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May 2009 |
Companies considering plans to move to Vista should dump the deployment and wait for Windows 7 according to a senior Microsoft executive.
The Microsoft executive in charge of Windows urged some companies this week to dump Vista deployment plans and shift to Windows 7, the operating system the company has promised to ship in the fourth quarter.
"If you're just starting your testing of Vista, with the [Windows 7] Release Candidate and the quality of that offering, I would switch over and do your testing... |
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May 2009 |
Android - compact, flexible, stable, open source and free. At the Embedded Systems Expo in Tokyo this week Fujitsu showcased a digital photo frame with Android embedded in its PCB. The prototype supports the Digital Living Network Alliance standard which means it can hook into any DLNA-compliant network using Wi-Fi while the local processing power - a 624MHz ARM processor - can apply on-the-fly visual effects to your displayed photos.
While the digital frame is intended for a single purpose there’s lots ... |
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May 2009 |
The future of games development has been called into question after the EU Commission suggested developers provide a two year guarantee.
Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva want to expand the EU Sales and Guarantees Directive.
Dr Richard Wilson, head of the video games developers' association Tiga, said a balance between consumers and developers was needed.
"They have to be careful not to stifle new ideas," he told the BBC.
"Consumers need good quality products - that is only reasona... |
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May 2009 |
Apple is at a crossroads. The iPhone is huge, but it's hit its plateau of growth. As it currently stands, the iPhone will capture no more of the market than it already holds. In order to keep growing and corner more of the smartphone market, Apple is going to need to appeal to a broader base of customers.
The management over at Apple realizes this, and they've already started making plans to take the iPhone into the future. High-level executives at Apple recently sat down with analysts from Oppenheimer a... |
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May 2009 |
Wholesale copying of music on P2P networks is fair use. Statutory damages can't be applied to P2P users. File-swapping results in no provable harm to rightsholders.
These are just some of the assertions that Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson made last week in his defense of accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum. In court filings, Nesson spelled out his defense strategy, which doesn't appear to involve claims that his client "didn't do it." Instead, Nesson argues that it doesn't matter if Tenenbaum copie... |
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May 2009 |
The next generation of mobile data will see a rapid adoption rate thanks to widespread vendor and operator support, according to a new study from Pyramid Research.
The report, titled "LTE's Five-Year Global Forecast: Poised To Grow Faster Than 3G," said 4G networks that use Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology will have more than 100 million subscribers in four years. By comparison, it took about six years for 3G networks to hit that milestone.
Cost will be one of the major factors that will contribut... |
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May 2009 |
EA is no stranger to piracy trouble. Spore was leaked online before the game's retail release, and ironically the DRM the game shipped with to stop piracy caused a huge backlash with gamers, leading to Amazon getting review-bombed. Well buckle up: it looks as is if Sims 3 is the latest game to be leaked.
You can't really verify this news directly without... you know.... breaking the law, so we can't say for sure if the files are real. We're also not going to point you in any particular direction. What we... |
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May 2009 |
A prisoner has been sentenced to an additional 60-years in prison after a court found him guilty of possessing a mobile phone inside the prison facility. In the case, the Texas jury determined the punishment, and after finding Coffield Unit inmate guilty, they passed the 60 year sentence, to be added to his existing punishment.
According to The Palestine Herald, Derrick Ross was stopped inside the prison in March 2007 by an officer who thought he was acting suspiciously. According to the officer, Ross th... |
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May 2009 |
Gmail now migrates e-mail and contacts from other providers, including Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and a few dozen others. This means you can still view those special messages sent to the old account in your new Gmail account.
The new migration feature also lets you have your messages forwarded from your old account for 30 days, giving you time to inform those on your contact list about the new e-mail address. Of course, you can always go back and check the old account once in a while in case that person you ne... |
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May 2009 |
While Hewlett-Packard is still the largest overall notebook PC manufacturer, Acer topped the netbook market in the first quarter of 2009
Nearly 6 million mininotebooks, or netbooks, were shipped in the first quarter of 2009, raising their standing within the notebook PC market to almost 20 percent, market forecaster DisplaySearch is reporting.
Netbook penetration in North America, China and Japan was lower than in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which DisplaySearch wrote may be attributed to telec... |
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May 2009 |
Nearly three-quarters of European data centre managers are concerned about the impact that environmental regulation could have on data centres - although 60 percent of companies now have green data centre policies in place.
According to a survey from Campos Research, nearly 70 percent of datacentre professionals were concerned about the effect that the EU's new Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) regulations would have on their operations.
According to the survey, which was carried out on behalf of data... |
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May 2009 |
Asa Dotzler, director of Community Development at Mozilla, made the prediction in a blog posting after analyzing usage data for browsers since 2004, when Firefox was first released.
The data shows a steady decline in Internet Explorer’s market share from over 90 per cent in 2004 to under 70 per cent today. Meanwhile Firefox has risen from nothing to over 25 per cent.
Oddly the features of the different browsers seem to have very little effect on market share, suggesting that Microsoft will not regain ... |
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May 2009 |
Back on December 18 last year, Toshiba announced it would have a 512GB SSD in volume production by around April this year. That promise fulfilled, Toshiba has now launched the world’s first notebook with a 2.5-inch 512GB solid state drive, but as with all cutting edge technology, being the first with the latest will cost you a pretty penny!
Toshiba doesn’t yet appear to be selling the drives through retail channels to consumers as individual units, but Australians will be able to buy one in June, install... |
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May 2009 |
Google's downtime on Thursday morning caused a 5% drop in Internet traffic, showing clearly how much people and websites depend on the service.
Arbor Networks chief scientist Craig Labovitz observed in a blog post that failures happen. Says Craig, "[B]ut if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice," he said.
As soon as people noticed they started shouting from the rooftops about Google's failure. Twitter was inundated with tweers, and Gmail u... |
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May 2009 |
The future of Sony Ericsson, a joint-venture between Sony Corp. and Ericsson, can hardly be called cloudless, but a high-ranking executive from Sony Ericsson still does not rule out unveiling of a PlayStation-branded phone, a holy grail of the struggling maker of handsets that should never be released to the market, according to Sony.
Hideki Komiyama, president of Sony Ericsson, said in an interview with Financial Times news-paper that Sony Ericsson PlayStation-branded phone “could happen” in case both p... |
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