Windows Live Local, offers street-side level imagery!
Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) will go live offering "street-side" level imagery for Seattle and San Francisco.
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28.2.2006 Microsoft's Hyper-V release threat level reaches RC status
Microsoft today spat out a release candidate build of its delayed virtualisation software Hyper-V.
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19.3.2008 Via to Supply Processors, Chipsets to HP
Via Technologies, a struggling Taiwan developer of central processing units and core-logic sets, has inked a contract with HP under which the semiconductor company will supply its C7-D CPUs and supporting chipsets to HP for a commercial PC targeting Chinese market.
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15.4.2007 HP unveils Windows Home Server systems
Hewlett-Packard Co. began taking preorders today for its MediaSmart Server, the first system from a major manufacturer powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Home Server (WHS) software.
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6.11.2007 HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their netbooks as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for users.
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26.8.2008 Dell, HP, and Sony OEM Certificates Used in Windows Vista Activation Crack
The latest trend in Windows Vista cracks is to utilize OEM certificates in order to bypass the activation process of the operating system. Via the OEM crack for Windows Vista, original equipment
manufacturer versions of the operating system are illegally activated through a process that involves patching the BIOS of the motherboard.
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26.2.2007 Windows 7 Build 7004 Is Win7 Beta 2?
The whole world is eagerly awaiting the official public release of Windows 7 Beta 1, widely speculated to be build version 6.1.7000.0 (or simply build 7000) in early January 2009, which may be as soon as within days.
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4.1.2009 Incoming - Real and fake Win7 patches
Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some “fake” test patches to verify Windows 7’s automatic-updating abilities this week.
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13.5.2009 Microsoft readies Win7 netbook specs
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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22.5.2009 Microsoft readies Win7 netbook specs
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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26.5.2009 Leaked memo hints at Win7 prices
Microsoft officials may not be ready to share the date of the Vista-to-Windows 7 upgrade program they preannounced this week. But Best Buy is.
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5.6.2009 Microsoft Halts XP SP3 Update to HP PCs Running AMD Processors
The recent Windows XP Service Pack 3 update has left certain AMD-based PCs manufactured by Hewlett-Packard caught in an endless reboot cycle caused by an Intel-specific disk image mistakenly being used with AMD hardware.
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20.5.2008 Windows 7 E (Europe) Build 7264 Win7 RTM x64 English DVD
Microsoft Windows 7 E Build 7264 Win7 RTM x64 English DVD
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8.7.2009 Get Free Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition with Party Pack By Hosting Win7 Launch Party
In a new campaign to promote Windows 7, Microsoft is giving chances to Windows 7 enthusiasts around the world to be part of Windows history by hosting a house party to mark the official launch of Windows 7.
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4.9.2009Motorola Unveils 9mm Entry-level Phone with E-Ink Display
Motorola today released for
sale in India its new
entry-level Motofone F3,
though with features that even
high-end enthusiasts are
paying attention to. For
instance, an E-ink display
(the same one used in the Sony
Reader) helps increase battery
life to 400 standby hours...
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29.11.2006HP and Staples Charged With Breaking Antitrust Law
A U.S. man has filed suit against office-products retailer Staples Inc. and printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Co. in federal court today, charging
that the two companies broke antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement ink-jet printer cartridges. In a lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court in Boston, Ranjit Bedi charged that they had reached "an illegal agreement between competitors to stop competing" when HP paid
Staples, the biggest U.S. specialty retailer of office supplies, "market development funds" to stop selling non-HP-branded ink-jet printer
cartridges for HP printers.
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18.12.2007Microsoft on Win7 UAC: 'Take the emotions out of the discussion'
The latest blog posts from Windows 7 engineers reveal this quandary: If the whole point of accelerating Win7 was to eliminate the Vista complaints,
and the tool to accomplish that is generating more complaints, what do they do?..
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06.02.2009HP shows off future printing technologies
Hewlett-Packard gave a look into future printing technologies, introducing a new inkjet printer that prints thousands of pages per minute and ink that
retains its shine even when exposed to extreme elements.
HP's water-based Latex Ink is specially formulated to embed in a
surface and become part of a media print, said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president of HP's graphics and imaging business. HP's Latex Ink can
withstand snow and rain and is useful for large-format media used on billboards and outdoor signs.
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11.03.2008Printer Manufacturers Turn to Cryptography
It's no secret that printer
manufacturers such as HP,
Canon, Lexmark, and the rest
of the crowd sell their
printers for little to no
profit in order to attract
initial buyers. The real
profit comes from the sales of
ink cartridges that can,
sometimes, be sold for 50% of
the cost of the entire printer
itself.
In recent
years, however, "ink piracy"
has become a thorn in the side
of printer manufacturers as
they lose almost $3
billion a year to illegal ink
cartridges (refilled
cartridges sold as new,
reverse engineered cartridges,
and printers modified to
accept any cartridge). In an
effort to fight back,
Cryptography Research Inc,
(CRI) has stepped in with a
chip that would require the
user to use only manufacturer
sanctioned ink cartridges in
their printers.
Of
course, any kind of digital
protection is going to be
attacked by the thousands of
highly skilled hackers out
there. To help combat this
issue, the chip, called
CryptoFirewall, will generate
an individual code for each
and every ink cartridge
meaning would be hackers would
have to crack each new
cartridge manufactured. CRI
admits that it's system
won't completely eradicate
ink piracy, but that the
"system is designed to
recover from failure".
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02.07.2007HP to gut nearly 8% of their workforce
Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd decided that HP's future was in the more lucrative world of corporate service contracts when they purchased
Electronic Data Systems in May of this year. That move placed them in direct competition with IBM, who also started with personal computers before
specializing in corporate service contracts. In order to fully integrate EDS, HP has decided that 24,600 people have to go. HP believes that these job
losses will make them more competitive each year to the tune of nearly $2 billion although there will be one-time costs of nearly the same amount
to settle accounts with their departing employees (and other goodwill adjustments). When Hurd became HP's CEO in 2005, he began a downsizing of
nearly 15,000 employees in order to maximize profits in the face of ever-shrinking personal computer margins. Their strongest profit area, despite
additional competition, remains in printer ink.
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16.09.2008Kodak Throws Hat Into InkJet Printing Ring
Kodak is entering the home
printing market with a line of
printers that use better
quality ink developed by the
company, saving consumers up
to 50 percent on ink costs
while allowing them to print
the same number of pages...
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06.02.2007HP could be violating US trade restrictions with Iran
HP has recently come under fire from the Boston Globe, who have reported that Redington Gulf, a third-party based in Dubai has been selling HP
printers in Iran for 11 years, since 1997. HP has partnered with them, but if the partnership began with knowledge that printers will be sold in
Iran by Redington Gulf, HP could face trade sanctions, as the US currently prohibits exports to Iran. HP claims that it fully complies with US export
laws, but further investigation yielded conflicting answers. In the late 1990s, before the partnership began, an HP executive had talked about sales
in Iran and HP's desire to be in the market.
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30.12.2008HP Releases Multi-level Security Services for RHEL5
There is security, and then there is Security. HP, with its new multi-level security services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now offering Common
Criteria certified level security for this Linux on its server and desktops.
Common Criteria is an ISO security framework
standard. It is frequently required in government computing contracts. It is also, historically, difficult for open-source software to obtain, as
described briefly in "
Free-Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS)
and Software Assurance" (PDF Link) by David A. Wheeler, an author and software developer.
Erik Lillestolen, HP's government
program manager for the
open-source & Linux
organization, hopes that these new offerings will help get not just HP computers, but Red Hat Linux as well into secure federal government
offices.
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01.11.2007Kodak Printers Breed Cheap Ink
In March, Kodak will introduce
three printers, priced at
$149.99, $199.99 and
$299.99, that use much
cheaper ink - the move is
expected to put pressure on
the company's rivals.
Unveiled in New York, the
three All-in-One EasyShare
printers boast low-priced
black ($9.99) and color
ink ($14.99) cartridges,
as opposed to the typical
$30 price tag. " After
today, the inkjet market will
never be the same ," Kodak
CEO Antonio Perez said. The
company believes the high cost
of ink limited more
printing.
Market-leading printer
companies, including
Hewlett-Packard, Epson and
Canon, have enjoyed up to a
70% profit selling ink. That
revenue is under thread by
lower-cost, after-market ink
which, according to Lyra
Research, comprises from
30-40% of the market. In
China, 90% of the ink is sold
by non-brand-name suppliers.
The ink prices will allow
consumers to produce 10-cent
prints. Printing digital
pictures at home, which is now
around 25 cents per photo,
will equal that of online
printing services, said Lyra
Research President, Charles
LeCompte.
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07.02.2007HP ProLiant Web Jam
Next week Neowin will be joining technology sites and bloggers from around the world in Houston, Texas as guests of HP, attending the HP TSG
(Technology Solutions Group) Tech Day event. The event takes place Monday, April 6th - Tuesday, April 7th, and includes tours of HP with presentations
from some of the best HP TSG experts, and many opportunities to speak with HP personnel. During this event we will be participating in a live HP "web
jam" session, taking a look at and discussing the newest HP ProLiant G6 Servers. The web jam includes virtual sessions which are open for all to
attend and participate in.
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07.04.2009HP Power to Change Initiative
Whether you believe in global warming or not, I think we can all agree that reducing waste and minimizing the negative impact that we have on the
environment is a good thing. Most communities in the US have recycling programs at every level, from the home consumer to the corporate giant, and
many offer financial incentives for participating, some even penalize for not participating.
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09.06.2009HP opens up its research labs just a little more
While Hewlett-Packard has been re-launching its HP Labs, it's been keeping mum on its IdeaLab, a special department where HP researchers are working
on technologies that may one day affect user experience in the future...
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15.03.2008New HP Pavilion notebooks go for style, go with AMD
HP has had a reputation for delivering sturdy, competent, but unexciting hardware without a lot of pizzazz in the marketing department. As folks used
to say, if HP was selling sushi, they'd market it as "cold, dead fish."..
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06.01.2009MS, HP Prevail in Patent
Infringement Case
Microsoft and HP were
sucessful in fighting off a
patent infringment suit with
E-Pass technologies last week,
which accused the two of using
patented credit card
technologies in HP iPAQs...
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09.08.2006NeowINDEX TX09: Neowin meeting with the HP blade sever group
Last week during NeowINDEX TX09, we had the opportunity to visit the HP campus in Houston, Texas. While we were there we were invited to sit in with
some of the people from the blades server group, and participate in an open discussion about some of HP's blade server technologies. After
attending the HP Tech Day and G6 Web Jam a couple of weeks ago, my interest in HP blade servers had already been piqued.
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01.05.2009Engineering Windows 7: Ink Input and Tablet PC
Steven Sinofsky: Theres a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality to develop unique solutions for
specific markets (medicine, education, line of business) and create software in Windows that builds on this experience to streamline how these
end-users interact with information on their PC (usually with unique form-factors such as slates or wall mounted PCs). Earlier this week I received a
great email asking śwhats new for usť from the head of development for one such ISV (medical software) and so we put together an overview of the new
functionality. Several Program Managers on the team authored this post.
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23.04.2009HP Technology Forum & Expo POD tour
Some of you will remember our brief run through of an HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter) during the HP Factory Express tour that we attended at
the HP Tech Day event back in April. I think a lot of us drool at the processing and storage capacity potential that the POD represents, but there are
a lot of other factors that make the POD a serious, almost no-brainer contender when planning for a datacenter solution. HP POD solutions can provide
a complete, pre-configured, ready to plug in and get-to-work datacenter in six weeks. Try that with a traditional brick and mortar solution.
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17.06.2009HP, Mozilla Create Virtual Browser to Secure Corporate Desktops
Hewlett-Packard, Mozilla and Symantec present a virtual browser called the HP Firefox Virtual Browser, which will be first featured on a new HP
desktop called the HP Compaq dc7900. The HP Firefox Virtual Browser creates a secure virtualization layer that captures malware and viruses and lets
the user purge the malware from the desktop. HP will offer the HP Firefox Virtual Browser in all its business desktops by year's end.
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09.09.2008HP Technology Forum & Expo
Next week Neowin will be attending the HP Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. The HP Technology Forum & Expo is the largest event for IT
professionals using HP technologies. Customers and partners from around the world gather for learning in key technology areas and an in-depth look at
the newest IT solutions and emerging technologies. Neowin will be joining the ranks with sites and bloggers from around the world to bring you
information from the various sessions and the expo floor.
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