Ever since taking the stage at this years CES, Windows 7 has been all over the media. From the time Ballmer announced a public beta of the new software, tons of people have flocked to download the new OS, reporting back that it’s stable, secure, and ready for release. (Even in our tests here [...]
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Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360
When releasing the “next-gen consoles” back around 2005, companies like Microsoft and Sony planned out a ten-year life span for their new systems. Lets face it, Xbox 360 is approaching its mid-life crisis. Sure its powerful, has tons of great games, and an amazing online user base, but the experience is just getting old. There [...]
Windows 7 Looms in the Distance
It’s been a long time coming, and still may be, as the world has been holding their breaths, waiting for a final release date of Microsoft’s latest soldier in the computer wars, Windows 7. A final release date has not been announced yet, but due to the fact that it looks like not much has [...]
The Zune lives on! Well, at least on other devices
Zune lovers, please, don’t fret just yet. In a recent interview with our good friend Steve Ballmer, the WSJ quoted Ballmer as saying they are “going to keep going with Zune” but “I won’t say full steam ahead, because that implies acceleration of investment, but we’re going to sustain our investment.” In deciphering the paraphrasing, [...]
ETW #15 - My First Virus, That Tweet That You Tweeted While You Were Tweeting, and One WebKit to Rule Them All
Hosts:
-Chris Ward
-Daniel Joel
-Trey Rust (Guest)
-Zack Friedenreich (Guest)
iPhone 3.0 Software - http://tinyurl.com/detdar
News Topics:
Hints at the new iPhone 3G:
http://tinyurl.com/c9ld5a
http://tinyurl.com/c7dwm4
http://tinyurl.com/cjhtdw
Pystar OpenMac 3:
http://tinyurl.com/desbss
IE 8:
http://tinyurl.com/cd4twc
Play Station Network to charge for bandwidth:
http://tinyurl.com/c85mud
Tech Picks:
Kindle App for iPhone (link to app store page):
http://tinyurl.com/dgr262
Juice Pack for iPod Touch 2G:
http://tinyurl.com/cylbdx
Mozilla Fennic:
http://tinyurl.com/djx55g
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Windows 7 to get multi-touch in Explorer, among other fixes
Yeah that’s right; among the slew of changes announced in the Engineering Windows 7 blog, users are getting multi-touch in Windows Explorer (Note: this is not Internet Explorer). Along with multi-touch, beta users will find new changes in thumbnail view in the taskbar, a new control panel jump list, trimming sound schemes to boost performance, [...]
Windows marketplace talks revenue, ‘transparency’, among other things
CNET’s Ina Fried gave us a heads up on what to expect from the pending Windows Marketplace, due to release with WinMo 6.5 around Q4 of this year. Details included such charges as $99 a year for app developers, and $99 for each app they release on the store. In addition, until the end of [...]
Andriod To Kill Microsoft?
Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, has said that “Android is poised to kill Microsoft on several fronts” in a recent interview with ZDnet Asia. The first front that Huang speaks of is the netbook. Not too long ago, the Google backed, Linux-based Android operating system was ported onto an Asus Eee Netbook. After [...]
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No iPods or iPhones for the Gates’ kiddies
In a recent interview with Melinda Gates, the wife of the former Microsoft CEO, she mentioned that there are no iPods or iPhones allowed in the Gates’ household; ever. While the kids can run around and smash people on Xbox, iPods are forbidden. She comments “There are very few things that are on the [...]
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