Archive for April 12th, 2008
Apr
12
Nvidia announced the release of GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX, and GeForce 9600 GT GPUs, as well as the nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCP chipset. According to Nvidia, the new devices are intended to enable users to optimize their systems for the most demanding games and graphic applications. On the other hand, the
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Apr
12
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint manages and integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and provides content controls to help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments from documents that contain malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. Forefront Security for SharePoint provides comprehensive protection against the latest threats
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Apr
12
Saitek PK17U "Cyborg Gaming Keyboard" was previously showcased during this year's CES in January. The new device takes backlighting at a totally new level, previously unknown to the professional gaming keyboards. It allows users to fully control not only the LEDs' intensity, but they can also mix the three
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Apr
12
Jared Proudfoot: As I mentioned in an earlier posting, during the Extended Support phase we no longer provide non-security hotfixes without enrollment in the Extended Hotfix Support program. Simply put, the Extended Hotfix Support program provides the ability to request non-security hotfixes for products that are in the Extended Support phase.
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Apr
12
At least two decisions were made at Yahoo's board meeting yesterday, say the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft: Yahoo will meet with both Microsoft and Time Warner (TWX) next week.As with much of the information about the Microsoft-Yahoo standoff that has appeared in the press, the board-meeting leaks
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Apr
12
PNY Technologies has just announced two new graphics card offerings, targeted at professional products. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI and the Quadro FX 4600 SDI come with a record amount of memory of 1.5 GB and deliver increased performance in graphics intensive applications.
The new cards will be premiered
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Apr
12
SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta release for the ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 enables the following scenarios:
Applications can work in terms of a more application-centric conceptual model, including types with inheritance, complex members, and relationships
Applications are freed from hard-coded dependencies on a particular data engine or storage schema
Mappings between the conceptual application model and the
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Apr
12
Appro announced started deploying a new supercomputer at Renault's formula 1 headquarters in Enstone. According to the company, the new supercomputer will be exclusively built with AMD's Barcelona server processors with the B3 silicon revision.
Although Formula 1 high-performance computing is an extremely small niche, the new supercomputer
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Apr
12
John Dyer implemented the much asked for upside down text JavaScript: — “There is a huge need for upside down text on the web. With everyone "going mobile," developers cannot simply rely on users having their screens oriented the same way all the time. I went through all of the possible options for creating upside down text
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Apr
12
Gateway launched another model for the P Series, Gateway P-172X FX Edition, a notebook that comes in between the other two FX models already launched, both in what concerns price and performance features. The third 17" FX notebook has the $1,999 price tag, placing it about half
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Apr
12
Earlier this week, we reported that Microsoft is planning to demo the Live Mesh Tech Preview at O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo. If there was any doubt about that, now in just under 2 weeks time, the recent flurry of press invitations to demo events indicates otherwise.
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Apr
12
Search Engine Land reports, that if you are running an ad campaigns on Yahoo Search Marketing, and your quality is not up to Yahoo's level, then your minimum bid may spike up, early next week. Yahoo informed of this change back in late February. For more details on the specifics, please see my write
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Apr
12
Google updated “editing toolbar” of Google Notebook to make it look more consistent with Google Docs, and also added new “export options”:
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Apr
12
Certain Internet service providers have begun to interfere with their users' communications by injecting forged or spoofed packets - data that appears to come from the other end but was actually generated by an Internet service provider (ISP) in the middle. This spoofing is one means (although not the only means) of blocking, jamming, or degrading
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Apr
12
The terms Deep Web, Hidden Web, or Invisible Web have been used collectively to refer to such content that has so far been invisible to search engine users. Traditionally search engines mostly follow links in HTML. Google, now announced, that they’ve been experimenting with HTML forms to discover new web pages and URLs that otherwise couldn't be found and
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