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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Why IT Co-location Centers Will See a Boom in 2009 Despite the Macroeconomy
December 30, 2008 – 3:58 pm
By Chris Preimesberger
Why IT Co-location Centers Will See a Boom in 2009 Despite the Macroeconomy. In the midst of a painful recession, i/o Data Centers, which houses about 150 SMB IT systems, secures $56 million in venture capital and becomes a poster child for a burgeoning market. Analysts expect co-location to be a hot sector [...]
Boxee Opening For Apple, Ubuntu Users
December 30, 2008 – 3:38 pm
By Amos Ngai
Great news for all the Apple TV users out there; the Boxee team has just announced that it will be offering the alpha software to all Apple and Ubuntu users. The Boxee software is a media library front end that acts as an alternative to iTunes on the Apple TV, OS X, and [...]
Google Earth for iPhone
December 30, 2008 – 3:01 pm
by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com
Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch is the mobile version of Google’s justly acclaimed desktop app. Like its desktop-based counterpart, the mobile version offers a birds-eye, 3-D view of the earth, allowing you to zoom, via satellite photos, from Paris to New York to (literally) your own backyard. And since [...]
Seven Tips to Success with a Corporate Wiki
December 29, 2008 – 10:38 am
C.G. Lynch , CIO.com Wikis can seem like a godsend to many corporate end users who’ve tried messy and unsatisfying collaboration via e-mail and other traditional corporate tools. A wiki — a webpage that can be simultaneously edited by multiple users and (ideally) done without any experience writing HTML code — takes a legitimate [...]
Windows 7 beta 1 makes early debut
December 29, 2008 – 9:25 am
By Steven Musil
The first beta of Microsoft’s next operating system has apparently been spotted in the wild. The first beta of Windows 7, which is expected to hit retailer shelves in time for the 2009 holiday shopping season, has reportedly popped up on torrent trackers as an ISO file. ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes also reports [...]
2009: Netbook or notebook?
December 29, 2008 – 7:18 am
By Brooke Crothers
2009 may be the year of the Netbook. But there’s a big if.
Here’s the choice: Will consumers buy a thin, light, relatively fast $1,800 MacBook Air or a thin, light, ultrasmall, not-as-fast $700 Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 Netbook?
The Top Tech Tips of 2008, Part 1
December 27, 2008 – 5:59 am
by Whitney Reynolds
Month after month, and year after year, one of the most consistently popular features of PCMag.com are our Solutions. It’s hardly any surprise; we have tech experts Loyd Case and Neil Rubenking answering your hardware and software questions, DIY projects to keep you building and busy, and a plethora of tips [...]
Digital TV converter coupons in short supply
December 27, 2008 – 5:48 am
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a regulator has warned.