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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released
Apparently entering thus far unannounced, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available for download. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Version 2 Beta 2 adds several major new features, including: Improved Template Model Including controls ...read more
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DriverMax 4.0 with downloadable driver updates for Vista
What's New: In version 4.0 of DriverMax, driver downloads have finally been enabled. You can download driver updates for Windows Vista. DriverMax 4.0 features: - Download drivers for Windows Vista. - Check for driver updates. - Get a lot of information about your hardware and drivers, for computers running Windows Vista and Windows XP. - Backup all or just some of your drivers. ...read more
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Opera 9.50 Build 10063 Final
Opera is a free Web browser with a pop-up blocker, multiple-window navigation, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, an e-mail client with a spam filter, and integrated search for user security and speed. The cross-platform browser includes IRC-compatible chat, support for RSS newsfeeds, a password manager, and one-click customization and privacy-protection settings. Features: New in version 9: ...read more
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FireFox 3.0 to be Released Tuesday June 17th 2008
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new "Places" feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but ...read more
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WinRAR 3.80 Beta 2
WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file ...read more
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Dell launches rainbow of Studio laptops
Dell on Thursday is launching new Studio laptops with cases that add color to a laptop lineup that previously sported a predominantly industrial look. The desktop-replacement Studio 15 and Studio 17 laptops will be available in seven colors, said John New, a senior manager of global consumer marketing at Dell. With prices starting at $799, the laptop line is sandwiched between the budget Inspiron ...read more
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AMD expected to grab 40% discrete graphics card market share
With AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards successfully cutting into the US$200-300 mainstream market forcing Nvidia to cut the price of its previous generation GeForce 9800 GTX down to US$199, sources at graphics card makers see AMD's discrete graphics card market share as having a chance to increase to 40% in the third quarter this year from around 30% at the beginning of 2008.
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Survey: 8 in 10 businesses now using Macs
Nearly 80 percent of businesses have Macs in-house, nearly double the number that said they had users running Mac OS X two years ago, a research firm said Thursday. "Then we were talking about onesies and twosies," said Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group research fellow who conducted a survey of over 700 senior IT administrators and C-level executives. "Now the number of actual users is very ...read more
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Windows XP Departs: Good Riddance or Sad Farewell?
The forced retirement of Microsoft's Windows XP is set--with some exceptions--for Monday. To quell XP separation anxiety and the rancor of seething Vista haters, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows XP updates and security patches until April 2014. However, PC retailers such as Dell have pretty much stopped selling computers preloaded with the venerable OS. XP's disappearance has stirred ...read more
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Microsoft pitches Hyper-V against VMware
Microsoft has officially unveiled its new server virtualisation software which is intended to take market share away from rival VMware. Hyper-V has been launched six weeks ahead of schedule, a move which took many by surprise. Beta versions of the software have been available for download for some time, but Microsoft had said that it would launch the final code in August. The software will be ...read more
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