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New ooVoo Release (1.6)
Blog This is the first ooVoo release that is not designated as a "Beta", and it is the beginning of their move to a clearly defined "free" basic package and additional paid services on top of that. The first thing to be said is that I downloaded and...
[May 14, 2008, 10:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It is, says Intel's happy press release, Centrino's first birthday! And as for Intel's press release claim that: " Now, with further technology innovations, Intel plans to build on the revolution that's taking place to create a world without wires...
[March 12, 2004, 16:45]
Gizmo5 - The New Beta from The Gizmo Project
Blog First an excellent new release from ooVoo, followed by a sputtering mess from Skype full of the same old bugs, and now there is a new release from The Gizmo Project. From my "first look" at this release, the big news is in the video quality and...
[February 7, 2008, 19:57]
Exciting news for xG fans!
Blog A press release from xG Technology - the first since May - reports on what's been happening in the last four months. FIRST TX60 MOBILE VOIP HANDSET ASSEMBLY xG Technology, Inc.xG" or "the Company"; LSE-AIM: XGT"), the communications technology...
[August 28, 2008, 21:51]
Linux on Netbooks - Hope for the Future
Blog As I see it, the first netbooks came along shortly after the release of Windows Vista. The massive Hoopla surrounding the release of Windows 7 (aka Vista with Lipstick) got me wondering about the netbook market.
[October 28, 2009, 8:43]
Office for the Mac vs OpenOffice 3 for the Mac
Blog Just as OpenOffice.org prepares to release the latest version of its open source productivity app which for the first time features native support for OS X, Microsoft puts out a story claiming that Office for the Mac is flying off the shelves at...
[May 13, 2008, 14:46]
Spoke too soon about XP SP3?
Blog However after doing some fishing with Microsoft's press officers, we got the following statement back last night (in full-blown Microsoft speak) which seems to indicate a release later in the first half of this year:
[February 21, 2008, 9:36]
Preparing for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Blog First, and this is very important, DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM ANY OF THE "SECRET PRE-RELEASE LINKS" that have started to pop up in a few places. First, the daily builds are NOT the final release, and there is no way of knowing if they will be different...
[October 28, 2009, 19:38]
New ooVoo Release - GOOD STUFF!
Blog The first thing in my mail this morning was a notice that a new beta release is available from ooVoo. But I want to get this first one out quickly, just to say that this release looks VERY good, it is clearly a big step in the right direction.
[February 4, 2008, 10:13]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta
Blog I've been installing the Karmic Beta release on everything I have around here, and the news is generally good. First, in the category of "mentioned before" and "significant", we have GRUB-PC, also known as Grub 2, which is the standard bootloader...
[October 9, 2009, 14:03]
Dream Linux 3.5 - An Excellent New Release
Blog I got interested in the new release of Dream Linux (3.5) because it is supposed to make it easy to create your own customised ISO boot image. You can see that from the first boot and installation screens; the only options are "boot" and "memory...
[March 4, 2009, 13:56]
New Debian GNU/Linux Update
Blog Then I went back and installed the etch-and-a-half release (from scratch again, not on top of the first one). The new release is 4.0r4a, and it incorporates security updates and bug fixes. At the same time, they have released what they call an...
[August 20, 2008, 13:04]
SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 Released
Blog I had previously downloaded and installed the public beta release (SLED 11 RC4), with reasonably good results. This final release can be used on a 60-day evaluation basis, so I decided to give it a go once again.
[March 25, 2009, 13:57]
Microsoft and the rough Diamond
Blog Of course, all that intrigue at the invite-stage led to a lot of speculation that the event was to be the launch of the HTC Dream, the first Google Android phone. That was always fairly unlikely though - a release of Android this early in the year...
[May 6, 2008, 17:32]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Blog Failover clustering is a lot simpler in the R2 release, but the cost of hardware will continue to deter many plus you need the full server OS in order to create a cluster in the first place. With the release of its updated standalone Hyper-V Server...
[September 7, 2009, 19:40]
OQO goes for 'world' record
Blog The press release is a classic, though, clocking up 'world's smallest' (fully-functional Windows Vista PC), 'world's first' (PC OLED display) and 'world's leading' (3G cellular networks supported) in the first paragraph alone.
[January 8, 2009, 10:33]
IBM's supercomputer chip breakthrough more PR than IT
Blog It's not as if you actually have to know what a Mach-Zenhder modulator is: the rule is, if someone claims to be first with something or have a 'breakthrough' technology - especially if every other word in the release is 'could' - you go and check.
[December 6, 2007, 14:43]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog The first thing I noticed when I booted the installed Moblin system was that the graphics look considerably nicer than they did in the 2.0 release. It's been about a week since the final release of Moblin 2.1 suddenly showed up on their web page.
[November 10, 2009, 13:48]
Ten reasons open-source smart phones will not win out
Blog And finally 18 months into the iPhone release we have Elevation Partners Roger MacNamee declaring that "June 29, 2009, is the two-year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. To release software it costs a hundred dollars to register but...
[July 23, 2009, 17:32]
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 On the Block
Blog If you tried the beta of SP2, you have to uninstall it first to get the release version. But its a big question mark on use of windows vista Sp2 , after the release of windows 7 having some of the enhanced features .
[May 22, 2009, 15:02]
