2007: a world without Microsoft?
Here's a little thought experiment to take into the New Year. Not as difficult as Schrodinger's Cat, but thought provoking nevertheless. Imagine that you woke up tomorrow to a world without Microsoft.
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1.1.2007 Microsoft takes on the free world
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
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14.5.2007 Games and Gamers -- Potential World Changers
Suzanne Seggerman, co-founder and president of Games for Change, and Jeff Bell, Microsoft corporate vice president, discuss the companies' commitment to explore ways that interactive gaming can impact important social issues.
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11.6.2007 Gates no longer the richest man in the world?
Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned as the world's richest man. But based on his past comments, he probably isn't disappointed.
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4.7.2007 Windows 7 begins to release to the public across the world
Right now, it's October 22nd in some parts of the world, and Microsoft has begun releasing Windows 7 across the world at various launch parties and events.
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22.10.2009 Storm Worm botnet could be worlds most powerful supercomputer
Nearly nine months after it was first discovered, the Storm Worm Trojan continues to surge, building what experts believe could be the worlds most powerful supercomputer.
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6.9.2007 World of Warcraft Patch 3.10 Released and Available for Download
Blizzard is really working hard to keep all those 11 million of subscribers to World of Warcraft happy and busy.
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15.4.2009 World of Warcraft WoW Edition Free Download
Addicted to Peggle Extreme that available for free on Steam? PopCap Games
, the developer of Peggle series of casual action video game, has teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of World of Warcraft (WoW), to release a special Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition, available for free download at no cost.
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19.7.2009 MSN woos World Cup advertisers with all-star line up
MSN has signed 5 international footballers, including Michael Owen and Ronaldinho, to provide exclusive content for MSN users throughout the 2006 World Cup competition taking place in Germany.
MSN has created a number of football-themed advertising opportunities, letting advertisers link their brand with these players.
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26.11.2005 Windows Vista hit retail stores in New Zealand ahead of the world
Retail stores in New Zealand will kick start the worldwide launch of Microsoft Windows Vista by making the new operating system available at retail stores from midnight on 29 January 2007.
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29.1.2007 Samsung Announced Worlds First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Tools
Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Hack Tools ( Snip The WiFi Sopt , Brake Its Security , And Surf The Universe ) Surf The InterNet Freely Charged.
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29.3.2007Deal is on for Panasonic to acquire Sanyo
As the world finally starts taking seriously the move to solar power, Sanyo has been implementing a plan to emerge victorious as the leader in that
field. But with the global economic crisis upon us, it may not be able to do that alone...
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07.11.2008Senate leader does 180, withdraws pro-telco immunity bill
Apparently not having tested the prevailing winds before trying to pull off a launch, the Senate Majority Leader changed course and withdrew the
controversial pro-telco FISA amendment from the Senate floor late yesterday...
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18.12.2007Could Google's and DoubleClick's Merger Plans End in Europe?
Over five months after the two companies announced their intention to merge, search engine leader Google and display advertising leader DoubleClick
petitioned the European Commission on Friday for clearance of their merger terms. This morning, according to the Associated Press, the EC responded by
warning that a full investigation of their petition could consume as much as four months...
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24.09.2007Students and the browser war
Zack Whittaker: For the last decade or so, there has been an ongoing war between Netscape (now gone), Microsoft and Mozilla, over which browser is the
best and who uses it. Microsoft brought out Internet Explorer which killed Netscape Navigator, which led Microsoft to be the world leader for web
browsing even up until now. Mozilla came around a few years ago, moulded from the remnants of Netscape to create Firefox, what is widely regarded as
the best web browser in the world by many. If that is indeed the case, why isnt it the most used web browser in the world?
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07.07.2008Oracle Releases Beta of Free
Database
The free open source database
leader MySQL has some new
competition from expensive
enterprise database leader
Oracle. The company on Monday
unveiled a beta release of 10g
Express Edition, otherwise
known as Oracle Database XE,
which is free to develop,
deploy and distribute...
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01.11.2005Nokia CEO wowed by iPhone, sights on BlackBerry
The chief executive of Nokia, the world mobile phone leader, gave credit to new competitors from the computer world on Wednesday, but said his company
was set to respond to all challengers.
Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said emerging rivals Apple Inc, Google Inc,
Research in Motion Ltd and Microsoft Corp have helped to accelerate interest in using the Internet on mobile phones.
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02.10.2008Hypervisor battle glowing red hot
A rash of hypervisor virtualization announcements last week from Microsoft, Oracle and Sun signal the game is on to beat down leader VMware and jump
in the corporate virtualization revolution.
Last weeks moves, observers say, expose a strategy against VMware to commoditize
hypervisor technology and then win the hearts of corporate users by providing choices for management and other tools to administer what experts say is
a coming explosion in virtualization on corporate networks.
VMware, which disputes any notion that hypervisor will become a
commodity, has been the undisputed leader in virtualization since shipping its first product six years ago. No one is questioning the depth of its
hypervisor, which eschews the stripped-down route and builds in proprietary management technology, nor are experts claiming VMwares dominance is in
dispute in the near term.
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16.11.2007MaGE Leader Sentenced to Prison
District Judge Frank D. Whitney has sentenced 27 year old Justin Paul Emch to prison on one felony count of conspiracy to infringe copyright while he
was leader of the warez release group ‘MaGE’. On top of this he was also fined $5000 and ordered to serve 2 years on supervised
release. Emch was indicted as part of Operation Fastlink - a huge undercover investigation carried out by the FBI, the US Department of Justice and
Interpol. Emch reportedly worked to supply the group with software that other members of the group cracked and then passed back to Emch for testing.
The group had a huge collection of copyright material to which Emch had full access. Another one bites the dust; ten more have surely already replaced
him.
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05.11.2007Man vs. Machine in Upcoming Texas Hold 'Em Tournament
One of the best known matches
between man and machine at a
game is the IBM Deep Blue
versus Garry Kasparov chess
series. Now researchers from
the University of Alberta,
Canada, are putting computers
up against the pros of Texas
Hold 'Em Poker.
At a
tournament worth $50,000 to be
held July 23 - 24 at the
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Association for the
Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence's annual
conference in Vancouver, B.C.,
poker pros Phil "The
Unabomber" Laak and Ali
Eslami will go up against
Polaris, the reigning world
champion computer-poker
program.
"This is a
world first and, I hope, the
beginning of something that
will grow and become an annual
event," said Jonathan
Schaeffer, a team leader of
the Polaris program...
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13.06.2007Independent research firm recognizes Microsoft NAP as a leader in Network Access Control
Microsofts Network Access Protection (NAP) solution was cited as a leader (the top category) in a recent independent report, The Forrester Wave:
Network Access Control, Q3 2008. Microsoft was one of the many network access control (NAC) vendors invited to participate in the report.
Forrester placed a lot of emphasis on different access control scenarios for the evaluation and the different vendors were evaluated
around twelve different scenarios as well as strengths across technology, strategy and market presence.
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18.09.2008Intel V8 versus AMD 4X4 Platform
In the world of CPU processors, whose is the best is always in question as the balance has swung in both directions in this war of the silicon wafer.
Intel has been the leader many times and on many levels and markets, and although Texas upstarts AMD have given them a fair share of competition,
Intel seems to always come out on top.
AMD's FX series of CPUs propelled them into the limelight in the desktop environment,
but their Opteron CPUs failed to make the impact AMD had hoped in the server domain as did the Turion CPUs in the mobile market. AMD makes a good
product when they are at the top of their game, but Intel still maintains the overall leader position in all these platforms and that equates to
better sales numbers. Only those gamers who just love AMD are really into the whole AM2 platform at the moment, and that is due to the mass popularity
of Intel's Core 2 CPU line which is dominating the desktop environment.
The CPUs and systems in this round of competition were
submitted to me as high-end, desktop systems/ workstation, but the truth is these systems cost so much that there is no way anyone but the rich could
afford these systems as just their gaming machine.
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01.09.2007China to lead world technology
China is on track to surpass all other nations in manufacturing technology, including current leader, the US, according to a US academic study. While
China still lags behind more developed nations in several key areas, the writing is on the wall for the rest of the world, say the study's
authors. “It’s like being 40 years old and playing basketball against a competitor who’s only 12 years old – but is already at
your height,” said Nils Newman, a co-author of the US National Science Foundation-supported research.
“You are a little better
right now and have more experience, but you’re not going to squeeze much more performance out. The future clearly doesn’t look good for
the United States.” The research was conducted for the NSF by the Georgia Institute of Technology. The researchers tracked a number of key
indicators in a broad range of fields including scientific and engineering training, research, and manufacturing.
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25.01.2008Seagate Acquires Mirra
Hard drive leader will operate
personal server maker as
subsidiary...
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17.09.2005Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation leader soaks in stinging critique
After a
stinging critique
from a noted expert in establishing consortia, the leader of Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation says such frank evaluation
is welcome because
the open source group's structure is a work in progress.
Sam Ramji, who is interim president of the CodePlex
Foundation, was responding to last week's
blog by Andy Updegrove, who said the group
has a poorly crafted governance structure and looks like a sort of "alternative universe" of open source
development. The CodePlex
Foundation's aim is to get open source and proprietary software companies working together.
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25.09.2009Facebook ordered to hand over source code
Facebook has been ordered to hand over its source code, yet again, after an apparent patent infringement by Facebook on Leader Technologies'
patent for "associating a piece of data with multiple categories". Facebook was ordered last month to hand over all its source code by August 21,
to Leader Technologies, after the latter won a court case for patent infringement in the Delaware District Court. According to Realgeek, Facebook
objected on the orders to release its source code, which has just stalled this case for a while.
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11.09.2009Intel Rebuts AMD's Antitrust Charges
CPU leader denies claims of coercing PC makers, and says its chips are simply better...
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02.09.2005Samsung Develops World's Fastest and Largest 2.5" MLC-based 256GB SSD
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed the worlds fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte
(GB ) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum held at the
Westin Taipei Hotel. Samsungs new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.
With a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s, Samsungs MLC-based 2.5-inch 256GB SSD
is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD.
Furthermore, the new 256 GB SSD is only 9.5millimeters (mm) thick, and measures
100.3x69.85 mm.
Once introduced, the Samsungs 256GB SSD will mark the largest capacity SSD from the global market leader in SSD
sales, effectively eliminating density as a barrier to SSD adoption in the consumer space.
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26.05.2008Streaming21, SAMPO and Microsoft Taiwan Announce Digital Home Alliance
Streaming21, the world leader in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, Sampo, the leading 3C brand for electrical home appliances, and Microsoft
Taiwan held a press conference today to announce the formation of the Digital Home Alliance and publicly debut co-developed digital home innovations.
The companies are bringing to market end-to-end digital home solutions aimed at connecting the digital home with the networked world via killer
applications developed by Streaming21, based on recently released Microsoft Home Server and fully integrated with Sampo consumer electronics.
Eric Chen, Chairman of Sampo said, Digital home ecosystem integration is the key factor for success in the future of the digital home.
Sampo, Streaming21 and Microsoft Taiwan have worked closely throughout the product integration and development cycles to create compelling digital
home innovations unlike any others on the market today. We believe they will add value and differentiate our consumer appliances sold around the
world.
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12.12.2007BlackBerry opens up BlackBerry App World
BlackBerry App World previously called BlackBerry Application Center by BlackBerry is ready to be launched soon in US, Canada and UK. BlackBerry users
can now register for the Blackberry App World and get notified when the App World goes live, the new application store where they can find
applications designed for their BlackBerry smartphones. BlackBerry promises to offer a wide range of applications such as games, social networks,
stock market trackers, personal productivity applications etc. BlackBerry smartphones with OS versions 4.2 or higher with trackballs or SurePress
touch screen can be used with App World. A PayPal account has to be set up to download BlackBerry App World application (initially) and also to
download applications from the App World.
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05.03.2009Amazon MP3 looks to expand outside of US
The online retailer said over the weekend that it would begin to roll out its music store worldwide during this year in an effort to more broadly
compete with market-leader iTunes...
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