Archive for the ‘sofeware’ Category

At the same time Apple reported that users had downloaded 11 million copies of its Safari 4 browser in just three days, Safari's market share was slipping, a Web metrics company said on Monday. According to Net Applications, Safari's share of the browser market for the week June 7-13 was 8.36 ...
Despite the fact that there are upwards of 120,000 new malware signatures identified every week, and that attacks on embedded systems are rapidly increasing, most embedded software developers fall into the trap of believing that their devices are safe. Using decade-old rationales, they explain that their devices are immune from ...

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An embedded operating system (OS) or Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is a multitasking operating system intended for real-time applications and designed to be very compact and efficient, forsaking many functions that non-embedded computer operating systems provide. It facilitates the creation of a real-time system, but does not guarantee the final ...
China's government plans to require all PCs sold in that country as of July 1 to be shipped with software that blocks certain Web sites, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The move, which is expected to give government censors heightened control over how China's citizens use the ...
Dynamic memory allocation and the structures that implement it in C are so universal that they're sometimes treated as a black box. In the real world of embedded systems, that may not be desirable or even possible. (This article first appeared in the August 1989 issue of Embedded Systems Programming magazine.) The ...