Archive for January 5th, 2009

Jan 5

Microsoft made $1.5B through “Vista Capable” PCs

An expert estimates Microsoft earned more than $1.5 billion through the sale of PCs labeled as "Vista Capable," according to a court document. Microsoft allowed PC makers to label some XP-running PCs as "Vista Capable" prior to the release of the Vista operating system in early 2007.
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Jan 5

RIAA dumps MediaSentry; evidence-gathering firm

The Recording Industry Association of America has dumped MediaSentry – the company charged to search the Internet for gathering evidence for use against people accused of illegally sharing copyrighted music, according to a report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal. The trade group's campaign on behalf of the world's largest recording labels reportedly resulted in lawsuits against
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Jan 5

Leaked Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 “corrupts MP3 files”

If you’ve downloaded Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 leaked over the internet has a bug: The problem only happens when you edit metadata on a certain class of MP3 file (a file with a header larger than 16KB). When the new metadata is written, it corrupts the beginning of the file. This can happen either
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Jan 5

Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach keynote’s at CES 2009

Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division, will deliver the pre-show 2009 International CES keynote address at 6:30 p.m. PST Wednesday, Jan. 7, in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Admission to the keynote address will be granted on a first-come,
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Jan 5

Google shows experimental “timeline view” in search results

Todd Mintz reports that when you make a query [albert einstein] on Google.com, the search results page is now showing “timeline view,” which was previously only available as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs. Clicking the “More timeline results” in the main search results leads to a page with much more
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Jan 5

First USB 3.0 Storage Solution demonstrated – Symwave’s USB 3.0 storage controller device

Symwave, Inc. announced collaboration with Seagate to demonstrate Symwave’s USB 3.0 storage controller device designed to comply with the SuperSpeed (USB 3.0) specification revision 1.0. The technology demonstration is the world’s first consumer product application of USB 3.0 and will take place at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8-11, 2009.
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Jan 5

YackTrack comment tracking system

YackTrack is a web service that lets you search for comments on your content from various sources or other blogs that talk about your content. Just enter a URL of your blog post, and it will return every comment on that URL that it can find across multiple servicesfrom just one location. While helping the content producer, it can also
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Jan 5

The first 100 registered .com domains

Below you will find the list of the first registered 100 domain names, comprises of many large corporations. Interestingly Microsoft.com isn't part of the list as it was not registered until May 1991.
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Jan 5

Apple to intro NVIDIA-based 17-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini

Apple is expected to introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a fixed internal battery and a new version of the Mac mini, both of which will feature chipsets from NVIDIA 's MCP79 platformon Tuesday. In addition to sporting both a Mini DisplayPort and a Mini DVI connector, it's now also rumored that the new Mac mini will
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Jan 5

Microsoft’s Bizarre Animated Character Patents – The Secret Origins of Clippy Clippy, “Office Assistant”

Of all the peculiar ideas that Microsoft has pursued over its almost 34 years in business, I can’t think of many that are more inexplicable than its long-standing interest in using animated characters to provide help to users of its software products–an aberration best known in the form of Clippy, the “Office Assistant” paperclip who was
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Jan 5

Microsoft “Fix it for me blog”

Have you ever come across a Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article or been presented with a Windows Error Reporting (WER) solution and asked yourself, why can't Microsoft just fix this for me? Today KB articles and WER solutions provide you with a list of steps that can be followed to resolve your issue. However, tomorrow looks
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Jan 5

“earth album”: A Flickr Mashup

earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr.
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Jan 5

Nintendo “Wiinoma”; Wii television channel

Nintendo is preparing to launch its own television channel that’s viewable by anyone with a Wii games console and an internet connection, the Wiinoma channel is expected to deliver a family- oriented blizzard of cartoons, “brain-training” quizzes, cookery, educational and other lifestyle shows: all of it original content produced exclusively for Nintendo. Broadcasts in Japan should begin
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