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As you read a sentence, its meaning may be clear even before you reach its end. This illustrates our topic. Our minds process text sequentially. As we read, the context presented to us by an author develops in our minds. What precedes clarifies what follows, and vice-versa. This phenomenon is a resu...
We all know the pun on the BlackBerry name, likening the smartphone to a very addictive and destructive drug. Bad taste and moral issues aside, though, recent research shows that today's workers are indeed extremely attached to their mobile devices, especially the ones that let users access e-mail a...
Zumobi, a new mobile widget platform and zooming interface based on Microsoft technology, has launched in beta mode after more than a year of development. The trial version of the service is available for phones running Windows Mobile 5 and 6. In the second quarter of 2008, Zumobi is planning to off...
One of the things you learn quickly when you work for a large company is how well executives can cover up failure. I think, to a large extent, that is what is happening with Linux. Folks are covering up its failure with rhetoric, and that is keeping it from growing to its potential. I'm an analyst, ...
Amazon has added a new component to its Amazon Web Services, the online retailer announced Thursday. SimpleDB, a new Web-based service for running queries on structured data in real time, joins Amazon's other offerings, Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud, as a computing solution for in...
Microsoft entered the final stage before the countdown begins for the planned release of its first Windows Vista Service Pack in January. The software giant announced the availability of the Vista Service Pack 1 release candidate for public download. With the release came more specific details on th...
Following in the footsteps of Facebook and MySpace, professional network LinkedIn announced on Monday a platform that gives third-party developers access to its application programming interfaces. The set of APIs and widgets in LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform -- dubbed "InApps," for shor...
Microsoft is previewing a new experimental developer toolset that will help developers distribute application code between the client and server in Web and Rich Internet Applications without manual coding between the distributed client-server tiers. Called "Volta," Microsoft's Live Labs team plans t...
Organizations are being pressured to extend the delivery of actionable information to all people when, where and how they need it. This requires that companies have the ability to combine, aggregate and integrate information to ensure that it reaches its intended audience in the most timely and effe...
Growing concerns over migrating to Vista may push companies to adopt alternative operating systems. A study released in late November revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users polled reported concerns about migrating to Microsoft's newest operating system. Forty-four percent of those polled said...
Despite improvements in system and network security, wily cybercriminals remain a significant threat, adjusting their methods to take advantage of unwary Internet users, the SANS Institute says in its report on the top 20 Internet security risks of 2007, released Tuesday. Hackers and cyberspies have...
The third Service Pack for Microsoft Windows XP, expected to be publicly released next year, might boost the operating system's speed to the point where it is substantially faster than Vista, its successor OS, according to a new study. In a benchmarking comparison between a beta version of XP Servic...
Last week was a short week, and while you know the outcome of Black Friday, that is still in my future. We did have two big announcements, though. Amazon made a run at the eBook market with what is the best eBook in the world; in addition, the Dell XPS One, which follows the Gateway One to market, i...
With the one-year anniversary of the launch of its Windows Vista operating system on the horizon, Microsoft for the past 10 months or so has been able to turn its attention to other projects. In particular, the software maker has been working to put out Vista's first service pack and a third service...
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 have been released to manufacturing and are now available for MSDN subscribers to download. Included in Visual Studio 2008 are enhancements such as visual designers for faster development with the .Net Framework 3.5, significant improvements to W...
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