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The browser-based version of Windows 1.01 is powered by PCjs, an IBM PC XT (Model 5160) emulator written in JavaScript. All major browsers support the emulator, including Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android. PCjs essentially emulates in software the entirety of the IBM PC ROM BIOS and MDA font ROM. The hardware of the emulated machine is highly configurable via XML — in the case of the Windows 1.01 machine, PCjs emulates the Intel 8088 CPU at 4.77MHz, 256KB of RAM, and CGA graphics. Rather than emulating the specific hardware features of the IBM PC XT, it seems that PCjs is mainly interested in emulating all of the features in IBM PC BIOS that Windows 1.01 makes calls to.

New software tools and a developer confab highlight Samsung's push to offer something different from all the other Android device makers. Think multiscreen.

It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi is a success. I love them, you love them, the whole world loves them. It has reminded the rest of the computing world that the UK - and Cambridge especially - has a proud computing heritage.

A free, open-source, image editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been a go-to tool for Linux users for years, but has a reputation for being hard to use and lacking many of Photoshop’s features. The reality has changed dramatically over the last couple years. GIMP now has a very competent user interface, as well as an extensive and powerful set of features.

Monday's update brings Android 4.3 Jelly Bean to the game device, and a new "console mode" turns Shield into a portable living-room game console.

Navigate the galaxy of apps in Google Play with this handy, carefully selected list of the 100 best Android apps.

The Wall Street Journal has done an in-depth preview of Samsung’s big developer conference that kicks off in San Francisco this week and has found that the company is encouraging developers to make apps that are “more than just Android” as it seeks to create a hefty suite of Samsung-centric software that rival Android manufacturers won’t be able to top.

This update on a popular list reveals a changing relationship between proprietary and open source software, due to cloud computing's influence.

Learn to write bash scripts in Linux which support multitasking asynchronous execution, and running PHP scripts from the terminal.

So you’ve got an idea for an app? For those aspiring to occupy a small portion of digital real estate in the pockets of countless smartphone users, this is an important step. But before the first line of code can be written or the IPO is filled, there is another equally important consideration which must be made. “Which platform do I develop for?” While the answer seems fairly obvious to those of us who frequent this particular online destination, the decision to develop for one platform over another can weigh on more than just your heartstrings. So why do developers choose Android?

Greetings fellow Linux users, and welcome to the second part of our glorious OpenVPN series. When last we met we learned how to set up a simple OpenVPN encrypted tunnel between a home server and a remote node, such as a laptop. Today we're adding refinements such as how to daemonize OpenVPN so we don't have to start it manually, use Network Manager for easy connecting to our remote server, and access services.

Gartner forecast that Android tablets of all brands will exceed iPads for all of 2013 for the first time, with 91.5 million (49.6 percent) Android tablets shipped compared with 89.6 million (48.6 percent) Apple iPads. Gartner said just over 3 million (1.7 percent) Windows tablets will ship.

Over the last five years, Android has grown into a pretty versatile operating system. Because of its versatility (and the fact that it’s free, open source), developers have created a lot of nifty features to the OS. But even if you’ve seen it all, Android always holds a few surprises. We’ve found five really cool things we bet you never knew your Android device could do before. Check ‘em out.

Nowadays where almost everyone is certainly tracking and watching your data, it's refreshing to be the one doing all the watching.

There are so many online word processors, including Google Docs, Office 365, iWorks and many others. Do we need any more? I think we do.

Thorsten Stettin has created a new PPA for Ubuntu / Linux Mint users who want to use the latest GIMP 2.9 development builds.

In a classic watering hole attack, hackers compromised a well-known, respected high-traffic Website and planted malware in a bid to infect unsuspecting visitors. On Oct. 24, Google began to flag PHP.net as being a site hosting malware, i.e., potentially a watering hole.

At its first Developer Conference, Android's biggest player makes its move.

With Windows XP about to finally meet its demise, many users are espousing its replacement with Linux. It makes perfect sense, because there will be millions of machines out there that are no longer supported by Microsoft. Those millions of machines can either add to our already insurmountable garbage problem, or they can continue to be used, sans updates.

Quick update: today I've uploaded the unofficial system-wide PulseAudio equalizer to main WebUpd8 PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).