Archive for October 1st, 2008


Oct 1

Google Lively 3D: A future platform for online games

Google hired X-Ray Kid team for the visual style and aesthetic direction for Lively 3D chat service. “It's been 2 years of work, dozens of original character designs, each with hundreds of unique animations, thousands of clothing variations and original sound content. In addition, we also produced numerous themed environments, hundreds of objects, animated room
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Oct 1

SanDisk 16GB MicroSDHC and Memory Stick Micro mobile memory cards

SanDisk said that it’ll soon bring to market the world's largest removable storage capacity for mobile phones—16GB MicroSDHC (SD High Capacity) and Memory Stick Micro mobile memory cards. Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless stores will be the first major retail outlets in the United States to carry the 16GB-capacity cards, SanDisk said. Stores will have them on
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Oct 1

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000-series GPU demo’d

ATI has demonstrated working samples of its ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000-series graphics processors at Ceatec trade-show in Japan. What is, perhaps, even more interesting, is that ATI preps dual-chip graphics adapters for mobile computers as well. There is no secret that the new breed of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 graphics processing units (GPUs) for mobile has
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Oct 1

Smush.it: An image optimization tool – Cloud-based and Firefox plugin

Have you ever considered “how much amount of data is saved inside your image file by the image editor? while optimizing your GIFs, PNGs and JPGs images while still keeping them visually pleasing.” There’re lot of free tools that strip this info from the files for you and squeeze extra optimization without affecting the look.  Yahoo exceptional performance team released
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Oct 1

OCS 2007: Setting up Cisco Call Manager 4.2.1 for “Direct SIP with IP-PBX”

In our previous post, We introduced changes in Office Communications Server to enable Direct SIP with IP-PBX such as Cisco Call Manager in our previous post. This post provide a configuration of Direct SIP with Cisco Call Manager 4.2.1.
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Oct 1

Steve Ballmer: Microsoft to continue with licensing fees for Windows Mobile

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said that the company plans to continue charging licensing fees from handset makers for using its mobile operating system and not follow the free offerings of Google and Nokia. The pressure on Microsoft's high licensing fees has increased over 2008 with Google rolling out free Android technology and Nokia offering to buy out others
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Oct 1

Steve Ballmer: Norway to be key-Microsoft research /development center; will use Oslo company Fast Search

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced that they will use its $1.2 billion purchase of Oslo company Fast Search and Transfer ASA to form key, Norway-based research and development centers for its business search systems. Microsoft bought Fast in January in an all-cash deal to strengthen its enterprise search technology in effort to better compete with Oracle
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Oct 1

Bypass security system in Windows 98 – GIF image

Here’s a GIF image showing “how to bypass security system in Microsoft Windows 98 operating system.?”
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Oct 1

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 trumps Flash; Silverlight 2.0 Final coming soon!

With the imminent release of Silverlight 2.0, developers and Web designers, particularly those already working in Microsoft IT environments, will have the first viable alternative technology to Adobe Flash for building rich Internet applications, analysts and developers said. Microsoft first released Silverlight, a cross-browser runtime for Web-based multimedia and 3D applications, about a year ago.
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Oct 1

WiseStamp Firefox plugin: Create HTML email signatures

WiseStamp a Firefox extension that enables you to easily customize & add personalized email signatures on any webmail service (Gmail ,Yahoo ,Aol mail, Hotmail), and easily empower your personal and business interactions.
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Oct 1

Microsoft Hyper-V + Virtual Storage = Utility Computing

When looking at a virtual technology such as Hyper-V, you have to ask yourself, "How will these two edicts be satisfied?" As a server virtualization technology, Hyper-V effectively offers users the ability to separate and share server resources amongst multiple VMs so that satisfies the virtualization piece. But how do we gain control so as to
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Oct 1

Microsoft ChoiceGuard plugin explained

If you’ve installed the most recent Windows Live wave 3 betas, you may’ve noticed an additional plugin included in your Firefox or Internet Explorer called “ChoiceGuard”. Hua Ai and Mikko Ollila from the Live Search team explain exactly what this plugin actually is: "Microsoft ChoiceGuard is a lightweight software component that enables the choices you make, like
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Oct 1

AMD confirms ‘Shanghai microprocessors for servers in Q4 2008′

AMD reassured its customers and investors that it is on-track to deliver its highly-anticipated code-named Shanghai microprocessors for servers in Q4 2008, just as promised. According to the company, the new chips are already in production and revenue shipments will begin shortly. “We’re in full production right now in the factory. People will start getting
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Oct 1

RealDVD: RealNetworks DVD Suit

RealNetworks unveiled “RealDVD”, the first mainstream PC application allowing consumers to easily save their DVDs to their hard drive. RealDVD makes it easy to save DVDs to a PC or portable hard drive and watch them later without the physical discs. Unlike existing consumer applications on the market today, RealDVD is licensed DVD software that saves a
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Oct 1

TDK achieved ‘areal density record of 803Gbit/sq’

TDK researchers have achieved an areal density record of 803Gbit/sq in potentially extending the life of current read/write head technology. The higher the areal density the more data can be packed onto a disk drive. According to reports,TDK hard disk drive (HDD) read/write heads boffins used a disk platter from Showa Denko K K based on
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