Friday, June 26, 2009

Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks: CNET News

Microsoft may sell Windows 7 on a thumb drive in order to allow Netbook owners to upgrade to the new version of the operating system, CNET News has learned.
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Microsoft may sell Windows 7 on a thumb drive in order to allow Netbook owners to upgrade to the new version of the operating system, CNET News has learned.
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For the 1,376 basic cadets who reported for duty at the U.S. Air Force Academy on Thursday, the next four years will be about keeping impossibly high standards and refusing to give in to the temptation to give up. And trying to avoid getting screamed at.
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The software kit will let coders create parts of their Android 1.5 applications outside the Dalvik virtual machine, using languages such as C and C++.
Fri, Jun 26 05:53:11 PDT 2009 | Read full story 

Poor programming practices in Chinese-mandated Green Dam filtering software put users at risk of compromise, security expert says.
Thu, Jun 25 16:48:00 PDT 2009 | Read full story 

Scores of users insert reports of Michael Jackson's death into entries about him in the online encyclopedia, which are deleted, re-inserted, and deleted again.
Thu, Jun 25 15:33:00 PDT 2009 | Read full story 

Shipments will be down 6 percent this year compared to 2008, but positive growth is expected for 2010.
Thu, Jun 25 15:18:00 PDT 2009 | Read full story 


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