Smartphone and Gadget News by ElectroGeek

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology and the leading producer of high-end graphics memory, announced today that it has increased the data transfer speed of the world’s fastest graphics memory ? GDDR4 (series four of graphics double-data-rate memory) ? by? two-thirds. Graphics memory processes video images in desktop PCs, notebooks [...]

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Mozilla released an important update to it’s latest Firefox web browser which fixes multiple security issues as well as addressing Windows Vista compatibility issues.
The security issues addressed are listed below.
MFSA 2007-07 Embedded nulls in location.hostname confuse same-domain checks
MFSA 2007-06 Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) SSLv2 buffer overflow
MFSA 2007-05 XSS and local file access by opening [...]

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This is ElectroGeek from ElectroGeek.com/blog reporting to you from the field, real world encounters with Windows Vista as they happen at the client site.
Shiny, new Windows Vista has arrived and as users migrate to this operating system they will encounter issues such as hardware devices that are not yet compatible with Vista due to software [...]

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Comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last Thursday to an analyst conference for the most part went unnoticed until stories this morning cited excerpts from a freshly published transcript of that conference. In one such story, an excerpted partial sentence was interpreted as part of a statement that Microsoft may yet exercise its option [...]

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Google Apps can provide an alternative to Microsoft Office for companies willing to sacrifice functionality for cost savings.
Google Thursday unveiled the enterprise version of Google Apps , a set of communication and collaboration tools that provide an alternative to Microsoft Office for companies that are willing to sacrifice functionality for cost savings.
Available for US$50 per [...]

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After years of delays and billions in development and marketing efforts, it would seem that Microsoft Corp. would want anyone who possibly can to buy its new Windows Vista operating system. Yet Microsoft is making it hard for Mac owners and other potentially influential customers to adopt the software.
Microsoft says the blockade is necessary for [...]

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Texas’ IT industry is expected to experience a significant financial impact as a result of the launch of the Windows Vista(TM) operating system. According to a research study recently completed by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft Corp. , within the first year of the Windows Vista shipment, Texas’ IT industry will begin seeing considerable increases [...]

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Was it live … or was it just a stunt for YouTube?
A one-time college couple say their melodramatic Valentine’s Day breakup — complete with singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade — was real. Those who were there say it all seemed a little too staged.
Still, there’s no question it’s an Internet hit.
“It really [...]

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Time-consuming workaround lets users install less-expensive upgrade version of Windows Vista.
Microsofts licensing terms and antipiracy measures for Windows started getting more complicated after it launched Windows Genuine Advantage two years ago, much to the chagrin of confused customers.
But with Vista, Microsoft seems to have confused itself, creating a loophole for customers with a do-it-yourself bent [...]

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