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1. Microsoft preps critical security updates

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday patch blitzkrieg Microsoft has confirmed that it is preparing a number of critical patches for both Windows and Office. The 6 updates - three of which are critical - address 15 vulnerabilities ...

2. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... privacy is preserved," said Alexandre Viejo, a researcher at the Computer Engineering Department of the Rovira i Virgili University. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live search save ...

3. 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 ...

4. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Unexpectedly good results for Intel's third quarter combined with ASML turning in a profit for its third quarter is bound to bring some hope that the semiconductor industry is on the turn.Unexpectedly ...

5. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

   (Software/Software Features)

   News Analysis Microsoft's future begins next week. That's when the company ships Windows 7, its latest operating system. If Microsoft stumbles with Windows 7 as it did with Vista, people will start ...

6. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Opinion: Shock news reaches us from iolo Technologies claiming that Windows 7 takes ages to load. Our response: who gives a rat’s ass, especially as it doesn't... Opinion: Shock news reaches us from ...

7. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Nvidia is to work with Microsoft to use its Tesla GPUs for high performance parallel computing using the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. Nvidia is to work with Microsoft to use its Tesla GPUs ...

8. Nintendo lowers Wii price point to $200

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ...  by analysts after Microsoft and Sony lowered the prices of their respective consoles. Indeed, EEDAR's Jesse Divnich told TG Daily in August that Nintendo should decrease the price of its Wii console to ...

9. Who needs a supercomputer when an Xbox will do?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... computer or spending thousands on a parallel network of PCs. But Scarle had a better idea, having previously worked as a software engineer for Rare, part of Microsoft Games Studios. He reckoned that ...

10. Microsoft snipes at Google's market share with Visual Search

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft has launched a virtual war of attrition against Google by introducing Visual Search for Bing. The Redmond-based behemoth is clearly hoping to lure surfers away from a traditional Google search ...

11. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Microsoft indicated it is their desire to increase the ASP of mini-notes," said John F Jacobs, DisplaySearch's Director of Notebook Market Research. "A significant increase to the ASP of mini-notes may ...

12. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... time round, as we reported on the IT Examiner, a heap of firms got a writ from Xpoint.The company launched a patent action in a Delaware court suing Microsoft, Intel, Marvell, Hewlett Packard, Cypress,  ...

13. Search engines 'facilitate illegal prescription drug sales'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... prescription drugs without a prescription, and had been sent counterfeit medications, from bing.com online pharmacy advertisers. A few days after Microsoft responded that it had manually reviewed its ...

14. Games market goes into freefall

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  The Wii remained the top-selling console, followed by Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation 3. But only around 250,000 Wii consoles were sold - less than half the figure for last July. Nintendo's ...

15. Smartphone downloads to top 6.67 bn by 2014

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... information, and personalization requirements of the mobile user," says Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Vikrant Gandhi. "For example, Apple, Google, Nokia, Palm, and Microsoft have either already ...

16. Verizon to give developers 70% of App Store revenue

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... to compete with RIM’s own Blackberry App World. Stratton added that Vcast App Store will not "collide with or compete with" platforms produced by competitors like RIM, Microsoft, or Google. It will complement ...

17. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... third or fourth quarter of this year and the market won't hit the levels of 2008 until 2010. The PC market will be helped by Apple Snow Leopard and Microsoft Windows 7, plus AMD and Nvidia will bring ...

18. Microsoft revenue plummets 17 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft has confirmed that fourth quarter revenue plummeted a shocking 17 percent to $13.10 billion. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $3.99 billion, ...

19. US game sales down 31%

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... million in June 2008. Market research outfit NPD Group says the only platform that saw year on year growth was Microsoft's Xbox 360. "The first half of the year has been tough largely due to comparisons ...

20. Nintendo Wii surrenders market share in weak game console market

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... it seems that both Microsoft and Sony are gaining much faster than Nintendo. The Wii dropped to its weakest competitive position since January 2008. Chicago (IL) – Is it just a blip or the beginning ...

21. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel, Nvidia and AMD-ATI will upset the status quo. Growth will come in 2010 because of Microsoft and Apple's new operating systems. And the graphics processing unit (GPU) will become a seriously ...

22. Gates confirms Project Natal for 2010, also for Windows PCs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... your Windows PC. Bill Gates did not mention an exact launch date for Natal, a gesture recognition technology Microsoft announced as an expansion for its Xbox 360 gaming system at this year’s E3 conference. ...

23. Microsoft’s Bing gains, Yahoo drops, Google flat

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft’s Bing search engine gained some ground on Google and Yahoo in June. It may only be marginal at first sight, but if we remember that Microsoft’s search sites have been virtually defenseless ...

24. Bill Gates puts Feynman physics lectures online

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    A collection of lectures delivered by physicist Richard Feynman and privately bought by Microsoft founder Bill Gates have been posted online. A collection of lectures delivered by physicist Richard ...

25. Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion – Ok, let’s be realistic. It can’t get much worse for Microsoft than Windows Vista, which exposed the vulnerability of Microsoft’s most important product. And it is easy to understand Microsoft’s ...

26. Organic Motion deploys OpenSTAGE technology at Sony Wonder Lab

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Organic Motion has deployed its OpenSTAGE platform at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (SWTL) in Manhattan. Unlike Microsoft's Project Natal, Organic Motion utilizes 14 cameras and advanced software to ...

27. 3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... will be comfortable buying a netbook running its operating system rather than one from Microsoft. “The small penetration of Linux in netbooks is not due to any technical shortcomings,” iSuppli analyst ...

28. Yahoo’s answer to Bing? Search Pad.

    (Software/Software Features)

    Yahoo got lost in the recent Bing Bing surrounding Microsoft’s new search engine and a discussion whether this “little engine that could”, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer describes Bing, will be able ...

29. Windows 7 is a better Windows than Windows, yeah right

    (Software/Software Features)

    Opinion - Microsoft seems to have developed an astonishing ability to forget the past with its introduction of Windows 7, an amnesia that is matched only by its long time partner, Intel.Opinion - Microsoft ...

30. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... backs up multiple PCs using Microsoft® Windows Home Server Backup or Macs using Mac OS X Time Machine software •    Conveniently schedules the MediaSmart Server to copy and centralize digital ...

31. Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft’s biggest mistake

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    During his address at the Executives Club Chicago, Steve Ballmer opened himself up to a little question and answer session in which I am sure he now regrets. The crowd went completely silent and you could ...

32. The Big Peddie endorses Xeno Pro network gaming card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  4 oz.   Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP 32 bit Microsoft Windows Vista 32 bit Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit   Certification/ Compliance   Microsoft Certification ...

33. Moblin and netbook make an interesting pair

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... A to Be, and from CP/M to Digital Research Gem. I’ve tried every variety of Windows, from Windows 1.0 to Vista and have been frustrated every time Microsoft decided to change the interface and I’d have ...

34. Gordon Brown tells Sir Alan 'yer hired'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Jobs and Microsoft head honcho Ballmer - both infamous for shouting at people. But our favorite for the title remains Oracle's Larry Ellison. Not only is he always right, but he owns a racing yacht ...

35. Microsoft's Bing hits the road with new Travel feature

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft has added a new travel feature to its recently launched search engine. Bing Travel combines many of the airfare and hotel tools from the company's 2008 acquisition of Farecast with news and ...

36. Dinging Bing: 5 reasons why Microsoft’s new search engine will fail

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Opinion – Now that we all had a chance to play with Microsoft’s new Bing engine, are we ready to ditch Google? Are we binging instead of googling? I’d like you to chime in and let us know what you ...

37. Can Palm or Zune beat Apple?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... In addition, Microsoft has launched an in-your-face competitive ad using a financial argument to drive on Apple's inability to do a subscription music service.   This ad would have likely ...

38. Google grows its search score

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... Google sites were way ahead of the rest of the search pack, scoring 62.4 percent of searches conducted. The others trailed behind. Yahoo sites scored 20.4 percent, Microsoft sites a meager 8.2 percent, ...

39. Video game sales slumped in April

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... stayed at number one, the Microsoft Xbox 360 was at number two, while the Playstation 2 and the Playstation 3 occupied the third and fourth positions. Nintendo released its financial results last week, ...

40. Will Apple’s Get a Mac commercials ever get old? Yes.

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Opinion – Yawn. Apple replied to Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters ads. Apple replied with Megan to Lauren and a PC Choice Chat to highlight the weaknesses of a PC. And yes, Apple forgot to mention its own weaknesses. ...

41. The Gaming Renaissance Movement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... to be 53,900. That puts the current game industry layoffs in the North American market at 12% of the total workforce. On top of the layoffs, at least 13 studios including Microsoft’s ACES Studio and ...

42. Somniloquy lets PCs talk in their sleep

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for PCs that induces a new energy saving state known as “sleep talking.” SAN DIEGO, CA - Computer ...

43. Obama selects Google CEO Eric Schmidt for nascent tech council

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... at Microsoft), Ahmed Zewail (Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Caltech) and Shirley Ann Jackson (President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).   ...

44. Bartlett flees Freescale, joins Globalfoundries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD's spun-off foundry operation, Globalfoundries, has signed up Gregg Bartlett as senior veep for technology, research and development. AMD's spun-off foundry operation, Globalfoundries, has ...

45. New Apple ads aims at usual PC weaknesses

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... They may get a bit old, but they are still very effective for Apple. Not surprisingly, Apple ads follow and respond to Microsoft’s recent ad attacks. The new advertisements can be viewed via the Apple ...

46. UPDATED: Conficker.e surfaces and reveals purpose: Wants $49.95

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... stop operating on May 3, 2009. It uses a random filename and random service name when installing. After installing, it deletes its dropped component. It propagates via MS08-067 (which Microsoft has fixed, ...

47. Microsoft releases third anti-Apple ad: It’s Blu-ray!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Microsoft launched its third Laptop Hunters commercial. This time, there is a budget of $1500 and the target is a fast gaming laptop with a big hard drive. And guess what: They end up with a PC again. ...

48. Microsoft gets former Sun chip guru, but why?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    A Microsoft spokeswoman has confirmed that former Sun Microsystems chip guru, Marc Tremblay, is leaving sun for the Redmond software giant, as was reported in the New York Times on Tuesday. His title ...

49. Microsoft: Spam level now at 97%

    (Security/Security Features)

    It seems that Bill Gates’ 2004 prediction that there would be no spam anymore within a couple of years was wrong. According to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report, the number of spam messages ...

50. Firefox hits 35% market share in Europe, 22% globally

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Analysis – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been available for 18 days and remains the company’s weakest web browser at launch since version 3. While the software now seems to be close to 4% market ...