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Windows 7 Half-Price Sale Starts Friday
Submitted Thursday, June 25, 2009 @ 04:16 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
informationweek.com -- Consumers who pre-order a copy of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system will receive more than 50% off the retail price for a limited time starting Friday.
The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219.
But U.S. shoppers who pre-order between June 26th and July 11th will receive discounts of 50% or more, Microsoft said. For instance, Windows 7 Home Premium will sell for $49 during the discount period, while Windows 7 Professional will sell for $99. Participating retailers include Best Buy and Amazon, as well as Microsoft's own online store.
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Will Bing bury Microsoft?
Submitted Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 03:07 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
Google company information - ( Google News )
blogs.computerworld.com -- Microsoft still suffers from Google envy: Steve Ballmer appears ready to make a bet of up to $11 billion that Microsoft's new search engine Bing can overtake its Internet competitor. At best, the bet is a long shot, and throwing away that amount of money could well do Microsoft irreparable harm. See the complete story here.
Symantec, McAfee To Pay $750,000 In Subscription Renewal Sett...
Submitted Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 11:41 PM
Symantec company information - ( Symantec News )
crn.com -- Security vendors Symantec and McAfee will be shelling out a combined $750,000, while creating more transparency about consumer subscription terms and renewal policies as part of a settlement agreement authorized by New York's attorney general.
The $750,000 penalty was issued as part of a combined settlement after Symantec and McAfee were found to have renewed consumers' software subscriptions without their knowledge or authorization. Under the terms of the settlement, both Symantec and McAfee will have to make detailed disclosures to consumers about subscription terms and renewals, and each will be required to pay $375,000 in penalties and costs. See the complete story here.
Web 2.0 crowned one millionth English word
Submitted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 @ 01:55 PM
reuters.com -- A U.S.-based language monitoring group crowned Web 2.0 as the one millionth word or phrase in the English language on Wednesday, although other linguists slammed it as nonsense and a stunt.
The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency of words and phrases in print and electronic media, said Web 2.0 appeared over 25,000 times in searches and was widely accepted, making it the legitimate, one millionth word. See the complete story here.
Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software
Submitted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 @ 01:50 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
Symantec company information - ( Symantec News )
reuters.com -- Microsoft Corp is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for PCs that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc.
A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world's biggest software maker is testing an early version of the product with its own employees. Microsoft would "soon" make a trial version, or product beta, available via its website, he added, but declined to provide a specific date. See the complete story here.
Facebook makes it personal, offers vanity URLs
Submitted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 @ 01:48 PM
computerworld.com -- Looking for a more individualized presence on Facebook? If so, the social networking site will offer the opportunity to do so starting this weekend
Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Facebook Inc. will be replacing the randomly chosen ID numbers in the URLs for people's profile pages with actual user names. The new URL policy should make it far easier to look up Facebook users, said Blaise DiPersia, a Facebook designer, in a blog post yesterday. See the complete story here.
Angry iPhone owners blast AT&T over upgrade pricing
Submitted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 @ 01:45 PM
computerworld.com -- iPhone users angry over AT&T's pricing policy for the new iPhone 3G S have taken their campaign to Twitter, where more than 4,400 have added their names to an instant petition. See the complete story here.
U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:57 PM
news.zdnet.com -- Hackers based in Turkey penetrated two US army web servers and redirected traffic from those websites to other pages, including one with anti-American and anti-Israeli messages, according to a report in InformationWeek. See the complete story here.
French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:53 PM
physorg.com -- French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.
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40,000 sites hit by PC-pwning hack attack
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:34 PM
theregister.co.uk -- More than 40,000 websites worldwide have fallen under the spell of a sneaky piece of attack code that silently tries to install malware on the machines of people who visit them, security experts from Websense have warned. See the complete story here.
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:33 PM
arstechnica.com -- A UK researcher has spent years interviewing people about whether DRM has affected their ability to use content in ways ordinarily protected by the law. Surprise! It has, even leading one sight-impaired woman to piracy. See the complete story here.
Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:32 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
engadget.com -- That's right folks, the Zune HD is real, and it's coming this Fall. Microsoft officially announced the next iteration in their Zune line today, making it less of a tripped out pipe dream, and more of a totally tubular reality. The specs, which look exactly like that leak we saw, go like this: 3.3-inch, 480 x 272 OLED capacitive touchscreen display, built-in HD Radio receiver, HD output (utilizing a new dock -- not on-board), and... not much more right now. Microsoft is doing away with the famed squircle in favor a full multitouch device, and they seemed to indicate that some new touch-friendly apps and games would be headed our way, though they were fairly mum when it came to details. The device will boast an IE-based, customized browser, but little else was said in the way of software. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:21 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
voices.washingtonpost.com -- A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
Earlier this year, Microsoft shipped a bundle of updates known as a "service pack" for a programming platform called the Microsoft .NET Framework, which Microsoft and plenty of third-party developers use to run a variety of interactive programs on Windows. See the complete story here.
Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:15 PM
wired.com -- Intel’s fabrication plants can churn out hundreds of thousands of processor chips a day. But what does it take to handcraft a single 8-bit CPU and a computer? Give or take 18 months, about $1,000 and 1,253 pieces of wire.
Steve Chamberlin, a Belmont, California, videogame developer by day, set out on a quest to custom design and build his own 8-bit computer. The homebrew CPU would be called Big Mess of Wires or BMOW. Despite its name, it is a painstakingly created work of art. See the complete story here.
Confirmed: Windows 7 Launches October 22
Submitted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:06 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
pcworld.com -- It's official: Windows 7 will make its debut on October 22. Microsoft confirmed the late-October launch date with PC World, details of which leaked out earlier today. See the complete story here.
Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology
Submitted Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 02:19 PM
wired.com -- Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology from editing any articles. It’s a punishment for repeated and deceptive editing of articles related to the controversial religion. The landmark ruling comes from the inner circle of a site that prides itself on being open and inclusive. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Relaunching Search Service as Bing
Submitted Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 02:18 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
Google company information - ( Google News )
pcworld.com -- At the All Things D conference on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled the latest re-branding of its search engine. Forget Live Search--that's so three months ago. Now Bing is in! Launching in a couple of weeks, Bing hopes to make searching a little more useful and, judging from this video demo (warning: video contains Steve Ballmer), it looks a bit like the love-child of Google and WolframAlpha. See the complete story here.
SU and IBM collaborate on green data center
Submitted Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 02:18 PM
IBM company information - ( IBM News )
businessweek.com -- Officials from Syracuse University, IBM and New York state broke ground Friday on what they say is one of the most energy-efficient computer data centers in the world. See the complete story here.
Google's Wave Consolidates Core Online Features in One Tool
Submitted Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 02:17 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
cio.com -- Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing. See the complete story here.
New Windows netbooks may harbor malware
Submitted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 10:33 AM
news.idg.no -- Kaspersky Labs is warning users to scan brand new systems for malware before connecting them to the Internet after discovering attack code on a just-out-of-the-box Windows XP netbook.
After discovering attack code on a brand new Windows XP netbook, antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs warned users yesterday that they should scan virgin systems for malware before connecting them to the Internet. See the complete story here.
DDoS Attack Leaves Five Chinese Provinces Without Internet
Submitted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 10:22 AM
news.softpedia.com -- Millions of Chinese Internet users from the Shanxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces had trouble getting online on Tuesday, because of a domain name system (DNS) chain reaction caused by an initial denial of service attack against a single provider. See the complete story here.
Vista Service Pack 2 Now Ready for Download
Submitted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 @ 06:21 PM
pcworld.com -- Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is now available for download. The Vista SP2 update includes new support for recording Blu-ray discs straight from the Vista OS, updated support for Bluetooth v2.1, and bug fixes that address slow shutdowns and mysterious crashes. See the complete story here.
How to fit 300 DVDs on one disc
Submitted Thursday, May 21, 2009 @ 03:57 AM
news.bbc.co.uk -- A new optical recording method could pave the way for data discs with 300 times the storage capacity of standard DVDs, Nature journal reports.
The researchers say this could see a whopping 1.6 terabytes of information fit on a DVD-sized disc. See the complete story here.
HP recalls notebook computer batteries
Submitted Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 02:48 PM
HP company information - ( HP News )
Compaq company information - ( Compaq News )
bizjournals.com -- Hewlett-Packard Co. is voluntarily recalling lithium-ion batteries used in HP and Compaq notebook computers because of fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.
The recall for Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP includes about 70,000 units, with the primary hazard being that “the recalled lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers,” a news release stated. The company is aware of two reports of batteries that have overheated and ruptured, resulting in flames that caused “minor property damage.” However, no injuries have been reported.
Sold at computer and electronics stores nationwide from August 2007 through March 2008, the HP and Compaq notebook computer models that potentially contain a recalled battery include: HP Pavilion (models dv2000, dv2500, dv2700, dv6000, dv6500, dv6700, dv9000, dv9500 and dv9700); Compaq Presario (models A900, C700, F700, V3000, V3500, V3700, V6000, V6500 and V6700); HP (models G6000 and G7000); and HP Compaq (model 6720s). See the complete story here.
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