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Could Windows 7 use touchscreen tech?
Microsoft revealed earlier this week that Windows Vista's successor codenamed Windows 7 is scheduled to be released in 2010.
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28.7.2007 Vista: the New Coke of Tech
Fewer than one in eleven of the PCs being used in large or very large enterprises runs Windows Vista, according to survey results released last week by Forrester Research.
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29.7.2008 Hi-Tech car air condition
Vista Boosts Tech Industry
Partners will actually make more from next Windows than Microsoft in 2007, study says.
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11.12.2006 Wrapping up Tech Ed 2007
Tech Ed 2007 is over. It's been a very busy week and I am tired and ready to go home. For IT Pro people Tech Ed contained loads of interesting infomration about Windows Server 2008 and the System Center products among others.
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11.6.2007 Bill Gates 'anxious' about US tech leadership
A lack of technology skills is causing the US to fall behind in the global knowledge economy, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warned in a testimony before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labour and Pensions.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 - June 4-8
Microsofts annual conference for IT Pros and Developers is dedicated to providing technical training, information and resources related to Microsoft technologies.
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3.6.2007 Bill Gates founds a new tech company
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has founded a new company (some time in between sleeping and working countless hours for the Gates Foundation and a day a week for Microsoft).
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22.10.2008 64-Bit XP: A Failed Tech Trend?
ExtremeTech has published a list of
the Top 10 Failed Tech Trends for 2005. Number 4:
The failure of Windows XP 64-bit edition to really take off. "When Windows XP Professional x64 actually arrived, it was all pretty much underwhelming. This is actually not Microsoft's fault. While the kids in Redmond did hype Windows 64-bit enhancements, they also cautioned that x64 would be a tool mostly for developers and certain vertical applications," the Extreme editors admit.
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1.1.2006 High-tech titans strike out on immigration bill
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft have led a parade of high-tech executives to Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants who can fill critical jobs.
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25.6.2007 Microsoft Reveals Live Mesh Tech Preview
Late last night Microsoft revealed it's latest web technology, Live Mesh.
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23.4.2008 Tech problems hit Xbox Live video service
True on-demand TV has been a long promised dream of many, and that dream appeared to move closer this week when Microsoft launched its Video Marketplace service.
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26.11.2006 Microsoft Raises Consumer Vista Tech Support Costs
More money, less help is the bottom line on Microsoft's Vista and Office tech support.
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8.2.2007Democrats Urge Tech Focus
Congress should fund math
education, fuel options
research, and tech business,
leader says...
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16.11.2005Tech Spending Slows Significantly
With economic hardships reaching into business and financial sectors around the world, it was only a matter of time before we saw the tech industry
affected. Techtel Corporation released findings today announcing that overall tech spending has fallen drastically over the last four quarters and
that only an estimated 3.9% of companies are expected to increase their IT spending. Michael Kelly, CEO of Techtel, remarked: " Tech's
hesitation about future demand is well-founded. U.S. IT spending is slowing and expected to continue doing so. It appears we may enter a period of
declining IT spending during the second half of 2008. "
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31.07.2008Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit 2007: New World of Work in High-Tech Manufacturing
Q&A: Microsoft U.S. Manufacturing Group General Manager Tyler Bryson discusses the new world of work and how Microsoft and its partners are working
together to help high-tech manufacturers collaborate and communicate more securely along their value chains...
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25.10.2007Tech.gov: Recycling Time
The government is plodding
through proposals to create a
national recycling plan for
tech goods. Meanwhile, the
junk keeps piling up...
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09.01.2006U.S. Tech Industry Healthy,
Analyst Says
Forrester teams with trade
group to assess tech industry
trends, build index of health
and wealth...
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13.12.2005Survey: Big decline seen in US consumer tech spending
With an American economy that is becoming increasingly unstable, thanks largely to the credit crunch and the return of inflation, consumers appear to
be closing their purse strings tightly when it comes to tech purchases...
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20.03.2008Visiting a Tech Center to Get
Service Pack 2 Installed
Joli Ballew resists the
do-it-yourself urge and takes
a challenging laptop to a tech
center to get SP2. It's an
option for you or your
less-techie friends...
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04.01.2006AOL leverages tech publications with new network
AOL will aggregate its tech-oriented sites through a single portal, attempting to cash in on an already broad user base accessing those blogs...
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10.04.2008Fujitsu Claims New Tech Boosts Hard Disk Capacity By 500%
Hard drive maker
Fujitsu is claiming it's made
a breakthrough on tech which
will boost capacity by as much
as 500 percent,
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC
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nikkei.net reports.
How does it do this?
The report says that Fujitsu
has developed tech to read
data from smaller points on
the platter.
But you
can hold your horses because
HDDs using the tech won't be
available until 2009 - the
firm needs to improve the head
technology to match the
ability to make smaller pits
on a platter...
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13.05.2007Laptop Mag Determines Acer, Dell and HP Have the Worst Tech Support
Laptop magazine went through the painstaking
process of calling the tech support of every major notebook manufacturer. And they timed their waits before asking one of two very basic questions.
The results may not surprise you.
Apple scored the highest with an A overall (that's a combined score of online and phone tech
support). HP, Acer and Dell tied for lowest with C- each.
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07.08.2009'10+2' customs rule could bode ill for tech costs
A new rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security would, according to some industry groups, kneecap the tech-manufacturing industry's
"just-in-time" cost-management strategies...
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25.10.2008Is a slowdown coming for high-tech VC funding?
With the economy on shaky ground right now, some investors are predicting that private funding for high-tech companies could soon tank. But others
disagree vehemently, arguing that investors should not be so quickly scared off...
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04.02.2008NASA puts out the call for low-gravity tech
On NASA's annual Day of Remembrance for the astronauts (and cosmonauts) who died in the effort to conquer space, the space agency put forth a call to
action that might interest even earthbound geeks. They're looking for tech projects in need of testing in near-weightless conditions...
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30.01.2009Arrington vs Laporte, when tech journalists collide
Calling the ethics or motives of any journalist into question, is one sure fire way to really make them angry. So when Michael Arrington, (editor of
one of the largest technology blogs on the Internet, TechCrunch) implies that Leo Laporte (the head of one of the biggest technology podcast networks,
This Week in Tech) has a tainted opinion of the newly released Palm Pre because it was a seven-day review unit and not one he'd purchased...
sparks are sure to fly.
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07.06.2009Police to recruit 'tech-savvy' via Second Life
In a bid to keep up with the
times, the Vancouver Police
Department is setting up a
recruitment seminar in the
online virtual world,
Second
Life, to take on
'tech-savvy' recruits.
"It's important for us,
as an organization, to keep
abreast of modern technology
-- both from an educational
standpoint and an outreach
standpoint, and from an
investigative standpoint,"
said Kevin McQuiggin, head of
the Vancouver tech crimes
division, via Canada.com.
"Any new media that comes
out, any new form of
communication, crime is going
to migrate there," he
continued.
What's
that got to do with player of
Second Life? He explains: "As
we move into the future,
we're going to need people
who understand technology --
that are conversant with it,
that understand the impact of
it and understand how to use
it." So if you play Second
Life, you're bound to be that
person. ..
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02.07.2007Tech Professionals Rank Top Tech Toys For The Holidays
Tech professionals want HDTV this holiday season, according to a poll by an industry group.
The Computing Technology Industry
Association (CompTIA) announced Wednesday that more respondents in an informal poll chose the HDTV as their "most-wanted" high-tech toy this year.
More than 15% of 1,012 respondents said they want HDTV.
Sony's PlayStation 3, which ranked first last year, came in second among
the most desired gifts this year, with 13.7% of respondents choosing the item. More than a third of respondents put game consoles on their list.
Nearly 11% chose Nintendo's Wii, putting it third on the overall list, while 10.2% said they would like Microsoft's Xbox 360, which ranked fourth.
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06.12.2007White House in Tech Dark Ages
Disconnected phone lines, old computer software, no instant messaging, no outside access to e-mail accounts and no social networking - these were
the things Obama's tech team got to see in the White House when they turned up to work on their first day. The White House new-media team found
it hard to identify the configuration of computers in the White House to do any useful updates. The team members, who were used to working on Mac
systems, found computers with very old versions of Windows installed and in fact not enough computers for use. Laptops were also assigned to only a
few people.
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23.01.2009Microsoft's Surface to drive BMW customization
BMW has been among the
leaders in high-tech car innovation, occasionally even
jumping too far ahead of
what its older customers preferred to use.
So it should be no surprise that the German carmaker wants to lure in potential
customers with another cool high-tech tool.
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01.12.2008Intel tears apart Nvidia Ion in document
Now that the competitive scrap between Nvidia and Intel is officially
out in the open, Intel has decided to unashamedly
dish the dirt on Nvidias Ion platform. bit-tech has seen a document that Intel is sending out called "Nvidia Ion Competitive Positioning
Guide," which details what Intel sees as the shortcomings of Nvidias pint sized PC platform.
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25.02.2009Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption
The recent news that China will
run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points
to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are
registered through AfriNIC, which services
networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid
growth in terms of online connectivity.
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