popular due to its similarities with S60 which is a bit of a ‘Marmite-, love-it-or-loathe-it OS. Win…