Archive for January 9th, 2009
Jan
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Along with the release of Windows 7 beta 1 a series of new forums was created to support testers of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The following TechNet Forums (and corresponding RSS feeds) are available:
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NVIDIA announced three new mobile GPUs based off the 100M series, the G105M, G110M, and the GT 130M. Each GPU offers a significant performance increase over the older chipset it is replacing, with the G105M being quoted as 55% faster than the 9200M GE, the G110M being 35% faster than the 9300M GS and the GT 130M
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Jan
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Stephen Chapman has spotted what appears to be an internal software roadmap from Microsoft. The roadmap reveals a milestone of year end 2009 but the dates aren't very clear. In the roadmap you can see that Office 14 is clearly identified as
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Jan
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Sony launched a new 10.1-megapixel DSC-G3 Wi-Fi enabled camera with a built-in Web browser for connecting to public hotspots. The G3 features a 4x optical zoom lens, 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD, optical image stabilization, and face detection. It's also DLNA complaint for those with DLNA TVs or laptops.
While Wi-Fi in
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Jan
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Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii. According to Novell's lead Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza, several applications in Apple's App Store are powered by Mono.
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Jan
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Microsoft's keynote at CES reveals Kodu, a basic programming-tool-turned-XNA-game that Microsoft is pushing as the next big thing for young minds. Kodu began life as an internal focus-testing tool for youth and has transformed into an application being positioned as one that focuses on user-created games built from the simple programming language contained within the application.
The key
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Jan
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Apple has made available iWork 09 for download. All three iWork applications have seen updates. Among the changes to the desktop applications, Keynote allows you to animate objects automatically, whilst the Smart Move option allows you to slickly animate objects between slides. Pages, the iWork word processor, now ships with a built in 'Full Screen' mode
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Jan
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Microsoft will issue a patch on Tuesday for a critical vulnerability that could allow a hacker to gain control of a computer remotely, the company said in an alert. Microsoft also plans to host a Webcast at 11 a.m. PST as part of Patch Tuesday, which comes the second Tuesday of every month. There will be just one security update.
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Jan
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Casio is showing off its latest feature, an on-the-fly greenscreen capability in point and shoot cameras will look ordinary on the outside, the high speed technology inside was capable of creating "miraculous" hybrid images with the "Dynamic Photo" function. Dynamic Photo will be available in the 9-megapixel Exilim EX-FC100 point and
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Jan
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The latest release of Google Chrome pre-beta features a couple of new features, including:
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Jan
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The Windows Home Server team has released the Windows Home Server 120-Day Evaluation Edition DVD for download. At 827Mb, it’s a fair size but you can put that broadband connection to good use now! If you have any questions about the installation, please ask them in the Windows Home Server – Hardware and Installation Community Forum.
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Jan
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Opera is launching a new edition of its Devices toolkit for building browsers that run on gaming machines, set-top boxes, and other places beyond garden variety PC and cell phone environments. Eariler versions of Opera Devices SDK 9.7 have been used to create browsers for Nintendo's Wii and a Sony Bravia TV, said an Opera official.
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Jan
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VIA showed of their two forthcoming Windows Home Server releases, said that both of these systems will be released as fully built systems and barebones systems for those of you who want to build your own.
VIA Artigo A2000 Home Server: The Artigo A2000 is a 2 drive system powered by a
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Jan
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AMD plans to build Phenom II X4 platform – a new petaflop barrier-breaking supercomputer that could land it among six other AMD CPU-based clusters in the world's Top 10. AMD is quite literally suggesting that film animation developers, PC game developers, and cell phone game developers enable this supercomputer cluster as a "server-side HD cloud rendering" platform.
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Jan
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Last week, we saw Google Android running on Asus EEEPC 1000H Netbook, now this week at the CES 2009 show, a new device akin to the iPod Touch spotted running Android. The device is called GiiNii's Movit Mini WiFi Android tablet — featuring a 4.3-inch, 480 x
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