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Tags: Microsoft, operating system, windows vista, windows XP, xp

The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or swim.

Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC manufacturers. And Matt Asay highlights a report from Evans Data noting that 92 percent of developers are ignoring Vista. Coupling these two items together and you come to one conclusion: Folks are skeptical about Vista, but a lot of that skepticism is because XP is still lingering.

“Only eight percent of North American software developers are currently writing applications to run on Microsoft’s Vista operating system, while half are still writing programs for XP, according to Evans Data’s Spring 2008, North American Development Survey. These same developers forecast a fragmented Windows market in 2009 with only 24 percent expecting to target Vista and 29% expecting to continue with XP.”

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Tags: all-purpose laptops, computers, laptops, photos, weird stuff

Learn more on how to use further of your laptop in a weird way.

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Tags: computer hardware, computer proccessor, computers, CPU, turion ultra

Mountain House (CA) – Computex Taipei 2008 is just around the corner and news of what we can expect to see at the conference is already trickling in. Nvidia will release its new GeForce GTX 280 and 260 GPUs, AMD its Radeon 4850 and 4870 as well as its Puma notebook platform.

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Tags: Microsoft, operating system, touch screen, windows, windows 7

Microsoft demonstrated its multitouch interface for its upcoming Windows 7 operating system on Tuesday. The interface provides a touch-screen input for users to interact with their computers.

Full Article at Pcworld.

Tags: anonymous, chile, database, government, hacker

An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country.

The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com, a popular Chilean technology blog.

The hacker, who calls himself “Anonymous Coward,” posted three compressed files of data that included names, addresses, telephone numbers and taxpayer identification numbers for Chilean residents, said Leo Prieto, Fayerwayer.com’s director.

Complete Article Here (PCWorld.com).

Tags: articles, brain, computers, mental, russia, scientists

The scientists of Southern Federal University won 750,000 dollars award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control. For the next 18 months Rostov scientists together with their Taganrog and Saint Petersburg colleagues are going to develop programs and make a research that will help them to create such a system.

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Tags: computers, develop, IBM, memory, technology

Crunch Gear has a new article that talks about IBM’s Super-Fast Memory.

IBM has allegedly developed a new type of digital storage that could greatly increase the capacity of portable devices, while reducing their price. ‘Racetrack’ memory, as this technology is called, uses spinning electrons to store more data, and enables these systems to operate faster than regular hard drives…

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