Archive for October 18th, 2007
Oct
18
Microsoft announced its free Live Search 411 service, a directory assistance line with more features than the average local directory listing.
Directory assistance, based on its traditional pay-per-use model, is a standard in phone service and subsequently a multi-billion dollar industry.
Jingle Networks' 1-800-FREE-411 garnered attention of 411 users early with its ad-based service. It quickly proved that
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Oct
18
The first maintenance release for WordPress 2.3 series i.e. WordPress 2.3.1 is releasing soon. The first beta is announced, and is available here.
Over twenty bugs are fixed in 2.3.1. Get the full list here. Here are some highlights.
Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
A login bug that affected those with a Blog
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Oct
18
Sony has cut the price of the US 80GB PlayStation 3 to $499 (£245/€352), a prelude to the launch next month of the 40GB version, already announced in Europe and Japan.
Sony launched the 80GB PS3 in the US in July, a month before it went on sale for $599.
The 40GB model will cost $399 (£196/€281) and
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Oct
18
The Xbox 360 gets a great arcade stick in the shape of the Hori Fighting Stick EX2 Virtua Fighter 5 Edition for Xbox 360. It looks like a solid piece of hardware that brings back feel of the arcade. There is a review of it at the Seattle PI blog.
Assassin’s Creed is one
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Oct
18
The plugin is conceived for those bloggers who want to make their blog more operational through Wordpress. Indeed, thanks to this plugin, it' s possible to scroll the posts easily and rapidly, with a click. Just under the title of the post will appear a toolbar with particular features, such as: go to the last post, back to the first one etc...with a fast scrolling of the webpage.
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Oct
18
By maintaining the parallel availability of Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft is successfully offering inhouse competition to its own products. The Redmond company is in fact stretched between pushing Vista on all fronts, and pouring all of its efforts into its latest operating system, and continuing to offer and support Windows XP due to
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Oct
18
Seagate is to build automatic encryption into all its enterprise hard drives, the company announced at Storage Expo 2007 in London. All enterprise drives will be fitted with Seagate's Full Disk Encryption (FDE) as standard.
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is designing a security protocol for the drives, and the IEEE 1619.3 Key Management Subcommittee is setting
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Oct
18
PCMark Vantage is the first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista™. PCMark Vantage provides the PC industry, IT media, and consumers with an overall PCMark performance score based on Windows Vista application tests, single and multi threaded CPU, graphics and hard disk drive (HDD) tests.
Additionally,
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Oct
18
SQLyog is a fast, compact Win32 Front End for MySQL. Execute multiple queries, export data in CSV, HTML & XML. Import from textfile. Export data and schema itself. Flush hosts/logs, etc. Diagnose your databases and much more.
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Oct
18
The Vegas+DVD Production Suite combines Vegas 7, DVD Architect 4, and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. This suite lets you edit and process DV, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.
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Oct
18
Google sitelinks are the navigational links displayed in search results, below a site (this typically happens for your site if you search for the site’s title, but note it only happens for some sites out there). Google determines these sitelinks automatically so you usually don’t have a
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Oct
18
UK Retail outfit DSG has issued a profit warning blaming Microsoft's Vista for £20 million in lost profit.
Mark Webb, a spokesman for the group which runs PC World and Currys shops, having largely ditched the Dixons label, said: "Vista just didn't capture the imagination as much as previous versions of Windows." Although sales volumes have been
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Oct
18
The Boot Menu is displayed by machines with multiple versions of Windows installed, allowing the user to choose which operating system to boot into. The menu is associated with a value of 30 seconds, after which, if no user intervention is detected, the computer will boot into the default boot entry. But of course that just
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Oct
18
A new online start-up with backing from the founders of YouTube and Sequoia Capital might just be the next big thing on the Internet. TokBox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video through a web browser.
The idea is simple: millions of people now have web
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Oct
18
IObit SmartDefrag helps defrag your hard drive most efficiently. With "Install it and forget it" feature, it works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its speediest. Slow down, freeze-ups and crashes will be a thing of the past.
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