Now that the exhibits have been packed up and hotels vacated, the time has come to reflect on last week's Consumer Electronics Show. CES offers a peek at the upcoming year in tech and although no one product stole the spotlight, Las Vegas was not without its usual dazzle. Read on as we highlight the important news from CES 2005. Some Important and Intereting events were: Motorola Adds Cell Phones to Clothing Entering a new phase in its efforts to modernize its aging brand, Motorol...
FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Firefox installs in a snap, and it's free. Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9. Just over a month later, the foundation celebrated a remarkable milestone: 10 millio...
In an agreement with five major libraries, Google has begun an ambitious project to scan and index millions of books and periodicals. The information will be integrated into Google's Web search over the next several years. Launched in October, Google Print already offers glimpses of new books, but focuses primarily on publishers rather than libraries. The New York public library has agreed to submit books out of copyright, while Harvard will test the process with 40,000 titles. Oxford...
Microsoft's long-held dream of a new file system continues to be a years-off proposition. WinFS is not part of Longhorn and may not be possible even in the next update after that. Although Microsoft hopes to ship a test version of WinFS in late 2006, it could be several more years before the revamped storage mechanism finds its way into Windows Server. The software maker has already decided that WinFS will ship separately from Longhorn, the new desktop version of Windows that is due in ...
Microsoft will let customers configure the next major release of Windows Server for specific server tasks, rather than selling a host of different Windows Server Longhorn editions tailored to those tasks. The release, code-named Windows Server Longhorn and set to ship in 2007, will support much more granular role-based installation than does the current Windows Server 2003. This will include the option to install only the software code needed to support a certain role, such as terminal serv...
A half built Supercomputer being built for the US Government by IBM, already has a run at the title of the Worlds Fastest even though it is only partially complete. The US energy secretary said on Thursday that the Supercomputer was able to process 70.72 teraflops per second. This is two times faster then the computer that currently holds the title of the Worlds Fastest Super computer. BlueGene/L as its called is being developed for the US department of energy's National Nuclear Security A...
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday formally announced a low-cost Internet device targeted at emerging markets. AMD's Personal Internet Communicator is designed to provide Net connectivity and Windows-based computing for consumers in emerging economies. It features functions such as browser, e-mail, word processing and the ability to view images and multimedia files. It is a sealed device, operates without a fan and can only be upgraded by the service provider, reducing the risk of...
On April 9, 2003, Microsoft officially announced that it would support AMD's then-upcoming 64-bit Opteron and Athlon 64 microprocessors with 64-bit native versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The news must have sent shivers down the spines of executives at Microsoft partner Intel, whose 64-bit Itanium product line has languished because of slow performance and incompatibilities with today's existing 32-bit software. For AMD, of course, it was--and still is--a major victory. No...
New computer code that exploits a recently disclosed hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer Web browser is circulating on the Internet and could allow remote attackers to take full control of vulnerable Windows machines, according to warnings from antivirus companies and Internet security experts. Two new "proof of concept" exploit programs first appeared Wednesday, and were posted to Web sites and Internet news groups frequented by security experts. The new code is more dangerous than ...
First, there was Gmail. Is the Gbrowser next? A Google Web browser is the latest in the never-ending speculation about what search leader Google Inc. is going to do next after raising $1.7 billion from its public offering. The evidence: a spate of high-profile hires, Google's domain-name registration of the gbrowser.com name and a duo of Mozilla Foundation bug reports that name Google. Following a New York Post story over the weekend about Google's potential jump into the browser war...
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will do away with Microsoft's laissez faire approach to connecting portable storage devices to systems. Instead of the familiar Plug and Play (PNP), which has seen little change in function since Windows 95, a new technology called "Plug and Play Extensions" will make its debut in Longhorn to allow businesses to regain their rightful jurisdiction over PNP devices. A consensus has formed among security professionals that the industry's chi...
In late 2003, Microsoft reorganized its business yet again. Part of that reorganization saw the Tablet PC team become part of a wider Mobile Platforms Division, which is now responsible for spearheading the development of the company's mobile operating systems, applications, services, and tools. In case it's not obvious, this change also means that Microsoft is serious about getting its Tablet PC innovations into every product where it makes sense. Thus, it's pretty clear that, eventually, the T...
Hi Fellows, As you know we had a wonderful WC Community Skinning Contest. What a fun it was! Thanks for every one who sponsored, entered, and judged the contest. The contest was sponsored by Philly0381, ALMonty, WinCustomize, Drill'n Boss, 2of3, Alternate Setting, JamesPaulp, Sydnysiders, Aufsich, Night Train, Island Dog and me BX The following were the entries: CursorXP : 1. Magmar by TYCUS 2. Tool by J. Aroche 3. Blue Arrow by lihu1266 ...
On August 10, 2005, the first ever WC Community Skinning Contest started and was sponsored by Ama02, Fairyy~, BX (me), Bichur, Jafo and Apocalypse_67. It was such a marvelous experience which could never be forgotten. After a while we had the second WC Community Skinning Contest named as WC Community Skinning Contest: The Holiday Edition. The contest started on September 3, 2005 and hit new heights of success. Last time, the sponsors were Bones2112, Brewman, Bichur, Me, Hus and Apo...
Betanews.com reports that Microsoft has offered a colossal bid for acquisition of Yahoo. Microsoft's official statement headlined as "Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to elect to receive cash or a fixed num...