Friday, November 03, 2006

MICROSOFT PLANS TO SUPPORT SUSE!

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce Thursday that it's partnering with Novell Inc. to support Linux, an open-source software alternative to Microsoft's own computer operating system, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's Web site.

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Apple signs deal with Cingular: iPhone confirmed?

Interest in the iPhone project has been rekindled with Apple winning a patent for speech-recognition technology that experts say paves the way for the new device. The iPhone could be announced at the Macworld conference in San Francisco in January.

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InstallPad: Automatically download and install your favorite software

So many software downloads, so little time. Who likes to download, launch and click through that installation wizard application after application? No one, that's who - especially when you've got a computer to get set up and running quick.

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Web 2.0: How High-Volume eBay Manages Its Storage

The ultrapopular auction/sales Web site continues its exponential growth and finds itself adding 10 terabytes of new storage every week. That's a lot of data.

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How iTunes saved The Office

According to the people at NBC, the iTunes Store and the success that The Office has experienced from it are responsible for keeping the show alive

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29.8% of Windows XP users consider a move to Linux over Vista

A recent poll shows a good percentage of *tech-savvy* XP users considering a move to Linux over an upgrade to Vista. It seems Microsoft are pushing users away with more looking at using Linux than legally upgrading.

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Core 2 Duo MacBooks Tomorrow?

MacRumors Page 2: MacRumors has received a few reports that may indicate the long-awaited Core 2 Duo (Merom) MacBook revision could arrive as early as tomorrow. There's no "smoking gun" report, but the reports combined may indicate that Apple's hot-selling notebook is about to get a little boost.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?

As Moore's Law continues to hold, IC designers are finding that they have more and more silicon real estate to play with. David Chisnall hazards some guesses as to what they might do with it.

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Be careful what you write online

Be careful what you write on the Internet. According to a recent survey by CareerBuilder, one in four managers now 'Google' potential employees and 51% of applications were rejected because of what was found.

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10 things you should know about networking Macs & Windows PCs

Thanks to improvements within Mac OS X, admins face fewer headaches when they need to connect Macs to Windows networks. But there are still some issues to deal with, like enabling File Sharing and creating Windows user accounts on the Macs, configuring printer sharing, and working with File Services For Macintosh.

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The Weirdest website you'll ever see

This website is seriously one of the most effed up sites on the internet. when you view the source, it appears to be ASCII art, but why does it form such a messed up site? The entire site seems very pointless and strange.

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