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Sneak peek: Windows 7 RC
Ed Bott: A handful of obvious details, like the new
wallpaper, have grabbed most of the attention since
Windows 7 Build 7048 leaked out of Microsoft's labs
last week. Let's dig deeper: Here's a preview of 21
more subtle changes added since the December 2008
beta release.
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How Amazon builds world's most scalable storage
Robin Harris: The cloud storage market is accelerating fast
-- and Amazon's S3 leads the charge. Storing over 40 billion
files for 400,000 customers, Amazon is the one to beat. How
do they it for pennies per GB a month?
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All that Jive: Putting the 'social' into business software
Oliver Marks: Jive renames and refreshes Clearspace
to make a play as an enterprise-class, company-wide
backbone for all facets of business collaboration.
Now comes the hard part.
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AMD's new dawn: 'Tickled pink' about GlobalFoundries deal
Larry Dignan: AMD has closed the spin-off of its manufacturing
assets, received a much needed cash injection, created
product lineup that is competitive and set course for a more
focused future. These moves, however, come amid a sharp
decline in PC and server demand. Where is AMD headed?
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Extreme PCs and "Homebrewing": Rest in Peace
Jason Perlow: In the glory days, everyone had lots of disposable
income, and those of us who called ourselves "PC Enthusiasts"
thought nothing of doing complete hardware refreshes every six
months to keep up with the technology. Bigger, better, faster --
you get the picture. Are those days over?
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Scaled-down Mac OS X or scaled-up iPhone OS?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Wintek reportedly will
start supplying Apple with touch-sensitive panels
during Q3 of this year for a new product. What do
you think Apple is working on -- a netbook-type
system or a larger iPhone-style iTablet? Here's why
the latter option makes more sense.
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Scoreboard: The highest and lowest rated leaders in tech
Jason Hiner: When I looked up technology executives on Glassdoor.com
to see how they were rated by their employees, I was surprised. Here are
14 leaders, from Ballmer to Jobs, Dell to Benioff, and where they
ended up.
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iPhone developer: You need Apple but Apple doesn't need you
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: It seems that Apple has been caught off
guard by the fact that the 12 month anniversary has come and gone
for some iPhone developers and they've not had their developer
contract renewed. It seems that Apple has no clue as to what's
going on -- and the reality is that no one cares.
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Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web'
"Just looks like a specialized search engine to me. Specialized isn't going to kill Google." -- CobraA1
Is this newest Apple netbook rumor just more wishful thinking?
"By definition a netbook pretty much a cut down cheap laptop. Apple don't do cheap." -- absent
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21 changes to look for in the Windows 7 Release Candidate
Windows 7 Build 7048, which leaked out of Microsoft's labs
last week, isn't the long-awaited Release Candidate RC, but
it does include changes that were checked in after the beta
release and will be a part of the RC when it's ready. Here's
a preview of 21 changes.
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Seagate demos 6Gbps hard-drive transfer speed
Andrew Nusca: In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced
today its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA
interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds
up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps.
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