Archive for April 5th, 2009
Apr
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A very cool presentation explaining Twitter. :)
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Apr
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Despite valiant efforts to push its Windows licensees to adopt Vista and the forthcoming Windows 7, Microsoft has one again agreed to extend the option of selling Windows XP for use on new PCs for another year, through April 30, 2010. According to a source within Hewlett Packard, “Microsoft has granted the PC giant an extension
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Apr
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Sitelinks are “the links shown below some sites in our search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site, explain Google help page. This feature updates frequently: it initially included four links, then it started to display the web addresses, the
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Apr
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From Scuderia to Store, Community to News, there’s a whole host of droolable content over on the new Ferrari website, built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. It’s a beautiful site and testament to the flexibility of SharePoint as a platform for Internet sites, reports Chris Parkes.
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Apr
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Engineers at Facebook are installing a new photo storage system, dubbed Haystack — they say is 50% faster than traditional systems to better deal with 50 billion files worth of photos. Facebook has been rolling it out in limited test versions to parts of the network for the past few months. The company expects to use
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Apr
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In the new ad of Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters series, Giampaolo looks for a laptop that has portability, battery life, and is powerful – for under $1,500. Here’s how his “hunt” went:
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Apr
5
Dell internally tested hundreds of Dell systems with Windows 7 Beta and the results are promising. Dell also plans to test the later builds of Windows 7 and share the experiences with users:
noticeable improvements in boot to desktop times (versus Vista); Almost all existing Vista drivers are working; Vista Application compatibility is promising as well (including
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Apr
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Windows 7 will do for 3G what Windows XP did for Wi-Fi, namely make it ubiquitous, Microsoft revealed at CTIA Wireless 2009. Robbie Bach indicated that such a scenario would be made possible through the intimate integration of Windows 7 with netbook computers. Gian Wilson demonstrated Windows 7 running on a new HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam edition netbook
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Apr
5
EVO Smart Console is a Linux-based video game console, powered by a 2.4GHz Athlon 64x2 4850E+ CPU with 2GB DDR2 expandable to 4GB, ATI HD3200 GPU, 120GB HDD. It combines features such as biometric,voice,cloud,remote storage,gaming,DVR,VOD,social networking via Pitchbuzz.com, and video conferencing.
The listed price for resellers, OEMs and early adopters is $279-$350. The retail price will be $379
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Random From The EVO Smart Console: Linux-based game console beta opens
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