Inside DEMOfall 08
Not in my whole journalistic career have I seen PR people as aggressive as the ones here at DEMOfall 08.
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10.9.2008 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Advance Notice June 08
Next Tuesday its ol' patch your Windows time again. This month there are 7 fixes due.
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6.6.2008Five steps to safer virtual servers
At last week's Black Hat conference, virtualization security was one of the hottest topics and
sources
of debate . If you're trying to get a grip on how your enterprise's virtualization security stacks up, consider this advice from Chris Whitener,
chief security strategist,
HP Secure
Advantage.
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12.08.2008Intel Nehalem to be called Core i7?
Intel's
Nehalem processor architecture will
still hold to the Core naming scheme when it appears late this year, if an apparent
leak of company logos proves authentic.
Although the platform will make fundamental changes, Nehalem will reportedly be known as Core i7 for at least all its desktop variants, which will
include dual- and quad-core mainstream processors as well as a 3.2GHz Extreme processor for high-end gaming desktops.
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08.08.2008How to buy a mini-laptop
Dan Nystedt: Mini-laptops are among the hottest new products this year and with the back-to-school sales season upon us, I created a list of items to
help you choose the right one.
The devices, which are becoming popularly known as netbooks, or my favorite term, "laptots,"
have caught on because they offer people a mobile, easy way to wirelessly access the Web...
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29.08.2008Apple Debuts iLife '08, New iWork
Further solidifying its move
into the applications
business, Apple on Tuesday
debuted iLife '08 and iWork
'09, which now includes a
spreadsheet application like
many had predicted...
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08.08.2007Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results
Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.
The company has already run public tests on its search-results pages that contain up and down arrows next to listed links, as well as buttons that
allow users to append comments to results.
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27.08.2008Live from the MIX 08 keynote with Ray Ozzie
We're in Las Vegas for Microsoft's third annual MIX 08 conference, where the Redmond company is expected to provide the first look at Internet
Explorer 8. Read on as we cover the opening keynote with Ray Ozzie as it happens...
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05.03.2008When Windows Update won't update
Lincoln Spector: Windows Update occasionally gets a bee under its bonnet and simply refuses to work. Really, should that surprise anyone?
Unfortunately, unlike some other Windows problems, this one seldom goes away on its own. You have to fix it. And the exact cause isn't
always easy to diagnose and fix.
I'll start with some solutions to a very specific, very common, XP-specific Windows Update
problem. Then I'll tell you where to go for additional advise.
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08.09.2008Microsoft kills more third-party ActiveX controls
Microsoft Wednesday issued "kill bit" updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it's disabled
third-party add-ons in the last four months.
One security researcher linked the release to a new program Microsoft announced last
week that's designed to help other vendors find and fix bugs in their own software.
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14.08.2008Live from the MIX 08 keynote with Ray Ozzie, IE8, Silverlight 2
We're in Las Vegas for Microsoft's third annual MIX 08 conference, where the Redmond company is expected to provide the first look at Internet
Explorer 8. Read on as we cover the opening keynote with Ray Ozzie as it happens...
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06.03.2008Google to get aggressive with Apps suite
Google plans to aggressively add new applications and capabilities to its Web-hosted Apps software suite for businesses and will likely leave the
price unchanged as it builds out the service, a company official said Tuesday.
The comments signal a move that will likely heat
up the competitive fire between Google and Microsoft in the market for office productivity, communication, and collaboration software.
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06.08.2008Intel launches smaller SSD for netbooks, mini-desktops
Intel launched a much smaller version of its Z-P230 SSDs (solid state drive) aimed at netbooks and mini-desktops, the company said Wednesday.
The new SSD is based on a miniature card module that weighs just 8 grams, compared to 11 grams for the original Z-P230, which Intel
announced in June.
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14.08.2008Neowin news round-up for week ending 10 Aug
You may of had difficulty getting to Neowin over the past week due to our Server Changes and DNS update. Hopefully all of that will be resolved by the
middle of next week when our "older servers" are finally put back online and hooked up at our new data center in Plymouth, MI.
Here is a
quick overview of last weeks more popular news coverage:
Additionally you can keep track of all our news coverage by adding
this feed to your RSS reader. We hope you have a great Sunday and thanks for visiting Neowin!
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10.08.2008VMware joins Linux Foundation
Virtualization giant VMware has joined the Linux Foundation, lining up alongside existing members like Adobe, Google, and IBM, the organization
announced Wednesday.
Virtualization, the ability to run software in virtualized containers so multiple OSes or versions can run
on one physical machine, is becoming more prevalent in IT environments. At its core, virtualization is enabled by software called a hypervisor, and
can help drive down datacenter costs, among other benefits.
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07.08.2008HP one-ups Dell, others with 24h battery
HP today heated up
competition against Dell by announcing a special trim level of the
EliteBook 6930p that it believes sets a new
record in battery life. Through new firmware and graphics drivers, an Ultra Capacity battery pack, an LED-backlit display and Intel's just-launched
80GB SSD, the 14-inch notebook can last for as much
as 24 hours on one charge. The figure if accurate would beat Dell's claimed
19-hour record and would be enough to last an entire
Newark-to-Singapore flight with extra power left.
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09.09.2008Google introduces Android apps store
Google unveiled on Thursday its plans for a store where mobile users can find Android applications, a concept similar to the iPhone's App Store.
The first handsets running Android, expected to appear later this year, will include a beta version of the Android Market, Google's
Eric Chu wrote in a
blog
post. Initially, users will at least be able to find free applications there. After that, Google expects to update the Market to allow users to
buy and download paid content.
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29.08.2008Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small
The impending IPv4 address allocation shortage has lead to a lot of speculation on the future of IPv6 (
including here). A new study says that Internet IPv6 migration is not just
going slowly —
it has basically not even begun. After
spending a year measuring IPv6 traffic across 87 ISPs around the world, the study concludes 'less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic is
IPv6... equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water.'
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19.08.200812 fixes planned for August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has released its latest Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification ready for this month’s Patch Tuesday.
This month
sees 12 new patches including 7 critical fixes for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Media Player.
A further 5 rated important cover
flaws in Windows, Outlook Express and Windows Messenger.
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09.08.2008Toshiba bows 256GB, 3mm thick SSD
Toshiba on Thursday unveiled a 256GB SSD in a 2.5-inch format, offering users a maximum
of 120MB per second read speeds, and 80MB per second write. The announcement comes shortly after Samsung unveiled some
low-cost and
high-performance SSDs, with the Toshiba drives edging
out over the Samsungs in terms of speed. Three flash modules for UMPCs and other handhelds were also unveiled, featuring read and write speeds of 80MB
per second and 50MB per second, respectively, available in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB sizes.
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26.09.2008JavaScript 2's new direction
Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting
technology's direction. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, has helped forge a consensus on how to proceed with the direction for
JavaScript's improvements. "JavaScript was sitting still. It was stagnant," he says.
The fundamental reason to update
JavaScript -- whose standard hasn't changed since 1999 -- is to handle the heavy demands being placed on it. Although the language certainly has
caught on for Web application development, it was not envisioned for the workloads now demanded of it by developers, Eich says. "They're using it at
a scale that it wasn't designed for."
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26.08.2008Microsoft to open interoperability lab in Asia-Pacific
Reaffirming its commitment to interoperate with open source software and other platforms, Microsoft recently announced its partnership with the
Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and the National Computer Center (NCC) for the establishment of the first Microsoft
open source Interoperability laboratory in Asia-Pacific.
Scheduled to be operational in September, the interoperability lab is
expected to promote the development of interoperable technologies that would allow Filipino developers to come up with more creative and innovative
solutions that cater to a wider audience.
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