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Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get free copy

Tom Warren — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:34:07 +0000

In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. In recent weeks Microsoft has faced angry reactions from bloggers and beta... Read more...

BlackBerry Storm makes a bumpy start

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:55:02 +0000

Despite a 100 million dollar marketing campaign, the Blackberry Storm has gotten off to a bumpy start. Early buyers have complained about technical bugs with Research In Motion's (RIM) first touch screen BlackBerry, according to... Read more...

Microsoft makes 360 price drop official, announces 60GB SKU

Steven Parker — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:58:19 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360 console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.)... Read more...

Google makes health service publicly available

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:35:15 +0000

Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health during a Webcast... Read more...

Apple makes $831 in revenue per iPhone sold?

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:17:43 +0000

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has forced Apple to reveal its financial statement in regards to how much money AT&T hands over for each iPhone activated. Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, has done... Read more...

What Makes a Good Phone?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:30:31 +0000

Microsoft is about ready to formerly launch its unified communications strategy. That may be tomorrow, but what about the comm that matters to most people, today? So we ask: What do you want from your... Read more...

Sony Makes Japanese PlayStation Store Accessible by PC

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:45:58 +0000

Thanks to the PlayStation Store, gamers can connect their PSP to the PlayStation 3 console to download classic PSone games to play on the handheld. Gamers living in Japan don't even need a PS3: Sony... Read more...

Microsoft security group makes 'worst jobs' list

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:53:16 +0000

Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science include whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center. Popular Science has been compiling the list since 2003 and according... Read more...

Firewall fire sale: Free ZoneAlarm makes it to Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:08 +0000

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today launched a Windows Vista version of its flagship ZoneAlarm firewall and blamed the delay on a switch to the new operating system's application programming interfaces (API). The Vista version... Read more...

Internet security makes top 10 list of child health concerns

Mon, 07 May 2007 03:05:07 +0000

A March 2007 national poll by a Michigan hospital has concluded that parents are increasingly concerned about the safety of the Internet. Smoking and drug abuse still top the list, with respectively 40% and 39%... Read more...

MySpace makes belated entry into China

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:58:14 +0000

News Corporation has launched a test version of their popular social networking site MySpace in China, making a late entry into the intensely competitive Chinese Internet market. MySpace China will be a Chinese-owned company with... Read more...

Firefox Browser Makes Headway in Europe

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:07:48 +0000

XiTi Monitor, a Web analytics company based in France, reported that the numbers for Mozilla Firefox use among Europeans increased from 19.4% in April 2006 to 24.1% in March 2007. The company draws its data... Read more...

PS3 Game Finally Makes it into Japanese Top 10

Joe Cashman — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:47:11 +0000

It has taken a while, but it finally looks certain that Japan will adopt the PS3. Virtua Fighter 5 on the PS3 stormed into the number 1 slot of the Japanese charts this week, selling... Read more...

SanDisk Makes Move to Cut Costs

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:38:58 +0000

SanDisk stated that NAND component prices have plummeted 50% in the past two months due to excess supply and along with increasingly cut-throat competition, the company has been forced to take drastic measures to keep... Read more...

ITN On makes early use of Windows upgrade

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:07:10 +0000

ITN On, the multimedia division of ITN, has launched new online services developed using Microsoft Vista. ITN On is one of the first companies to develop systems based on the latest incarnation of the Windows... Read more...

Creative Technology Makes Profit on Players

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:52:00 +0000

Creative Technology, a maker of digital media players and a supplier of various audio equipment for personal computers (PCs), has reported a profitable quarter amid helpful sales of music players and a payment by Apple.... Read more...

The (Few) Ways Vista Makes Office Work Better

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:04:01 +0000

Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95.... Read more...

Fujitsu Makes Advancement in Hard Drive Density

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:34:09 +0000

Using patterned media technology, Fujitsu of America was able to achieve a one-dimensional array nanohole pattern with a 25 nanometer pitch. If that's equivalent to gibberish for you, here's what this means: future one terabit... Read more...

AMD makes bold quad-core claims

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:32:52 +0000

When it comes to quad-core chips, good things come to those who wait, AMD believes. After years of being outplayed by AMD, Intel beat its rival to the punch by releasing its quad-core Xeon 5300... Read more...

802.11n Standard Makes Progress in London Meeting

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:03:42 +0000

The long-anticipated 1.10 version of the IEEE 802.11n draft standard was approved unanimously in an IEEE task group meeting held in London in mid-January. According to Atheros CTO Bill McFarland, who attended the meeting, all... Read more...

Motorola makes Linux breakthrough with RIZR Z6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:51:29 +0000

Motorola's first Linux handset for the US market, the RIZR Z6, is also likely to be the first in the industry to run an "open" operating system - Linux, Symbian OS or Windows on a... Read more...

Epic's Mark Rein Makes PC Users Cry. Gears of War Denied.

Todd Tanner — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:51:48 +0000

Well, Epic's Mark Rein has once again devastated PC users . He has denied us Gears of War. He shall pay! Anyway, all this started when someone noticed in a new set of Nvidia drivers... Read more...

WinSnap 1.1.9 - makes screenshots better

Razvan Serea — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:16:36 +0000

WinSnap is a small but powerful utility for taking and editing screenshots. It can easily capture windows of non-rectangular form with the background of your choice, automatically perform simple canvas transformations and coloring effects, add... Read more...

PC Gamer Makes A Boo-Boo Gears of War For PC Revealed?

Todd Tanner — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:34:54 +0000

Holiday 2006 Issue. PC Gamer (US version). Page 28. Look at the picture. OK, I know the issue isn't out yet on store shelves, so here's what is happening. Apparently PC Gamer... Read more...

Google Makes MacExpo Commitment

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:51:14 +0000

Google is once again underscoring its commitment to the Mac platform, with a major presence planned for MacExpo, which opens tomorrow. MacExpo organisers have confirmed this presence on behalf of search engine giant. ... Read more...

Novell makes file-storage software shift

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:57:11 +0000

Novell is changing the file system software used by default in its Suse Linux operating system, aligning with rival Red Hat and moving away from a project whose future has become entangled with the fate... Read more...

Adobe Makes Mobile Acquisition

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:20:17 +0000

Adobe has acquired vector graphics technology developed by Actimagine. Actimagine develops, patents, and licenses software solutions in the field of video and interactive vector graphics. The acquisition will extend the reach of Adobe mobile technologies,... Read more...

AMD chip socket makes room for others

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:26:31 +0000

AMD will let computer makers pop specialized coprocessors into sockets that otherwise would house an AMD primary processor such as Opteron or Athlon. It's an expansion of the Torrenza initiative which provides a way for... Read more...

Linspire Makes Linux Download Service Free

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:02:51 +0000

Linspire, the innovative Linux house founded by Internet entrepreneur Michael Robertson, has jettisoned the $20 annual subscription fee it was charging for its basic Click 'N Run open-source software download service. Users can now download... Read more...

VIA Makes Security Easy for Windows based Applications

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:46:43 +0000

VIA PadLock™ Cryptographic Service Provider utilizes real-time VIA PadLock hardware security to strengthen and accelerate security for online, desktop, embedded and mobile applications VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies... Read more...

Slip-up Makes All Microsoft Office Versions Free

Steven Parker — Tue, 30 May 2006 21:58:55 +0000

Nice catch ShawnZ! who posted about the following article in Back page News. It seems that the Office 12 Beta serial codes handed out for free by Microsoft work on any version of office. However,... Read more...

Apple Makes Blu-Ray iPod Movie Play

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:38:30 +0000

Apple is asking movie studios to include iPod-ready versions of their films on future Blu-Ray disc releases. CNN claims Apple - who signed up to support the Blu-Ray standard in March 2005 - is using... Read more...

Microsoft makes OneCare free for some

Tom Warren — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:34:45 +0000

Microsoft is preparing to roll out its Windows Live OneCare securityproduct, it is offering some people the $49.95-a-year service for free On Tuesday, Microsoft sent e-mail invitations to a select number ofpeople who have... Read more...

Why Vista Will Not Be The Last OS Microsoft Makes

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:48:13 +0000

A site boasting to offer irreverent Apple news boasted some frankly irrelevant news yesterday. An opinion piece titled " Will Vista Be the Last Operating System Microsoft Produces?" suggested that after Vista, that's it... Read more...

The Godfather makes a deal you can't refuse

Todd Tanner — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:51:22 +0000

EA sends word that The Godfather has now shipped out to retailers and is available in stores now in North America and will be available in European stores on March 24th. The game is available... Read more...

Intel Makes Performance Claims, AMD Rebuffs Them

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:05:14 +0000

As might be expected, Advanced Micro Devices doesn't think much of Intel's performance claims for its upcoming Conroe and Merom products. "It's driven by the fact that they can't talk about their... Read more...

ATI Makes Mobility Radeon X1600 Official

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:51:27 +0000

ATI has officially announced its Mobility Radeon X1600, the first member of its new Radeon X1000series to be available for notebooks. Like its desktop counterpart, theMobility Radeon X1600 has an unconventional architecture with 12 pixelpipes,... Read more...

Pro Gamer Makes Six Figures Traveling the World to Compete

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:36:16 +0000

At a glance Jonathan Wendel may not seem intimidating, but meet his alter-ego "Fatal1ty" on the playing fields some of the world's most popular shooters and you're likely to end up in a crumpled heap... Read more...

Microsoft Makes Xbox 360 Sales Forecast

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:57:55 +0000

Microsoft predicts that it will sell 4.5 to 5.5 million Xbox 360 consoles in the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2006. Sales of the much anticipated console begin November 22nd in the North... Read more...

Company makes claims on XML patents

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:32:49 +0000

Thanks Jugalator. Charlotte, N.C.-based Scientigop owns two patents (No. 5,842,213 and No. 6,393,426) covering the transfer of "data in neutral forms." These patents, one of which was applied for in 1997, are infringed upon by... Read more...