When I asked if a 10 year old operating system such as Windows 98 was still an option as a desktop operating system for business today, many TechRepublic members argued (quite rightly) that although Windows 98 wasn’t a viable choice, Windows 2000 Professional certainly could be. Others added that Windows…
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Mar12
Study: Dark Data Shadow Follows Everyone
The “digital universe” of data was bigger than expected in 2007 and continuing to explode in size, according to a new study from IDC. The study, sponsored by EMC, found that there were about 281 billion gigabytes — or 281 exabytes — in the digital universe in 2007, exceeding original estimates.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Mar12
100,000 SDK Downloads Foretell Glut of iPhone Apps
Three months ahead of its official launch, the test version of iPhone’s Software Development Kit is luring developers by the thousands — tens of thousands, actually. More than 100,000 developers downloaded the beta version of the iPhone 2.0 software, which bears the enterprise-supporting SDK, in the first four days it was available, Apple said Wednesday.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Mar12
Future iPhone To Use Intel Moorestown Processor?
The Inquirer posts what it claims is more evidence that Apple is planning to adopt Intel’s Moorestown architecture for a future iPhone model.
DigiTimes was first to make such a claim in October 2007 citing the usual “OEM sources.” The…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Mar12
Future iPhone To Use Intel Moorestown Platform? [Updated]
The Inquirer posts what it claims is more evidence that Apple is planning to adopt Intel’s Moorestown architecture for a future iPhone model.
DigiTimes was first to make such a claim in October 2007 citing the usual “OEM sources.” The…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Mar12
Nortel to Widen the Pipeline With New Optical Tech
Nortel debuted a new optical network technology designed to provide four times the capacity of current systems and as much as 10 times the capacity in the future. The 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine boosts transmissions from 10 gigabits per second to 40 Gbps, and will go as high as 100 Gbps by the end of 2009, Nortel said, using the existing infrastructures of telecommunications companies.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Mar12
YouTube Gives Developers Video Takeout Option
YouTube has opened up its application programming interfaces to the world. This will let developers build what amounts to their own mini-YouTubes on their Web sites, blogs or Wikis. “We now support upload, other write operations and internationalized standard feeds,” wrote Stephanie Liu of the YouTube APIs and Tools Team on the YouTube blog.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Mar12
Will IE 8 break the Web?
Right up until Microsoft decided to go whole-hog and — as many developers and customers wanted — by making “super-standards” mode the Internet Explorer (IE) 8 default, Microsoft officials claimed that going the full-fledged standards route would “break the Web.” So what, if anything, changed, making Microsoft willing to take that risk?
Filed in: Microsoft
Mar12
Disney: 4 Million iTunes Movies Sold
Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Disney CEO Robert Iger announced today at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit that the company has sold 4 million movies on iTunes since the movie store launched in 2006, along with 40-50 million videos.
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Filed in: Apple/Mac
Mar12
Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations
Microsoft announced on March 12 it had purchased another virtualization vendor — one whose technology Microsoft is counting on to help ease Windows Vista migrations. That vendor, Kidaro, makes desktop virtualization software for enterprise users.
Filed in: Microsoft
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