Posted on September 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft on Thursday introduced Linksys, D-Link, and Niveus Media products that would distribute high-definition video from a Windows Media Center PC to any home TV with a wired or wireless network connection.
In addition, Microsoft said that on Friday it expects to distribute an automatic upgrade to Media Center in Windows Vista Home Premium Edition and [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft Corp.’s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.
In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the result was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 100,000 as the answer.
Gainer said Excel [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s over. Restrictions on copying digital music are going to be history — and all hell could break loose in the music retail business.
Amazon.com’s move to sell more than 2 million songs free of digital rights management software, or DRM, could well be seen several years from now as the point of [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Boston (dbTechno) - Palm is taking a different direction with their next smart-phone as they have unveiled a $100 smart-phone named the Centro.
The Centro is a huge step for Palm as they try to enter the mass-market and become the least-expensive smart-phone on the market today.
The Centro is going to be running on the same [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft’s Halo 3 earned an estimated $170 million in its first 24-hours on sale.
Microsoft Corp.’s alien-killer gaming thrill, “Halo 3,” has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
The performance beat the previous record setter, predecessor [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Fans of Apple Inc. are always anxious to tout the inherent superiority of the company’s hardware, software and even advertising.
But apparently that’s not stopping them from trying to unlock their cool new iPhones, so that the devices will work on other wireless networks besides that of AT&T Inc.
A few weeks ago, some teenager posted instructions [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
One day, we may look back on Sept. 17 as the official beginning of the end for Microsoft’s dominance. Two separate events signaled the shift; one was the European Union court’s harsh ruling against Microsoft itself, charging that the world’s No. 1 software maker had abused its monopoly power to harm competitors. The verdict was [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Nokia, the world’s top cell phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a new phone for corporate users and said it still expects to fast growth in the mobile e-mail market.
Nokia said the E51, a classic “candy bar”-shaped phone model, will be globally available later this year and retail for $485, excluding subsidies and taxes.
Nokia’s enterprise unit, [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The “SuperSpeed” USB Promotions Group was announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum. The promotions group will get together with contributors over the next year to finalize a USB 3.0 spec that will, they hope, take care of our wired peripheral and syncing needs for another five years or more.
USB 3.0 is built upon, and [...]
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