Computer makers “will say a machine is Capable and customers will believe that it will run all the core Vista features,” Allchin wrote. “The fact that aero (Vista’s new graphics theme) won’t be there EVER for many of these machines is misleading to customers.”
Microsoft eventually did drop that requirement, a shift that is now the [...]
Compared to IE7 and Firefox 3, Chrome has the least reason to offer such a feature considering how little of your screen real estate its UI takes up. However, for users on ultraportable notebooks, that extra few pixels can make the browsing experience a far more enjoyable experience. It can also be incredibly helpful if [...]
That’s a drag for those of us who have to reckon with multiple non-interoperable instant messaging networks. But it probably makes sense for Yahoo as it tries to wire its Internet properties together socially. Yahoo Messenger is one key communications hub, and it’s a component of the Yahoo Open Strategy.
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Sites will be rated with a color-coded icon in one of four colors–green for safe, yellow for risky, red for unsafe, and gray for unknown, said Andrew Moers, president of Ask Partner Network. Moving the cursor over the icon will display more information about the rating.
Safe Search offers the ratings directly in the [...]
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Say what you will about the prominence of MySpace and Facebook in the U.S., but in Japan, they barely compete. A major social network called Mixi reigns supreme and there’s nothing Facebook nor MySpace have been able to do about it.
Skyrock dubs itself the “Free People Network” and generally succeeds in making that moniker [...]
Other large IT vendors, like IBM, are making similar efforts to manage both IT equipment and building management systems.
Cisco’s longer-term plan is to get beyond tech gear and into building-automation systems.
Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced software for controlling energy use in networked computing equipment as well as building heating and cooling systems.
On Tuesday, Cisco said it bought a company called Richards-Zeta Building Intelligen
