Archive for January 8th, 2009
Jan
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Lexar has announced two new families of USB drives that don't have removable caps— JumpDrive TwistTurn has a rotating case, while JumpDrive Retrax clicks in and out like a ballpoint pen. Each model comes in multiple sizes, with colors mapped to the size: 2 GB in white, 4 GB in
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Jan
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Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach delivered the “pre-show” 2009 International CES keynote address in Las Vegas. The keynote starts at 6:30pm PST. Ballmer kicked off his first CES keynote with some SMS messages he may (or may not) have received prior to the event.
For those not at CES this year, you
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Jan
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Microsoft Research team has pushed an update v 2.2.41.1 codenamed “Solstice Borealis” for WorldWide Telescope. The new release includes a couple sweet and mind boggling features:
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Jan
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SBS was recently featured on CBS's The Early Show on Janurary 3rd in a segment on going green.You can also watch the clip here:
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Jan
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Microsoft announced that Virtual Earth v6.1 applications will be automatically upgraded to v6.2 on March 5th, 2009. This automatic upgrade will save you the time and effort of actively upgrading on your own. No action is required on your part for this upgrade to take effect.
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Jan
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Motorola has announced plans to launch the world’s first completely carbon neutral mobile phone, at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. The shell of the W233 Renew is made entirely of recycled water bottles, and will be available via T-Mobile within the next three months. As part of the alliance, Motorola will invest in renewable energy sources
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Jan
8
Liskula Cohen, a Canadian beauty who has modeled for Giorgio Armani, Versace, and a Vogue cover girl is suing Google in an attempt to unmask the blogger who called her as a "skank" and an "old hag on a website called Skanks in NYC.
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Jan
8
Microsoft announced the general availability of public beta for the new Windows Server 2008 R2. The new release incorporates a host of new features and capabilities — not just a bevy of new server-side capabilities, but a new level of synergy between server and client operating systems, too. Check out the full kit for yourself at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Web site.
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Jan
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Johnny Shih, of Asus announced that the company is looking at an Eee-branded phone, that may run Android as well. Speaking to TechRadar at Asus' keynote speech at CES 2009, Shih said that the company was looking at a 'two-pronged' approach to simple, easy to use devices, meaning a device that can be "put in the pocket, play MP3s, offer
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Jan
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At CES 2009, the announcements about new hardware came from a variety of companies that are creating home server products powered by Windows Home Server.
Hewlett Packard: HP announced their 2nd generation home servers, the HP MediaSmart EX485 and EX487, last week and they have been busy demonstrating them at MacWorld earlier
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Jan
8
Steve Ballmer announced the final version of Windows Live Essentials suite. You can get Windows Live Essentials, including Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety, all for free from http://download.live.com. (Windows Live Movie Maker is also available, but remains in beta.)
Also announced two key partnerships for Windows
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Jan
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Microsoft Tag Beta has been released that allows data to be stored in a graphical bitmap using shapes and colors is based on a whole new technology called High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCBs). Microsoft Tags don’t actually store the information, all it stores is a unique ID which it then sends to Microsoft’s servers. This way, you can include
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Jan
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This update package installs the management tools for the release version of Hyper-V technology on a computer that is running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). This update package includes the following items: the Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in (the Hyper-V Manager MMC snap-in provides management access to servers that are running Hyper-V); [and]
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Jan
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Announced at CES 2009, the new SDXC cards provide up to 2 TB of storage and have write speeds from 104 MB to 300 MB per second. To do this, the new card utilizes NAND flash memory. Because of this, the new cards are said to be able to hold 100 HD movies, 60 hours of HD
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Jan
8
This post show you six specific annoyances from Windows Vista that are fixed in Windows 7. Each one represents an easier, more efficient way to accomplish a common task. Collectively, they constitute some pretty persuasive evidence that “have it our way” is no longer the controlling design principle among Windows' designers.
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