Archive for September 18th, 2007
Sep
18
On the morning of Day Zero at IDF Mario Paniccia, an Intel Fellow and Director of the Photonics Technology Lab, told attendees that Intel has developed a silicon- and germanium-based photo detector that can detect laser light signals at speeds of over 40 Gbits/sec.
At this speed, the company claims that it is the world’s best performing
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Sep
18
The majority of IE cookie issues are revolved around the number of cookies stored per domain. Prior to the August Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer, the IE cookie jar stored a maximum of 20 cookies per domain. If more than 20 cookies were sent by the server, older
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Sep
18
Few days ago Microsoft announced the 2nd edition of the Student Rockstar contest. Calling out all young technology enthusiasts to learn more about Microsoft technologies, share knowledge, participate in competitions, projects, events, quizzes, and much more. For these activities, you earn points and get a rank in the contest, which
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Sep
18
In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP.
Imagine what'll happen, if this is true?
"We're focused on giving the customer what they want,
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Sep
18
Microsoft is letting out information in dribs and drabs about Microsoft Office: Mac 2008, the long awaited Universal version of the company's productivity suite. Today brings a new website that showcases some of the new functionality found in the Office apps, as well as shows off the new UI (which looks to be influenced, though not directly related to, Office 2007's UI).
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Sep
18
In reading through comments regarding Exchange 2007's lack of 32-bit support and confusion around why Microsoft decided to provide a 32-bit "test" version of Exchange 2007, I thought I'd offer some facts about this version and some possible reasons that Microsoft went 64-bit-only with Exchange 2007.
First, as advertised, the 32-bit version is for testing only. Many
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Sep
18
Apple CEO Steve Jobs told invited press in London on Tuesday that the iPhone will be available beginning November 9, 2007. Jobs also confirmed Apple’s mobile partner in the UK will be O2.
The iPhone will be sold through Carphone Warehouse and will cost £269 ($535) — customers will not be given any kind of a discount
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Sep
18
Security provider McAfee pulled the covers off the latest version of ePolicy Orchestrator on Sept. 17, touting its interoperability and several new features allowing users to manage security products for the endpoint and network.
ePO 4 enables users to unite the management of network, data and endpoint security under one console, McAfee officials said. Calling it a
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Sep
18
Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003. It further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats. This service pack also includes fixes that have been previously released as separate updates for Office 2003.
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Sep
18
Paul Otellini just showed off "the world's first working 32nm device" - a wafer containing test memory circuits, 291 megabyte RAM chips with 2.9 billion transistor dies. (I think - will confirm those figures later). Expect 32 nm parts in 2009.
And Penryn, the 45nm processor, will be launched on November 12th, in server and high-end desktop
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Sep
18
The October edition of TechNet Magazine goes Green. Green is a hot topic and I think that we as an IT community don't do enough to make sure we don't waste energy. How many of you shutdowns his PC or has a server running constantly at home? I have to admit I don't do it every
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Sep
18
The AdSense blog has launched AdSense for mobile, which can help you expand your online content to new platforms. If you have a website optimized for mobile browsers, or are interested in creating one, you can start monetizing your mobile site by accessing
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Sep
18
Windows Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only faster, but users can also easily search for almost all kind of files, documents, pictures, videos, emails and contacts in Outlook 2007, and even commands or application programs’ executables. To achieve the fast searching speed, indexing service plays a pivotal
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Sep
18
Christian Effenberger has created a new effect for you to use on your website /blogs called Curl.js. that allows you to add an page curl effect (inc. backside mask) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers -
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Sep
18
Don't look now, but Toshiba Corp. is sold out of NAND flash-memory fab capacity, according to an analyst.
In fact, Toshiba (Tokyo) is turning away business. ''Toshiba comments that demand-supply situation is favorable and that it must refuse 25 percent of its orders, given its 100 percent factory utilization rate,'' said David Motozo Rubenstein, senior analyst for
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