Certainly, a Microsoft and Yahoo joint search engine would in theory give Google some competition in the search and online ad business. But even a combined Yahoo and Microsoft search proposition would still be a long way behind Google.read more | digg story

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Late last night I was surfing the web and reading the news on CNN.com where I noticed their search bar at the top of the page. I deiced to place the keyword linux into there and click to search this site just to see if there was any news that I missed that went to the general public. What I found in the paid search really shocked me – Read more..read more | digg story

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Microsoft Surface (Codename: Milan), is a forthcoming Multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at D5 conference, and is expected to be released by commercial partners in spring 2008.[1] Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, and public entertainment venues.

Overview
Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside …

One of the great features of the Play Station 3 is that it can use Linux, which means that PS3 owners can customize their system and get lots more out of it. Gaming consoles are usually designed so that foreign systems can’t run on them, but the PS3 goes in the total opposite direction, allowing an experienced Linux user to personalize their system. Most gaming systems are “locked” so that other systems can’t be run, so PS3 is unconventional in allowing this. The only thing you can’t do on the …

Shop manager Aaron Kaplan said they were prompted to put it up because so many people were having problems with Windows Vista, including compatibility issues with older software and trouble adjusting to the interface.read more | digg story

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Taipei, Taiwan – Micro-Star International (MSI), one of the leaders in mainboard technology, has just launched its first EFI BIOS based mainboard “EFINITY”. EFI, Extensible Firmware Interface, is intended to replace the legacy BIOS firmware interface used by modern PCs. It offers a new and more flexible interface that supports colorful graphical interfaces, multiple languages and has mouse support.
New Type of Graphics BIOS Settings
MSI has started to phase-in EFI into its next generation mainboard platform. The ability to use a GUI and mouse encourage users to unlock the full potential …

Microsoft plans for Internet Explorer 8 to be the most standards-compliant browser it has ever shipped. Problem is, it also needs to render the same pages old versions of IE can. Ars explores how Microsoft got into this predicament and the problems with IE8’s solution: multiple rendering modes.read more | digg story

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Wine is a software application which aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications against in order to port them to Unix-like systems.
The name ‘Wine’ derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator. While the name sometimes appears in the forms “WINE” and “wine”, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form “Wine”.
The Wine developers released the first …

Hush! Google is on march. Would you be scared? Nope, did you say?
The extraordinary interest that Google generates in what it is up to is stupendous, and Gdrive was no exception. Nobody knows for sure it would be Gdrive, but the name persisted. And very soon, a pattern seems to have emerged. According to pundits, Google shortly plans to come out with ‘virtual hard disc’. Now what’s that?
The webcast
It all started on an innocuous morning (March 2), but special for those who wanted to attend the planned webcast of ‘Google …

There is a lot of buzz going around about Virtualization. What is Virtualization, and what benefits does it provide? In this article we will take a look at the technology to see how it can provide a great deal of flexibility and cost effectiveness for IT professionals and software developers.
Virtualization technology allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single host computer. These virtual machines can run different operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and UNIX. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware resources (e.g., CPU, RAM, …