Archive for July 11th, 2007
Jul
11
JP Morgan has just issued a note retracting Kevin Chang's earlier projection about a near term iPhone Nano.
The new report says that the majority of Chang's assumptions appear to have come from a review of the patent that was published last week, adding that a near-term launch of an iPhone-nano product would be "unusual and highly risky". TUAW brings you the entire report in this exclusive online gallery.
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Jul
11
Microsoft on Monday announced a new volume licensing program for Office that replaces cash rebates paid directly to customers with funds for partner supplied services.
In a post on Microsoft's Small Business Community blog, Eric Ligman, senior manager for small business community engagement at Microsoft, announced that customers that buy Office through the Open Value and
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Jul
11
It should be no surprise then that Microsoft announced at its E3 press conference evening that Gears of War will be heading to the PC Games for Windows platform for this holiday season.
Back to the PC version, what will please many, many gamers is that Gears of War on Games for Windows will work with both
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Jul
11
Just days after Microsoft took an earnings charge of more than $1 billion to fix hardware problems in Xbox 360 consoles, a class-action suit says that the consoles also damage game discs.
Filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the suit claims that Xbox 360s scratch game discs, making them
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Jul
11
The newest addition to the Google Book Search Project, which aims to index the world’s books, is Tokyo’s Keio University and its library of over 120,000 books, all in Japanese. Keio, being the 26th library to participate in the project, is the first Japanese language addition to Google Book Search. Other universities include Harvard, Stanford, University
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Jul
11
VMware has released a new whitepaper that discusses the performance and scalability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 when deployed within virtual machines running under VMware ESX Server 3.01: Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX Server 3.
The paper presents the results of a joint study with Dell that examined the performance implications of
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Jul
11
CNET News is reporting Microsoft is finally disclosing a date for Windows Server 2008 (formerly codename Longhorn) release: February 27, 2008.
So if Microsoft is going to respect release plan for Windows Server Virtualization (codename Viridian), its first hypervisor is set for general availability in late August 2008, 13 months from now.
Because of this date, it's
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Jul
11
iTunes lets you create your own personal digital music library, allowing you to manage and play your music collection with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes, the software part of the equation that lets you pack 7,500 songs in your pocket, automatically synchronizes with the sensational new iPod at high speeds over FireWire. iTunes gives you the ability to
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Jul
11
The software maker has been talking for some time about its plans to have a full-fledged platform that lives on its servers, as opposed to a set of discrete services, as is the case today. However, the company has been extremely short on details.
During a speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference here Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve
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Jul
11
When moving a page or even doing something as simple as changing its filename (and thus its URL), it's important to do it the right way. Done properly, you'll let search engines know where the new page is, and ultimately, even transfer the link love and other relevance weight
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Jul
11
Microsoft Tuesday added a voice specialization to its Information Worker competency and said it's recruiting partners with the skills to deploy unified communication solutions.
Microsoft's unified communication strategy is set to take off this fall with the launch of Office Communication Server 2007, the successor to Live Communication Server, which weaves together email, instant messaging, mobile
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Jul
11
There has been a lot of speculation about the iPhone and its abilities to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server. For instance, Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg mentions in his June 26 All Things Digital column that, "It [the iPhone] can also handle corporate email using Microsoft's Exchange system, if your IT department cooperates by enabling
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Jul
11
"System Center Remote Operations Manager (ROM) 2007. ROM, scheduled to RTM later this month, is a new product from the Microsoft System Center family that enables solution providers to more effectively and proactively monitor, control, update, and manage their mid-market customers’ distributed infrastructures from a secure remote console.
Specifically, Remote Operations Manager with System Center Essentials at
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Jul
11
Nielsen/NetRatings plans to drop its old methods of counting pageviews to gauge Web site popularity, instead opting for a system where it would measure how long a user stays on a site.
With the changing scope of Web content, the old methods are quickly becoming less relevant. More important to advertisers and investors may be how long
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Jul
11
Microsoft Reader has been enhanced to take advantage of the unique capabilities of UMPC devices.
With the Microsoft Reader Optimized for Origami™ you get:
Innovative content support: Enjoy thousands of Owner Exclusive eBooks on any Microsoft Reader 2.0 or higher enabled device.
New touch screen navigation experience: Page turning and larger advanced navigation controls right at your
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Random From The Microsoft Reader Optimized for Origami
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