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Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

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Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business

This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of Apple branding. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan recently picked up a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Ubuntu Netbook and pinged me for tech support questions regarding his new toy --...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-22

iPhone update kills 12 security bugs

Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch which also affect iPod Touch could allow remote code execution, information theft, software crashes and weakened encryption settings. The skinny on this...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Issue, SMS, Arbitrary Code Execution, Security Bug, Application Termination, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Word 2007 ruler tweak

A much easier way to controlling the "crazy" ruler in Word 2007, without hassle or mass-customisation. by Zack Whittaker

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Blog posts 2008-11-21

SOA: it's only rocket science

What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet,  Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setups

This is the first of a series of buying guides for those looking forward to this holiday season as a time to assemble a home theater system. First up: budget setups. Whether you need to create a home theater...

Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, DVD Player, Home Theater, LCD, 1080p, Prestigo SRU8010, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, DVD, Media Players, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-11-19

More tidbits about electronics recycling and e-waste

Goodness, they did it. As debate continues over nasty e-recycling behavior and the role of the government, businesses and the average U.S. citizen in fixing the situation, Massachusetts asset disposition company Converge has delivered on its promise to expand its international network with responsible partners. The company says it has...

Tags: Asset, Recycling, Electronics, E-waste, TV, Alberta Recycling, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Making Man As Super As His Computer

Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial...

Tags: Programmer, Computer, Steve Wallach, Convey Computer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...

Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Oerlikon Solar sees a shining future despite dark clouds over Wall Street

Wafer processing equipment and personnel. Courtesy: Oerlikon I blogged about Oerlikon last summer. Now the publicly-traded, Swiss-based company has come out with a new version of its turn-key thin solar panel manufacturing gear. Oerlikon Solar has developed new equipment that promises 50% more...

Tags: Solar Panel, Tax, Manufacturing, Oerlikon Solar, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Whatever happened to the 'middle' in middleware?

Quote of the week: "In the mid 1990s, 'middle' meant 'the gaps between applications and software components.' Middleware was technology you turned to in order to try to build distributed systems: transaction processing middleware, database middleware, object middleware... Middleware was a technological concept. ...Now, 'middle' means...

Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-14

What's next after server virtualization? Desktop virtualization

There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to embark on the journey to client consolidation or desktop virtualization. The goal here is to reduce the costs of hardware, software and to reduce administrative and operational expenses....

Tags: Desktop, Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Supplier, Client System, Server Virtualization, Parallels, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD

Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSDMinWinMary, why do you insist on MinWin when he constantly makes it clear that it's not Windows 7? They will use some of the ideas from MinWin and apply them, but it is essentially going to be the improved Vista kernel. Something like...

Tags: BIOS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .

Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .It's not so bad as you think: value = trustI think you're too pessimistic. After all: *every* value is essentially a bubble. Trust will cause any value to increase, lack of trust will cause any value to decrease. There is no...

Tags: Vertical industries, Investment, bubble, government

Discussion threads 2008-11-09

CeeJay CeeCurity (exe)

CeeJay CeeCurity automatically encrypts and backups your data to the secure CeeJay Software data centres. Incremental backup allows for faster backup and restores by only processing recent changes to your data. Version control stores different versions of files to let you go back in time to retrieve previous versions. This...

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Software downloads 2008-11-07

123 Word to Pdf Converter Free (exe)

123 Word to Pdf Converter Free allows you to convert printable documents, such as word (doc, docx, docm) to searchable pdf (as image format, as text format) document. The converter can be used as a PDF writer or PDF creator from multiple applications. 123 Word to Pdf Converter Free supports...

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Software downloads 2008-11-07

Office Convert Excel to Pdf Free (exe)

Office Convert Excel to Pdf Free can import rtf, txt, excel (xls, xlsx, xlsm) to the popular format-PDF (as default format, as image format, and as text format) without losing any the original text, tables, graphics & layout. Its easy-to-use interface only allows you to create PDF files by simply...

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Software downloads 2008-11-07

Office Convert Text Rtf to Pdf Free (exe)

Office Convert Text Rtf to Pdf Free is the best solution to convert dozens of printable documents as Word (doc, docx, docm), rtf, txt to pdf (as default format, as image format, as text format). It can convert with high good quality for business and individual to improve the work...

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Software downloads 2008-11-07

Office Convert Word Excel to Htm Html Converter Free (exe)

Office Convert Word Excel to Htm Html Converter Free can easily make your documents as Word (doc, docx, docm), Excel (xls, xlsm, xlsx), PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pptm) rtf, txt to htm which is visible and fully searchable on the Internet to significantly increase your site audience. It can preserve text,...

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Software downloads 2008-11-07

Easy Website Snapshot Free (exe)

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