Business and Technology news of the day
computerworld.com …MSN Virtual Earth , first announced in May, is similar to Google Maps in that it provides both street-map and satellite views of locations and provides driving directions between locations… …In a later release of the product due out before the end of September, Microsoft will add a “bird’s Read more…
computerworld.com …Companies with 25 to 250 PCs will be targeted with the new discounted offer for a single SKU that combines three copies of the standard edition of Windows Server 2003, one instance of Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition and the workgroup edition of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. The Read more…
It looks like a cell phone or a portable 900Mhz house phone but this device will connect let you place calls from any hot spot or office wireless network. Pretty cool stuff!
Here are the key features: For complete details and screen shots go to our Windows Vista page: http://www.commodore.ca/windows/vista/windows_vista.htm GUI: New interface called Aero which appears to be me to be little more than a simple new skin. DEPLOYMENT: Windows Imaging Format (WIM) which stores images (like Ghost and RIS, including Read more…
betanews.com As expected, AMD has announced the immediate availability of its dual-core processors for desktop PCs. The Athlon 64 X2 was unveiled at the Computex conference in Taiwan and pits AMD against rival Intel’s Pentium D, which launched late last week. Swapping their usual positions, however, Intel is taking the Read more…
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betanews.com Microsoft and Pepsi have announced a way that Xbox fans can get their hands on an Xbox 360 earlier than its planned holiday release date. Starting August 28, Pepsi will give out an Xbox 360 every 10 minutes – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for nine Read more…
To see what is old and new with (primarily) 8 bit Commodore machines, go to http://www.commodore.ca/forum. It contains information and provides you with a place to ask questions about the Commodore Vegas Expo schduled for late July 2005.
By Nate Mook, BetaNews A Virginia judge has sentenced spammer Jeremy Jaynes to nine years in prison for sending over 10 million e-mails a day with the aid of 16 broadband lines. Because the case marks the first felony prosecution for spam, however, Judge Thomas Horne postponed the sentence while Read more…
If you care about hard drive capacities, or you just want a laugh. Take a look at THIS flash presentation from Hitachi.
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews Microsoft announced Friday that its $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks had completed, just days after a Delaware court threw out a lawsuit by a former Groove executive to prevent the merger. Michael Matthews sued because he claimed the deal was unfair to the employees of Read more…
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews.com Locked in a battle to be the first chipmaker to release a dual-core processor, AMD and Intel are both stepping up efforts to bring their chips to the market faster than originally anticipated. AMD, which originally was planning a mid-year release of its dual-core processor, has Read more…
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zdnet.com Mark Hurdpresents his mission of improving performance through clear and measurable targets and a “team” approach. Watch the video
www.news.com posted by Ian @ 1:05 AM …(Google will) double the free storage on Gmail from 1GB to 2GB, said Georges Harik, Gmail product management director. After that, Google will add a yet-to-be-determined amount of extra storage daily, with no plans to stop…
By Reuters …”What we found is that costs are not really dependent on the underlying functionality in the core operating system,” DiDio said. In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux. Linux, which can Read more…