$30 Windows 7 For Students
If you’re a student with a valid .edu e-mail address (non US students see below), Microsoft is offering Windows 7 for $30 USD for a limited period. Microsoft also has a growing list of approved US institutions that don’t provide their students with e-mail addresses. The price tag has been reduced from the lowest Windows 7 retail price of $120 (USD) for a Home Premium upgrade and the special promotional price can be obtained through win741.com, which was launched this week. This is not...
Google Maps Live Gridlock-breaker
September 17, 2009 by Mike
Filed under Technology
THE creators of Google Maps have taken the technology further down the information superhighway to launch a feature that allows Australian commuters to view up-to-date traffic flow information. The feature, which is displayed in the Google Maps format, is available in the capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, as well as Wollongong, the NSW Central Coast, Geelong, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. Traffic information about motorways, as well as major and minor arterial routes, are...
ARM Targets Intel With 2GHz Multicore Chips
September 17, 2009 by Mike
Filed under Technology
UK-based chip company ARM has today announced the development of dual-core, quad-core and eight-core Cortex-A9 processor designs, explicitly aimed at markets currently served by Intel’s x86 chips and IBM’s PowerPC. “This is a huge departure from what we’ve done in the past”, Eric Schorn, vice president, marketing for ARM’s processor division, told ZDNet UK. “We really wanted to take off the handcuffs and see what could be done with performance, performance,...
Native CableCARD For Windows 7
September 15, 2009 by Mike
Filed under Windows Media Center
In addition to increasing the number of TV tuners from two to four in Windows 7 Media Center, Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Media Center users in the US, with the blessing of CableLabs, will now be able add CableCARD tuners (e.g. ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner) to their PC without any hacking. What’s more, Windows 7 will integrate “Copy Freely” or CF functionality to allow users to transfer/stream CF-marked digital cable recordings to other PCs, devices, and portable media players. CableCARD...