Archive for December, 2008
Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Groups
Microsoft is flexing the social networking muscles of its instant messaging client with the latest release. Windows Live messenger 9.0 (2009) brings to the table a feature dubbed Groups, designed to extend the communication capabilities of the client …
Read More..>>Microsoft’s 3 great ‘08 mistakes
Here are three Microsoft stumbles from the past year that will put more pressure on the company to survive and thrive in 2009 As the year winds down, financial analysts are predicting that Microsoft will pre-announce negative earnings for the first …
Read More..>>Latest Linux Hits Networking Flaws
The latest Linux 2.6.27 kernel release is out with support for Webcams as well as a new file system for SSDs (solid state disks) ( define ) among its improvements. The continued evolution of Linux overall is about pushing the envelope of technology …
Read More..>>Amiga vs WIndows vs Linux vs Mac…
Any modern games whatsoever, except for a small handful of ok SDL titles, or Battle of Wesnoth (SDL game, but very nice game) modern apache, php, MySQL, Samba, etc. SMP – virtually every system sold today has multiple CPU cores, excepting netbooks …
Read More..>>Microsoft Began Battling SQL Bug in April
Microsoft Wednesday confirmed that it has been working on a critical vulnerability in SQL Server for more than eight months, but declined to say whether it has had a patch ready since September, as an Austrian security researcher has alleged. On …
Read More..>>Remains of Canadian soliders back in Canada
The plane carrying the bodies of Pte. Michael Freeman, Sgt. Gregory Kruse and warrant officer Gaetan Roberge arrived Tuesday afternoon on a military plane that landed at CFB Trenton. Dignitaries such as Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean, Defence Minister …
Read More..>>Gmail notice touts Chrome and Firefox, dismisses IE
Google is pushing users of its Gmail e-mail service to dump Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for its own Chrome browser or Mozilla’s Firefox. When users of IE6 reach Gmail.com, a “Get faster Gmail” message appears in the Web-based service’s menu bar …
Read More..>>2008’s Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
PC Magazine is closing out its final year of print publication this week by posting its “top 100 undiscovered” Web sites. The sites are broken down into multiple categories, and include some very interesting finds. Below you’ll find a sample of some …
Read More..>>Microsoft says Chinese software pirates get prison sentences
SAN FRANCISCO ‘” The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least $2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft software were sentenced today to prison terms of up to 6 ½ years, in what is believed to be the harshest penalties yet …
Read More..>>What Will Cloud Computing Bring to Your Bottom Line?
Across Systems, the provider of the Across Language Server, and IAI (Institute for Applied Information Science at Saarland University) have expanded their relationship and broadened the integration of their two technologies. The direct connection of …
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