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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to customers today (reprinted below) summarizing some of the big news coming out of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. He talks about both the
Azure cloud services platform (a comprehensive set of storage, computing, and networking infrastructure services) as well as
Office in the browser. The email reiterates Microsoft's core messaging that the Internet is fine, but it needs a little desktop software to really make it hum:
"the key to delivering value today and in the future lies in combining the best aspects of software running on PCs, servers, and devices with the best aspects of services running on the Web-an approach we call "software plus services."" Client software is needed, he argues, to take full advantage of the hardware on devices. Multicore processors and new programming languages will expand computing capabilities, he says, and
"the interactive experiences that people expect on their PC, mobile phone, and media player depend on sophisticated software running on powerful processors": In other words, software does the heavy lifting, and the browser makes access and communication easy:
"For the Web, it's the ability to bring together people, information, and services so we can connect, communicate, share, and transact with anyone, anywhere, at any time."
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Posted by noreply@blogger.com (Zibri) on under italian magazine, frt, last moment, panorama, capabilities, shape, presence |
At least!Now who will be the fastestto send me one to start testing ?It appears that firmware 2.0 won'tbe available today. Fortunately.It also appears I got rightalmost all my predictions:colours, no front cam.
I wasn't sure (as anyone else) about the GPS presencetill the last moment, but in the articleI wrote for the italian magazine PanoramaI also got the shape and 3G hsdpacapabilities.I am ready to start working on it assoon as someone will provide me one. As usual, I'll keep you posted here.Zibri
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Posted by on under virus writers, software developers, malicious software, digg, free access, open source, capabilities |
Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to fraudsters. By giving criminal coders free access to malware that steals financial and personal details, the malicious software developers are hoping to expand the capabilities of old Trojans.
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Posted by on under gaming peripherals, kinzu, untrained eyes, mouse technology, fri, laser sensor, lten, xai, noes, steelseries, siberia, headsets, mousepad, footsteps, stab, mic, gamers, mice, cans, capabilities |
We played with the original Siberia headset from
SteelSeries, which was specifically designed to emphasize "gaming noises" like grenade pin pulls and footsteps -- but didn't do much good for listening to anything else. The Siberia Headset v2 looks to solve some of that with slightly larger speakers, an enclosed design to reduce ambient noise, improved frequency response and increased volume. There's also a built-in mic now. We took a listen and found the music listening capabilities much improved, especially in the bass end, but still no challenge for "regular" over the ear headphones. Still, serious gamers should get what they need out of the cans, which will be offered in models with and without a USB 7.1 virtual surround soundcard in November. No word on price until then.
We also got a quick look at the new
Xai and Kinzu gaming mice. The ambidextrous-friendly nature of the pair is nice, materials are great, and mousing around briefly on a fancy SteelSeries mousepad certainly felt effortless and accurate, but mouse technology is so wild these days it's hard to differentiate one multi-megapixel optical or laser sensor from another -- to these untrained eyes, anyway.
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Posted by on under seesnake, mitor, simy, backup data, vhs tapes, video recording, digital images, digital image, office space, rca, nbsp, amp, colleagues, capabilities, checkout |
Adding to its range of handheld inspection tools and accessories, RIDGID is pleased to announce the availability of the SeeSnake microEXPLORER Digital Adaptor 34953. Coupling the Digital Adaptor with the RIDGID microEXPLORER™ Digital Inspection Camera, you'll immediately add digital image and video recording capabilities and a secondary playback screen to your existing drain inspection monitor. To use the system, simply plug the yellow RCA adaptor into the video out port on any SeeSnake or video out enabled monitor and plug the other end into the microEXPLORER camera and you are ready to take full advantage of recording digital images and video of your inspections.
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