It wasn't exactly Minority Report but Bill Gates' technology demonstration at the company's CEO Summit earlier Wednesday may be remembered years from now as a harbinger of the end for the keyboard and mouse era....
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MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP. Overcome ReadyBoost...
Animated wallpapers have been one of the "Extras" that Microsoft has touted as a selling point for customers of its priciest Windows Vista SKU. But now Stardock is bringing animated wallpapers to the Vista masses....
Let me step onto my own personal soapbox for a minute. I've always been one of those do-it-yourself, "hardcore" PC guys. I believed that the only good desktop PC was one you built...
Reuters quoted a Mexican financial news service while reporting the fact that Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation chairman and co-founder, has been overtaken on the world's richest list by Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim. A 27%...
Economics are playing a part in the decline of denial-of-service attacks, according to a Symantec security expert. In the second half of 2006, Symantec noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,...
Using a specially designed skull cap fitted with electrodes, scientists are now able to control a computer, and write characters onto the screen. As Dr. Brunner concentrates on the "B" of "bonjour" in a keyboard-like...
When it debuted in 1999, TiVo revolutionized the TV experience by wresting control of screen time from advertisers, allowing viewers to record shows and skip commercials. TiVo's slogan said it all: "TV your way." Behind...
Microsoft revealed a new long-term support policy on Tuesday, along with upcoming technologies to boost security and reduce spam. Speaking at TechEd, the software giant's annual conference for information technology administrators, Andy...
European antitrust regulators announced Monday that they're extending their review of Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft into an in-depth second phase. The decision by the European Commission, which serves as the antitrust agency...
Another service you got to pay for soon: MSN Calendar. This sucks, or do we ave to be gratefull we could use this services for free for all this time and at Microsoft is now...
Attention MSN Photo users: You have two weeks to subscribe to MSN 8 or download your photos if you don't want to lose them. On May 22, MSN is planning to offer...
In a sign of growing discord over Web services guidelines, Microsoft has pulled out of a key Web services standards working group. Over the past month, IBM and Microsoft have been at...
Several large retailers this week began collecting sales tax on Internet purchases. The move arose from an agreement among about 38 states and the District of Columbia that went into effect this week. The...
Thanks OoO for this gem. "AMD said on Tuesday that it would embrace a strategy of developing processors for a wider range of products outside computers and called on the industry to focus...
It appears that Longhorn build 3683 leaked to the web last night opening the dawn of a new beta that Microsoft still has yet to announce. Not much is known about this version of Windows....
I found this over on /., where it shows an email that one SysAdmin recieved from Dell, which basically says that Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system! Shown...
Well... that might have been slightly over dramatic. They are renaming msn comunities to groups, to truely reperesent what goes on there.... What else is changing? Group e-mail distribution lists will be easier...
My friend Vla pointed me to a couple of urls containing black & white info on Longhorn and Blackcomb, the respective succesors to Windows XP. While the "press" has been all ablaze about the inner...
South Park's 'IT' has this thing beat.... =) - Rit 'On a quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger--a machine that may be the most...
