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It wasn’t a high bar, but Windows 7 cleared it. Consumer retail sales of Microsoft Corp.’s newest computer operating system topped those of Vista by 234% on a unit basis within the first few days of its Oct. 22 launch, according to a report released Friday by the market research company NPD Group. The report [...]
A Microsoft executive whose pointed comments on Windows 7 upgrades have irked Microsoft bloggers has apologized. Well, in a roundabout sort of way, that is. In a Monday blog post, Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead in Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, said his now-infamous blog post titled “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows [...]
On this day 40 years ago (wegathernews.com), the very first e-mail message (long before they called it e-mail, of course) was sent by UCLA’s Leonard Kleinrock over the ARPANET system from Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute, more than 400 miles away. Kleinrock, while still a student at MIT, developed the principles of “packet [...]
Finally, the World Wide Web will live up to its name. The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global [...]
It is 40 years to the week since the first data packets were sent over the Arpanet. That was the research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) to see whether computer-to-computer communications could be made faster, more reliable and more robust by using the novel technique of packet [...]
The iPhone saw its formal debut in China Friday on carrier China Unicom, with the Wi-Fi-less hardware sold via 2,000 stores at a starting price of 4,999 yuan, or $730. That high price was cited by The Wall Street Journal as the “buzz-killer” over the handset’s debut. The high-end iPhone 3GS sells for 6,999 yuan [...]
The computers at Microsoft Stores don’t have the crapware that Windows PCs typically come with, but they still have an assortment of Microsoft and Adobe software. Most controversially, they include Windows Live Essentials and Microsoft Security Essentials. By Emil Protalinski | Last updated October 28, 2009 8:15 AM CT
Elgato’s EyeTV 1.0.1 for the iPhone finally appeared on Apple’s App store on Tuesday with the promised fix that prevents live TV streaming over 3G. The update also fixed bugs and improved overall performance. The 1.0.1 update fixed an issue where audio continued to play after leaving Live TV mode, fixed crashes related to changing [...]
Elgato’s EyeTV 1.0.1 for the iPhone finally appeared on Apple’s App store on Tuesday with the promised fix that prevents live TV streaming over 3G. The update also fixed bugs and improved overall performance. The 1.0.1 update fixed an issue where audio continued to play after leaving Live TV mode, fixed crashes related to changing [...]
Firefox users on Windows may see the nearby window pop up on Firefox soon. Mozilla has begun to use its blocklisting mechanism to block these add-ons. Among the vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft last Tuesday was MS09-054, a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. As Microsoft explains in an entry on their Security Research & Defense [...]
