Why Apple does not make a netbook
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides.
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5.3.2009 Google Launches Web Book Reader
Firing a shot over Adobe's bow, Google on Wednesday launched a Web-based application for reading books digitized by the company's Book Search project.
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23.11.2006 Microsoft releasing book search to beta
Tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books are set to become available online when Microsoft releases Live Search Books to beta on Wednesday.
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7.12.2006 Microsoft to Collaborate for Windows Live Book Search
Windows Live Books Publisher Program enables publishers to easily submit content for inclusion in the Windows Live Book Search index.
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9.6.2006 VS.NET 2005, SQL Server 2005, .NET Framework 2.0 are released!
Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and .NET Framework 2.0 have been released on MSDN today. If you don't have MSDN, you can still download the new .NET 2.0 Framework
here.
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Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources.
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26.1.2006 How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
odeeee report How To
Make a Custom Vista Disc All In One in our forum.
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26.1.2007 ReadyBoost in Windows Vista: Does it Make a Difference?
USB memory keys are compact little devices that can store and transfer anywhere from 128MB to 8GB of data, all it takes is a USB slot.
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27.8.2007 Users may need Vista to make most of Server 2008
Companies installing Windows Server 2008 may have to buy extra Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, to use more advanced features, analyst firm Gartner has said.
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3.11.2007 Hollywood to make shows for Xbox 360
Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system.
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31.3.2008 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 Microsoft to eventually make Office a web application
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."
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MS Vista to make official debut in Israel
Microsoft Windows team development head Steven Sinofsky will unveil Vista at Tech-Ed Israel 2006. windows -
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4.4.2006 NSA Helped Microsoft Make Vista Secure
Microsoft has confirmed that the U.S. government agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of the Windows Vista operating system.
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12.1.2007 Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard
Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft Gambles One EU Customer Will Make its Case
It has been "Issues Week" all week for Microsoft, and Thursday, the company took on the dreaded interoperability issue. But its choice of message was called into question a bit yesterday after Microsoft boasted of having signed up its first official customer for its communications and interoperability IP licenses: Quest Software, the manufacturer of the Toad data modeling system.
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10.3.2007 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 Make No Mistake About It, the XP SP3 RTM Direct Download Links Are Live
Make no mistake about it, the gold bits of Windows XP Service Pack 3 are available for download straight from Microsoft, contrary to what the company is claiming.
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1.5.2008 Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3
Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system.
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15.11.2008 What is .NET?
.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services. .NET-connected solutions enable businesses to integrate their systems more rapidly and in a more agile manner and help them realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any device.
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.NET Framework 4.0
Microsoft made available .NET Framework 3.5 concomitantly with the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 at the end of 2007.
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29.9.2008 NET Framework 3.0 announced!
The .NET Framework 3.0 has been announced and will be included in Windows Vista!
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12.6.2006 Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net
Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess.
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7.3.2007 .NET Framework 4.0 and Dublin
At the end of September 2008, Microsoft unveiled that the next versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework would span across not only the client and server operating systems but also across services and devices.
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8.10.2008Android used as an E-book platform
Android has made a big splash in the tech sector. The open source platform has been adopted by many cell phone manufactures and, as announced by
Spring Design, is also being used on an E-book reader. The picture below shows the new E-book reader with dual screens, one traditional black and
white while the other is color, in a traditional E-book reader shape. Although the additional screen at the bottom does appear to make this device a
little oblong when compared to the Amazon Kindle. "Alex™ features a 6" E-Ink EPD display and 3.5" color LCD display, earphones and speakers.
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19.10.2009Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive
Google has upped the ante with
an upgrade to Google Book
Search that allows users to
search digitized book results
as well as records for
millions of other books that
still just exist in the analog
world. When viewed, the new
added book records have a
summary, reviews and links to
buy the book or find it in a
library nearby since previews
of the text are unavailable.
" We're doing this because
we want to offer users the
most comprehensive book search
in the world - whether it's a
book you can read online now,
preview samples, see a few
snippets, or just read what
others have written about the
book. We're still very busy
digitizing millions more
books, but want to make as
much discoverable as possible
today ."
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18.05.2007Frankfurt Book Fair: e-book readers gaining a foothold.
The e-book is on the rise. Last week everyone who cares about books went to the Frankfurt book fair. Three devices in particular seemed the most
interesting. Here are some impressions, including snippets from two interviews. Lawrent Picard, co-founder of Bookeen, is confident that e-book
technology will continue to gain momentum over the next few years. Long before Amazon launched the greatly successful Kindle, Bookeen brought out
their first device in 2000. Seven years later, just three weeks before Amazon, they released another device, the Cybook Gen3. Now at the book fair
they presented their latest model, the Cybook Opus. It's significantly smaller, sporting a shiny white housing with rounded edges. Mr.
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20.10.2009Google Plots e-Book Version of iTunes
Google and some of the
world's top publishers are
working on a system that would
allow readers to download
entire books to their
computers. The book would be
read on the user's monitor or
on mobile devices. Jens
Redmer, director of Google
Book Search in Europe, said:
" We are working on a
platform that will let
publishers give readers full
access to a book online ."
He did not believe taking
books online would mean the
end of the printed word but it
would give readers more
options when it came to
buying. Commuters in Japan are
already reading entire novels
on their mobile phones.
Google's main
competition will be Sony,
which launched its digital
book device with an online
book store stocking 10,000
titles, and Amazon, the
world's largest online book
seller, which is planning an
e-book service as well. The
book initiative would be part
of Google's Book Search
service and would make books
searchable online with
publishers' approval.
Currently, snippets of the
book are available along with
links for purchasing the
physical copy of the book.
Major publishers such as
Penguin, HarperCollins and
Simon & Schuster are among
those involved in the project.
Google said the project was
coming " sooner rather than
later ".
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22.01.2007Report: Google, Amazon plan e-book moves
Google and Amazon.com are planning moves in the electronic-book market which, despite much promise over the years, hasn't met the expectations of
book lovers, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Amazon plans to launch an e-book reading device called the Kindle in October
that will tap into an Amazon e-book store and cost between $400 and $500, the Times reported.
Meanwhile, Google, which has a book
search engine, will give people the option of paying to obtain the full text of copyright books as part of a service due before the end of the year,
according to the newspaper. Google would split the revenue from the service with book publishers.
Although e-book technology has
been around for years, the concept hasn't caught on as initially expected, as people continue to prefer reading books on paper, rather than on an
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06.09.2007Creators of rejected App Store comic book appeal for rating system
After its 'Murderdrome' comic book was rejected by Apple's iPhone App Store, Infurious Comics this week appealed to Web site visitors support its
request to Apple for a rating system similar to one already used on iTunes...
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30.08.2008Google enters the e-book arena
Google is preparing the shake-up the online book world, having announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it plans to infiltrate online book stores in
the first half of 2010. The new service will be known as Google Editions and aims to provide a large range of e-books to anybody that has access to a
web browser. To bring this venture to life, Google has partnered with a number of publishers to offer an initial range of around half a million books
that can be purchased directly through Google or from a number of online bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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16.10.2009Microsoft Signs New Book Search Deals
A university and a maker of
scanners and digitization
software said Tuesday that
they had signed deals with
Microsoft to support its
Windows Live Book Search
Project. The offering is the
Redmond company's answer to
Google Book Search...
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18.10.2006Amazon Building Online Book
Service
Amazon said on Thursday that
it was developing a new
program to allow customers to
purchase the rights to view
either portions of or an
entire book online. The effort
could be viewed as a response
to Google's announcement that
it had significantly expanded
its online book searching
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04.11.2005Barnes & Noble closes in on the e-Book market
Today, the major US book retailer announced it has acquired e-bookstores Fictionwise.com and Ereader.com
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06.03.2009Two Libraries Join Windows
Live Book Search
Microsoft said Friday that two
new academic libraries have
joined its Windows Live Book
Search program, the University
of California and the
University of Toronto.
Additionally, an indexing
service for in-print book
publishers was announced...
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09.06.2006Google Books Text Versions
Today Google launched a new
feature for
Book
Search to help more people
access the world's great
public domain works. Whenever
you find an out-of-copyright
book in our index, you'll see
a "View plain text" link,
which lets anyone access the
text layer of the book.
As Dr. T.V. Raman explains
on the main Google blog, this
opens the book to adaptive
technologies such as screen
readers and Braille display,
allowing visually impaired
users to read these books just
as easily as users with sight.
This is an exciting
step for us in our mission to
organize the world's
information and make it
universally accessible and
useful. To learn more about
Google's efforts to make
books and other digitized
content more accessible to
everyone, check out Dr.
Raman's
full
post.
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04.07.2007Microsoft book calls for 'data intensive' scientific discovery
Microsoft Research this morning is releasing a new book that aims to draw attention to the potential of bringing together large amounts of data from
different repositories to help scientists make discoveries. The book, "The Fourth Paradigm," is
available for free download...
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17.10.2009What Should Apple Tackle Next?
First Apple built personal computers, then portable media players, and now the company is manufacturing cell phones. Apple also has its own branded
set-top box -- Apple TV -- and its iTunes store is one of the biggest e-commerce marketplaces for music and videos in the world.
What's
next for Apple? What product categories might the company in Cupertino leap into? Car navigation? Video games? Or perhaps something a little closer to
home, like an e-book reader or a tablet?
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25.06.2008Amazon fires up e-book market with reader device
One of the nation's biggest online retailers is reportedly close to shipping its own electronic book reader, sources report...
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16.11.2007US DOJ urges court to reject Google's book deal
The US Department of Justice has filed its concerns over a deal between Google and several book publishers which would see the creation of what could
be the world's biggest virtual library. They have urged the US District Court in New York, which is due to rule on the issue on October 7, to
reject the deal in its current form but encourage further discussions. The deal would allow Google to digitize, publish and commercialize millions of
books online and has already been opposed by the Open Book Alliance along with technology giants - and Google's rivals - Microsoft, Yahoo! and
Amazon.
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20.09.2009Barnes & Noble to offer free Wi-Fi, launches e-book store
According to Macworld, Barnes and Noble will offer free Wi-Fi via AT&T, which was previously a subscription service when it was launched in 2005. As
part of the Wi-Fi offering, Barnes & Noble customers can opt-in to receive coupons to the in-store cafe, notices on author book signings and other
messages when the customer logs in to the Wi-Fi service. In addition, Barnes & Noble has recently launched an e-book store and plans to produce an
e-book device in order to compete with Amazon's Kindle. It's currently offering 700,000 titles, which also includes Google's 500,000 free
public domain books as part of that number. The Barnes & Noble e-book store will offer new releases and bestsellers at $9.99.
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30.07.2009Apple Beefs Up Apple TV Offering
In an attempt to make the
product more attractive to
potential buyers, Apple has
begun selling a version of
Apple TV with a 160GB hard
drive as well as announcing
plans to allow access to
YouTube from the device...
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31.05.2007Google to compromise on book search deal
When Google announced its book deal, they were immediately criticized by many groups and corporations for its potential to give Google too much power
over "orphan books". Orphan books are books where the copyright holder is unknown or the book is out of print. The biggest contention with the
agreement is that this would give Google "virtually exclusive license to millions of books". Because so many groups, including the Department of
Justice, have opposed the current agreement, Google is willing to compromise on its deal. The likely result is that Google will be allowed to access
and scan the orphan books but will not own the rights to them.
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21.09.2009Microsoft shuts down book search
Microsoft plans to shutter its book-scanning operation next week, the company said on Friday.
It will shut down the
Live Search Books and
Live Search Academic Web sites and
stop scanning library and copyright books, Satya Nadella, senior vice president of search, portal and advertising
for
Microsoft, wrote in a
blog post .
Microsoft appears to have decided that it doesn't want to be in the business of creating digital content, instead hoping that
others will take on that task. The company will give its scanning equipment to its library and digitization partners and encourage
them to continue to scan books. "Based on our experience, we foresee that the best way for a search engine to make book content
available will be by crawling content repositories created by book publishers and libraries," Nadella wrote.
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