Microsoft will release a new Windows Feature Pack for Storage which contains 3 technologies: Active Storage Platform : enables the Windows platform to restrict access to portable devices (such as a USB Flash Device) via a certificate or password authentication based on the IEEE 1667 standard specification. Image Mastering API update for Blu-Ray media : enables the Windows platform to do master style optical burning on Blu-Ray media. Smart Card Driver : provides support for new form factors, such as ICCD/CCID. Windows Feature Pack for Storage will be available for the following operating systems: Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP SP2+, Windows Server 2003 SP1+. Smartcard on XP is only available in 32 bit. The Windows Feature pack for Storage won’t be the first Vista feature pack. Microsoft has released, in addition to the previously mentioned optical feature pack, the Windows Vista Feature Pack for Wireless and the Windows Med...
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’World’s smallest radio’ unveiledFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-18 20:13:11
US scientists at the University of California have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound, marking the first time that a nano-sized detector has been demonstrated in a working radio system. Made of carbon nanotubes a few atoms across, it is almost 1,000 times smaller than current radio technology. Many companies are interested in the long-term potential of carbon nanotubes - tiny cylinders of carbon that measure...
more Is China Messing With Google, Microsoft, And Yahoo?From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-18 19:56:30
Speculation is heating up on whether or not the Chinese government is hijacking Chinese Internet search traffic and redirecting it to Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine. Google acknowledged the issue, but did not provide any insight on who is doing the dirty work: " We've had numerous reports that Google.cn and other search engines have been blocked in China and traffic redirected to other sites ," said a Google spokesperson. Philipp Lenssen, who maintains Google Blogscoped,...
more Ubuntu Gets Gutsy, But Is Linux Ready?From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-19 03:01:24
The Canonical-backed Ubuntu open-source community chalked up another milestone today with the release of version 7.10 of its flagship Linux operating system with a swag of user-friendly updates, but its real test will be how well it is adopted by non-technical consumers. Ubuntu 7.10, or "Gutsy Gibbon", upholds the regular six-month release cycle for the operating system; however, it is differentiated by the inclusion of new software designed to make it easier to use and hence more app...
more Microsoft: Google gets undue credit for ad conversionsFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-19 02:55:43
Google undeservedly has gotten all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop to that. So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group during a panel discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Thursday. Currently, systems for tracking ad conversions and analyzing online marketing campaigns focus on the last ad a user viewed or clicked on, he said. This gives all c...
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