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- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?
- Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x assuming you can find one. That's a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan...
- Tags: Recorder, Media, Blu-ray, BDA-approved Media, Advertising & Promotion, Serial ATA, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microsoft splits its Platforms
- Microsoft splits its Platformsjohnson leavingFirst of all, this is good news. It's not like he as done a good job running this companies marketing and online business. This is good news. Microsoft is making changes and its for the better. For all your naysayers who like to...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Microsoft Corp., Johnson, rep, Juniper Networks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Free the XBOX 360!!!
- Free the XBOX 360!!!"Microsoft-approved"Why shouldn't Microsoft be concerned with the performance of software on XBox?Quoting:Microsoft makes both the hardware and software, and the environment is tightly controlled - only Microsoft-approved software need apply. [End quote]Vista shows that a product's reputation can be affected by the uninterest or mistakes of third...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., game, console
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Toshiba Regza 42RV530U
- During the last year flat-panel HDTV prices seemed to hit a plateau, where the standard bricklike downward trend leveled off somewhat. Now, however, prices are on the decline again, opening up bigger screen sizes to lower price ranges. For example, Toshiba's lowest-priced 1080p 42-inch LCD, the 42RV530U, can be purchased...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, 1080p, Toshiba Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-22
- Disc Creator (exe)
- Disc Creator 4's sleek and easy to use interface gives you the power to burn your data, music, movies, and photos to any disc media including Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs. Includes tools for ripping your music and creating stylish disc labels. Now compatible with Windows Vista. Full upgrades for...
- Tags: Disc, CloneMedia, Disc Creator 4
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitAT&T?Thanks for the link. Does AT&T still has inventory? On a store by store basis?RE: iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitI placed a special order last week. I wonder if this is going to delay that. I was really...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple marketing, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, phone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- A super-resolution x-ray microscope
- Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...
- Tags: Method, Microscope, Researcher, Imaging, Image, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, X-ray, EPFL, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges
- Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of the...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup
- Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...
- Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Intel Centrino, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SP1, SR Series, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Vizio VP422
- Vizio has taken aggressive pricing to a new level of low. The company's VP422, a 42-inch flat-panel plasma HDTV, can be had for the extremely low price of $799. While this set doesn't have the picture quality to qualify as the centerpiece of a home theater, it certainly could be...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, color temperature, Vizio, Vizio VP422
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- Sony unveils 'world's first 16.4-inch notebook'
- Sony unveiled what they're calling "the world's first 16.4-inch wide multimedia notebook" yesterday, a laptop packed with the promise to allow users to view HD movies "the way they were meant to be seen" -- which is a subtle hint that yes, this notebook comes with Blu-ray tech: Part...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Sony VAIO VGN-FW140
- Sony's new VAIO FW140 covers a few firsts for us. It's the first 16-inch laptop we've gotten our hands on--and the display's movie-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio will become more popular in the next year or two (we've already seen it in the excellent 18-inch Acer Aspire 8920). It's also the...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Sony Vaio Laptop, keyboard tray, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., laptop computer, Intel Core 2 Duo, keyboard
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- FTP: untrustworthy file transfer
- FTP - file transfer protocol - is the most commonly used method for moving files around Web. Now Steve Frank, a founder and developer for Mac software company Panic, has come out and recommended that people stop using FTP. I wrote about this (see If hackers don't...
- Tags: FTP, SFTP, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- In the information age, IT innovation means everything
- In the information age, IT innovation means everythingInteresting.I think many IT failures are due to misundersyanding the company's business model. The nuances if you will. This is another reason to develop internally. To take it one step further. There are many good IT personnel that only understand IT. They don't...
- Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Operating systems, information technology, innovation, Linux, Unix, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 price tag
- Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 price tagGet your facts right, please"...and $100 less than the HDMI-equipped 120GB Elite model."Just to point out that the Pro version also comes equipped with an HDMI port.Anyway, about HD disc formats: don't forget that the 360 is almost a year older than the...
- Tags: Game players, Sales strategy, Blu-Ray 360, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 price tag
- After weeks of rumors and leaked retailer adverts, it now appears as if official confirmation has arrived for a price cut to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Pro. After weeks of rumors and leaked retailer adverts, it now appears as if official confirmation has arrived for a $50 price cut to...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Console, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft, Xbox 360, games, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-11
- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of Linux
- With the news that Best Buy will now be selling boxed, commercially supported versions of Ubuntu, the Desktop Linux onslaught begins. Our ultimate goal of Total World Domination will soon be within our grasp, now that yet another mondo-huge retailer has jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Or...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
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