Microsoft Windows 7 - In-Depth First Impressions and Review
We’ve been playing with the new Beta release of Microsoft Windows 7 for about a week now and here are our first impressions of Microsoft’s new OS as well as the bundled Internet Explorer 8.
We installed Windows 7 on top of VMWare Fusion running on a MacBook [...]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported losses of $209 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended December 28, 2009.
Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 were $3.220 billion, a decrease of 10.9 percent as compared with $3.615 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2008, and an increase of 7.7 percent as compared [...]
Apple Trojan Strikes Again - this time in Adobe CS4
Last week we reported that up 20,000 users had downloaded a rogue installer of Apple’s iWork ‘09 suite containing a Trojan horse. The Trojan named OSX.Trojan.iServices.A has unrestrained root access, which it immediately uses to connect to a remote server over the Internet. A secondary download installs [...]
Advanced Micro Devices or AMD has officially released their delayed and highly-anticipated 45-nm Opteron “Shanghai” processor for high-end workstations and servers. The long awaited chips feature high performance, multi-core processing ideal for virtualization, low power consumption and much more.
The announcement comes after AMD stumbled with their under-performing 65-nm “Barcelona” chips and had to play catch up [...]
Internet Explorer 8 official release imminent
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) has been in its second beta since August and a post on Microsoft’s blog on Wednesday stated the company was “about to release” IE8 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) for Windows XP and Vista.
Microsoft plans to deliver the first official release candidate of the next version of Internet Explorer [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft’s Q2 earnings on $16.6 billion in revenue are “approximately $900 million below our earlier expectations.” This comes after Microsoft announced huge layoffs in response to the deteriorating economy slowly creeping into the tech sector.
Microsoft’s miss took its share price down more than 10% and closed to $17.20 share [...]
Trojan Virus affects thousands of pirated copies of Apple’s iWork ‘09 Suite
Malware masquerading as part of Apple’s iWork ‘09 suite has targeted unsuspecting Mac users foolish enough to illegally download and install the pirated version of the software commonly found on warez sites around the Web.
Once iWork ‘09 is downloaded and installed, the trojan horse named OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, obtains [...]
Apple COO Tim Cook discusses profits and netbooks
Apple reported very positive earnings today with CFO Peter Oppenheimer reporting fiscal profit of $1.6 billion on revenue of $10.17 billion. Apple also made a positive second quarter outlook. Street analysts expect earnings of $1.13 per share on revenue of $8.20 billion.
Apple is also sitting on hefty and [...]
Apple Conference Call with Investors
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and COO Tim Cook reported positive ‘09 First Quarter Results via their live broadcast today. Apple reported all time high quarterly earnings and entered the 2008 holiday season with its best holiday line up yet. Apple COO Tim Cook also spoke about the emerging Netbook market, Apple iPhone [...]
Intel announces 40% drop in prices across the board for its Quad-core offerings.
On Monday, Intel announced price cuts across their wide range of chips used in mobile and desktop PCs, including a drop of up to 40 percent for its premiere 45nm quad-core chips.
Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9650 processor is now priced at US$316, a [...]
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