Reports: Windows 7 Release to Market Set for July 13
Windows 7 nears general availability The year's most highly anticipated software release, Windows 7, is just around the corner. Microsoft recently announced that the new OS would see general availability (consumer sales) on October 22. In preparation for that, it recently began its termination of the beta program, encouraging users to install the Release Candidate build which will be available until August. A bevy of Windows blogs including Neowin.net, GeekSmack.net, and Wzor report that the final "gold" build of Windows 7 will occur on July 10 and the OS will see a release-to-market on July 13. Release to ...
Firefox 3.5 to get first update later this month
San Jose (CA) – The Mozilla team is rushing to create the first minor update for its just-released browser Firefox 3.5 for a mid- to late July release. The update will fix at least three of 55 published bugs in the new browser. Firefox 3.5.1, due in mid to late July, is planned as a “quick turnaround” update that “fixes topcrashes and bugs [Mozilla] almost held ship for.” These topfixes are a cryptography issue under Windows XP, disconnected Arabic letters in edit fields as well as crashes caused by the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. Mozilla has not yet decided whether 3.5.1 will ...
Facebook promises privacy settings to suit ‘everyone’
And kills off regional groups Social network Facebook is road testing new privacy settings to replace the various privacy limits currently required for different applications and content. Users will be offered a transition tool to help them move their settings across to a new page. Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer, said the company had previously added privacy settings onto new features as they were introduced which led to a confusing and complicated process if a user wished to change settings. Kelly said the tool was designed to preserve previous privacy settings and that Facebook would not be changing the information it shares with ...
Google Apps Go Social With Improved Contacts & A New API
With some core changes to contacts, Google Apps has dipped a toe in to the enterprise social networking waters. As of today, Apps contacts exhibits shades of Facebook and Twitter by allowing you to find and interact with all the user profiles in your Apps suite. According to Google, these adjustments where made at the behest of enterprise Apps users. It has also made a user profiles API available to Premier Edition customers, one that allows IT to retrieve and manipulate data about all the people using Apps in a company. Read more: readwriteweb.com
Bing Adds Twitter Searches
Microsoft's new search engine looks to capture the real-time Web. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users. "There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter," said Sean Suchter, general manager for Microsoft's Search Technology Center in Silicon Valley, in a blog post Wednesday. "Today we're unveiling an initial foray into integrating more real-time data into our search results, starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers ...
Yahoo to build green ‘chicken coop’ datacentre
Web firm promises greenest facility yet Yahoo has unveiled plans for new datacentres that it claims will be the company's greenest yet, and has promised to cut its global carbon intensity by at least 40 per cent by 2014. Dubbed the Yahoo Computing Coop, owing to its similarity to a chicken house, the datacentres use high pointed ceilings and louvered walls to dissipate heat naturally, eliminating the need for an air conditioning system. "For datacentre geeks, we expect our new design will have an annualised average power usage effectiveness [PUE] of 1.1 or better," said David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo. Read more: v3.co.uk
Bing’s first month produces small share gain
Bing took a baby step up the search engine ladder in its first month on the Internet. Microsoft's share of the search market increased from 7.81 percent prior to the launch of Bing to 8.23 percent for the month of June, according to data from Statcounter picked up by Reuters. Bing got a noticeable bounce during the first few weeks of June, but settled back after the novelty wore off. Google's share dropped ever so slightly, from a dominant 78.72 percent of the search market in May to a perilously shaky 78.48 percent of the market in June, a drop attributed by ...
Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers
The new owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files. Global Gaming Factory (GGF) paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF's Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more attractive. "We are going to set up a system where the file-sharer actually makes money," he said. According to Mr Pandeya, GGF's chief executive, the business model for The Pirate Bay would be that it continued to be a file-sharing site. The only difference - at least ...
Apple releases 3.1 beta for iPhone SDK
Apple has released a 3.1 beta for the iPhone SDK. Both the SDK beta and firmware are available for testing and development to paid members of the iPhone developer program. As pre-release software, any details about this new release remain under NDA. A pre-installation advisory and beta release notes are available as per Apple's usual release strategy. As before, you cannot use the 3.1 SDK to create applications for submitting to the App Store, so if you plan to download it be prepared to create a separate installation directory. Read more: tuaw.com
Joost’s Last Hope Isn’t A Promising One
It’s sad to see a company that we were all so excited about fade further into oblivion. Today Joost, one of the most anticipated startups in 2006/2007, is just an also ran in a sea of big online video sites like YouTube and Hulu. Today CEO Mike Volpi stepped down, the company is laying off most of staff, and refocusing the business to “white label online video platforms for media companies.” Om has a good monday morning quarterback overview of why they failed, but to me it comes down to just a few things. They over funded ($45 million before ...
Pirate Bay site sold to game firm
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been sold to a Swedish gaming company. Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site from its founders. Once it has taken control, GGF said it would start paying copyright fees for the movies, music and games linked to via the site. In April, The Pirate Bay owners were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement, fined 30m kronor and were sentenced to one year in jail. Read more: news.bbc.co.uk
Steve Jobs Officially Back to Work As Apple’s CEO
Steve Jobs is officially back to work today, according to Apple spokespeople. “Officially” is the key word here, as the “unofficial” return of Jobs from a liver transplant came last week, when the Apple founder was quoted in a press release about the iPhone 3GS’ massive first weekend of sales. The good news is that Jobs’ return appears to be going according to plan. When it was first revealed in January that Jobs was ill and taking a leave of absence, he said at the time in a note to Apple employees that he’d be gone “until the end of June.” ...
Palm Pre Sales Top the 300,000 Mark in June
Boston (DbTechNo) - Sales of the new Palm Pre seem to be going as expected as more than 300,000 units have been sold so far. Many insiders thought that because of the new iPhone dominating all the buzz that sales of the Palm would be effected. Apple is having sweeter success however after launching their new iPhone, with an estimated 800,000 units shipped so far. Read more: dbtechno.com
Firefox 3.5 out of the gate
San Jose (CA) – Mozilla met its initial target of releasing a new generation of its Firefox web browser in Q2. Version 3.5 was released earlier today, replacing Version 3.0, which was introduced in June 2008. The new Firefox brings massive speed improvements and enough new features that could have justified a 4.0 version number. Firefox 3.5 comes on the last day of Q2, following three release candidates and eight months after the first beta. Mozilla’s director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner, told TG Daily in a previous interview that he is aiming for a major new release every year and ...
Sony just starting on PSP-based iPhone rival?
Sony is just now developing a gaming-themed phone that would be targeted explicitly at the iPhone, Japan's Nikkei BP said this weekend. The company is supposedly creating a device team as soon as July that would merge the gaming qualities of the PSP with its Sony Ericsson handsets. It's implied that the device would have a touchscreen to better position the device against Apple's hardware. It's not completely certain that the project will start, and as it will be in the very earliest stage, no launch information or details of the phone itself are available. Read more: electronista.com
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