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LG Can Help You Ditch Your Work Phone Using A Virtual Android OS

3:45AM January 10, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

LG has been showing off a Verizon Revolution that runs a virtual Android machine. So what? So that means you can run a work phone as a virtual device on your personal phone — and junk your crappy second handset. More »


Software

Masochist Runs Windows XP On An iPad

12:00AM April 26, 2010 | Jack Loftus

First there was Windows 95 on an iPad. People cringed, but apparently they did not cringe enough, as someone else has managed to get Windows XP up and running on an iPad. Macheads, avert thy eyes! More »


Software

Parallels Thrashes VMware Fusion When It Comes To Graphics

1:20PM March 16, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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There are two popular options for virtualisation software: VMware Fusion and Parallels. But which is better? MacTech did a detailed comparison and they found out that there was an obvious winner when it came to handling graphics. More »


Software

How To: Run Windows In OS X, The Right Way

7:00AM March 7, 2010 | John Herrman

If you’re anxious about switching from a PC to a Mac, consider this: There are a multitude of ways you can virtualise Windows within OS X, and they all work uniquely well. Here’s how to choose the right one. More »


Software

Iomega V.Clone App Portable-ises Your Entire PC

4:01PM January 5, 2010 | John Herrman

It’d be easy to get knotted up in jargon describing v.Clone, so let’s stick with the concept for now: It’s a syncable, complete image of your PC, which you can boot run from basically any other PC. And it’s free. More »


Software

VMWare: Your Next Smartphone Might Run Two OSes At Once

3:53AM December 8, 2009 | Brian Barrett

In an interview with Computerworld, VMWare’s head of mobile phone virtualization has indicated that the company wants to move beyond dual-boot systems to allow phones to run a private and work operating system at the same time. They’ve already demonstrated the potential on a Nokia N800 running Windows CE and Android concurrently; now they’re looking into multiple user interface scenarios for current generation smartphones. [Computerworld] More »


Software

VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard And Win7 With 64-Bit Power

12:40AM October 28, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

VMWare’s Fusion 3—with full support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7—is out today. Besides being natively 64-bit in Snow Leopard, it lets you migrate a PC to your virtual machine, launches Windows apps like native apps and more. More »


QOTD: Boot Camp, Parallels Or Fusion?

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4:09PM October 8, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging machine. But how to do it? More »


Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw A Chair

10:00AM July 15, 2009 | Jason Chen

Remember the incident back in 2004 where Steve Ballmer threw a chair across the room when he heard an employee was leaving Microsoft to go to Google? That guy, Mark Lucovsky, is leaving Google for VMWare. More »


Cameras

Nikon Using Naughty Bits to Sell Cameras: There Has to Be a Better Way…Right?

8:00AM May 4, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Recently, Nikon fired off this French ad comparing the Coolpix2100 camera to the larger and more supple Coolpix3100. Meanwhile, a female journalist friend of mine had, well, an “experience” at a VMWare user’s group meeting.

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