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HP unveils kiddie laptops

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:31:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good for big kids to.

Hewlett-Packard unveils kiddie laptops

Mini machines used for the basics: surfing the Web, word processing

Hewlett-Packard's new "Mini-Note" weighs less than 3 pounds with a screen that measures 8.9 inches diagonally. HP's Christine Wright holds a new class of the miniature laptop here.

SAN FRANCISCO - One more of the world's biggest technology companies is clamoring to enter the growing market for pint-sized computers targeted mainly for pint-sized customers.

The machines are so new the industry hasn't settled on a name for low-cost and scaled-down laptops used primarily for surfing the Internet and performing other basic functions like word processing.

Intel has labeled them "netbooks," and it expects more than 50 million netbooks to be in circulation by 2011.

Vista drivers hunting

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:28:51 GMT

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Without Vista drivers, it's 2001 all over again

Hunt for software can be frustrating, time-consuming — and fruitless

When Vista launched, Microsoft says it made available 30,000 drivers, serving 1.7 million devices. Every month the company is adding between 1,500 and 2,000 drivers, or manufacturer links to them, at its support Web site.

But that hasn’t been the case for some of his gadgets, such as an ultra-secure flash drive and a USB bar code reader.

They don’t have the sex appeal of MP3 players, SmartPhones or digital cameras. Yet without updated drivers for Vista, some of those gadgets may not work with Vista, and it could start to feel like it’s 2001.

That’s when Microsoft’s last major Windows revision, XP, was released.

When Vista launched, Microsoft made available 30,000 drivers, serving 1.7 million devices, said Dave Wascha, the company’s director of platform partner product management.

Vista Sucks keep XP June 2010

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:58:48 GMT

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If Vista “gets a long enough life cycle, it will not be remembered like Millennium Edition,” he said.

That life cycle is looking somewhat shorter than XP’s. Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said recently that the new version of Windows’ operating software, code-named Windows 7, will be released “sometime in the next year or so.”

In the meantime, the company is facing a class-action lawsuit in federal court over the way it advertised computers sold with XP as being capable of running Vista.

Among them, the company said earlier this month it will keep selling a version of XP for use on new, low-cost computers, such as Intel’s Classmate PC, through at least June 2010. Such computers are designed mainly for word processing, e-mail and Web surfing.

Gates: Next Windows ‘sometime’ in next year
Microsoft class action suit over Vista approved
Without Vista drivers, it's 2001 all over again
XP vs. Vista: What’s your opinion?

Vista Sucks

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:46:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Save XP

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A petition to “Save Windows XP” has drawn more than 111,000 supporters — and continued shots across the Microsoft XP vs. Vista bow, a battle that began with Vista’s release last year.

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Among the concerns about Vista are the amount of computer memory and space it requires, its seemingly slower speed and frustration over the fact that third-party drivers for some printers and other devices are still not available from the companies that make those devices.

XP also will be available for sale until Jan. 31, 2009, by “system builders,” small businesses that custom-build “white box,” or generic, PCs.

Gates: Next Windows ‘sometime’ in next year
Microsoft class action suit over Vista approved
Without Vista drivers, it's 2001 all over again
XP vs. Vista: What’s your opinion?

The software awards scam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:08:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great job

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The software awards scam

I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Some of them even emailed me messages of encouragement such as “Great job, we’re really impressed!”. I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ’software’ doesn’t even run. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe. The PAD file that described the software contains the description “This program does nothing at all”. The screenshot I submitted (below) was similarly blunt and to the point:

ecocho search & We grow trees tell a friend

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:40:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: new search engine that fights climate change.

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Tell a friend | Get Ecocho toolbar | Bookmark us | Share it

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Ecocho : You search. We grow trees.

What's ecocho?

A new search engine that fights climate change!

For every 1000 searches made, Ecocho grows up to 2 trees
- this offsets a ton of greenhouse gases.

We pay for the trees via ads on the site.

Choose from either Yahoo or Google and start eco-searching!

ecocho search & We grow trees

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:33:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 2 trees for every 1000 searches that be good.

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The world’s first ‘green’ search engine that offsets carbon emissions with no cost to the user, has launched in New Zealand.

ecocho.co.nz is a site that generates positive environmental gains by sponsoring the growth of up to two trees for every 1000 searches users make using the search engines Yahoo! and Google. A worldwide version is available at www.ecocho.com and an Australian version is available at www.ecocho.com.au.

The site uses custom Google and Yahoo! searches as the foundation for its branded service, and uses the income from advertising to plant trees.

Founder of ecocho, Tim Macdonald said, “In New Zealand alone, web users conduct close to 120 million Internet searches each month, and if we could capture just one per cent of that traffic, we would make a significant contribution towards lowering the impact of harmful greenhouse gas emissions”.