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Article | 16/05/2008 Developers confirm, explain why they're avoiding Vista
Windows developers are confirming the results of a survey released yesterday that found fewer than 1 in 12 programmers currently writing applications ...
Article | 16/05/2008 Microsoft ballyhoos Vista's lower patch count
Microsoft touted Windows Vista's lower patch count this week, saying it required about 20 percent fewer fixes in 2007 than the four-year-old Windows X...
Article | 16/05/2008 Former MS manager offers fix for XP SP3 'endless reboot'
A former Microsoft security manager has published a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to "endless reboots" if updated to Win...
Article | 15/05/2008 Budget's Fringe Benefits Tax overhaul cuts into IT
With the new budget comes the announcement by the Treasurer of changes to the Fringe Benefits Tax law, which has tightened exemptions for eligible wor...
Article | 15/05/2008 FAQ: Windows XP SP3 reboot hell (and how to get out of it)
Microsoft's having a tough year with reboots. First it was a reboot ad infinitum in February, brought on by a flawed update to Windows Vista. Now the ...
Article | 14/05/2008 Laptop controlled irrigation revolutionising farming
Efficient management of water in some of the driest, most drought affected farming areas in NSW has reached a new world standard thanks to automated o...
Article | 14/05/2008 Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tue...
Article | 12/05/2008 Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops
Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware capabil...
Article | 8/05/2008 Hitachi unveils 2.5-in. 320GB notebook hard drive
Hitachi Wednesday is set to unveil a 320GB mobile computer hard disk drive that offers 60 percent more capacity and requires some 25 percent less powe...
Article | 8/05/2008 Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in with XP SP3
Microsoft has warned users updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they won't be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to the older IE6 ...
Article | 8/05/2008 IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers
A Web measurement firm Wednesday blamed a massive online marketing campaign aimed only at nternet Explorer (IE) users for skewing its April data, whic...
Article | 7/05/2008 Discovery may lead to faster, more powerful processors
Researchers at Princeton University this week reported that they have found a way to literally melt away miniscule defects in computer chips, a discov...
Article | 7/05/2008 OLPC tries to bridge gap with developer community
A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child's commitment to open-source software has prompted an official from...
Article | 7/05/2008 AMD must double processor market share to survive
Advanced Micro Devices needs to more than double its share of the microprocessor market to survive, according to a brief filed by the company's lawyer...
Article | 7/05/2008 XP SP3, Vista SP1 back online for automatic updates
Microsoft Tuesday began offering Windows XP SP3 on its automatic download Web sites and resumed automatic downloads of Vista SP1 after compatibility i...
Article | 6/05/2008 Chip makers plot shift to larger silicon wafers
Chip makers Intel, Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced Monday that they will collaborate to move chip manufacturi...
Article | 6/05/2008 Apple wins big in Consumer Reports survey
In what is sure to become more fodder for Mac vs. PC ads, Consumer Reports' latest tech-support survey shows that Apple has the best help-desk support...
Article | 6/05/2008 Battery shortage should evaporate by Q3
A shortage of lithium-ion batteries currently hurting laptop computer shipments will likely ease in the third quarter, said the head of the world's la...
Article | 6/05/2008 Windows XP SP3 enters slipstream
Microsoft over the weekend announced that it had posted what it called "slipstream builds" of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for download by subscribers of...
Article | 5/05/2008 OLPC names new president, COO
The One Laptop Per Child Project appointed a new president and chief operating officer on Friday to run daily operations at the nonprofit effort, send...

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