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Despite the Nexus One from Google not doing particularly well, the founder of the Linux foundation Mr. Torvalds apparently likes it a lot; or at least it's "the first phone I don't hate".
Quoted from his blog Torvalds said, "But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I ...
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Nexus One
Linux
Microsoft has concluded that last week's story about batteries failing due to a Windows 7 bug is bunkum. Sadly, it doesn't seem to have satisfied the users, who are complaining louder than ever. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers try to figure out why. Not to mention GNILLEY: gaming by yelling... ...
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Windows 7
Microsoft
The iPad is a terrible enterprise computing device. It has limited connectivity options and no multitasking capability, and it's generally a bad corporate citizen. When I hear other pundits talk about the recently announced Citrix Receiver software for iPad as some kind of silver bullet for ...
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iPad
Windows 7
Apple
I noticed that my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary-Jo Foley has covered the reports that Microsoft's new reliability patch for Windows 7 might be causing some users to experience problems. I just want to add some field notes to this issue.
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Windows 7
Microsoft, in collaboration with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, has made available a safer version of its IE8 browser.
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Internet Explorer
Microsoft
David Airlie has re-based his drm-radeon-testing tree and there's now a whole lot of new code and features that users can play with and test. The drm-radeon-testing tree is a branch of the Linux kernel and is code for the Radeon DRM area that will ultimately make it into the mainline tree in the ...
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Linux
DRM
GIGABYTE today is to launched the latest addition to its selection of value graphics cards. The GIGABYTE GV-R545SC-1GI and GV-R545OC-512I are built on the highly anticipated ATI Radeon HD 5450....
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Gigabyte
DirectX 11
HDMI
Since being let go by Novell last year where he worked on the
RadeonHD Linux graphics driver and X.Org support within SuSE Linux, Luc
Verhaegen has continued work on his VIA Unichrome DDX driver as well as
other X.Org code and he has also become involved with the CoreBoot
project that aims ...
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Linux
Novell
It seems that Windows 7 gave Microsoft a much needed customer satisfaction boost.
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Microsoft
Apple
Windows 7
arstechnica.com - 17 hours ago
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The next major release of Firefox will not
be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4,...
also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the ...
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Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release
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The Stream Modular computing concept isn’t exactly a new idea, but it was always talked about in a high-level conceptual way. Barton Smith, Industrial Engineer and key proponent to modular computing, created a nice demo of some of the interfacing ideas that are carried through the conceptual ...
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Microsoft
arstechnica.com - 14 hours ago
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Last week , Microsoft said it was investigating
issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain...
notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, ...
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Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 7
Last week I posted on how there's was a growing believe that a flaw in Windows 7 was causing Windows 7 to permanently trash notebook batteries. Today, Microsoft's president of Windows and Windows Live division Steven Sinofsky responds.
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Windows 7
Microsoft
OS News published a summary of the latest rumors about Microsoft's upcoming Phone 7 operating system. One of the disappointing things is the lack of multitasking support, and there's also a rumor that application installation will go through Microsoft's Marketplace alone and that it may no ...
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Microsoft
Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. It includes security and performance updates, along with ...
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Microsoft
arstechnica.com - 32 hours ago
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Microsoft and Facebook have ended their advertising deal
in which the software giant sold display ads on...
the social network, while at the same time expanding their search relationship. The announcement comes as a major Facebook redesign is being rolled out gradually to users. ...
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Microsoft loses ads on Facebook, expands Bing search deal
Microsoft's smartphone-related rollout at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 15 could be a mobile operating system with a flashy Zune-like interface and lack of Flash support, according to online rumors. PPC Geeks is reporting through unnamed sources that Microsoft's offering will include no ...
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Microsoft
Zune
Windows Mobile
Apple
Android
arstechnica.com - 33 hours ago
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Largely at the behest of the European Union,
search engines like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have cut...
their data retention periods over the last few years. Now, all those sensitive search queries you make will be anonymized in a matter of months—Yahoo will do so after 90 ...
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FBI still wants two years of ISP Web logs
