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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, March 9, 2012
 

 

Computer Industry
  • "H.P. Attempts to Take On Amazon's Cloud Service" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:59 AM
  • "H-P? What Went Wrong This Week and Why?" [Video Report] TheStreet 9:57 AM
  • "Windows 8 Devices Could Miss Back-To-School, Analyst Says" Forbes 12:04 PM
  • "Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro vs Desktop" HotHardware 10:41 AM
  • "The Windows 8 tragedy: How Microsoft can avoid disaster/Microsoft's Windows 8 adaptation to 'consumerization' world assures it will stay in the past -- unless it makes these changes" InfoWorld 10:50 AM
  • "Just one critical fix planned for Patch Tuesday: Microsoft is planning to release six bulletins during next week's monthly security update." V3 11:42 AM
  • "Internet Explorer 9 cracked during annual hacking contest: The hack was performed on a fully-patched Windows 7 Service Pack 1 machine" SecurityNewsDaily 11:00 AM
  • "IE9 hacked by VUPEN researchers at Pwn2Own: Previously unknown vulnerabilities exploited in Internet Explorer 9 at the CanSecWest conference" Techworld 11:32 AM
  • "Windows Mobile 6.x Hits the End of the Road: Microsoft sets shutdown of Windows Marketplace for Mobile 6 and pushes its customers to Windows Phone products." PCWorld 11:08 AM
  • "Microsoft to shut down app store for old phone platform: In May, Windows Mobile users will no longer be able to download apps from the Marketplace" IDG News Service 11:11 AM
  • "Software Translates Your Voice into Another Language: Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours." Technology Review 11:31 AM
  • "Microsoft to add government cloud offering to its Office 365 line-up" ZDNet 11:49 AM
  • "Xbox 360 continues to heat up gaming sales" CNET News 10:08 AM
  • "EXCLUSIVE: No disc drive for Next Xbox" MCV 11:40 AM
  • "Microsoft 'yanked optical drive from Xbox 720'': Microsoft's next Xbox - whatever it's called - will not feature an optical disc drive, moles have claimed." Register Hardware 11:38 AM
  • "Watson clones could be delivered through the cloud: IBM, whose Watson computer system last year famously beat two of the 'Jeopardy!' game show's top contestants, is now looking to deliver the AI-powered computer framework through the cloud." Network World 11:12 AM
  • "73% Oracle customers upgrade to stay supported, no reported ROI" ZDNet 11:48 AM
  • "Could Intel Be the Surprise Windows 8 Winner?" Indie Research 9:52 AM
  • "Intel aims for faster Thunderbolt with PCI-Express 3.0: Intel will support the PCI-Express 3.0 protocol to shuttle data faster between host devices and peripherals, though it couldn't provide a time frame" IDG News Service 10:51 AM
  • "Cisco Sees Big Opportunity in New Apple iPad" TheStreet 9:55 AM
  • "More solar storms on the way: Solar activity approaching peak of 11-year cycle; electrical systems could face severe disruption" Sydney Morning Herald 11:26 AM
  • "Breakthrough could make smartphones and laptops 1,000 times faster" ZDNet 11:50 AM
  • "Linux gets a bigger shield against patent attacks: Long-needed change by industry association formed to protect Linux from software patents finally arrives -- but beware the exceptions" InfoWorld 10:49 AM
  • "Linux Foundation Welcomes NVIDIA, Others as New Members" eWeek 10:40 AM