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Microsoft Arc: mouse handset design
By manoj | July 14, 2008
Microsoft, as you well know, produces many types of mice, but this time he wanted to create a product design, or l ‘Arc.
This is a wireless mouse designed for use associated with a laptop, as has the classic size for a comfortable use, but once folded back on itself (see photos after the jump) becomes easily transportable. Unfortunately it seems that does not work Bluetooth, but with the classic USB adapter, however small that may always prove troublesome.
Microsoft Arc will be on sale this summer at a price of $ 60, about 38 €, All Black and grenade.
Microsoft to launch Windows 7
By Andrew | May 28, 2008
If you are looking forward to chuck out laptop that you are using to bring home something advanced, then we would suggest you to wait for some time for Microsoft is all set to roll out Windows 7 is due out in a year and a half.
Announced off lately by Microsoft at the All Things D conference, the Windows 7 will includes features like an OSX-like dock, a heavy focus on multi-touch applications and loads of features similar to Vista.
So, in case you are already using Vista you better know all the good, bad and ugly of it…though there will definitely be something good to wait and watch out for…
Via: CoolestGadgets
Microsoft discontinue the purchase of Yahoo!
By Andrew | May 7, 2008
Following the various problems and resistance encountered during the tender offer, Microsoft announced Tuesday completely abandoned its intention to buy the Yahoo! The truth is that with so many charges by the shareholders of Yahoo! and the low price offered, it seemed from the start a business destined to fail.
Who should have been pleased with the withdrawal of Microsoft should have been so Google does not see take place one of the greatest threats that could have to face the short term and instead move to have a major competitor will have two competitors weaker (MSN Search and Yahoo!).
Source: Journal du Geek
Microsoft’s Palette-Digital Artist: Handheld PC for the painters
By Andrew | March 28, 2008
Artists who are usually engulfed in paints and pallets and are far away from technology have a reason to smile, as Microsoft has brought a technological wonder for them. We are talking about the gorgeous Palette-Digital Artist that Microsoft has launched as a part of the .
Talk about features and you get a handheld touchscreen PC made convenient to hold thanks to the thumbhole, which makes it look like the traditional art palette of an artiste.
The utterly stylish in looks which bring in the designer and creative appeal which the technologically advanced PC usually lacks, the Palete-Digital Artist is perfect device for acreative soul to paint his imagination digitally with a special stylus.
With the palette in your hand you’ll surely remince those good old days.
All the connections in the palette are wireless, which keep it hi-tech, while the odd screen shape adds to the beauty in technology.
Via: Gizmowatch
Sony Launches New Blu-Ray Recorders to Beat HD DVD
By Andrew | September 13, 2007
Sony Corp lately announced that it will hit Japan market with its four new models of Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders on 8 November. This move can be witnessed towards its ongoing combat with the HD DVD.
Sony plans to promote Blu-Ray technology with Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co that is in competition with the HD DVD format and is back sided by Toshiba and Microsoft.
The upcoming models are competent enough to store up to 16 hours of high-definition programmes on a dual-layer. The high-end model of the four comes along with a 500-GB hard disk drive and is expected with a retail price of 200,000 yen ($1,752). The USP of the Blu-ray recorders is its capability to handle traditional DVD discs.
Via Yahoo
Vista SP1 beta 1 expected launch
By Andrew | July 9, 2007
The talk here is about the expected launch of Vista SP1 beta1. Possibility is questioned due to the earlier delay of first Vista pack. But runour is spreading around like a virus that this time
Beta 1 of Vista SP1 would hit the market in mid-July (during the week of 16 July).
Against this, the U.S. Department of Justice and other company watchers believe that SP1’s final version will enter into the market only in November 2007, which is probable tome for the launch of Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server).
Instead of making loads of promises and following under-delivery approach, Microsoft’s Windows client team plans to follow a restraining information-flow policy. To practice the policy, Director of Windows Engineering Steven Sinofsky is making efforts to maintain secrecy about the insights of the issues related to future Windows client guidelines.
Besides desktop-search modifications, Microsoft’s SP1 would be renowned for its fixes rather than features.
1) S1 assures is not time-consuming in terms of copying files and shutting down Vista machines.
2) The SD Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA) offers enhanced transfer performance and decreased CPU utilization.
3) It has the ability to boot Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on an x64 machine
For more fixes visit Zdnet
ZELDA II MARKS 100TH DOWNLOADABLE CLASSIC FOR THE NINTENDO WII
By Andrew | June 3, 2007
Nintendo has announced that it will release Zelda II: The Adventure of Link as the 100th classic game on the Wii Shop Channel.
The Wii Shop Channel allows gamers to purchase and download classic Nintendo games from a variety of game consoles from Nintendo, Sega and NEC. Among them are Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario 64 and the original Legend of Zelda.
Nintendo also revealed that it has passed 4.7 million downloads of games by Wii owners since November 2006. Super Mario Bros., originally for the NES, is the leading download.
Nintendo also has plans to continue to release new games into the shop channel on a weekly basis, with new downloads available every Monday.
And the award for best mobile-technology giant goes to —Google, Yahoo, Microsoft?
By Andrew | April 21, 2007
The three technology giants viz. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all eyes and ears on cellphones. And why not? After all it’s the lifeline of every individual today.
Guess what will be the venue (battleground) for the Internet search wars that are soon to happen?
No Guesses. Okeah. The mobile platforms, yup, the heat inside the cabins of techno giants is about this only. After pay-per click advertising now the hot issue is to be the king of mobile space by offering a quick web search of their choice on their ready handsets.
As per the rumours, Google has built a prototype phone with its own software inside to look into the issue.
Unlike computers, which allow access to the search engine of their choice, one donot have this functionality in cellphones. But can expect soon as carriers have the ability to analyse which search engine is easy to access and which is not through placement in their phones’ menus.