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This Week In Tech; 05-04-09
Topic Started: May 4 2009, 11:32 AM (149 Views)
Speedy	May 4 2009, 11:32 AM Post #1
Google Whore Posts: 2,767 Group: Admin Member #8 Joined: January 27, 2007	Internet 15 Seattle ferries offer wireless Internet access. 45 Wimax radios were installed on shore to provide the connection to the ferries. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132468 Cablevision is offering 101 Mbps download and 15Mbps upload cable Internet access for $100 a month. A high-definition movie can download in 5 1/2 minutes. Current service provides 15Mbps for $45-$50 a month. Comcast offers 50Mbps download for $139 a month. Verizon offers 100Mbps on its FiOS system. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090428/tc_nm/us_cablevision_3 http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090428/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_cablevision_broadband_3 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Cablevision-Launches-Nations-Fastest-Broadband-846519 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346228,00.asp Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free Internet-based antivirus with a small download that runs on the PC and connects back to Panda to get signatures and antivirus updates. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/antivirus/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200789 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Antivirus-Moves-to-the-Cloud-313604 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346164,00.asp YouTube, Fox, and Hulu were the top video sites in March; YouTube with 40.9%., Fox with 3%, and Hulu with 2.6%. U.S. users watched 11.5 billion videos online; averaging 5.5 hours of video during the month. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/YouTube-Fox-Hulu-Top-Online-Video-Rankings-256396 More than 60% of Twitter users don’t use it after the first month. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Report-Most-Twitterers-are-Quitters-756029 http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200690 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132305 http://www.cio.com/article/491352/Why_Most_Twitter_Users_Give_Up Security Adobe Acrobat and Reader have a security vulnerability with JavaScript, and there are exploits on the Internet. No ECD for a patch from Adobe. Adobe recommends the JavaScript be disabled in Acrobat and Reader. A fix should be available by 5/12. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132307 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346411,00.asp Software Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Enhancements include improved Outlook performance and support for the ODF file format. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200466 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346039,00.asp Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing; SP2 should be generally available in the second quarter. Enhancements include Windows Search 4.0, the ability to write Blu-ray disks, and simpler wireless connections. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Windows-Vista-and-Server-2008-SP2-Released-to-Manufacturing-269126 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132311 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200979 Microsoft made Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Public availability will be May 5. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/apr09/04-30Windows7RCPR.mspx http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132118 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Windows-7-Release-Candidate-Arrives-for-Some-Most-Must-Wait-159731 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132478 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346249,00.asp Demand for the Windows 7 release candidate download resulted in the MSDN and TechNet download pages being unavailable. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132389 Users will be able to run Windows 7 Release Candidate until June 1, 2010. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132397 If Microsoft follows the same timing with Windows 7 as it did with Vista, then Windows 7 could be available as early as August, in time for holiday PC sales. Acer says that they will have Windows 7 available on new PCs October 23. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090501/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_microsoft_windows7_1 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132464 http://blogs.computerworld.com/acer_windows_7_to_ship_october_23 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217201135 Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 seems to be faster than the beta, starts up and shuts down faster, and includes some refinements to the user interface. Windows XP Mode will run XP applications in a Windows XP virtual machine, but appear to the user to be running on Windows 7. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132211 Windows XP Mode is available for testing by MSDN and TechNet subscribers, but is still labeled with an earlier Virtual XP brand. Windows XP Mode is intended for small businesses to make migration to Windows 7 easier, and the MED-V technology aimed at large companies is not available to them. XPM could mean support problems, because developers still have to support their applications on XP, and XP is not on mainstream support any more. Hardware minimums include 2GB RAM and hardware virtualization support, so XPM will not work on low end PCs, such as netbooks. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132177 http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/xp_mode_preview.asp http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Will-Windows-XP-Mode-Put-Compatibility-Before-Security-677279 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Windows-7s-XP-Mode-and-Security-530305 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200501 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200100 http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/xp_mode_beta.asp http://blogs.computerworld.com/five_reasons_you_wont_want_windows_7s_xp_mode http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Windows-7-Compatibility-Issues-May-Mar-Enterprise-Adoption-701690 The AutoPlay feature has been modified in Windows 7 to reduce the ability of malware to use Autorun to infect PCs. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Windows-7-Changes-Feature-to-Fight-Malware-382054 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132358 Windows XP will continue to be available for PC vendors to install on netbooks for a year after Windows 7 is released. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132367 http://www.cio.com/article/491329/Windows_XP_Will_Still_Be_Available_After_Windows_Release Windows Virtual PC is available for beta testing. Enhancements include USB drive support and drive sharing. Virtual PC requires Windows 7, and includes Windows XP Mode. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346296,00.asp Hardware Intel dropped the price of its X25-M solid-state drives; 80GB drops $50 to about $319 and 160GB drops to about $630. Both are still more expensive than competitors, but the X25-M is still faster than other SSDs. http://blogs.computerworld.com/intel_drops_prices_on_solid_state_disk_drives Players that play discs in the China Blue High-Definition format are on sale in China. CBHD competes with Blu-ray; players are half the cost of Blu-ray players, and movies are a third the cost of Blu-ray movies. http://www.cio.com/article/491166/Blu_Ray_Disc_Faces_Local_Competitor_Piracy_in_China GE has developed a holographic recording technology that could record 500GB of data on a DVD-size optical disk. The disks should be commercially available by 2012. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132155 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/GEs-New-Holographic-Optical-Disk-May-Open-New-Doors-in-Consumer-Enterprise-Storage-633072 http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200278
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