Could Windows 7 use touchscreen tech? July 30, 2007

Microsoft revealed earlier this week that Windows Vista’s successor – codenamed Windows 7 – is scheduled to be released in 2010. But what the company is not making clear is what new features the OS will have, a topic that has become fodder for educated speculation.
Analysts said Microsoft is probably keeping tight-lipped about what Windows [...]

BBC Launches Free Online TV in UK July 30, 2007

 The BBC launched its online television service on Friday, which is being called the biggest change to the way its viewers watch its programming in four decades.The advent of content on the Internet is as big for the BBC as its first broadcasts in color in the 1960s, according to Director General Mark Thompson.
Altogether, about [...]

Apple Buys Open Source Printing Software July 14, 2007

In a move that should help the company improve the printing capabilities in Mac OS X Leopard, due this October, Apple has acquired the source code to the UNIX printing software CUPS in addition to hiring the program’s author. CUPS will continue to be available under its existing GPL2/LGPL2 license.
An acronym for Common Unix Printing [...]

Windows Live Mobile Search 2.0 Out July 14, 2007

Microsoft released the second version of its Windows Live Mobile Search application on Friday, including some new features for both the standalone and Web-based versions of the client.
Versions of the software are available for Windows Mobile, J2ME, and in beta for BlackBerry devices. Unsupported phones will be able to access the new Web-based version. The [...]

Apple Files New Wi-Fi iPod Patents July 14, 2007

 
Apple may be close to developing a Wi-Fi enabled iPod as a new patent application submitted recently by the company indicates it is developing a way for devices to talk to each other through a wireless network.
First reported by Macsimum News on Thursday, the patent sounds quite similar to what Microsoft is already doing with [...]

Wii outsells PS3 ’six to one’ in Japan July 9, 2007

Nintendo sold 270,974 Wii consoles last month while Sony sold 41,628 PS3s, according to Enterbrain, a Japanese publisher that tracks console sales.
Nintendo has sold about 2.76m Wii consoles in Japan since the launch last December, while Sony has sold 970,270 PS3s since it debuted last November.
About 17,616 Xbox 360 consoles were sold [...]

FeedBurner premium news feed now free July 8, 2007

RSS provider FeedBurner is to make its premium news feed management services available to publishers at no extra charge, just one month after being acquired by Google.
FeedBurner’s Stats PRO and MyBrand services were previously available for an additional monthly fee of $5.
Stats PRO includes tools to allow users to more effectively track stats on feeds, [...]

Solaris to Get Linux Features July 8, 2007

BOSTON (Reuters) – Sun Microsystems Inc. is revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could gain better support from developers who have massed behind Linux.
Solaris is one of the main varieties of the Unix family of operating systems, known for their [...]