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Mobile
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Written by Paul Paliath
on Thursday, March 18, 2010
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While Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series is months away from hitting the shelves, they did show off a commercial at MIX 2010 that hints at what the ad campaign will be like once Microsoft starts to widely market WP7. The commercial certainly fits the “life in motion” school of thought that Microsoft approached Windows Phone 7 and the Metro UI with, showing multiple people using their WP7 devic..
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Apple
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Written by Paul Paliath
on Thursday, March 18, 2010
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 Today, if you were to go to the Apple front page, you would find that in place of the iPad promotional content is a tribute to an employee who passed away. They have put up a picture of him, along with the following message: “With deep sadness we announce the loss of a member of our corporate family and dear friend, Jerry York. Jerry courageously joined Apple’s Board of Directors in 1997, when ..
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Microsoft
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Written by Paul Paliath
on Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Until now, Microsoft has remained pretty tight-lipped on Windows 7 SP1, and the only information we have thus far on it is the leaked info from an array of sources, primarily Russian enthusiast site WZOR. However, today, amongst a flurry of virtualization-related chatter, Microsoft said a little something about SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. On the Windows 7 front, nothing much ..
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Microsoft
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Written by Paul Paliath
on Thursday, March 18, 2010
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On Thursday, Microsoft has announced that Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run; this means that if you happen to have an older system with a CPU incapable of supporting virtualization, and this prevented you from making the switch to 7 as you or your business needed applications that would only work through XP Mode, you can now upgrade to 7 and take advant..
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Microsoft
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Written by Iian Kehn
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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 While we haven’t had the largest coverage because of the lack of staffers being able to attend the conference, we have been doing what we can to get some of the most important highlights of MIX here at GeekSmack, but at the time of this writing, MIX is over, and here’s what we saw this year. Windows Phone 7 in detail While we got a little look of Windows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress in Febr..
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Microsoft
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Written by Eugene Cheung
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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 Portuguese site Livebetas has managed to get their hands on the Wave 4 beta of the Windows Live Essentials applications. Unfortunately, the have only released some screenshots of the apps instead of actually leaking the goods. The build, 15.2.2585.0122, provides us with a peek to what it will all look at later on (the author suggests that the public beta will launch in May). As ..
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Industry News
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Written by Eugene Cheung
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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 Kotaku has managed to unearth a photo of a new XBOX 360 motherboard, which is in turn dominated with a large CoolerMaster fan (no more RRODs?). Sure, Microsoft has released a few iterations of the 360’s guts, but this is the first time that the company has managed to shove both the CPU and GPU into a single board, making it smaller/slimmer. To quote Kotaku: The pic above shows the board in..
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Hardware
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Written by Patrick Laughner
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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 Quite possibly creating one of the most powerful/awesome enthusiast-class motherboards yet, EVGA today announced the release of the Classified SR-2. Skull Trail’s and Westmere’s love child, this board supports two Intel LGA-1366 socket CPUs. Strap two Intel Xeon 5600-series to this bad boy and you’ll have the most powerful rig around. When using this board with two new Xeon 5600-series or Core..
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Hardware
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Written by Patrick Laughner
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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 Tuesday, Intel Announced the release of their 32nm Xeon-based server CPU’s. Dubbing them, “the most secure data center processors”, and for good reasons. The Xeon 5600 series is Intel’s newest flagship server CPU at 32nm, replacing the 5500 series at 45nm. Unlike the consumers-range “Core i” series, the new Xeon lineup buffs two brand new security features: Intel AES-NI (Advanced Encryption S..
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Microsoft
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Written by Iian Kehn
on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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 If you’re waiting to get your grubby hands on the newest build of Internet Explorer, now’s your chance. At MIX ‘10 Microsoft announced that IE9 will be available for developers to test and develop upon. The new release, as highlighted before brings some welcomed additions to the IE Platform: GPU Acceleration HTML5 Support CSS3 Support Dynamic Imaging (via HTML and SVG) SunSpi..
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