Technology News
USB 3.0 (See Website)
USB 3.0 was ratified in November 2008 and offers ten times the speed of USB 2.0 and backward compatibility with legacy devices. It features physical layer characteristics similar to PCI Express 2.0 including 5 GHz signaling that relies on link training to synchronize communication between devices. Early adopters may see USB 3.0 host controllers in late 2009 with consumer devices expected in 2010.
Microsoft Windows 7
Best Client OS by Michael J. Thomas
There are a lot of choices when it comes to a Client OS but the best choice you should make is Windows 7...
Security (See Website)
Inside Windows Vista User Account Control by Mark Russinovich
Running as a standard user
File and registry virtualization
Elevating account status
Windows Administration
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel by Mark Russinovich
Part 1
Thread priority and scheduling
File-based symbolic links
Canceling I/O operations
Part 2
Memory management
Startup and shutdown
Power management
Part 3
Reliability
Recovery
Security
Security
Exploring The Windows Firewall by Steve Riley (See Website)
Inbound vs. outbound protection
The Windows Filtering Platform
The Advanced Security interface
Network profiles
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Release (Download)
The long wait is over. Now you can download the final release of SP1 through windows update or download center.
Microsoft Released Beta 1 of IE8 (See Website)
Try IE8 Beta 1 today. We would recommend that you try this product in your Virtual PC environment for testing purposes until full product version release.
Microsoft Plans to Release First Beta of IE8 in First Half of 2008 (See Site)
Microsoft plans to release the first beta of the next version of Internet Explorer in the first half of 2008, and said that IE 8 has passed a key Web standards test that ensures the browser won't "break" the Web. IE8 has passed the "Acid2 Browser Test" from the Web Standards Project, which shows whether a browser renders a Web site in a certain way. If the browser renders the site correctly, it means the browser supports certain accepted Web standards.
Thumb-Size Drive Stores Terabyte of Info - Nanotech Breakthrough (See Site)
Researchers at Arizona State University’s Center for Applied Nanoionics have developed a new low-cost, low-power computer memory technology that can enable the production of thumb-size drives capable of storing a terabyte of information. A terabyte is a 1,000 gigabytes.
Novell Accused of Reselling Red Hat Code (See Article)
A top Red Hat executive has accused arch-rival Novell of reselling a beta version of the company's open source code.
How to Be a Tech Hero (See Article)
By Lincoln Spector, PC World
When something goes wrong with Uncle Jim's computer, you're the one he calls. So here's how to help without losing your whole afternoon.
Microsoft Windows Vista & Office 2007 Test Drive Online (See Website)
Try Windows Vista Business and the 2007 Microsoft Office System without having to install them on your PC. Use your Web browser to experience the online trial and discover new features on your own, or follow the videos and guided exercises.
VMware Unveils Next Generation of Free VMware Server 2 (See Website)
PALO ALTO, Calif., November 13, 2007 – VMware, Inc., the virtualization software leader, today unveiled VMware Server 2, the next generation of the company’s easy-to-use, free-of-charge virtualization product. Based on VMware’s proven and reliable technology, VMware Server 2 enables organizations to quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines, resulting in better utilization of IT assets and simplified IT management.
VMware Server 2 is available as a public beta download at http://www.vmware.com/go/server2_beta.
Microsoft Virtualization (See Website)
Help you learn more about virtualization and how it can be a great business solution for your business. Don't forget to download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
Nanotechnology - Brain Healing Bridges (See Video)
Two MIT scientists nanotechnologically reconnect brain cells. (All About Nanotechnology)
Hydrogen Power Lights up the Seas (See Article)
Now a cleaner technology is being harnessed to power lighthouses in remote places: fuel cells.
DVD Uses Bug Protein to Store Data (See Article)
DVDs coated with a layer of protein could one day hold so much information that storing data on your computer hard drive will be obsolete, says a US-based researcher. It will be able to store at least 20 times more than the Blue-ray and eventually even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes) of information, he says.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Release this Month (See Article)
Microsoft Commits to November Release Date for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Microsoft expands interoperability options for partners, delivers new innovations with Microsoft Sync Framework and Popfly Explorer releases. Go Visit Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Product Family
Cracking GO (See Article)
Brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon do the same in this ancient Asian game.
HD View Gigapixel Panoramas (See Microsoft Research)
Recent advances in camera and sensor technology and software for stitching images together has led to the creation of images containing billions of pixels (gigapixels). These images are often panoramic, that is, they cover very wide fields of view. Since monitors typically contain only one to two million pixels, it is only possible to actually see 1/1000th of such image data at once. Also, viewing very wide fields of view require unwrapping of an image projected onto a curved surface (think of a map of the world) which can cause distortions.
ATI FireGL - New Line of Graphics Accelerators (See AMD)
At SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego, AMD announced a new line of ATI FireGL™ workstation graphics accelerators. From the market’s First 2GB Graphics Card, to the full featured 256MB entry-level product, this new family of of ATI FireGL products deliver industry-leading performance at every price level. This new generation of products brings to market innovations that are designed to boost application performance and user productivity.
HITACHI ACHIEVES NANOTECHNOLOGY MILESTONE FOR QUADRUPLING TERABYTE HARD DRIVE (See Article)
2x Reduction of Nanometer Recording Technology Shows Promise for 1TB Notebook and 4TB Desktop PCs in 2011
Windows Service Pack Road Map (See Web Site)
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 is expected to be released the first quarter of 2008.
Microsoft continually works to improve its software. As part of this effort, they develop updates and fixes to recognized issues and release them for customers. On a regular basis, they combine many of these fixes into a single package and make the package available for installation. These packages are called Service Packs.
Mac OS X Leopard (See Web Site)
The new Mac OS X Leopard is being released October 26th 2007. Apple is also releasing the Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard on the same date.
Microsoft Surface (See MS PressPass Article)
The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology, changing the way people interact with all kinds of everyday information — from photos to maps to menus.
Teraflops Research Chip - 80 Cores CPU ( See Intel Research)
The Teraflops Research Chip is the latest development from the Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program. This chip is Intel's first silicon tera-scale research prototype. It is the first programmable chip to deliver more than one trillion floating point operations per second (1 Teraflops) of performance while consuming very little power...
Seagate's new Savvio 15K boasts a 2.9-millisecond seek time and a spindle speed of 15,000 RPM, but perhaps the coolest feature of the new drive is what it doesn't do -- suck up a lot of energy. According to Seagate, the Savvio 15K uses 30 percent less power than any other 15K drive...
Holographic Data Storage Research (See IBM Article)
Holographic data storage has several characteristics that are unlike those of any other existing storage technologies. Most exciting, of course, is the potential for data densities and data transfer rates exceeding those of magnetic data storage. Combining one of the DASD-type R/W heads and possibly a number of CD-ROM-type readers, a robotic picker, and sufficient tiles of media, a data warehouse with petabyte capacity in a standard 19-inch rack is conceivable...