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1. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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 ...

2. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... 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 ...

3. Parallels takes on VMware

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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 ...

4. Apple's small-minded strategy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... 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 ...

5. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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 ...

6. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... 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, ...

7. Why Apple should license Windows 7

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   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 ...

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

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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.  ...

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

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... 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."  ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

12. My 10 favorite Windows apps

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

14. Family Guy escapes curse of Redmond

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    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 ...

15. Windows 7 upgrades crash and burn

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

16. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

17. White House dumps Bush' CMS for Open Source

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

18. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

19. Intel launches Windows 7 migration kit

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

20. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

21. Rumor is Microsoft buying RIM

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    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 ...

23. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

24. Microsoft upgrades Bing with live Twitter feed

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

25. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    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. ...

28. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

29. Insecurity leads to fascism

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

30. Google draws global bead on Microsoft, IBM

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

31. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

32. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... one choice for business. But he's been late to accept so many of the era's significant advances, open source comes to mind as does cloud computing, that his lack of vision knocks him from consideration. ...

33. Moving to Windows 7 will be "inevitable" - report

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... most organizations to move to it. But that doesn't mean there will be a significant boost in Windows 7 immediately. "The Windows 7 release will generate renewed interest in consumers and small businesses ...

34. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... In addition, HD radio supports many new features including searchable content, pause, rewind and play. Users can also tag a song for future online purchase and access digital data services." See Also ...

35. Microsoft risks wrecking Family Guy’s reputation

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the companies said in a statement. "Microsoft and Fox are joining forces to showcase how the power and simplicity of Windows 7 can enhance the content Fox viewers enjoy most, whether it's comedy, drama, ...

36. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 3 application limit that initially made it look like Starter Edition was more of a crippled product and it now has the typical Paint, Notepad, Calculator, Windows Fax and Scan, WordPad, Windows Firewall, ...

37. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... can't convince corporate IT pros to upgrade, it will fail again. But I, for one, believe Windows 7 will not fail. In the long run, it will, I predict, be the most successful commercial OS Microsoft ...

38. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... PC is the HP Elite 7000, equipped with Windows 7, DDR3 memory support, an Intel P55 Express chipset and a choice of either i5 or i7 CPUs. Up to eight gigabytes of memory can be installed, and the machines ...

39. Keep on blogging in the free world

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... the list. What does this tell you about Wal-Mart? First, management is clueless on blogging. Second, they're lazy at Wal-Mart. Third, nothing interesting happens at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart cannot claim ...

40. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... shelters of Cheyenne Mountain can be woken from their slumbers? Nope. Here’s what happens in the real world. You arrive at the office at 0930 and switch on your machine. Then you go to grab a coffee. ...

41. Microsoft kills Works

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Office 2010 – due for public beta before the end of the year – which can be unlocked by using a key card to be sold at major electronic outlets. Depending on how much they pay, the key cards will enable ...

42. Sony debuts ultra-thin Vaio X notebook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... 11.1-inch LCD display (1366 x 768 resolution) and a 3.5 hour battery that can be upgraded to a 14 hour model. "It's one thing to make a notebook thin but when you consider the fact that the X Series also ...

43. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... sector to switch to the free software GNU/Linux operating system for all their desktop and computer infrastructure needs," continued Brown, adding that world peace and a cure for cancer would result if ...

44. Just like old times - IBM faces antitrust probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  Back in the 1950s, IBM was ordered to make its technology available to its competitors, resulting in a burgeoning mainframe clone market in the sixties and seventies that, sadly, I can remember all too ...

45. Meet Microsoft, the underdog

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  "The first social network in this country is Messenger, and Messenger has extended services, so it can work with other networks too and it's used by a very large number of people, professionals as well," ...

46. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... platform, Symbian, and tried to have it both ways.   I think we can argue that, so far, Nokia’s model isn’t working that well.   The vast majority of phones are appliances, the customer ...

47. SAP's Leo Apotheker dismisses Oracle's bid for power

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... a bigger  world out there. I don't spend my entire day worrying about Oracle, that would be  somewhat stupid. There are major changes happening out there and I can only agree  with my esteemed ...

48. IBM’s head is in the clouds

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... outages, advertisements or security and privacy concerns that can impact employee productivity and confidence.  As someone, probably me, once said: “Free email clients are worth every penny.” "Email ...

49. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... capitalists I talk to are in despair. Yes, yes, there are a few big bright spots - Apple, Cisco, and Google come to mind. But these few giants can't spur the overall economy. There is no longer a core ...

50. Uniloc prepares to fight for its $388 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  The appeal will drag the six-year case out even further, at a time when Microsoft is facing similar patent suits elsewhere. It is currently battling Canadian firm i4i afer a ruling from a Texas court ...