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All Recent Tags Without further ado, Apple has added a new build-to-order option to their Mac Pro that allows 2 Quad Xeon processors instead of the previous 1, promised to run at 3 Ghz, and making the Mac Pro the first 8-core Mac.
The upgrade doesn't seem like a huge one, as all they're doing is putting 2...
Read More | Apr 5th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Apr 6th, 2007
The latest lawsuit against Vista, so it seems, is now attacking the marketing methods that Microsoft used to sell PCs. The prosecutors claim that Microsoft mislead customers by allowing PC manufacturers to place stickers on the machine that said "Vista capable", when in fact many of the PCs sold...
Read More | Apr 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: Apr 6th, 2007
It seems like Apple is nearing a day we'd never think would come. This time it seems official. According to the reports, Apple and EMI have formed a deal that would not only allow Apple to sell EMI's music on their store (quite possibly The Beatles), but "large portions of these would be without...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jul 1st, 2008
Reports that the Redmond giant has "dangerous security flaw with its animated cursors" are floating around. Sounds interesting, so you read it. It talks about how vulnerable everyone is to it, how long Microsoft has ignored the bug, but they don't go much farther than that.
I may be missing...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007
Actually, I was not surprised in the least when Dell announced that they're going to begin selling PCs pre-installed with Linux. After all, it was quite obvious that they had it coming: the selling of PCs without operating systems, squarely aimed at the open-source market. Then the consumer poll...
Read More | Apr 1st, 2007
Microsoft is aiming to broaden your web surfing horizons with their new "Deepfish" software available for the next version of Windows Mobile. Among other large improvements over the previous browsers used on the PDAs, this one includes a thumbnail view, which will allow you to view content in a...
Read More | Mar 31st, 2007
Microsoft has already created a new "version" or "model" of their Xbox 360 console, dubbed "Elite". Aside from its black color and matching headset and wireless controller, it's not that much different, but it has a few important upgrades:
They've upgraded the hard drive to make it a whole 120...
Read More | Mar 30th, 2007
Since Microsoft announced that they had reached the 20 million mark of Windows Vista licenses, people have been criticizing the numbers, and rumors have been swirling that the numbers are straight-out made up.
Recently, PCMag published an article stating how the numbers did not add up with Vista...
Read More | Mar 29th, 2007 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: Mar 31st, 2007
Starting May 2007, Yahoo is going to offer unlimited inbox storage. That's right, to celebrate their 10th anniversary, there will be absolutely no limit on the number of messages you can hold in your mailbox.
This is obviously to compete with Google's Gmail and other similar providers, which are...
Read More | Mar 28th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Mar 29th, 2007
If you had any doubts that the code that powers the applications you use is secure, then it's time that you see this in perspective. Because very unsurprisingly, the SANS exam of developers scored terrible overall in terms of security.
With the increase of hackers and such on the internet out to...
Read More | Mar 27th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Mar 29th, 2007
