Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service.
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28.8.2008 The death of Wikipedia?
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit," was a nice experiment in the "democratization" of publishing, but it didn't quite work out. Wikipedia is dead. It died the way the pure products of idealism always do, slowly and quietly and largely in secret, through the corrosive process of compromise.
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25.5.2006 Death of the apps installer?
One of the great bugbears for developers is the issue of fitting their splendid new applications code to the requirements demanded by applications installers. But could this be about to disappear as a problem? According to David Greschler, co-founder and VP of corporate marketing with Softricity, the answer is a soundly political ?maybe?.
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24.4.2006 Blue death on my hand :)
At the Roots of Windows Blue Screen of Death
Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot.
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17.7.2008 The Death of the Windows Desktop Operating System
The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the Windows client.
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5.8.2008 Microsoft: Vista's 'Black Screen of Death' Is a Hoax
Many other news sites have just picked up the original article believing that it's legit. We have already updated our original post from last night and are posting the following to correct any disinformation out there.
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12.9.2007 Michael Jacksons death themed malware campaigns spreading
The sudden death of Michael Jackson quickly opened a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to capitalize on.
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26.6.2009 Black Screen of Death for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Upgrades
Microsoft has warned end users that performing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot.
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9.8.2008 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 Windows 7 RTM Black Screen of Death after Forced Shutdown Actions
Microsoft has informed users of an issue that prevents Windows 7 from starting after the computer the OS is installed on has been forced shut down.
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7.10.2009 Windows XP SP3 Brings the Death of SP2 - July 13, 2010
The advent of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has brought with it the proverbial "beginning of the end" for its predecessor, Service Pack 2.
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19.5.2008 Vista SP1 Application Compatibility Update Fixes Black Screens of Death
With the release of the gold version of Service Pack 1, but also with the maturing of the software and hardware environment orbiting around the Windows client, Windows Vista's compatibility level has continually increased.
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14.8.2008 From XP SP3 and Vista SP1 to Windows 7 - the Slow Death of 32-bit Windows
Moving onward from Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up for the death of 32-bit versions of the Windows client. On the server-side, Window's transition to 64-bit only architectures is almost complete, with Windows Server 2008 being the last server operating system from Microsoft with support for 32-bit CPUs.
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31.7.2008Vonage: We Are Not Going Away
According to Vonage, rumors of
its demise due to its ongoing
patent litigation with Verizon
have been greatly exaggerated.
Vonage is accused by Verizon
of violating seven patents
covering telephone features
and the use of Wi-Fi to place
telephone calls...
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26.02.2007HD DVD: Format War Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
To paraphrase Mark Twain, HD
DVD's impending death has
been greatly exaggerated.
That's the word from the HD
DVD camp, given the press
pessimism about the format
following last week's news
that Target's only
stand-alone high-def DVD
player would be Blu-ray.
As another blow
to HD DVD, Video Business
reported late last week that
BJ's Wholesale club would
stock only Blu-ray discs. And
in June, Blockbuster announced
that it would offer only the
Blu-ray DVD format for rental
in 1,700 of its stores. The HD
DVD format is still being
offered through the company's
online channel,
blockbuster.com, as well as
through the 250 stores that
currently carry both
formats.
But
the HD DVD camp is saying, in
effect, that the battles are
swaying this way and that, and
that the war is still on. Each
side has competitive
advantages that it is
emphasizing, although most
observers agree that Blu-ray
has been doing better in
promotions. ..
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31.07.2007iPhone and the Death of the Mobile Web
PERSPECTIVE Regardless
of whether or not you bought
into the flash and hype that
accompanied the iPhone's
launch, Apple's newest device
is important not for what
features it brings, but for
what it makes obsolete. The
death knell has been rung for
the mobile Web...
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07.07.2007Reports of Linksys' death exaggerated says Cisco
John Chambers' statement,
posted on YouTube , that the
Linksys brand would be phased
out seemed pretty unequivocal,
but the word from Cisco is
that the brand will be around
for a while yet.
In response to questions
at a media roundtable,
Chambers said: "
will come over time into a
Cisco brand. The reason we
kept Linksys' brand because
it was better known in the US
than even Cisco was for the
consumer. As you go globally
there's very little advantage
in that."
However a posting
on the official Cisco blog
site says otherwise: "There
have been some questions
lately about whether the
Linksys brand would be folded
into the Cisco brand. Here is
our response: 'Linksys
consumer and SMB products will
continue to be marketed under
the Linksys brand and co-exist
in the market with Cisco
branded connected home
products over the near term.
We will continue to examine
our branding strategy going
forward (as we have to date)
and make changes if and when
these changes add value to our
customers' decision making
processes and our channel
partners."..
winbeta.org - 01.08.2007
Creative settles over MP3 player capacities
Creative becomes the second company behind Seagate to settle with consumers over exaggerated drive capacity...
betanews.com - 02.05.2008
Vista's Purple Screen of Death
We've all heard of (and, quite unfortunately, experienced) the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Some of us who tested the earlier Windows Vista beta builds had the unique experience of trying out the Red of Screen Death, which occurred when the bootloader
experienced an un-handled exception (we experienced more than our fair share of these during the early days of EasyBCD development!). And then
there's Vista's Purple Screen of
Death, which few have seen.
winbeta.org - 04.12.2007
How to prevent Windows Vista's green ribbon of death
David A. Karp: Don't you just love it when something is so notorious
for a particular shortcoming that a new term is invented to describe it? It happened with the Windows Blue Screen of Death. It happened with the
Spinning Beach Ball of Death in Mac OS X. And it happened with the odd-number curse, referring to every other Star Trek film.
Now
it has happened with Vista's own Green Ribbon of Death, shown below.
The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen
element Microsoft has sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular progress bar is the harbinger of death for the
active Windows Explorer window, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.
winbeta.org - 18.02.2008
How to create a Blue Screen of Death
Feeling nostalgic about the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death, which used to plague desktops in the bad old days of Windows? No need to keep those
feelings locked away. This handy guide will show you how to force your PC to recreate the infamous error.
winbeta.org - 21.08.2008
Microsoft Blames Family for Xbox Fire, Infant Death
In a move that was largely
expected legally, but could
prove more difficult to
explain to the media and
consumers, Microsoft is asking
a court to dismiss a lawsuit
that claims an Xbox caught
fire and led to the death of
an infant. Microsoft says the
baby's parents are to blame
for abusing the Xbox...
betanews.com - 02.08.2007
Apple releases iTunes 8 update to fix Vista blue screen of death
UPDATED Apple has released an updated version of iTunes 8 to correct the blue screen of death problems some users have been experiencing after
installing the software. The issue relates to a driver that conflicts with Windows Vista...
betanews.com - 13.09.2008
Death and Social Networking
Ever wondered what happens to Facebook profiles when their owner dies? As we previously reported, the social networking giant implements memorial
pages. It can be quite depressing for family and friends to login to their Facebook profiles and see it suggested that they poke the deceased. The
Globe and Mail recently reported about Amelia Shaw, who sees it suggested that she connect with her deceased friend every time she logs in. Simply
closing the accounts of the deceased seems to be more difficult than it seems. Facebook commented that with over 300 million users, they cannot
possibly know who has passed away. As such, they've implemented a system wherein family can notify the company of a user's death.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 23.11.2009
New Xbox 360 ring of death spotted: red-red/green-green
What could this be? Its a brand new error code spotted on the internally rearranged Falcon-based Xbox
360s. Youve got two red lights on the right and two greens on the left. Wild message board speculation suggest it could be a brand new internal error
or the same old general hardware failure that used to be represented by the red ring of death. But then why would M$ (omgnohedidnt) introduce a new
color scheme of hardware failure into the mix, just to bother us?
Un nouveau Ring Of Death (ROD) sur
les Falcon ? Xbox-Scene>
winbeta.org - 09.11.2007
MS: We Didn't ID Chinese
Journalist
Microsoft on Tuesday denied
any involvement in a case
where a Chinese journalist was
arrested for sending illegal
e-mails through a Hotmail
account. The government claims
he "fabricated, distorted
and exaggerated facts, incited
to subvert the state and
sought to overthrow the
socialist system."..
betanews.com - 07.03.2006
Google, Microsoft spark interest in modular data centers, but benefits may be exaggerated
Interest in modular data centers is growing, fueled by high-profile endorsements from Microsoft and Google. But the model raises new management
concerns, and efficiency claims may be exaggerated.
Modular, containerized data centers being sold by vendors such as IBM, Sun
and Rackable Systems fit storage and hundreds, sometimes thousands of servers into one large shipping container with its own cooling system. (See
photos in our related slide show.)
Microsoft, using Rackable containers, is building a data center outside Chicago with more than 150 containerized data centers, each holding 1,000 to
2,000 servers. Google, not to be outdone, secured a patent last year for a modular data center that includes "an intermodal shipping container and
computing systems mounted within the container."
winbeta.org - 13.10.2008
Apple's Culture of Secrecy
"No one wants to die," said Apples chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. "And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped
it."
It was a little over three years ago that Mr. Jobs spoke those existential words, in a commencement address at Stanford.
His thoughts about death came during a portion of his speech in which he publicly discussed for the one and only time, so far as I can tell his
brush with pancreatic cancer.
winbeta.org - 27.07.2008
Daniel Pearson: Debugging a Windows Blue Screen of Death
Daniel goes through the four key reasons why BSODs happen, how Windows allocates memory and how developers need to be careful when setting kernel mode
memory. Daniel then goes through a real-world example of a faulty device driver and how to debug and diagnose issues. Daniel also shows how to read
and write data to an application process, like Notepad using WinDbg.
winbeta.org - 17.07.2008
Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained
Picture this: Its late at night, youre sitting at your computer playing a game or working on a project when, suddenly, Windows freezes completely. All
your work is gone, and you find a blue screen full of gibberish staring back at you. Windows is dead, Jim, at least until you reboot it. You have no
choice but to sigh loudly, shake your fist at Bill Gates and angrily push the reset button. Youve just been visited by the ghost of windows crashed:
The blue screen of death.
Also known as the BSoD, the Blue Screen of Death appears when Windows crashes or locks up. Its actually
a Windows stop screen, and is designed to do two things: tell you the reason for the error, and to calm your nerves, hence the use of the color blue
(studies show it has a relaxing effect on people). Though Blue Screens are difficult to decipher, all the information you need to figure out what
caused it is right there in front of you in blue and whiteand thats where we come in. Were going to show you how to dissect the blue screen error
details, so you can fix the problem thats causing them.
winbeta.org - 01.05.2009
Microsoft Fires Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Whistleblower
According to a follow up article on VentureBeat, Microsoft fired Robert Delaware a game test contractor who talked to Dean Takahashi
about the Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" issue. In a recent article, Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat wrote about the chronological series of events that led to the hardware
failures faced by the Xbox 360. Often called the “Red Ring of
Death”, it is a condition that describes when three flashing red lights light up the front of an Xbox 360 indicating hardware failure.
winbeta.org - 14.09.2008
No charges over 'suicide' on web
Kevin Whitrick, 42, of
Wellington, Shropshire,
broadcasted his death over the
internet in March. Those
chatroom users who watched him
apparently commit suicide will
not face charges, the Crown
Prosecution Service has said.
The CPS said comments made by
chatroom users at the time did
not amount to a criminal
offence. The father-of-two was
found hanged after suffering
from severe depression for
several years. A spokesman
announced: " This is a
tragic case which resulted in
the untimely death of Kevin
Whitrick. We examined all the
evidence passed to us by the
police and have concluded that
none of the comments made in
the chatroom amounted to a
criminal offence. As a result,
there is insufficient evidence
to prosecute any person for
any criminal offence arising
out of Mr Whitrick's
death ."
neowin.net - 28.05.2007
Beat those bluescreen blues: what a Windows bluescreen actually means
The Windows Blue Screen of Death is hated and maligned, but it's really just trying to help. Read on to find out what it's trying to tell you.
Dan Warne recently had a cheeky dig at what
some consider to be the quintessential interactive Windows screen the blue screen of death, or BSOD.
Certainly, the unfriendly,
its all over for you vibe which every BSOD gives off has given Windows system faults a bad reputation over time. Personally, I rather like these
haiku error messages...
winbeta.org - 20.11.2007
