While BlackBerry devices have been praised for their functionality, only recently have they begun cracking the “snazzy” barrier. Next month, the venerable communicators will have one more thing in common with iPods.
Downloadable music for the Research in Motion BlackBerry device was announced today from Canadian online music provider Puretracks, to be available next month at the CTIQ Wireless show.
The announcement was made and the service was demonstrated at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin.
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AMD’s Integrated Graphics Get A BoostFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-03-04 09:39:33
AMD is looking to put a troubled 2007 behind it with a pair of announcements Tuesday highlighting its desktop chipsets and manufacturing advances.
The company plans on Tuesday at the CeBit conference to unveil its most up-to-date integrated graphics products for low- to mid-range desktop PCs in the new 780 series chipsets. The chipsets allow moderately priced PC buyers to run games based on the DirectX10 technology and to get additional performance out of discrete graphics cards if they need ...
more Microsoft Puts Office OnlineFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-03-04 09:37:43
Microsoft has put a public beta of Microsoft Office Live Workspace online.
The web-based extension of all-conquering Office lets users create and share documents online.
Google does a similar thing with Google Docs, the most useful thing about which, as Antivoles will tell you, is that it allows the user to open Office attachments without installing Office. Something that Microsoft is no-doubt mighty miffed about.
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more Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album On Torrent SitesFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-03-04 09:36:16
“Ghosts” is released under a non-commercial Creative Commons license and can be shared freely, something their fans weren’t allowed to do when the band was held back by a record label.
In the release notes the band writes: “Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding...
more Zend PHP To Run On Windows Server 2008From: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-03-04 09:35:15
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) tools company Zend Technologies is announcing this week that its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform, providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP.
Zend Core is Zend’s certified PHP distribution; version 2.5 is certified for Windows Server 2008. “The certification means that customers who choose to use it on Windows Server 2008 know that it will work as it should,” said Andi Gutmans, CTO and...
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