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ZDNet blogger, Ed Bott, has taken a look at some details behind the new functionality in Windows 7, his notes give you a pretty good feeling for the behavior and some of the new features of the OS;
The purpose of this post is not to review Windows 7. It’s way too early for that. Rather, [...]
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A couple of days late, but here it is… there is great content out there, but we still need to see much more substance around the how and why for IPv6!
ICANN meeting: Egyptian host demands independence for network … - Current IT news from heise online - London,UK
In second place, Kamel talked of the transition [...]
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Here is a question that has been going through my mind a lot of late.
Frequent travel means that my cell phone is almost constantly roaming, pushing my monthly bill up to an astronomical S$1000-S$1500 a month. Every call is a decision, and as a user of roaming telecom services just calling somebody for a chat [...]
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As it turns out, quite a lot!
I’m really pleased to see that my colleague from the UK is now running his own blog. James was one of the architects behind the UK’s Gateway project, one of the first truly massive implementations of Microsoft BizTalk in a central government scenario.
Today he is what we call [...]
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ComputerWorld NZ has a break down of where the two US presidential candidates stand on several significant tech issues.
Both senators bring tech experience to the race, although the experience is significantly different. Obama has had relatively little legislative experience related to technology, but he’s a self-described text-messaging addict who released a lengthy tech policy paper [...]
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The innovative work that Microsoft Research have been undertaking with Surface continues with technology that they have dubbed “SecondLight”.
PcMag is carrying a story that explains how some of this works;
The experimental SecondLight technology adds a second dimension to Surface, allowing users to slide “magic lenses” over the display to provide a second surface that [...]
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One of the more interesting commitments that the Obama campaign has promised is a cabinet level CTO post in the US government, potentially a key role in driving up the value of the tech sector in the US economy.
BusinessWeek’s Tom Lowry has a story posted today that discusses some of the potential candidates and the [...]
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This is a story clipped from Computerworld NZ;
Spending on IT cloud services to reach US$42 billion by 2012, says research
The current economic crisis in the US may have a silver lining for IT companies that invest in cloud computing, as it will contribute to significant growth in that sector over the next five years, according [...]
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I need to check, but if memory serves me correctly this is the first time we have submitted Windows Mobile for common criteria certification.
You’ll find details of the target of evaluation and the certification report on the Australian DSD page here.
If you’re not familiar with the common criteria process then you’ll find a bundle of [...]
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You can’t have missed the fact that we announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 earlier today.
Scott Guthrie has the details of the release on his blog;
Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it, [...]
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CNet have a summary of their top 50 milestones for the Internet posted as a single story;
We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a [...]
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In other news sixteen years ago the US mortgage provider Freddie Mac has selected x.400 as their primary standard for electronic mail.
For those of you who do not know Freddie Mac, the first paragraph of this article explains more;
Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., is one of America’s busiest purveyors of mortgages. [...]
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Mary Jo Foley is has a post up this morning about the Political Social Stream that Microsoft Live Labs are launching today.
Microsoft’s Live Labs — the Microsoft incubation lab that combines Microsoft researchers with MSN product managers — has launched a new technology preview, just in time for the U.S. presidential election.
Live Labs released on [...]
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Well sort of, this is video of two separate meetings, visits to Google campus by each of the candidates.
“The 463: Inside Tech Policy” blog put these two together;
Not shockingly, outside of knowing nods at the benefits clean technologies, there has been precious few tech policy moments during the debates or in the rest of this [...]
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A colleague of mine used this for a presentation at an event I attended last week, pptPlex provides a very different way of delivering PowerPoint presentations.
From the pptPlex homepage;
pptPlex is a plug-in that explores an alternate method for presenting a PowerPoint slide deck. Using pptPlex, you can present your slides as a tour through a [...]
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