Microsoft Wants less Mobile Phones with Windows Mobile
Microsoft wants to limit the Windows Mobile platform to make it more competitive with other mobile platforms. In 2008, there were 40 smart phones, which have Windows Mobile OS.
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Skype Slimmed-down for Mobile Phones
Skype has announced a slimmed-down version to run on virtually all mobile phones. The Java version is also compatible for mobile phones with Google's Android operating system.
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Windows 7 Beta Temporarily Offline
Microsoft has decided to suspend the download of the Windows 7 beta after the site become overloaded. The first beta was available for MSDN and Technet subscribers. However, Microsoft had problems with the issuance of keys.
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Adobe to Tune up Flash for TV devices
Intel and Adobe Systems will work together to adapt Adobe's Flash media technology to work in TV-focused devices. They will focus on fine-tuning the Flash Player and Flash Lite for Intel's Media Processor CS 31000. The aim - Intel to ship the first CE 3100 chip with Flash Lite before the middle of the year.Read More
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Donation Surge Saves Wikipedia
Wikipedia has managed to secure enough funding to keep running for another year. In addition to maintain the site it requires $6m to pay its staff. The online encyclopedia relies on user-generated content and edits but it had raised only $3.8m of the money shortly before Christmas.
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Software Development Predictions for 2009
New Year's is a great occasion for predictions on what 2009 might have in store for the software development market. IT resources will be limited and business pressures higher but only time will tell. Here are few thoughts about what might come up in 2009.
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Android Notebooks on Their Way
Daniel Hartmann and Matthaus Krzykowski needed 4 hours of work to compile Android for a notebook. They got the notebook fully up and running on it, with almost all of the necessary hardware including graphics, sound and a wireless card for internet.
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Firefox Continues to Internet Explorer
Mozilla's Firefox, the largest competitor in terms of Microsoft, was at the end of 2008 by more than 21% of surfers use, and increase of over 4 percentage points. According to data from Market Share, the share of Internet Explorer in 2008 dropped down from 75% to just over 68%.
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Windows 7 Beta 1 Review
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes took a deep look into the latest release of Windows 7 beta 1 that was available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January.
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We Wish You Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We are so into the Holiday season that we are taking a deserved break until January 5th. We'll be back with some cool new stuff coming in the January 7th newsletter. If you don't get a quick respond from our Support team we asure you, they just had too much Eggnog.
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