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Microsoft pushes Windows Updates tomorrow

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:10:20 +0000

Just two weeks after the previously released set of updates. Tomorrow, on January 27, 2009, Microsoft will be pushing a couple of updates and patches for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP... Read more...

Obama pushes to delay DTV

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:07:52 +0000

President-elect Barrack Obama is preparing to delay the switch over from analog to digital as one of his first duties as president, stating that many Americans are not ready for the switch. The cut... Read more...

EA pushes ad-backed video games

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:49:36 +0000

Electronic Arts is to release a free online version of the popular Battlefield game to be supported by adverts and micro payments. The PC game, Battlefield Heroes, will be available only online later this year,... Read more...

White House Official Pushes for Software as a Service

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:52:04 +0000

A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs. A... Read more...

AMD Pushes Back Barcelona Ramp-Up to Q1 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:41:07 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices has revised an October pledge to make its new quad-core Opteron processors "widely available" by the end of the year and won't ship large quantities to the channel until the first quarter... Read more...

Microsoft Pushes Cloud Development

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:08:50 +0000

Microsoft is at work on a project to enable everyday developers to build Web applications, just as easily as folks have built Visual Basic applications over the years. The project to enable this is called... Read more...

Microsoft Pushes Secure, Quality Code

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:33:54 +0000

Microsoft is continuing its thrust to help developers write more secure and better quality code. The Redmond, Wash., software company is putting new code analysis features into the next version of its development tools suite,... Read more...

Microsoft pushes WLMessenger 8.1 upgrade: security reasons

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:51:19 +0000

According to the Windows Live Messenger blog, users of Windows XP and Vista will soon (if they haven't already), be forced to upgrade to WLMessenger 8.1 for security reasons described in security bulletin MS07-054. "Some... Read more...

Mozilla Pushes Security in Firefox 3.0

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:18:02 +0000

Mozilla Corp.'s next update to Firefox will sport several new safer surfing features, the company's chief of security said Wednesday, but users won't see the most important changes. On track and expected to make it... Read more...

ASRock pushes low price motherboard for entry-level market

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:12:45 +0000

ASRock has launched its ConRoe1333-series motherboards featuring FSB support up to 1333MHz. ASRock adopts the Intel 945GC A2 stepping chipset for the series. Although Intel's official maximum FSB support for the chipset is only up... Read more...

DOJ Pushes Microsoft to Produce Vista SP1 Beta in '07

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:06:03 +0000

It's unusual, but confirmation of the availability of Windows Vista's first service pack came Tuesday not from Microsoft Corp., but from the U.S. Department of Justice. Tucked into the government's 27-page joint status settlement report... Read more...

AMD pushes new naming scheme

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:27:23 +0000

AMD is preparing to replace its current processor numbering scheme for desktop processors with a new naming scheme which combines two letters and a four-digit number, according to Leslie Sobon, director of product and brand... Read more...

NPD Group: World of Warcraft Pushes 1M, PC Sales Up 1% In 06

Todd Tanner — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:00:59 +0000

According the the NPD Group (who are these guys anyway?) 2006 was a pretty good year for PC gaming. No, PC gaming isn't dead like everyone says every time new consoles come out. Far from... Read more...

MS pushes premium versions of Vista, download options

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:52:03 +0000

Microsoft wants to make sure consumers and small businesses know there are myriad ways they can acquire Windows Vista -- particularly in premium versions -- when it becomes generally available on Jan. 30. On Thursday,... Read more...

E.U. Pushes to Charge Intel with Illegal Business Practices

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:47:42 +0000

The E.U. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes was asked, by a number of European Union investigators, to formally charge Intel on grounds of illegal business tactics. The case was filed in 2000 by AMD regarding Intel... Read more...

Paris Pushes City Wide Wireless Internet

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:04:50 +0000

In a bid to remain internationally competitive and encourage technological advancement, the city of Paris has made plans to blanket the entire city with free wireless internet access by the end of 2007. The system... Read more...

U.S. DOJ Pushes for New Regs on Web Porn

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:14:00 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice will push for new legislation that requires all commercial Web sites to label every page that includes adult material in an effort to protect Web surfers from pornography, the agency... Read more...

Apple Pushes to Unmask Product Leaker

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:22:49 +0000

A California court in San Jose on Thursday is scheduled to hear a case brought by Apple Computer that eventually could answer an unsettled legal question: Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional... Read more...

Intel Pushes Interchangeable Notebook Components

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:06:00 +0000

While laptops are great for working on the go and saving space, their tendency to transform into little more than glorified, oversized paperweights after becoming obsolete has always been a problem. Intel is looking... Read more...

Rockstar pushes ahead with "Bully" despite concerns

Steven Parker — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:16:47 +0000

Any PR, even bad, is good PR it seems with Rockstar. The game publisher has announced another controversial title due to hit the shelves October this year. Rockstar Games describes the upcoming title... Read more...

Chinese success pushes World of Warcraft

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:45:52 +0000

Blizzard's World of Warcraft is now officially the largest MMOG in the world, with the title boasting some 3.5 million paying subscribers worldwide - including 1.5 million in China, where the game only launched in... Read more...

Fujitsu Pushes Hard Drive Limits

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:54:03 +0000

Researchers are working on technology that could offer seven times as much storage. Researchers in Japan have reported success in an advanced data-storage technology that could help yield hard drives with capacities... Read more...

Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:01:03 +0000

If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your message. Sometime around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential spam those messages that do not have the... Read more...

BT Pushes Forward With SDSL Upgrades

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:23:48 +0000

UK telco BT today announced that 500 exchanges around the country would be receiving upgrades to give customers living in those areas access to high speed SDSL. SDSL is a DSL variant, offering high download... Read more...

AMD Pushes for Flash 'Revolution'

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:39:45 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to challenge the NAND flash market dominated by Samsung and Toshiba with a new, hybrid flash memory designed for removable storage. The "ORNAND" flash, scheduled for an introduction in 2005,... Read more...

PalmOne pushes out Treo update

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:39:20 +0000

PalmOne is aiming to sharpen up its image with the launch of the Treo 650 on Monday. As previously reported, the smart phone update has a higher-resolution screen and a faster... Read more...

Sun pushes OpenOffice standard

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:29:04 +0000

Sun Microsystems is backing European Union efforts to standardize office document formats, including a proposal that would enable people to switch easily between Microsoft-based documents and those created with open-source software. In... Read more...

Intel pushes back date for 4GHz Pentium 4

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 05:33:10 +0000

Intel Corp. has decided to push back the launch date for its 4GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor to the first quarter of 2005, after reviewing its launch schedules and determining it would not be able... Read more...

Sun Pushes a New Brand of Java

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:16:38 +0000

Sun is hoping to gain widespread public recognition like Intel, Microsoft, and Apple. As Sun Microsystems is searching for ways to make Java into a brand name. Competitors have benefited greatly from this... Read more...

Sun pushes Java brand harder--but uphill

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:30:45 +0000

Sun is hoping that a 30 minute TV show will help boost the recognition of Java. The name of the show is "Mobile Entertainment World", and it will be a 30 minute program that... Read more...

Pokemon-inspired Cube revival pushes Xbox into third place

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:14:19 +0000

Sales of the Nintendo GameCube have risen above the Xbox for the first time since November, according to the latest set of hardware sales figures from UK research body Chart-Track. For the seven-day period to... Read more...

Sun Pushes Linux into Retail

Sun, 23 May 2004 04:36:19 +0000

The Sun-Tomax solution was to get rid of the Windows servers and substitute a cluster of eight Sun servers running Linux sitting in a data-center that is professionally managed in a high-availability environment. In September,... Read more...

Gates Pushes 'Power to the People' Message

Tom Warren — Thu, 20 May 2004 19:50:57 +0000

Microsoft's chairman talks up the business benefits of blogging, RSS, online meetings and other user-empowerment technologies to 100 top CEOs. How do you explain Real Simple Syndication (RSS) to 100 CEOs, some... Read more...

Microsoft pushes back XP update

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:59:30 +0000

Microsoft has delayed the planned release date of its next update to Windows XP by about a month, CNET News.com has learned. The software maker had originally said Windows XP Service Pack... Read more...

ATI pushes PCI Express for all its worth

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:19:52 +0000

DISTRIBUTORS AND partners of ATI have received a document which explains the Canadian firm's strategy on PCI Express. Well, it's a little bit more than that. The document we saw is positively theological in tone,... Read more...

US pushes forward with biometric visas and passports

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 03:12:41 +0000

Biometric technology that scans faces, fingerprints or other physical characteristics to confirm people's identities is about to get its biggest, most public test: at US border checkpoints. Yet significant questions loom about whether the US... Read more...

Pentagon Pushes Next Version of IP

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 19:55:15 +0000

Military projects will require new Internet protocol to handle address explosion. The next version of the Internet Protocol, which provides a 128-bit standard to transmit data, is getting a jump-start for adoption... Read more...

Sun Pushes P2P With New Protocol, Verizon Partnership

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:19:51 +0000

Sun CEO Scott McNealy will bring service provider partner Verizon on stage during his keynote at JavaOne on Friday to demonstrate how Juxtapose (JXTA) peer-to-peer technology better enables collaboration between corporate users, Sun executives said.... Read more...

Via pushes Socket 370 to support 200MHz bus

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:28:23 +0000

LET US NOT forget that as well as producing chipsets that take AMD and Intel microprocessors, Via also produces a family of CPUs of its own. And the firm appears to have made something of... Read more...

Microsoft pushes better web services tools

Tom Warren — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:25:38 +0000

Visual Studio.Net 2003, due out 24 April, played down as a 'fit and finish' release Microsoft has claimed that enhancements to its .Net programming tools will allow developers to build more secure... Read more...