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Analyst’s View: Will Windows 8 Be A Business-Only OS? By: Samara Lynn
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Bolstered by the success of Windows 7, Microsoft is looking forward to the next Windows. Early signs are that it might be a business-focused release, much like Windows 2000.
Could Windows 8 be the Windows 2000 of the 21st century? When Microsoft released Windows 2000, it was largely embraced by the corporate world, but few consumers (except hard-core geeks) ran it on their home machines. Windows 95, Windows 98, and the doomed Windows Millennium targeted the average user. A decade later, rumors and hints point to a Windows 8 that appears poised to walk the same business-centric path.
The successor to Windows 7 is probably a few years from release, but there’s already considerable speculation on what the upcoming operating system will entail. A post at Ma-Config, a French tech news site, has piqued OS-watchers’ interests, as it hinted at Windows 8′s potential business-friendly features. Analysts, including ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, are pondering the heavy focus on virtualization due to certain statements made on the French blog:
Virtual machines (VMs) become key platform components for data centers and Microsoft products such as Win8, System Center, and Azure.
On the website of Microsoft Research, we learn that virtualization should be one of the key components of Windows 8. It seems to confirm that Bernard Ourghanlian, technical and security director at Microsoft France, interviewed on the site itrmanager in March 2009. Version 3 Hyper-V is now scheduled run on workstations and Windows 8 only.
Virtualization is certainly one of the more intriguing potential Windows 8 features, one that could drastically improve the IT/developer, business user, and cloud-computing experiences. Here are the potential improvements that Windows 8′s virtualization can bring to the business sector. (more…)
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Coming soon: Nintendo E3 press briefing (live blog) by Josh Lowensohn
Monday, June 14th, 2010
No one is more surprised than I am that the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is 
looking like it will be a highly popular press event in its 2010 incarnation.
After all, it was only a couple of years ago that everyone (including myself) had essentially written off the long-running show. At the same time, my video game industry contacts are telling me there’s still a sense of nervousness among those who actually have to sign the checks to pay for the event.
The reason for the negative vibes over the past few years? A run-up of increasing costs and bombast in the first half of the last decade led game publishers (who would spend millions building essentially small walled cities inside the Los Angeles Convention Center) to conclude they simply weren’t getting their money’s worth from the show. Especially, because unlike traditional trade shows, the focus of E3 over the years shifted away from deal-making between publishers and buyers, and it became strictly a press event, designed to generate headlines and feed a voracious public appetite for video game news. (more…)
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
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LimeWire gets at least two-week reprieve by Greg Sandoval
Monday, June 7th, 2010
LimeWire lives another day.
The besieged file-sharing service will likely stay in business a minimum of two weeks. During a hearing on Monday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood gave Lime Wire lawyers two weeks to respond to a motion filed Friday by the music industry to close down LimeWire.
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Google Wave: Now open to the public
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Google Wave, a Web-based tool to let people chat and collaborate in real time, is now open to the public.
Google Wave
(Credit: Google)
The Google service brought a social dimension when it arrived with much fanfare a half year ago, but in that domain, it was overshadowed by Google Buzz. Buzz, built directly into the widely used Gmail, had a much better built-in user base from the start.
Making Wave public could help restore its fortunes.
“It’s clear from the invaluable feedback we’ve received that Wave is a great place to get work done, in particular for teams working together on projects that involve lots of discussion and close coordination,” Google Wave product manager Stephanie Hannon said Wednesday in a blog post. “If you tried Google Wave out a while ago and found it not quite ready for real use, now is a good time to come back for a second try.”
Google is making Wave freely available to Google Apps users, too. “Google Wave is about getting work done,” said Lars Rasmussen, a Wave leader.
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Hacker runs Google’s Android on Apple’s iPhone by Stephen Shankland
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
There are matches made in heaven, and on the other side of the spectrum, there is David Wang’s accomplishment: 
booting Google’s Android operating system on Apple’s iPhone
Wang, the “planetbeing” member of the a group called the iPhone Dev Team devoted to hacking iPhones, on Wednesday posted a video demonstrating Android on an iPhone.
The demo shows the boot process–complete with the Tux Linux mascot–and Wang using Android for browsing, receiving a text message, answering a phone call, and playing music. The phone is set up with a dual-boot configuration and indeed the video begins with the device running iPhone OS.
“It’s not really production-quality yet,” Wang said on the video. “I’d say it’s alpha quality. But pretty much everything works.”
The Android-on-iPhone hack is a notable technical accomplishment, but it’s not likely to transform the industry or alter what mainstream users do. It does indicate, though, that the hacking ethos is alive and well despite Apple’s attempts to keep its mobile phone locked down.
Wang has been working since at least 2008 to boot Linux on the iPhone, according to his blog. The demonstration uses a first-generation iPhone, but newer models should be supported at some point.
“It should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will take more work,” Wang said on the blog. “Hopefully with all this groundwork laid out, we can make Android a real alternative or supplement for iPhone users. Maybe we can finally get Flash. 
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Report: Google password system attacked by Steven Musil
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
The cyberattack on Google last year reportedly yielded access to a password system that controls millions of users’ access to the company’s services including e-mail and business services.
Google’s Gaia, which allows people to sign in using their password once for a range of services, was compromised during a two-day attack in December, according to a New York Times report that cited a person with knowledge of an internal investigation. However, Gmail users’ passwords do not appear to have been stolen, and the company quickly initiated security changes to its networks, according to the report. (more…)
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On Call: Welcome to 4G by Kent German
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
It wasn’t so long ago that the cell phone world was just transitioning to 3G technology. But now, just as we’re getting settled, the ever-restless industry is moving on again. Fourth-generation technology, or 4G, is gaining traction and carriers are promising even faster data speeds.
So what is 4G?
To start, think of wireless technology as a family that gets faster with each generation. Second-generation (2G) networks were faster than the original first-generation wireless technology; third-generation (3G) is faster than 2G; and 4G is faster than 3G. Speed is important for data transmission (not so much for voice) because a faster network lets you do more with your phone. The 3G networks that we use today allow us to stream video, download music tracks and other large files, and surf the Web on full HTML browsers. Think of it like moving from a dial-up Internet connection to cable or DSL–suddenly you could do more with your computer and do it faster. (more…)
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They did it: Opera Mini lands on iPhone by Jessica Dolcourt
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Fewer than three weeks ago, we wondered aloud if Opera Software’s bid to get its Opera Mini Web browser into Apple’s iPhone App Store was pure folly, or if it was a gamble that Opera could actually win. Late Monday, Opera, and Apple, proved doubters and naysayers–like me–wrong when it approved Opera Mini for iPhone.
Apple’s acceptance of a Web browser app may not seem like a big to-do, until one looks at Apple’s notoriously stringent interpretation of the rules it created to keep competing software off the iPhone. Mobile Web browsers that compete with the iPhone’s Safari browser do exist, but they’re all based on the same WebKit browser engine used to power Safari. In contrast, Opera has coded Opera Mini using a combination of programming languages, without adopting WebKit. Apple has certainly denied apps for less. (more…)
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Sprint’s Bold Play on a 4G Network By Cliff Edwards and Olga Kharif
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Sprint Nextel, the nation’s third-largest cell-phone carrier, is betting big on 4G. The company has spent several billion dollars in recent years to build wireless broadband service capacity to try to leapfrog larger rivals by offering consumers and businesses fast connections for smartphones, laptops, and other devices.
The advent of 4G networks could present a do-or-die situation for Sprint. Investors are pessimistic about the company’s long-term prospects. Sprint is losing more than 2% of its highest-paying wireless subscribers each year, nearly double the rate of competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless, according to a Mar. 21 report from Barclays Capital analyst James M. Ratcliffe, who has a “neutral” rating on Sprint’s shares.
Sprint bet on Palm’s Pre smartphone, which launched to great fanfare in 2009, but which hasn’t come close to matching AT&T’s sales of Apple’s iPhone. Verizon, T-Mobile USA, and AT&T are taking steps to blunt any advantage Sprint might gain as it rolls out its faster network. (more…)
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