Archive for September 7th, 2007
Sep
7
Apple's hefty iPhone price cut pits it in direct competition with handsets from Motorola and Palm, which are struggling to convince Wall Street they can turn around their aging brands.
With the music-playing iPhone now selling at $399 instead of $599, its price tag is much closer to those of other smart phones in the U.S.
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Sep
7
Robert Whiteley and Natalie Lambert have seen the future—and in it, traditional network security is dead. At least that is the message the two Forrester Research analysts delivered to a crowd at the Forrester Security Forum in Atlanta Sept. 6.
According to them, in the next five years the Internet will be the primary connectivity method for
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Sep
7
The new Line and Shape controls included in this version of the Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are a set of three graphical controls that enable you to draw lines, ovals, and rectangles on forms and containers at design time making it much easier to enhance the look of your user interface. These new shape controls
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Sep
7
If you think migrating to IPv6 is as simple as upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista, think again.
Vista is the first operating system from Microsoft that automatically installs and enables IPv6, the long-anticipated next generation of IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol. Even the biggest proponents of Vista, however, say enterprise customers will find rolling out the
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Sep
7
Intel has confirmed yesterday's processor price cuts, which saw up to 40 per cent knocked off what the chip giant charges for some of its CPUs. A batch of new ones were released too, including the first single-core Core 2 processors.
The update to Intel's price list also saw the addition of the recently announced mobile Core
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Sep
7
Enterprises planning to deploy Windows Vista should not wait for Microsoft to release Vista's first service pack (SP1), due in early 2008, before doing so, according to a Gartner analysis.
In the analysis, titled “Vista SP1 Is Important, but Less So Than SPs of the Past,” Gartner research vice president Michael A. Silver noted that "Windows
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Sep
7
It might sound as likely as Tom Waits joining Girls Aloud, but HP has somehow managed to get AMD’s CrossFire technology working on an Nvidia nForce 680i SLI motherboard, and it will even be offering the feature with its new Blackbird 002 PC.In a revealing interview with Custom PC, HP Gaming’s chief
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Sep
7
It looks like Microsoft are getting ready to release Windows Server 2008 RC0 to the general public soon. A search in Google for "Server 2008 Beta 3" or "Server 2008 RC0" returned the usual links to the Beta 3 download site but had a link title name of "Evaluate the Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate today".
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Sep
7
Making spoof videos would definitely top the list of talents by Microsoft employees. Here’s a dated but rare video staring the infamous (and now disbanded) MSX design team who worked on the Windows Codename Longhorn project.
This time they poke fun at the user experience decision making process for Longhorn, what would become Windows Vista. Starring
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Sep
7
Microsoft just released Windows Server 2008 RC0 to TAP customers.
Now virtualization.info has learned from trusted sources that this new version contains first preview version of new Microsoft hypervisor Windows Server Virtualization (WSV), codename Viridian.
As expected the hypervisor comes as a server role, but the surprising news is that virtualization role is available also for complete installations
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Sep
7
About a month and a half ago, Seagate officially unveiled its 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 3.5" hard drive. The drive squeezes a terabyte of capacity onto four platters that spin at 7,200RPM, all complemented by a hefty 32MB buffer. Seagate has now announced a new 1TB Barracuda hard drive, this time featuring the encryption technology it
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Sep
7
The Storm worm botnet has grown so massive and far-reaching that it easily overpowers the world's top supercomputers.
That's the latest word from security researchers who are tracking the burgeoning network of Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, which has pounded the Internet non-stop for the past three months. Despite the
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Sep
7
Apple Inc. will offer a $100 store credit to people who bought the iPhone before the company slashed the price by $200, the company’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, said in a statement today.
The offer applies to customers who bought iPhones at either Apple or AT&T stores and who are not receiving a rebate or other
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Sep
7
This small utility from Object Desktop that changes the image displayed at the Windows Vista logon screen - it's got a 5 min novelty value but I'll bet I get asked about it tomorrow in the office.
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Sep
7
As Web 2.0 technologies continue seeping into business systems, a new generation of corporate users is starting to gain access to the collaboration capabilities they are demanding from IT, according to attendees at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week. But before use of the tools spreads too far, they noted, companies must strike
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