Microsoft Monday laid to rest rumours that it might reconsider pulling Windows XP from retail shelves and most PC makers next Monday.
In a letter to customers, Bill Veghte, the senior vice president who leads the company’s online and Windows business groups, reiterated June 30 as the deadline when Microsoft halts shipments of boxed copies to [...]
Entries from August 2008
Microsoft denies XP a last-minute reprieve, will support until 2014
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Dutch Researcher Cracks Popular RFID Smartcard
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Rides Free on the London Underground for a day
What does it take to force the Dutch government to deploy armed guards at its public access buildings? How hard is it to hop a free ride on the London Underground?
If you’re Radboud University’s Bart Jacobs, all that’s required is a laptop and a [...]
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Chrysler In-Car WiFi Optional on Some 2009 Models
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8Safety advocates say in-car Internet access is yet another distraction for drivers
Many American’s really like to stay connected on the road to emails and the internet. This accounts for the high growth rate of devices like smartphones and the increasing demand for mobile internet access for notebook computers.
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Intel’s Centrino 2 chips mushrooming on retail sites
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Preempting Intel’s official launch of its latest Centrino 2 mobile processors, PC makers and chip resellers are leaking processor details by letting customers preorder the chip through channels and in laptops.
The Centrino 2 platform, codenamed Montevina, is an upgrade to Intel’s current Centrino platform and will include five Core 2 processors running at clock speeds [...]
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Women With Long Fingernails, Fat Fingers Complain About iPhone
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
IPhone just not cutting it for those with manicures, fat fingers
Apple Inc. has seen some wild
complaints, from iFires to widespread
outrage over
its locking policies. But
complaints about manicures and chubby fingers? This is truly new territory to Apple.
The Cupertino based corporation is poised to sell the vastly improved 3G version of its popular [...]
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Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner Talks Strategy
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Verizon says Fios service in the future could hit 400Mbps
News.com sat down with Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner to talk about the company’s strategy and its plans for internet services in the future. Questions on the agenda centered on Verizon’s Fios service that delivers TV and broadband services to home over fiber optic [...]
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Gartner: More Than One Billion PCs in Use Worldwide
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
More than 1 billion PCs are in use around the world, Gartner announced
Recently released research conducted by Gartner indicates there are more than 1 billion personal computers in use globally, and that number may double by 2014.
Nearly sixty percent of PCs in use today are owned by users in the United States, [...]
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Sprint Says First Commercial WiMAX Launch Coming This Fall
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
WiMAX connectivity is coming to devices other than the cell phone and laptop
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Europeans Spot Trio Of Super Earths
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
An artist’s rendition of the new discovery of the three new planets, orbiting a star previously thought to hold none.(Source: ESO)More new Earth like planet discoveries pour in
Planets just aren’t quite as unique as they once were thought to be. During the medieval times, it was thought that the Earth was the center [...]
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International Space Updates, June 2008
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Phoenix goes down for a day; Jules Verne successfully completes its task; and NASA scientists go to Washington to test its technology
A glitch aboard the Phoenix Mars lander caused the lander to lose one day of work as NASA continues to have Phoenix investigating soil near the north pole on Mars.
Phoenix landed late [...]
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