Posted on Sunday, 29th June 2008 by Indus
Software giant Microsoft will stop selling its ubiquitous XP operating system on Monday. But that doesn’t mean the seven-year-old software won’t continue contributing to the company’s financial performance for years to come. Terminating XP was expected. It comes just 18 months after Redmond, Wash.- based Microsoft introduced a new, more advanced operating system called Vista. [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 29th June 2008 by Indus
Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset, say reports. According to Venture Beat, the deal could happen as early as next month with a price tag in the $100 million range - more than double the estimated value of the company. The Powerset search engine first debuted in May. It strives [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 29th June 2008 by Indus
A small Florida-based PC builder is jumping on the cheap notebook train with a UMPC-sized device that is offered in only one version and priced at $299 – which makes it, at least as far as we know, the cheapest notebook currently offered in the U.S. The company’s new Razor 400 may not be the [...]
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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus
Firefox 3, the recently released open source browser from Mozilla, has claimed that over 8 million copies of the software were downloaded on Download Day. The company stated early that their goal was to surpass the initial release of Firefox 2, at 1.6 million downloads in 24 hours, and hit 5 million downloads. The goal [...]
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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus
According to a preliminary analysis by iSuppli Corp., the new Apple iPhone 3G materials and manufacturing cost is $173. The initial retail price of the phone announced by Steve Jobs will be $199. iSuppli has performed a breakdown of the costs using insights from its analysis staff to develop estimates of iPhone [...]
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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was set Friday for his last day of full-time work at Microsoft - the company he founded 33 years ago on a hunch that personal computers would become an integral part of everyday life. The world’s largest software company said that it was not planning any public events to observe the [...]
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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus
Warcraft 3 can be played online as if playing on a LAN without getting into battlenet.Here is the procedure to play warcraft 3 online, without using battlenet.
(Note that this procedure is for warcraft: Frozen throne.It was not tested with warcraft alone, but it should work.)
1.Install Warcraft 3
2.Install Warcraft : Frozen Throne
3.If you do not have [...]
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Posted on Friday, 27th June 2008 by Indus
While viewing Youtube videos on Youtube website, your url looks like this,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkRilZdL14
Just append &fmt=18 to the url and press enter.Now the url will become like this,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkRilZdL14&fmt=18
The video will load in high clarity, will take more time to load, but clarity will be very good.
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