Windows Vista SP1 at the Basis of the Optimized Desktop
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is at the basis of Microsoft's vision for the Optimized Desktop. Of course that the Redmond company is building a comprehensive strategy that involves additional resources and solutions on top of its Windows client.
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4.9.2008Analysts: IPTV to keep thriving despite financial meltdown
Even the ravaged economy can't hamper the growth of IPTV on a global basis, according to an analyst report released today...
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02.02.2009Atom-thick material runs rings around silicon
A leading contender to replace silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward.
Transistors one atom thick and
ten atoms wide have been made by UK researchers. They were carved from graphene, predicted by some to one day oust silicon as the basis of future
computing.
For 40 years computing has been dominated by a rule of thumb named
Moore's law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip will double roughly every two years.
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19.04.2008Netflix cans used DVD sales
Online movie rental service Netflix has been evolving on an almost daily basis. Following a number of developments in its streaming video category, it
announced yesterday it will soon cease selling previously viewed DVDs...
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05.11.2008Sun expands its catalog of pay-by-the-hour service apps
To help companies and universities looking for computing power on an as-needed basis, Sun Microsystems today added 14 new applications and services to
its Network.com Application Catalog...
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15.02.2008Class action lawsuit charges President, NSA with illegal surveillance
There's been no dispute that the National Security Agency cooperated with AT&T in a surveillance operation from its West Coast office. But its legal
basis has been a Presidential order, and a new lawsuit questions whether that is enough...
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20.09.2008FISA amendments bill passes Senate, President likely to sign
The compromise legislation will enable a court to decide on a case-by-case basis whether telcos that cooperated with the US government will be granted
immunity from prosecution. Prominent Democrats were among those voting for the compromise...
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10.07.2008AT&T Open to Offering TV
Per-Channel
AT&T has indicated it
would be open to allowing
cable subscribers to purchase
TV channels on an a la carte
basis, however it would be
dependent on whether the
company would be able to
obtain programming contracts
that would allow it to do so...
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03.12.2005Intel isn't saying 'no' or 'yes' to Vista completely
There may not ever be a planned, collective migration of Intel's company clients to Windows Vista. But as Intel told BetaNews today, there doesn't
have to be, since IT can make upgrade decisions on a case-by-case basis...
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26.06.2008Most Malware Found on Trusted Web Pages, Report Says
Five seconds into reading this story, a Web page somewhere will become infected with malware or some other malicious code. That's one of the
conclusions of U.K.-based IT security firm Sophos in an IT security
report released on Wednesday.
"We found that there is an average of 16,173 infected Web pages on a daily basis," said Sophos' Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley in
a phone interview from his office in London. "We arrived at this conclusion from our labs around the world. We look at millions of e-mails and Web
page transmissions on a daily basis and it averages out to one infected page every five seconds."
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24.07.2008Amazon's CloudFront to make content distribution more affordable
Today, Amazon entered beta with CloudFront, an expanded cloud service aimed at taking the company into the same league as Akamai and Limelight. As
with other cloud services, customers will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis...
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19.11.2008MSN Speaks Out About
Censorship
Microsoft on Tuesday set
guidelines for the removal of
content on its MSN Spaces
blogging platform, saying a
broader discussion on the
topic was needed to provide a
basis on which other services
could form their own content
policies when faced with
demands from local
governments...
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01.02.2006Microsoft to offer subscription-based PCs in Russia
A Russian mobile-phone operator is the latest service provider to team with Microsoft to offer Windows-based PCs on a subscription basis through the
company's Unlimited Potential program.
A partnership with Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), unveiled Wednesday at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, is similar to ones that Microsoft already has in place in Mexico and Brazil as part of a plan to bring affordable technology to
developing countries.
Through the partnership, Microsoft in June will deliver PCs running Windows Vista that offer built-in
mobile broadband access to customers on a subscription basis, rather than requiring customers to pay for them outright. The two companies also are
working on a road map to introduce new mobile communications services that can be accessed on those PCs but did not specifically say what those new
services will be.
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14.02.2008Facebook worm still spreading
Early in August, security firms noticed a worm spreading on Facebook through wall posts, claiming to contain a video requiring a new codec to be
installed. Variants of this worm are now being spotted on a weekly basis...
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25.08.2008ICANN Approves .tel Domain
ICANN approved the creation of
the .tel top-level domain
Monday, which supporters say
would provide a basis for
navigation and naming of
Internet communications. The
domain will allow the user to
control how they could be
reached via the Web...
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17.05.2006AOL Enhancing Search for
Broadband Users
AOL said Friday it was
beginning to beta test a new
version of its search product
on a limited basis, making
enhancements that will benefit
those users who have broadband
access...
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08.09.2006Analysts differ: Is the mobile phone market up or down?
In the US, 83 percent of consumers plan to keep their landline phones, even if they also own mobile phones. But on a worldwide basis, the cell phone
market is now showing its fastest growth since 2006, according to new research...
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25.04.2008Microsoft partner first with hosted Communications Server
A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft's new unified communications software as a hosted service.
Intermedia on Tuesday will begin offering Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) as a hosted service on a subscription basis for $7.95 per
user, per month, said Rurik Bradbury, vice president of strategy for Intermedia. The service initially will be available to users of Intermedia's
hosted Exchange service, which costs $12 per user, per month. Eventually, the OCS service will be available independently of that service, he said.
Intermedia is a SaaS (software as a service) provider in New York and one of Microsoft's hosting partners. Microsoft also offers
Exchange as a hosted service, and eventually plans to offer OCS as a hosted service, but has not specified when. Other Microsoft hosting partners such
as USA.net and Apptix also plan to offer OCS on a hosted basis but have not done so thus far.
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29.01.2008YouTube answers Sen. Lieberman's request to remove terrorist videos
Terrorism may be unpopular, but speaking one's mind about the subject is free speech: That's the basis of a response this morning to one prominent
US senator's call for YouTube to remove terrorist-oriented videos...
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21.05.2008Microsoft Responds to WGA
Concerns
Microsoft late Friday publicly
responded to widespread
reports that a recent change
to its Windows Genuine
Advantage program caused the
software to contact Microsoft
servers on a daily basis. The
company says it will soon
release an update to make WGA
only call home every 14 days...
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10.06.2006Microsoft Admits WGA Phones
Home
Microsoft acknowledged reports
Wednesday that its latest
update to Windows Genuine
Advantage, an anti-piracy
program implemented to detect
counterfeit copies of Windows
XP, phones home to the Redmond
company on a daily basis...
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