Archive for March 26th, 2008
Mar
26
Changewave came out with its latest survey on PC buying this week which continue to show good signs for Apple vs. the rest of the computer industry. Overall, the market looks flat to weakening for the big enterprise computer makers like HP and
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Mar
26
Google Japan put up a special logo to celebrate anniversary of some very old Japanese computer which used logic units called parametrons (discovered by a Japanese). It contains a customized parametron schema, and the “box” on the right is probably the computer.”
A parametron is essentially a resonant circuit with a
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Mar
26
After a long wait and the signing of a release form yesterday agreeing to be invoiced £469.99 if I don’t return it (the things you have to do to run a simple blog!), the Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo 1900 should be on its way to me this week. Fujitsu-Siemens
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Mar
26
Microsoft security administrators have always been a bit wary of publishing Terminal Servers to the Internet. And for good reason – there was no ability to pre-authenticate connections or use policy to determine which users could access which Terminal Servers. The lack of pre-authentication was an especially difficult problem. Without pre-authentication, anonymous users could
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Mar
26
Asustek Computer expects its notebook PC shipments to total seven million units in 2008, including a shipments goal of 3.5-3.7 million units in China and around one million units in Taiwan.
With surging demand for notebook PCs in China, Asustek expects to double its monthly shipments up to 300,000 units in 2008.
Based on quarterly notebook
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Mar
26
Pocket-lint has learnt from sources close to the matter that Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008. An improvement over Windows Mobile 6 released in February 2007 the new version, unsurprisingly named 6.1, will be a stop-gap measure to keep both consumers and
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Mar
26
Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista couldn’t have arrived soon enough; this is only exacerbated after I realised that the “Hotfixes and Security Updates” document was 77 pages long. Microsoft generalises these improvements in its “Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1” document which details several sections under the broad
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Mar
26
Brandon LeBlanc over at Windows Experience blog has created Panoramic view of around the Pacific Northwest, using Dell XPS M1530 (PRODUCT) RED Laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED, alongwith Canon HV20 HD Camcorder, and a Canon Digital Rebel XTi - both of which are Certified for Windows Vista.
On the road, I focused mostly on
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Mar
26
Fortune Magazine reports that a team of Microsoft developers has been poring over the iPhone SDK. While the company still has to determine whether it would make business sense to develop for the iPhone, doing so shouldn't be hard. After all, Apple is licensing Microsoft's ActiveSync and Exchange Server technology to provide push email capabilities.
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Mar
26
Raymond Chen: Commenter Koro asks why you can rename a COM file to EXE without any apparent ill effects. (James MAstros asked a similar question, though there are additional issues in James' question which I will take up at a later date.)
Initially, the only programs that existed were COM files. The format of
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Mar
26
Bob Buffone’s new tool can be used to output script and HTML to make your website more usable on an iPhone. Ben details the tool:
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Mar
26
Mihai Parparita, developer at Google has released a Python program called “Mail Trends”, that lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server). You can see:
Distribution of messages by year, month, day, day of week and time of day
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Mar
26
IIS 7 Mobile Admin lets you remotely administer a IIS 7 Web server right from your mobile phone. I do like the fact that this is a web application and not a smart/thick client running natively on the phone. Nothing stops you from even borrowing your friend's iPhone (I assume you use a Windows Mobile :)
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Mar
26
The Hyper-V management tools (MMC snap-in and associated UI) are now available for download:
x86: Update for Windows Vista (KB949758) x64: Update for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB949758)
These tools allow you to manage and interact with an installation of Hyper-V from your Vista computer in exactly the same manner that you do
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Mar
26
Word is that Vista SP1 is giving Linksys Extenders a bit of a speed boost, especially in the transition and animation field. I wouldn’t expect it to match the Xbox 360 just yet, but paired with a relatively fast
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