Archive for March 11th, 2008

Mar11

iPhone 2.0 Firmware Jailbroken Already?

The iPhone Dev Team published a a screenshot of what is reported to be a jailbroken iPhone 2.0 installation. According to ModMyiFone’s sources, the Dev team has already jailbroken the beta 2.0 iPhone firmware that Apple has only released to …

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Filed in: Apple/Mac

Mar11

Microsoft updates Mac Office 2008, 2004

Redmond pushes security fixes for users of the older Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, while owners of the recently released Office 2008 receive a large dose of stability fixes (more like instability fixes) and security patches.

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Filed in: Apple/Mac


Mar11

Sprint Revs Up Speed in HTC Mogul, Readies to Tune Up Touch Next

Sprint has provided a software upgrade to the HTC Mogul smartphone that will let it be the first smartphone to use Sprint’s 3G EV-DO Rev. A network, which has previously been limited to laptop PC cards. EV-DO Rev. A is much faster than its widely used predecessor, EV-DO Rev. 0. EV-DO Rev. A lets users send and receive data at broadband speeds comparable to basic DSL.

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Filed in: Personal Tech

Mar11

AI Program Thinks Like a 4-Year-Old

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a reasoning virtual four-year-old child. The “child,” named “Eddie,” can reason about his own beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children of that age. To test Eddie’s reasoning powers, the group created a demo in Second Life.

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Filed in: Personal Tech


Mar11

Display data with .NET’s ListView control

The GridView data control introduced in .NET 2.0 was an improvement over the DataGrid data control in .NET 1.x, but there were still drawbacks, especially with loading and paging through data. Microsoft recognized the shortcomings and addressed them with the introduction of the ListView control in .NET 3.5. With the ListView…

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Filed in: Software

Mar11

Live From SXSW: More Zuckerberg, Less Lacy

After a tumultuous weekend filled with mobile social network culture clashing with panel discussions and keynotes, the discourse at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival returned to civility as attendees’ attention returned to the variety of platforms available for content creation, distribution and monetization.

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Filed in: Personal Tech


Mar11

Apple to Track iPhone Gaming High Scores?

With on-stage demos of EA’s Spore and Sega’s Super Monkey Ball (demo video) at their iPhone Software Development Kit event, Apple seems to be serious about mobile gaming on the iPhone. Earlier reports also hinted at this commitment with Apple previ…

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Filed in: Apple/Mac

Mar11

Microsoft goes internal for new head of its app-platform business

Microsoft has named Sheila Gulati, General Manager of the company’s Developer and Platform Evangelism unit, as the new head of the company’s application-platform business.

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Filed in: Microsoft


Mar11

Microsoft Updates Office 2008 to 12.0.1

Microsoft has released an update to their Office 2008 suite for the Mac. The update is listed as “critical”:

This update fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop respondi…

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Filed in: Apple/Mac

Mar11

Legal applications of BitTorrent

Bit Torrent, the peer to peer file sharing protocol and its implementation software have received much ire from the content creation industries. But there are certain fundamental aspects underlying this technology that could solve many issues relating to computing on a wide scale. The IT Department at…

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Filed in: Software




 

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