Archive for September 6th, 2007
Sep
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KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. It is an Internet project and truly open in every sense. Development takes place on the Internet and is discussed on our mailing lists and USENET
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Sep
6
Microsoft is making a number of tweaks to its volume-licensing policies and procedures in the name of cutting complexity and reducing environmental waste.
The changes affect those licensing Microsoft products under Enterprise Agreements, Select licenses and Open License Agreements and will take affect over the course of the first half of Microsoft’s fiscal 2008 (which kicked off
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Sep
6
Watching a live TV broadcast in the living room, pausing it, and then effortlessly resuming it at the same moment from the bedroom or kitchen will soon become even easier, as Microsoft Corp. provides a first look at the new Extenders for Windows® Media Center platform, which will power a variety of devices to be released
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Sep
6
Microsoft is flaunting a new Windows Vista total cost of ownership study that—no surprise—presents rosy findings.
Wipro Technologies and GCR Custom Research produced the report, which findings Microsoft presented in a conference call this afternoon. Microsoft's PR agency dispatched the wrong dial-in number, causing the meeting to start considerably late. My afternoon was packed, so I snatched
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Sep
6
Tablet PC MVP Loren Heiney has a good screencast comparing Apple's InkWell technology against Microsoft's Vista Tablet PC handwriting technology using his Silverlight Search tool - which you can use here. Watch the video after the jump and checkout Loren's post for his findings.
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Sep
6
The European Commission has taken the unusual step of sending questionnaires to Google customers before the company officially seeks permission to take over a rival, two business sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
Google is expected to file with the European Union's top antitrust regulator for the $3.1 billion purchase of U.S. Web advertising supplier
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Sep
6
Dell has no intention of reversing its decision last year to start using AMD processors in its product line. The company wanted to give customers a variety of choices and also because it wanted to guarantee for itself a steady supply of electronic components.
Dell expects AMD to introduce its quad-core chip, code-named Barcelona, next
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Sep
6
Google Inc., the owner of Brazil's most-used social networking Web site, is seeking partnerships to help identify illegal content.
Google will let non-governmental organizations in Brazil monitor the Orkut social-networking service, report illegal postings and request that data be saved for future legal action. Alexandre Hohagen, general director of Google's Brazilian unit, announced the plan today at
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Sep
6
The Internet has been abuzz over a new term: 'bacn' - with the requisite missing vowel - which is pronounced, you guessed it, "bacon." Wikipedia defines it as: "electronic messages which have been subscribed to and are therefore not unsolicited but are often unread by the recipient for a long period of time." Or,
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Sep
6
Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger-your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video-plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly.
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Sep
6
That's right, search is finally in Google Reader. Now you can find that that apricot recipe you came across a few months ago and now have a craving for. Or perhaps you'd like to search for "ipod" so that you can read at once all the posts in your subscriptions that mention today's announcements.
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Sep
6
"It is another good day for Microsoft."
Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray famously used that line seven years ago, briefing reporters at the company's landmark antitrust trial, right after the software giant took a beating in court.
The Zune folks didn't use that specific wording, but they did try to shrug off the latest crop of iPods.
"This may come
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Sep
6
Microsoft, in addition to unveiling a big Seattle expansion plan, is announcing this morning that it will launch a free, wi-fi enabled bus service for employees going to and from its Redmond campus to other places in the region. The pilot program is starting later this month, with capacity for as many as 1,000 employees, the
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Sep
6
It has been a frustrating few days.
I've got a new (internal) interim build of Windows Server Virtualization to test. Since we're on the road doing virtualization in a few weeks I've used my second internal hard disk (£28 from Scan, or over £100 from Dell with a small peice of plastic attached). Of course that meansthe
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Sep
6
Today at the Office 2.0 Conference, Zoho (more coverage) is announcing the new, paid business edition of its Web apps suite. Companies will be able to get user administraion, company branding and domain mapping (just like Google Apps for My domain), backup, pooled storage, and telephone support. When the product
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Random From The Zoho launches Business Edition of Web apps suite
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