Aug
31
Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3: New Features Revealed
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By Justin Kerr
Windows Live Hotmail’s 260 million users worldwide can look forward to a multitude of new features that were recently unveiled by Microsoft. Hotmail wave 3 promises a speed boost of over 70% during sign in, and will enable dynamic storage that [...]
Aug
30
RIAA Wins P2P Case Because Defendant Used a File Shredder
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By Justin Kerr
In a shocking turn of events in the Atlantic v. Howell case, the RIAA has scored a major victory and set a stern precedent against those accused of P2P copyright violations. Jeffrey Howell now finds himself on the hook for damages [...]
Aug
30
Microsoft’s Cashback is Program Slow to Produce Results
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By Justin Kerr
Microsoft’s quest for online dominance it would seem, will take more than just cash to realize. The aborted Yahoo deal was but a small part of a multifaceted approach towards capturing long term search engine market share, the most lucrative of which [...]
Aug
24
How To: Repartition Your Hard Drive For Free Without Formatting or Losing Data
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By Justin Kerr
Partitioning your hard drive has never been easier. Free options, including the Windows install disk, make this once monumental task a fairly simple two-click experience that many of us don’t spend nearly enough time thinking about when we first install our OS’s. [...]
Aug
17
Intel Blog Discusses Centrino 2 Graphics Performance Woes
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By Justin Kerr
Maximum PC readers know not to expect much from a notebook equipped with Intel Integrated graphics, but where do we draw the line? This is the answer Intel attempted to provide on its blog in response to concerns over poor performance of [...]
Aug
16
Microsoft May Buy Back Shares
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By Justin Kerr
What would you do with a multi billion dollar war chest? Well if your Microsoft, you try and buy up the largest search engine you can afford. But ever since Microsoft failed to convince the stubborn Jerry Yang to sell Yahoo, [...]
Aug
16
Nvidia Shows Off Interactive Ray Tracing Demo
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By Justin Kerr
Nvidia’s secret war with Intel has evolved into a full scale arms race for the atomic bomb of graphics technology, ray tracing. Using its forum at SIGGRAPH, Nvidia was able to demonstrate an interactive ray tracing simulation using four of the [...]
Aug
10
Microsoft R&D Looks To A World Without Windows
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By Justin Kerr
It’s hard to imagine Windows, or some other rich operating system not being at the center of my digital word. But then again, 10 years ago it was hard to imagine having a digital world at all. Intense speculation over the future [...]
Aug
9
Intel Release’s New Midrange Chips On Monday
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By Justin Kerr
In an attempt to tighten the screws on AMD, Intel is continuing to roll out new midrange processors early next week. Despite the fact that they aren’t officially released yet, online e-tailers are already taking orders. The CPU’s will be based on Intel’s [...]
Aug
9
Windows Vista 64-Bit – Is It Ready For Primetime?
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By Justin Kerr
When Windows Vista launched back in January 2007, the 64-bit edition was clearly not ready for primetime. The driver and compatibility issues that mired the early days of the OS were even worse on the 64-bit side, and for most users Vista [...]