Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” for smartphones Plans for an all-HTML5 smartphone OS are ambitious. Maybe too ambitious.

Last summer a startup called Acadine Technologies announced it was working on a new operating system called H5OS, which was designed to run apps written with web-based tools like HTML5.

Microsoft recently released a version of the Windows 7 OS for netbooks, while Google is developing the netbook-specific Chrome OS, which is based on Linux and is due to appear in netbooks next year.

Former Google engineer and web-based OS pioneer Jeff Nelson recently blogged about the possible origins of Chrome OS and recounts a number of fascinating historical anecdotes. Perhaps his most ...

Microsoft recently released a version of the Windows 7 OS for netbooks, while Google is developing the netbook-specific Chrome OS, which is based on Linux and is due to appear in netbooks next year.

Mozilla?s HTML5-based mobile operating system leaped ahead this week thanks to support from a handful of wireless carriers. For marketers, the news has the potential to bring more cost-conscious ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released a test preview of its Windows 7-based OS for embedded devices. A Community Technology Preview for Windows Embedded Standard 2011, formerly code-named Quebec, is now ...

TransMedia's Glide web OS 4.0 brings Safari compatibility to its massively available cloud storage and Web apps for a wide variety of computers, iOS, and handheld devices.

The way the news debuted yesterday with a giant splash, you might have thought that Google’s newly-announced Chrome OS Web-based operating system is the first of its kind. Actually, it isn’t.