Top 3 months news:
Predictions: Apple's iPod/iTunes event
Rumor has it that Apple are planning a refresh of their iPod Nano and iPod Touch models - one of the main additions to the product lines is predicted
to be a camera for taking pictures on the go. The up and coming event is taking place this coming Wednesday in San Francisco. According to The
Business Insider's website, there are some fairly sound expectations surrounding the event. In addition to announcing some new features with
their music management software iTunes, Apple are expected to announce "almost certainly" an updated version of the ipod Touch along with the
possibility of the same with the iPod Nano.
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07.09.2009Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS starts loading Windows in under a second
Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS, a highly optimized UEFI implementation
that can start loading an OS in just under a second. Combined with Windows 7's optimized startup procedure, that means you're looking at incredibly
short boot times -- we saw a retrofitted Dell Adamo hit the Windows desktop in 20 seconds, while a Lenovo T400s with a fast SSD got there in under 10.
It's pretty slick stuff, and it should be out soon -- check a video after the break...
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25.09.2009Finland makes broadband a legal right
Many people consider having broadband access a privilege but if you live in Finland, its become a legal right. Starting in July 2010 it will be a
legal right for every person to have a broadband connection of at least 1MB and by 2015 everyone will have access to a 100MB connection. While not
the first country to make broadband a legal right, that title goes to the Swiss, it does show a growing trend of how integrated broadband technologies
are into our lives. Not much else is known about the new law that will make broadband a legal right.
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14.10.2009Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
Ed Bott: Only suckers pay retail.
If youve read any reviews of Windows 7, youve seen references to its price list, which ranges
from $120 for a Home Premium upgrade to $320 for a fully licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
Well, guess what? You dont have to
pay that much. Most people have much better options available, if you know where to look. As Ive detailed
here, the best deals go to PC manufacturers, which you benefit from if you buy a
new PC...
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06.11.2009Apple releases 3.1 iPhone & iPod touch firmware
Apple has announcedd the release of iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 3.1, available for immediate download. The free download, for both iPhone and iPod
Touch 3.0 users, is said to improve battery life. The 3.1 firmware will improve video editing on the iPhone 3GS, that won't overwrite the
original clip when editing videos, preventing the loss of the original film. The new developer API's allows third-party applications access to
the videos and edit them, without having to use Apple's editing tools for the iPhone 3GS. The update is said to increase the boot time of
devices. The device will now vibrate when moving icons around to different locations.
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09.09.2009MS Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Download Link and Screenshot Gallery
Download and discuss:here
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05.09.2009Safety First: Beefing Up Anti-Piracy Features in Microsoft Office
As the piracy trade becomes more sophisticated, the Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage program adopts an end-to-end approach to protect Office
customers from the risks of counterfeit software...
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25.08.2009AT&T Announces iPhone MMS Launch Date is September 25
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04.09.2009Microsoft's COFEE forensics tool leaks online
Microsoft's secret Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has leaked online, available for all. COFEE is a forensics tool,
approximately 15MB in size that fits on a USB drive for law enforcement officials to use in PC forensics. According to Microsoft: With COFEE, law
enforcement agencies without on-the-scene computer forensics capabilities can now more easily, reliably, and cost-effectively collect volatile live
evidence. An officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device.
This enables the officer to take advantage of the same common digital forensics tools used by experts to gather important volatile evidence, while
doing little more than simply inserting a USB device into the computer.
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09.11.2009Surfing the Google Wave
To write a simple message, whether by Email or text, has for a long time been a method to announce one's happiness, anger and even one's
tardiness. It's arguable that these virtual delivery services are somewhat impersonal; there are only the words on a computer screen — this
is devoid of all other sensations. However, the word can be a powerful weapon to wield. One misses the little details, though. A smile, a happy
feeling cannot be described in words as much as it can be simply shown. Just weeks ago Google opened up the much anticipated Google Wave service.
Its premise is one of ingenuity, to say the least.
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07.11.2009Neowin's top 5 Windows 7 Features
We've all been playing with Windows 7 for quite some time now, and now that general availability has passed we recently asked the community what
their favorite feature of Windows 7 was. We've tallied the results, and just in case you haven't explored these features yet here's an in
depth overview of our community's favorite features: #5 Libraries Since the days of Windows XP, Microsoft has continued to simplify the way
users can store their data on a PC. Windows 7 has introduced users to a new way of file organization by adding a new structure called libraries. What
exactly is a library? By default Windows 7 has four separate libraries: Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos.
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07.11.2009Apple opens its first retail store in France
Today Apple opened its second store on mainland Europe at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France. They don't stop there, however; another store
in Montpellier, France opens next week on November 14th and one near the Opera Ganier to debut in the summer of 2010. France's first Apple store
opens today at 10AM CET. This is a prestigious location to be sure, right across the famous inverted pyramid inside the Louvre museum. Just for that
it would be worthwhile to visit this store, which spans two floors. 150 employees work in the store to offer the same services, which have made the
Apple Store experience a success all over the world.
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07.11.2009Nokia Beats Apple in Smartphone Shipments Worldwide
With the recent squabbling over the Motorola Droid's status as the next potential "iPhone killer, one could assume Apple has become the
competitor to beat in the smartphone marketplace. But while countless reviewers try to measure the relative "cool" factor of these high profile
gadgets, Nokia has been managing quite well on its own worldwide, continuing its lead in the sector with 37.9 percent of the market share in the third
quarter of this year, according to research firm IDC. The next closest competitors are Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, with 19 percent
market share and Apple with 17.1 percent based on shipment volume worldwide.
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08.11.2009Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains
While our focus at Phoronix is on testing hardware under Linux, we remain friendly and interested in other BSD and UNIX operating systems too,
including Mac OS X . With the launch of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" we have been particularly interested in it considering the technological
advancements that have been made in this update thanks to their large focus on improving the performance of Mac OS X. With that said, we have spent
all week working on a grand Mac OS X benchmarking showdown by comparing the performance of the retail build of Mac OS X 10.6.0 to the earlier Mac OS X
10.5.8 through a number of different quantitative tests. We firmly believe that as of right now these are the most detailed desktop performance
numbers available concerning Snow Leopard, but we already have more figures on the way. We have performance numbers from not just one Mac computer,
but two different setups. Here's to the first 60+ tests we ran!
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29.08.2009Microsoft still fighting claim it distributed 'spyware' to XP users
Even as Microsoft's product groups focus on Windows 7 and beyond, its lawyers are still battling disgruntled PC users over the way the company
distributed an anti-piracy tool for Windows XP -- the version of the operating system that debuted nearly eight years ago...
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13.10.2009New Office 2010 build leaks
A new build of Office 2010 has surfaced around the web, identifying itself as "Microsoft Office 2010 Build 4417". The build is not a huge difference
but offers small improvements and more stability over the previously leaked Mondo builds which were plauged with problems. The most notable new
feature is that Back-Stage view has been altered and enhanced alot more and looks like it's almost finished. There's a new upload center to
store and share documents online - perhaps through live mesh - or it could be the Office Web Applications/Office Live Workspaces.
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31.08.2009Apple causes legal distress over revamped Woolworths logo
Halfway through last year, the company Woolworths Supermarkets announced that it was going to revamp its logo, in addition to making some other
changes, altering the entire corporate branding strategy. The company chose an "an abstract leaf symbol" as the new logo, hoping things would be
fine… but unfortunately, they weren't, particularly for Apple, Inc. AppleInsider has reported that the Cupertino-based company Apple,
known mostly for the the iPod, the Mac, and the iPhone, believes Woolworths' logo is far too similar to its own, wanting it to be changed.
Apple's had a history of legal battles with other companies over logo similarities, though it's expected for a company to want to defend its
brand.
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05.10.2009Why has Microsoft photoshopped this?
Engadget spotted this earlier today, it appears Microsoft has photo-shopped an image on the polish version of its Business Productivity site. If you
visit the US business site you will see the image below (top) and if you visit the Polish site you'll see the same picture (bottom) but the man in
the middle is no longer black. Why has Microsoft done this? It's not only rather strange but in a world where racism is a touchy subject and
businesses strive towards equality, this kind of behaviour is slightly alarming.
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26.08.2009Microsoft emancipates Digital Cable Tuners with second Media Center update today
Scant hours after the SDV tuning, DRM-relaxing firmware update for Vista and Windows 7 Digital Cable Tuner users became available,
Missing
Remote let us know Microsoft has come through on the other half of its
CEDIA promise by pushing the Digital Cable
Advisor to Media Center Extras galleries everywhere...
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07.11.2009Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft
Whilst it's not okay in Microsoft's eyes for Google to install a plugin into Internet Explorer, increasing the potential surface area of attack,
when Microsoft do it to Firefox, it's a different matter. Now a
security hole has been found in
a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox...
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17.10.2009Chrome OS leaks onto the internet
Just days away from an event at Google where the company will reveal more about one of their rumored and now confirmed projects - Chrome OS, package
files and pictures have leaked showing the operating system (or at least the browser part of it) running on top of a Ubuntu install with themes and a
new logo. The files that leaked were hosted on a public Google server, and were found by Living in a Google World earlier this week. The Operating
System which is very unstable (as expected) was leaked for only a few hours, and then taken down - but not before some users got copies of the files.
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16.10.2009Cisco Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM
If Cisco wasn't making enough enemies with its string of bold acquisitions and a brazen push into the server market last spring, it's now picking a
software fight with several more tech heavyweights: Microsoft, Google and IBM...
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09.11.2009Hands on: Sony VAIO X Windows 7 Notebook
Sony took the covers off its new X series range of notebooks yesterday at a press event in London and Neowin was waiting in the wings for an early
hands on. The new X Series is incredibly light and slim, weighing just 0.78KG (including battery). It's hard to describe just how elegant and
slim this notebook is, the chasis measures no more than 13.9mm in width at any point across its body. It's so light that Sony is claiming the X
series is the "world's lightest laptop." Sony has designed this latest notebook for portability, performance and style. Marketed towards
business travelers, this ultra-premium notebook is sexy in a choice of three finishes; gold, black and premium carbon.
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09.10.2009Intel Core i7 For Laptops First Benchmarks
PC Pro has benchmarked the first Intel Core i7 processors
for laptops. The chips mark the debut of Intel's Turbo Boost technology, which ramps up the speed of the working cores if two or more cores are
sitting unused. For the quad-core i7-820QM, this can take the stock speed of 1.73GHz up to a maximum of 3.06GHz. The 2D benchmarks show comparable
performance to Core 2 Extreme chips running at 2.53GHz. Power consumption and processor temperature is dramatically lower, which should lead to
significant improvements in laptop battery life.
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20.09.2009Breaking: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail "hack" or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail
accounts have been posted online. An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers
to share code snippets. The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and
most appear to be based in Europe. The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be additional lists.
Currently it appears only accounts used to access Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail have been posted, this includes @hotmail.com, @msn.com and
@live.com accounts.
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05.10.2009Ballmer makes a scene over an iPhone during private meeting
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, is known for pulling some pretty interesting stunts and making direct comments putting down competitors of Microsoft.
For example his comment back in July stating that Apple's Mac growth is a "rounding error". The war between the two companies have been going on
for years now, and yesterday Ballmer pulled yet another stunt at a private company meeting at Seattle's Safeco Field. According to Todd Bishop
over at TechFlash, Ballmer was taking the stage for the event and "he spotted someone at field level, allegedly a member of the Windows group, using
an iPhone to take his picture. Ballmer grabbed the Apple device from the employee and made some funny remarks as everyone booed.
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13.09.2009BT handed 100,000 file-sharer's IP addresses from BPI
The BPI have accused BT of not doing enough to prevent music piracy, after handing them 100,000 IP addresses of users allegedly caught sharing
copyrighted files, according to an article by TorrentFreak posted yesterday. BT said it could cost ISPs £365m a year to take action against
piracy, although the chief executive of the BPI, Geoff Taylor, claims that BT's figures are exaggerated. The BPI said it was "shameful" that BT
had nothing about the 100,000 IP addresses it gave them, however chief of BT's consumer division, John Petter, said that taking such action could
cost £365m a year, a whole £165m more than what the BPI claims the music industry will lose this year, due to piracy.
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30.09.2009Windows 7 on multicore: How much faster?
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is receiving raves in its pre-release testing. While much of the kernel that lies at the heart of the
operating system is based on Vista code, several key advances have been made that get rid of Vista annoyances and greatly improve the user experience.
Inside the kernel, one important change centers on how multithreaded applications are run. The threading advances provide benefits in energy
reduction, scalability, and, in theory, performance...
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20.10.2009Britain's oldest computer rebooted, first time in decades
According to the BBC's technology website, Britain's oldest computer, the Harwell, is being reported to be undergoing a reboot for the first
time in decades. Plans are being made to transport it to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it is to be restored to working order.
The computer was originally built and used at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire. Construction started in 1949, and
became operational in April 1951 and remained in use until 1957. The computer used dekatrons for volatile memory (similar to RAM in a modern computer)
and paper tape for both input and program storage. Its purpose was to perform mathematical equations.
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06.09.2009WebOS 1.2 accidentally leaked, plugged by Palm
A user by the name of go4craig on the PreCentral's Forums has posted yesterday that he applied the webOS Doctor (This is a last resort method to
get your Pre back to the factory standard) and it installed webOS 1.2 for him. WebOS 1.2 is an unreleased version of the Pre software. It also
happened for a few other members. The leak was plugged pretty fast and all Palm Pre owners will now have to wait for the official update. The first
of changes that he found was the ability to add your account (payment information) directly into the App Catalog.
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07.09.2009Microsoft to fix first critical hole in Windows 7 on Tuesday
Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that the company plans to push out a security fix for a critical security hole in Windows 7 next Tuesday. Microsoft
officials posted an advanced security bulletin today that confirms Windows XP will have 6 critical holes patched, Windows Vista 5 critical holes and
Windows 7 only one. Microsoft's critical rating is the highest out of all definitions used by the company, described as "a vulnerability whose
exploitation could allow the propagation of an Internet worm without user action." Microsoft will ship a total of 13 updates on Tuesday, eight of
them marked as critical. Previously the company released a record of 12 updates in both February 2007 and October 2008.
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09.10.2009The Pirate Bay purchase approved by shareholders
On Thursday, The Pirate Bay got moved step closer to being sold to a Swedish software company that hopes to turn the world's largest BitTorrent
tracker into a legitimate pay-to-download service, which will be based on how much computer power you share with the website. GGF (Global Gaming
Factory) shareholders approved the $8.5 million transaction on Thursday this week, four months after TPB's four co-founders were convicted and
found guilty of facilitating copyright infringement. GGF intends to, within weeks, turn TPB into a subscription based service, even though no major
content providers have agreed to grant them a license.
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28.08.2009T-Mobile and Microsoft Danger Sidekick outage, lost data
Over the weekend T-Mobile and Microsoft Danger confirmed a huge outage on its Sidekick devices. In a statement issued to customers T-Mobile confirmed
"we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device - such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos - that is no
longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger." According to some reports, the failure
was due to a SAN (Storage Area Network) gone wrong at Microsoft's end. It is claimed that Microsoft does not have a working backup of some of the
data that has gone missing from customers devices.
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12.10.2009Firefox 3.6 beta set to ship next week
Mozilla tentatively plans to release the first beta of Firefox 3.6 on 13 October.
The open source browser maker is expected to
spin out the next iteration of Firefox in November, and next weeks upcoming beta is understood to be the only test build released by Mozilla before
3.6 - codenamed Namoroka and based on Gecko 1.9.2 - lands.
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07.10.2009Next Firefox can detect computer orientation
The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you're listing to starboard--and pass that information along to applications running in
the browser.
That's because the browser will be able to detect the orientation of laptops and mobile devices equipped with
accelerometers that can tell which way is down. The reason for the work: Web applications running in the browser will be able to use the information,
useful for labyrinth-type games with virtual marbles rolling around boards, and any number of other gaming situations.
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13.10.2009Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft
Ed Bott: If Microsoft expects its customers to take license agreements seriously, it has a responsibility to communicate the terms of those agreements
to its customers clearly and unambiguously. As I noted
earlier this month, Microsoft does a
generally poor job of explaining its complicated rules for how Windows licensing works. But I deliberately left one type of Windows license off that
list, because it deserves its own special place in the Corporate Communications Hall of Shame...
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16.11.2009Are DVDs Nearing the End?
Watchers of streaming video trends are buzzing after a remark by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in a
Montley Fool podcast that DVDs may lose their number one spot for the company's video distribution after two years.
Although he didn't explicitly say what he thinks will replace DVD, a few of his statements seem to agree with
what many have been
saying since the end of the format war. It won't be Blu-ray.
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12.10.2009Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard benchmarks
CNet.com has benchmarked Windows 7 and Snow Leopard using the same hardware to test both operating systems. The performance test ran using software
available on both operating systems including iTunes 9, QuickTime, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare and Cinebench R10; testing multimedia multitasking,
shutdown time, boot time and iTunes encoding. The laptop used was a 15-inch MacBook Pro with 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM with a 512MB Nvidia
GeForce 9600M GT video card. Snow Leopard was installed on a stock 320GB hard drive (Hitachi model HTS543232L9SA0), while Windows 7 64-bit was
installed on a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (model WD3200BEVT).
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17.10.2009Microsoft OneApp Connects Emerging Markets to Popular Mobile Phone Apps
New mobile phone application makes it possible for feature phone users to access popular apps and social networking sites now enjoyed by smartphone
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25.08.2009TechSpot: ATI Radeon HD 5770 Review
Last month AMD unleashed what went on to become the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card by a convincing margin, the Radeon HD 5870. This was
followed shortly by a slightly watered-down version known as the Radeon HD 5850. The latter has proved to be very competitive, playing second only to
its bigger brother and at just $260, it stands without a doubt as the best value high performance offering available at the moment. Continuing
with the successful rollout of its Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD is now moving to attack the sub-$200 market, and hopes to keep the momentum going
with the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750.
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13.10.2009Showcase: Aero Xtreme 7 XP (Developed by InTime Applications)
Intime, a member of JCXP since 2007 has previously released many popular WindowBlinds themes
for Windows XP. He released the popular theme, AeroTime which was a theme for Windows XP to turn your desktop into a Windows Vista computer - without
the heightened system requirements. Now, he is back with releasing the Beta of Aero Xtreme 7 - a WB visual style to make your Windows XP desktop to
look like Windows 7.
A full list of features is available on the Deviantart page for Aero Xtreme 7. In the last
few days of its first month on Deviantart, it got up to the #1 most popular WB visual style for the month. Now, it's been over a month since its
release, and it is no longer on the list, however - it's a fantastic achievement to achieve.
Any user who
is still using Windows XP is urged to try out this great visual style.
Download from Deviantart, here. Also, feel free to discuss it on JCXP, here.
Although InTime did not ask for this showcase, I
decided that his dedication to our community and the great work that he outputs - makes it worth it to be showcased here. Think your work deserves to
be showcased? Feel free to PM me in the forums.
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05.09.2009Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to
improve server utilization and reduce costs. With the addition of new features such as live migration and expanded processor and memory support for
host systems, it allows organizations to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server and is a good solution for organizations who are
consolidating servers as well as for development and test environments.
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29.08.2009TechSpot: Windows 7 Dual Boot Guide, Remove Partition How to
Windows 7 has proved to be quite the drastic improvement over Vista, enough that it even has XP stragglers crawling out of the woodwork to check it
out. Your chance to test drive the release candidate is now running thin, in fact, if you haven't tried the new OS until now you are better off
postponing your plans for a week and installing the real thing. The final version of Windows 7 has already been sent to partners and is scheduled to
debut publicly later this week on October 22.
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19.10.2009TechSpot: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review
Following a successful run with the codenamed R700 family of GPUs, which was originally released back in June 2008 as the Radeon HD 4000 series, AMD
is launching the highly anticipated R800. Debuting to no one's surprise as the ATI Radeon HD 5000, the new series is said deliver around 2x more
performance than previous generation Radeon cards, and brings DirectX 11 support to desktops for the first time. On TechSpot's test bed today
they have a reference HD 5870 graphics card packing some 2150 million transistors and produced on a 40nm process. With an introductory MSRP of
$380, the Radeon HD 5870 is roughly $120 cheaper than today's undisputable performance champ, the GeForce GTX 295.
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23.09.2009After beating Microsoft, Eolas sues everyone else
A company that won a $565 million patent-case judgment before settling with Microsoft in 2007 has filed suit against 22 more companies, alleging they
also violated the same patent.
Eolas Technologies holds patents
on technology that allows Web sites browsers to include embedded media and applications. In its complaint (
PDF) filed Tuesday, Eolas named as offenders
Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Argosy Publishing, Blockbuster, CDW, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, Go Daddy, Google (including YouTube), J.C. Penney, JPMorgan
Chase, New Frontier Media shall I keep going? Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Rent-a-Center, Staples, Sun Microsystems, Texas
Instruments and Yahoo...
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07.10.2009Nvidia: DirectX 11 is not important
Nvidia's Sr. Vice President, Investor Relations, Mike Hara, has played down the significance of DirectX 11 at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology
Conference. Instead, Mr. Hara insists technologies like CUDA, PhysX and Stereo 3D Vision are the future.
DirectX 11 by itself is
not going be the defining reason to buy a new GPU. It will be one of the reasons. This is why Microsoft is in work with the industry to allow more
freedom and more creativity in how you build content, which is always good, and the new features in DirectX 11 are going to allow people to do that.
But that no longer is the only reason, we believe, consumers would want to invest in a GPU, explains Mr. Hara.
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17.09.2009Google fast flip released
Google has published a new version of their Google News, called Google fast flip, making it easier to browse multiple news sources through one outlet.
Fast flip is able to deliver top headlines from all around the globe, including the BBC News, New York Times, The Washing Post, and everything else
from TechCrunch to Cosmopolitan, giving something for everybody to read. Google fast flip organizes top news sources by categories of popularity,
sections, topics and news sources. There is also an assortment of filters for each category to narrow down user searches, such as
‘Entertainment', ‘Politics', ‘Sci/Tech' and more.
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15.09.2009Awesome Windows 7 Resources
Microsoft Learning has developed a wide range of training and resources for IT Pros that address the benefits and key technical aspects of Windows 7.
With these resources, IT Pros can prepare for deployments and become Windows 7 experts within in their organization. These resources include...
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30.10.2009Windows 8 and 9 may support 128-bit architecture
With Windows 7 still not available for everyone, news has surfaced that Microsoft is already researching and working on some of the architecture for
Windows 8/9, which includes "128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel." This is surprising, seeing as we're at least 3-4
years away from the next release, and still on the brink of the release of the latest version of Windows.
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08.10.2009Burger King Windows 7 Whopper
Windows 7 hits retailers around the world today but that hasn't stopped Burger King getting in on the marketing fun. We wish we were joking but an
image speaks a thousands words: Thanks to Neowin member Shayla for the news tip
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