Palm Pre, the smartphone that Palm hopes will revive its ailing fortunes and provide a viable smartphone competitor to Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s Blackberry, was reviewed by The Boy Genius Report. Apparently, the Pre has some innovative and interesting features, but it also has a few quirks that could prevent it from becoming a full-on iPhone killer.
– When the Palm Pre finally makes its much-anticipated rollout on June 6, it will directly challenge high-profile smartphones from competitors ranging from Apples iPhone to Research In Motion’s Blackberry line.
If an early review posted on The Boy Genius Report is any indication, Palm has delivered a…

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Microsoft has freed up its Windows 7 Starter operating system to enable users to do more with the software than the company initially allowed, such as run more than three applications simultaneously.
– Microsoft has freed up its Windows 7 Starter edition operating system to enable users to do more with the software than the company initially allowed, such as run more than three applications simultaneously.
Windows 7 Starter edition is an attractive destination for netbook users, and Microsoft wou…

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The latest roll-out includes the new HP StorageWorks X1000 and X3000 Network Storage Systems, which combine file and application storage. The other new storage systems in the launch are the StorageWorks 2000i and 2000sa G2 Modular Smart Arrays, which feature 2.5-inch, small form-factor drives that increase storage capacity and reduce power draw, thanks to cooler-running, multicore processors.
– Hewlett-Packard, continuing to brand itself as the go-to supplier of data storage systems for small and midrange businesses, on May 28 launched a bevy of new unifed computing and storage-related products aimed at those growing markets.

Unified storage systems combine both storage and application …

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Microsoft has set July 10 as the date for a launch event for version 3 of its Silverlight Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology and version 3 of the company’s Expression design tools.
– Microsoft has set July 10 as the date for a launch event for version 3 of its Silverlight Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology and version 3 of the company’s Expression design tools.
In a quot;Save the Date quot; invitation, Microsoft announced the July 10 date as a launch event for Silverli…

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President Obama issues his long awaited cyber security plan to near unanimous praise from the technology industry, not unlike the industry’s cheers that greeted former President Bush’s 2003 National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which has done little to secure the nation’s networks. The difference this time? Industry executives claims it is Obama himself.
– WASHINGTON — In
2003, then President Bush, with input from government agencies, the
private sector, academia and the military, issued the National Strategy
to Secure Cyberspace to rave reviews and gushing praise from the IT
industry. The plan set guidelines, avoided mandates and promised a
vag…

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