IT News Digest

Archive: 06-2007

• Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2008

  Microsoft has announced that the next version of Visual Studio, previously known by the code name “Orcas,” will now be formally known as Visual Studio 2008. Beta 2 of Visual Studio...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 6, 2007, 8:30 PM PDT

• Complexity climbs for cellular companies contemplating configuring Cupertino's cellphones

  Yahoo’s picked up a report from a Britblogger suggesting iPhones require more than usual from mobile operators. That blogger, nicknamed Telebusillis, linked to three iPhone video ads...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 6, 2007, 12:11 PM PDT

• A David to TiVo's Goliath: Mythbuntu

  TiVo, after eight years in the red, has been inching towards profitability, with cost-cutting the key this quarter. But, everyone wants a piece of time-delay digital video recording. Cablecos,...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 6, 2007, 11:20 AM PDT

• Yahoo: One hit, one error, and one high fly ball...

  Hit: Yahoo’s new no-fee API (Panama) is available to all businesses, not just major firms and advertising agencies. This isn’t new news, it’s been leaked for weeks, but it is...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 6, 2007, 10:42 AM PDT

• Google acquires PeakStream: Tweaking the Web giant's need for power processing

  FeedBurner, Panoramio, and now PeakStream… Google is at its acquiring best again. This time, however, it’s a strong move towards acquiring a firm that directly feeds to the Web...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 6, 2007, 9:16 AM PDT

• Talking paper: Researchers make ‘Minority Report’ fiction reality

  Did you think that the interactive billboards and talking corn flakes cartons in the film Minority Report were too futuristic? Researchers at the Mid Sweden University have made it reality. Their...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 6, 2007, 7:25 AM PDT

• Via’s little motherboards: Heralding the era of power-packed mobile PCs?

  Via Technologies, a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated electronics has announced motherboard form factors that will pave the way for massively powerful devices in small sizes. The business card...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 6, 2007, 6:56 AM PDT

• Apple updates MacBook Pros

  Apple has upgraded its 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops, equipping the new models with new LED-backlit displays and Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo mobile processors. All models sport a built-in iSight video...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 6, 2007, 1:26 AM PDT

• Mahalo.com: Human powered search engines making a comeback?

  Another new human powered engine has just arrived. Mahalo.com, the brainchild of Jason Calacanis (the man behind Weblogs Inc.) presents search results that are polished and refined by a group of...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 5, 2007, 10:33 PM PDT

• Future versions of Windows to be fundamentally redesigned

  Hot on the heels of news that quad-core processors could be appearing on laptops as early as the year 2008, Ars Technica recently published an article on future versions of Windows. They...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 5, 2007, 10:12 PM PDT

• Get ready for quad-cores laptops in 2008

  According to PC World, at the recent Intel Developer Forum conference in Beijing, Intel revealed that it is working on quad-core processing for laptops. Set for release in 2008, the quad-core...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 5, 2007, 9:46 PM PDT

• EDGEing towards the iPhone

  Improved connectivity for AT&T mobile users is on the way, due to upgrades and tuning before the iPhone arrives. This is important for every AT&T cellular caller, because with more T-1...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 5, 2007, 4:05 PM PDT

• Itsy bitsy teeny Eee sub-micronote lappie

  PC Magazine buzzed the revelation of the Eee sub-micronote laptop PC to online readers today, as Computex, the mammoth Asian computer expo in Taiwan got fully underway. The subnote 900 gram (2...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 5, 2007, 3:27 PM PDT

• La la la la la, I'm listening to Lala

  The Wall Street Journal reports (free to read) Lala.com has opened the floodgates to stream music for free with their freely downloadable player. How do they (you can tell I’m a dot-bomb...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 5, 2007, 2:41 PM PDT

• Google keeps tweaking its search engine

  Google continues to lead the search engine race by a fair margin in part because they are constantly “tweaking” the algorithm that drives their search engine. The team that handles...

  Posted by Andy Moon | June 5, 2007, 10:31 AM PDT

• Jobs, Gates and a Trip Down Memory Lane

  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs shared a stage for the first time in over ten years at The Wall Street Journal’s D5 conference Wednesday (CNET picture gallery), though this time the two industry...

  Posted by Andy Moon | June 5, 2007, 10:21 AM PDT

• First Novell, now Xandros signs up with Microsoft

  Shrugging off the previous uproar in the open-source community, Microsoft has just signed a set of broad agreements with Linux provider Xandros that includes patent protection for Xandros...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 4, 2007, 7:36 PM PDT

• Lackluster Vista adoption results in glut of DRAM

  Further to my hardware roundup last week on Gb networking gear and falling prices of DRAM, it appears that the glut was caused by DRAM makers ramping up to meet the anticipated huge demand for...

  Posted by Paul Mah | June 4, 2007, 6:46 PM PDT

• Overclocking notebook PC

  Up ’til now, laptop PCs have not been the speed demons of the gaming world. Sure, Alienware will occasionally whip out a competent gamer’s notebook as will Rock and Dell, but few...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 4, 2007, 2:55 PM PDT

• (in)Security: IE critical browser vulnerabilities and a Firefox quick fix

  Sister site ZDNet reports gaping security holes in both Internet Explorer and Firefox today, but there’s an unverified report of a quick fix for the Firefox vuln. Fully-patched, up to date...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | June 4, 2007, 12:49 PM PDT