Archive for October 4th, 2008
Oct
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Could Microsoft release Windows 7 next year? The rumor mill has been grinding away about the possibility these past few weeks, and AMD has just added fuel to the fire. As PC Watch reports, AMD showed an interesting slide during its presentation at the Cutting Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition (CEATEC) event near
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Oct
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Google started testing video ads on some pages of search results. And it is developing ad formats with images, interactive maps and other more elaborate features. “The big insight of Google wasn’t text ads; it was that the ads should be conducive to the format. We were doing text-based search
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Oct
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Internet infrastructure vendors are working on patches for a set of security flaws that could help hackers knock servers offline with very little effort. The security community has been buzzing about the bugs since Tuesday, when security researcher Robert Hansen discussed the problem.
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Oct
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Yahoo! Search has launched a series of new election shortcuts that pull information directly from the Yahoo! News elections hub as well as the political dashboard, when users search for candidate names or on related political queries. For e.g. if you search for [Obama] or [McCain], you are presented with up-to-date information
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Oct
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TGD got hands on with the Fusion-io solid state drive (SSD) and it definitely doesn’t disappoint. This PCI Express card contains 160 gigabytes and up of insanely fast flash memory and will turn your computer into a monstrous photo and video editing beast. But beyond work, this card will do wonders for World of Warcraft multi-boxers as we were
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Oct
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Viktor Zeman on Quality Unit tiped about “PostAffiliateXpress” — an application with an interesting interface and an even more intriguing back-end. The UI combines a Vista-like “Start” menu along with an OS X-like dock, using everyone's favorite fish-eye widget. It also has a built-in widget system that leverages Google Widgets. Overall,
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Oct
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Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education. Portugal started rolling out the "Magellan" computer at schools last month. It aims to hand out a total 500,000 of the laptops, which cost just 50 euros ($69.29) for
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Oct
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Hewlett-Packard Co. is preparing to release a new smart phone that will also be marketed to consumers, according to people briefed on the plan. The device will debut in Europe, these people say, and will be sold by a mobile carrier in retail stores. The new device will have a touchscreen and keypad and will use Microsoft’s
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Oct
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Apple TV owners got some love after iTunes 8.0.1 update, in the form of Apple TV 2.2 update that adds a number of new features that some Apple TV users have been waiting for since its release. According to an update page detailing the changes of the release:
Apple TV 2.2 adds some basic playlist functionality like Genius playlist and On-the-Go playlist
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Oct
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Pink (Zune on Windows Mobile) is a set of consumer-focused premium services that Roz Ho and her merry band are prepping for Windows Mobile. (”Rouge” is the unified-communications/business equivalent of Pink.)While Windows Mobile 7 is delayed, Pink isn’t necessarily so. Pink is not tied to Windows Mobile 7, I
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Oct
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Google is no more displaying the dictionary link in search results, which until now were dispalyed as a link leading to a definition in the top blue bar, when you searched for a word in the dictionary. Google linked to dictionary.com until 2005, then it switched to the more
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Oct
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Apple has released iTunes 8.0.1 that fixes several important issues. The 58.5MB download, available through Software Update, primarily addresses a flaw in iTunes TV episode downloads which would inadvertently overwrite the HDTV versions of shows with the additional standard-definition copy meant for transfer to iPhones and iPods.
It also mends problems with the new Genius auto-playlist feature, including maintaining
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Oct
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The Paper that Self-Erases Within 24-Hours Recycling's better than sending good paper to the landfill. Even better is not printing in the first place. The researchers at XEROX looked at that problem and came up with a paper called “Erasable Paper” that self-erases within 24 hours
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Oct
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Researchers have demonstrated a flexible television screen which could result in people folding up their computer and putting it in their pocket. The design could be used for television and posters, as well as computers, while it could also pave the way for the development of newspaper display technology which would allow readers to upload daily
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Oct
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At CEATEC 2008 Panasonic’s dispalyed their super-futuristic LiveWall prototype called “LifeWall” — the World’s larget flat-panel display with 150” and 4096x2160 native resolution. It allows you to operate virtually everything with its powerful life-size images and advanced high definition quality.
LifeWall is good for:
making video-calls (the people you speak to are displayed life-sized)
viewing, zooming, dragging
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Random From The Panasonic Plasma LifeWall – “You-know-me-TV” and “Stay-with-me-TV”
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