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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: THURSDAY, AUGUST 07, 2008
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 06, 2008
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Time: 14:05 EST/19:05 GMT
| News Source: Microsoft Press Release
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Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services. SQL Server 2008 provides the trusted, productive and intelligent platform necessary for business-critical applications.
SQL Server 2008 is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be available for evaluation download on Aug. 7, 2008. SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact editions are available for free download today at http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver. As previously announced, pricing for SQL Server will not increase with SQL Server 2008. More information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sqlserver.
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: TUESDAY, AUGUST 05, 2008
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: MONDAY, AUGUST 04, 2008
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Time: 19:23 EST/00:23 GMT
| News Source: Ars Technica
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Since the primitive 4004 chip first designed for a line of calculators, Intel has been a processor company. And in all of the company's decades of processor design and fabrication, Intel has seen only one truly disruptive change in the basic microarchitecture of its processors: the Pentium Pro, which dramatically improved on the performance of its predecessor, the Pentium, by introducing an execution model that dynamically reshuffled the instruction stream for optimal execution.
Intel's forthcoming Larrabee product, which the company revealed in an extended briefing on Friday, is the second major disruptive change to Intel's core processor business since the Pentium Pro. I'll justify this claim at a later date with a more extended treatment of Larrabee, but for today I'll cover the highlights from the Friday briefing.
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Time: 18:40 EST/23:40 GMT
| News Source: Microsoft Press Release
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Federated Media Publishing (FM), Microsoft Corp. and Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival today announced CrowdFire, an online and onsite destination where music, culture and technology enthusiasts participate in a massive, crowdsourced act of digital media creation.
The CrowdFire experience begins with an online community in which participants share their favorite images, video and text with each other. In continuing the collaboration, Outside Lands concertgoers will have the opportunity to participate in the CrowdFire experience by uploading their digital content to CrowdFire pavilion kiosks. Through a variety of content creation and social networking tools available at the kiosks, participants’ creative output will be fused into a real-time digital media mashup displayed on both screens at the festival and on the CrowdFire Web site.
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: SUNDAY, AUGUST 03, 2008
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Time: 18:54 EST/23:54 GMT
| News Source: LiveSide
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Angus and dev.live.com announced on the 28th July 2008 that the July refresh of the Windows Live Tools would include the release of the much anticipated Virtual Earth ASP.NET control.
The control is a complete drag and drop experience from within Visual Studio 2008. Drag the map from your toolbox onto your design surface and resize to suit. As you would expect all Virtual Earth 6.1 properties can be set as properties of the control, there are a full set of server side and client side events for the map and a range of very cool client side extenders.
Through a series of videos we take you through the full experience of installing the control and coding with its basic features. Each video is fairly detailed and runs for about 5-7 min. They are hosted by Silverlight Streaming so you will need to install the latest Beta2 Silverlight Client or download the wmv file directly.
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Time: 18:45 EST/23:45 GMT
| News Source: Ars Technica
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NVIDIA will launch a new version of its ForceWare graphics drivers in September, and its unusual name is causing some ripples. GPUCafe claims to have information on what the new update will include, and if they're right, it will be quite an update indeed.
The new release, properly called ForceWare release 180, is being referred to in NVIDIA documentation as "Big Bang 2." This name evokes an earlier driver launch, Big Bang, which first allowed multi-GPU support on the GeForce 6000 series. The name implies that this driver release will be similarly huge, and the declared feature list is pretty compelling. GPUCafe says ForceWare release 180 will bring the following features:
- Multimonitor support for SLI
- Display Port support
- OpenGL 3.0
- Hardware video transcoding
- GPU PhysX support
- Performance optimizations
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: SATURDAY, AUGUST 02, 2008
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2008
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR: WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2008
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Time: 23:51 EST/04:51 GMT
| News Source: Seattle PI
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Microsoft alleges that a rival maker of computer mice has wrongly made use of its patented hardware technologies and refused to license them.
In a complaint filed Wednesday with the U.S. International Trade Commission (PDF, 33 pages), Microsoft alleges that Primax Electronics Ltd. of Taiwan is selling computer mice that violate seven of its patents. The complaint seeks to prevent Primax from selling the products in the U.S.
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Time: 23:45 EST/04:45 GMT
| News Source: Microsoft Watch
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Joe Wilcox: Maybe I'm getting soft on the Softies, but just because Vista marketing blows hot air doesn't mean Microsoft is a constant screw-up. The company actually is having a remarkably good month.
I've picked 10 of the most important things Microsoft has done in July. I am focusing mostly on product announcements and acquisitions in the list. Not to be overlooked: Microsoft's annual financial analyst and partner conferences and the company's attendance at Comic-Con and E3. Microsoft had a busy July.
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Time: 23:43 EST/04:43 GMT
| News Source: OS News
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Thom Holwerda: I have written about if before: updating programs on your computer - if you're not using a Linux distribution, that is - is a total and utter mess. On Windows and Mac OS X, there are roughly four ways of updating applications. The application notifies of new updates, and then downloads them when you click 'yes', the application updates from within the application itself, or the application requires a special update program running in the background. These are all quite annoying, since they interfere with your workflow (as opposed to, say, running "apt-get upgrade" every morning). The fourth method is the official vendor channel, Windows/Microsoft Update in Windows and Software Update in Mac OS X. Paul Ellis argues that to alleviate the mess, Microsoft should open up Microsoft Update for everyone else - and similar arguments are made concerning Apple's Software Update.
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Time: 23:42 EST/04:42 GMT
| News Source: BetaNews
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With Beta 2 of the Web browser due next month, Microsoft is looking to sign up more official testers for Internet Explorer 8, saying it's the only way for individuals to directly file bug reports.
Like with Beta 1, the second beta of IE8 will be made available for public download. Still, there's good reason to become a participant in Microsoft's IE8 Technical Beta program. In addition to filing a direct | |