By Terence Huynh / 9 January 2010 / No Comments
Intel has decided to follow in Android, Apple, Blackberry and Nokia's footsteps in opening up an app store. This endeavour, however, will not be mobile phones, nor for laptops, but for the netbook laptops. Called the Intel AppUp, it will allow users to find, download and purchase software that would run fine on the Atom processor. Applications selected will run on either Windows or Moblin-based operating systems, but will also offer applications that use Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight in the near future.
Intel has already signed up Acer, Asus, Dell and Samsung to bring this to their netbook range and will collaborate on the store. The program is currently in beta and can be downloaded from its website.
By Terence Huynh / 7 January 2010 / 1 Comment
Microsoft Office 2010, the upcoming edition of the popular office suite, is set to dump the upgrade version - which have a lower price so users who have an earlier edition upgrade to the new version. This comes after Microsoft released the pricing for Office 2010.
As well, it has trimmed the number of retail editions from five to three - Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional. Office 2010 Home and Student, which will feature Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, will have a price tag of US$149 or US$119 for the key card - Microsoft's new method of allowing users to upgrade from Office 2010 Starter to the four versions.
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By James Wilson / 29 December 2009 / No Comments
The 00’s – what a decade. Filled with ups and downs. Bubbles and bursts. Revolutions and extinctions. Moving into 2010, I thought it nice to start a little series called 2010 – Adolescence meets the Internet. This series will look at what we can expect from 2010 and beyond while reflected on the 00’s.
Today’s article looks at the cloud and it’s possibility of extending all mobile phones. To help us with this, we will look at an exciting new product called Lookout [previously known as flexilis].
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By Terence Huynh / 23 December 2009 / No Comments
A US Court of Appeals judge has upheld a $290 million jury victory against Microsoft for infringing a patent held by Toronto, Canada-based i4i in its Word program.This effectively means that Microsoft cannot sell either Office 2007 or Word 2007 unless they remove the infringing code from the program – well, from January 11 of next year.
The patent in question relates to how specific algorithms is used to read and write custom XML.
The Seattle-based company has said it is taking steps to remove the “little-used” feature from the latest versions of Office and Word from that date. Microsoft has also noted that the beta versions for Office 2010 and Word 2010 do not contain the infringing patent.
Microsoft, however, has not ruled out applying for another appeal.
“While we are moving quickly to address the injunction issue, we are also considering our legal options, which could include a request for a rehearing by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals en banc or a request for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court,” Director of Public Affairs for Microsoft, Kevin Kutz, said in a statement.
i4i has welcomed today’s ruling. “I4i is especially pleased with the court's decision to uphold the injunction, an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors,” founder and co-inventor of i4i, Michel Vulpe, said in a statement.
By Luke Chandler / 9 December 2009 / No Comments
Google Chrome is now available in beta for Mac OS X.
Chrome for Mac was perviously in Alpha.
Min System Requirements 10.5 Intel Only (Sorry PPC Owners)
Here are a few fun facts from the Google Chrome for Mac team:
- 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
- 29 developer builds
- 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
- 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
- 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
- 8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
- 4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
Download here
By Terence Huynh / 18 November 2009 / No Comments
RUMOUR MILL: Nokia might be ditching the recently open-sourced Symbian OS to its new Linux-based Maemo OS for all of its future N-Series phones, the high end and feature-packed phones in its entire phone line-up; according to one little slip up by its marketing team at an official meet-up for the N900. Turns out, this might be a smart move by the Finnish mobile maker, as the current OS, Symbian S60 5th Edition, pretty much is crap in terms of user interface when compared to the Maemo.
From: The Reality Mobile Project
By Terence Huynh / 8 July 2009 / No Comments
Google has announced today what is seen to finally set itself as a major rival to Microsoft on all platforms, and not only in the mobile, search advertising, and in internet browsers; as it will be developing its very own, open source ooperating system.
Set to launch at the second half of 2010, the new operating system will be based on the Chrome browser, and is focused on netbooks. “It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” Google wrote in a blog post announcing its new product.
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By Terence Huynh / 4 July 2009 / 1 Comment
While Microsoft has announced the release date for the long-awaited Windows 7, Microsoft has decided that it will release the RTM (release to manufacturers) version on July 13, 2009 – the same day as the WPC09 (Worldwide Partner Conference), to be held in New Orleans, according to Geeksmack.
The RTM version is the final version, meaning that this version is set to be the smoothest and mostly bug-free than the Release Candidate and the Beta versions. Partner connections like TechNet and MSDN are set to get their hands on the RTM version shortly after.
And what about you, those who don’t have access to those partner connections? Someone might put up a torrent of it so you can download it.
Windows 7 is set to reverse the trend after the disastrous Windows Vista and its PR, and many of the beta testers are happy with the new changes, including performance improvements and new features. While there will be at least six versions of the product, only Home Premium, Professional (which is like Business, just renamed) and Ultimate versions will be out to the public – but Ultimate will be the harder one to find in retail markets.
By Terence Huynh / 1 July 2009 / No Comments
After a year of Firefox 3 being released; the Mozilla Corporation has launched a major update to the second-largest and open-source browser, Firefox 3.5. The new version is said to be the “best performing browser” and has added several improvements to the browser, and new features to go along with it.
Now, TECHGEEK.com.au looks at what is inside this major release.
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By Terence Huynh / 3 June 2009 / No Comments
After years and years of speculating, Windows 7 (previously known as Blackcomb and then Vienna) has been given a release date. The operating system that is to be the successor of Windows Vista will not be coming out next year, as previously mentioned before, but its in the second half of this year.
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