Archive for July 20th, 2007
Jul
20
Dell has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company's push into the retail market. Starting in September, consumers who buy a two-year contract for America Online's broadband service through the Carphone Warehouse Group will get a coupon for
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Jul
20
AMD hosted a small gathering in the Penthouse at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York City yesterday, to showcase some of their existing products and technologies, to show off a few products built by their partners, and to demo some products due to be released in the coming months.
We attended the event and snapped some
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Jul
20
Piper Jaffray on Friday hiked its price target on shares of consumer electronics maker Apple Inc. to $205, explaining that a newly developed model for booked iPhone revenues reveals substantial upside to his 2009 calendar year earnings estimates.
"In 12 months, shares of Apple will be trading on calendar year 2009 (CY09) numbers and therefore we are
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Jul
20
Microsoft have posted the following set of documentation for the RTM edition of Windows Home Server:
Windows Home Server Getting Started Guide: The RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of the Getting Started Guide has been posted to the download center on the Microsoft web site. Currently, the English version of this guide is available. In the
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Jul
20
The WordPress blog platform has thousands of plugins, and many of them now use ajax to improve usability. Pete Cashmore, has compiled a list of more than 30 AJAX plugins into two categories, for the blogger, and for the reader which includes:
For the blogger:
AjaxWP - Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding
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Jul
20
Most Commented Posts displays a customisable list of your most commented posts anywhere on your widget-enabled WordPress theme.
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Jul
20
We're going to start looking at Clustered Print Servers. Clustering itself tends to intimidate many administrators, especially newer administrators. Much of the fear factor usually stems from being unfamiliar with how clustering works, and the fact that you are dealing with shared storage. Throw in the fact that most production
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Jul
20
The Copyright Board of Canada has given the go ahead for a tax to be placed on iPods and removable memory storage cards for private copying.
The tax was opposed by both the Canadian Storage Media Alliance and the Retail Council of Canada, who claimed that previous court decisions had already struck down any kind of fine.
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Jul
20
Steve Wozniak isn’t perhaps as well known as his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, but “Woz” invented the Apple I in 1976 and the Apple II in 1977, which was one of the best-selling PCs of that time.
In this interview, Wozniak, who turns 57 on Aug. 11, talks about how he met Jobs, his most cherished inventions, and why he believes thinking robots and artificial intelligence will never happen.
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Jul
20
Sales of the Zune have more than surpassed the one million target the company set for the end of June, according to Microsoft's latest quarterly financial results. Over 1.2 million units of the jukebox have sold between the device's November 14th, 2006 launch and the end of the recent quarter on June 30th. The result represents
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Jul
20
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Jul
20
Inline Ajax More is a plugin that displays content that is hidden by WP’s <!– more –> Tag on the same page using AJAX (instead of linking to another page).
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Jul
20
Google wants to put its money where its mouth is...to the tune of at least $4.6 billion.
The search giant said Friday that it's willing to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming wireless spectrum 700MHz band auction and pay the minimum reserve of $4.6 billion.
But for Google to participate, there's a catch. It's requiring the
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Jul
20
Engineers struck a consensus this week to pave a road map to both 40 and 100 Gbit/second options for Ethernet networking. The IEEE is expected to set up an official task group to start writing specifications for the data rates starting in March.
In meeting in San Francisco, the IEEE Higher Speed Study Group decided to support
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Jul
20
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 13% increase over the same period of the prior year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.31. Excluding $0.08 of previously announced charges primarily related to Xbox 360™ warranty policies, earnings per share would have been $0.39, an
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