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1. Steam bans Modern Warfare "grey market" keys

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... added that Activision's ban of legally purchased keys has turned into a "hot topic" for debate. "EULAs state that you simply own a license, and that the manufacturer can do whatever it likes to your ...

2. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... it offers. The 5970 will crush anything else out there. No other GPU can touch the 5970's raw power, nothing even comes close," said Nekechuk. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs Nvidia debuted ...

3. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... installing, managing and updating programs," said Sengupta. "Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS ...

4. Rumor: Sony planning Firefox PS3 port

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... models and change the OS, they can do so," explained Koller. "We wanted to standardize our OS." See Also Wii regains top hardware spot as PS3 sales slip Nintendo poised to "regain control" of console ...

5. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Plays catch up with Firefox and Chrome Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 9 will offer significantly faster JavaScript performance compared to earlier iterations of the browser. According ...

6. Be a Martian, says NASA

   (Space/Space Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... everyone can be an explorer," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "With so much data coming back from Mars missions that are accessible ...

7. Microsoft Bing grows its market share a bit

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ...  AOL Network 3.0% 2.9% -0.1 The report said that Americans conducted 14.3 billion searches in October, ...

8. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... is a floater.   With the launch of the Chrome OS supposedly scheduled for Thursday of this week we are going to see if Google can copy Apple and bring out something that is both late and lame but get ...

9. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 15 November 2009

   ... it the phone designed to communicate on your terms: instantly, intuitively, and personally, or the phone you can customize to make it personal? It's all of the above, of course," Zilber wrote in an official ...

10. Nvidia CEO says he is "all" Apple

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... can be sure we have selected the best technology inside for you. That is their promise to consumers," Jen-Hsun told Shufflegazine. 

 "Their promise to consumers isn't we've selected the best technology ...

11. Apple plans 50 new stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... appearing in London and Paris. Other countries on the list include Canada, Australia, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Another new branch should open tomorrow on Broadway, New York - at 28,000 square ...

12. Microsoft integrating Wolfram Alpha and Bing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... Tracey Yao, one of the things the company has tried to do with Bing is to bring customers the information they are looking for, presented in a useful way. "If we can adequately infer a user’s intent, ...

13. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... each other on beautifulpeople.com and set up a dialog, sent to us by a concerned TG Daily reader. When confronted with the damning evidence, the evil twin expressed surprise: "They can read?" [09:32:44] ...

14. Zune shifts into high gear with 6 HD games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... and MobilitySite's "Zealot." 
 "The Tegra processor means the Zune HD can handle some pretty slick games and other applications," wrote Linder.  "Up until now, that meant a few games, a calculator, ...

15. Microsoft: Windows 7 "looks and feels" like Mac OS X

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics." According to Aldous, Windows 7 "significantly" improved the Microsoft GUI, which is built on "stable" core Vista technology. "[The ...

16. Microsoft locks out thousands of gamers

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    If you can't play nicely, you can't play at all Microsoft has disconnected thousands of Xbox Live gamers, claiming they have modified their consoles to play pirated games. Reports suggest that as many ...

17. Firefox 'most insecure browser'

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... Mozilla's browser had the largest percentage of web vulnerabilities, with Safari second, Internet Explorer third and Opera fourth on six percent. You can download the Cenzic report here. "It's not rocket ...

18. Microsoft rolls out Exchange 2010

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    Fair exchange is no robbery Software giant Microsoft said it has released Exchange 2010 with a slew of additional functions. Microsoft is claiming that Exchange Server 2010 customers can save up to 70 ...

19. Murdoch plans to block Google News

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... International execs are accusing Google of 'kleptomania' and 'acting as a parasite'. In his Sky interview, which can be seen here, Murdoch was asked why he didn't simply pull his papers' stories from Google ...

20. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... basic functions and features, the microblogging service's UI world of clients is like the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars. It's crazy, man. First, you have the Web interface to Twitter, which, depending ...

21. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... significant' given Microsoft and Sony's disparate console install bases (Microsoft leads Sony roughly two-to-one in the US)?" asked Peckham. "Does the study refer only to gamers who already own both an ...

22. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... although current users can upgrade their existing software for $50. It should be noted that VMware's Fusion 3 also carries an $80 price tag and offers a number of similar features. Like Parallels, Fusion ...

23. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... insulted by Apple for restricting what they can do with the software on their computers. And, slowly at first, then snowballing faster than Apple can react to, consumers will find a way to get their music ...

24. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... Facebook and Twitter feeds. The new beta version can be seen here, and marks the first major change for years. The main difference is the lack of clutter - more than half the links in the previous version ...

25. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... between contacts, content and media. The X10 can identify up to five faces in any picture, while automatically linking the image to relevant e-mails and social feeds across the device. 
 In addition, ...

26. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened... Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened but then I can recall just a few years ...

27. Snow Leopard glitch means Windows 7 runs faster - on Macs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... the Microsoft product was driving their iMacs better.  The conclusion can only be that it is a driver problem within Snow Leopard which is not controlling the big iMacs' graphics hardware properly.  ...

28. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... people have loved. I can really only think of Halo Wars and Halo 3: ODST for the 360 this year. Oh, and let's not forget next year: Heavy Rain, God of War III and MAG all look pretty amazing to me."  ...

29. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... new operating system doesn't require a huge memory increase and can even drive back the three gig Vista footprint to ensure a $700 price point for a PC. That is why we feel confident recommending Windows ...

30. Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... apparently suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and especially the ones who hoped our families got cancer. It's always refreshing to receive good objective criticism. Luckily, some readers managed to stay ...

31. My 10 favorite Windows apps

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... now I can't do without. 1. Horas. A customizable world clock. I need this. I live in Oxford and edit a US magazine. The cities I have set up are London, Bangalore, San Francisco, Taiwan, New York, Sydney ...

32. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... new platform. You can see the ads here but broken promises and PC News are pure but well done FUD. Granted Microsoft is having a few problems with its “Family Guy” special (and who else now ...

33. Family Guy escapes curse of Redmond

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    Fans of Family Guy can rest easy in their La-Z-Boys as Microsoft announces it's pulling out of sponsoring a 30 minute special scheduled to air on Fox on Sunday, November 8. Fans of Family Guy can rest ...

34. Windows 7 upgrades crash and burn

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... such a shame, too. All the promises of stability and simplicity and, now, there are so many problems with installation. I can't even access my laptop nor do I have the ability to roll my system back to ...

35. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... only to find that the story is actually about an ancient HP all-in-one printer/scanner not having the drivers needed for network scanning, we rather take the view that this is an HP issue rather than a ...

36. White House dumps Bush' CMS for Open Source

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... an open source content management system.Drupal is the system that Barack Obama's administration has chosen, and you can see what it looks like by browsing over here.The previous content management system ...

37. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... come to mind. Both are brilliant and delightful individuals. They are also careful, non-ideological thinkers, willing to weigh other views. But most techies think just because something can be done by ...

38. Intel launches Windows 7 migration kit

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... can also download other Laplink products including Laplink Everywhere 5.0, which allows the remote access of PCs using any web browser, as well as PCsync 5.0, which lets users transfer and synchronise ...

39. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... second front with the Droid iCan’t campaign (this is actually rather funny) that targets the iPhones weaknesses. None of these companies has any love for Apple. Verizon thinks Apple has been trying to ...

40. Rumor is Microsoft buying RIM

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... is thinking about buying Canadian company RIM - you know that lot that make the BlackBerrys. There's possibly no truth in it whatever, but it makes sense in a perverse way. Microsoft really has got the ...

41. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    Nvidia has welcomed the official debut of Microsoft Windows 7. A company spokesperson explained that the new operating system will significantly accelerate system performance by using the DirectCompute ...

42. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... a virtual compartment," said Lewis. "Although this feature was originally targeted at small and medium businesses, I believe that it can be appreciated by all users interested in running programs that ...

43. Microsoft upgrades Bing with live Twitter feed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... millions of tweets every minute on every subject you can imagine. The power of those tweets as a form of data that can be surfaced in search is enormous." Yiu explained that social networking services ...

44. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... most IT hacks can achieve. However, it did jar with Microsoft’s insistence that this release of its OS is very firmly targeted at the consumer.The DSGi group which – as the parent of PC World, for example ...

45. Amazon: Windows 7 is 'the biggest pre-order product of all time'

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... has sold more copies than Windows 7, which is an incredible achievement for a software product." And going head to head with Dan Brown's latest dyslexic outpourings, surely this time no one can argue ...

46. Ubuntu, IBM wave tiny fists at Microsoft Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    IBM hasn't given up on the grudge it has against Microsoft and so has teamed up with Canonical, the commercial wing of Ubuntu Linux, to create a Linux desktop package targeting low end PCs and netbooks. ...

47. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... three key areas. One was how organizations can respond quickly to business needs with an improved developer platform that makes it easier to build rich content and collaboration applications. Another topic ...

48. Insecurity leads to fascism

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... blames the fact that the internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the US military as the source of the problem. When it was introduced to the public and it was wrong ...

49. Google draws global bead on Microsoft, IBM

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    ... businesses using its Google Apps and now wants to convince corporate users that its own cloud based services can offer more for less than the competition. The search giant relies on cloud computing to ...

50. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... license for Win 7 will work out at around fifty cents a seat for a large organisation, so we can only assume that most of the $1,930 tab Gartner predicts will be spent on paying large consultancy ...