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Microsoft Releases Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

September 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsofts new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 is supposed to support IT administrators in deploying not only Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 but also older versions of Microsoft products including Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Although originally intended to roll out in its final version following the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7, Microsoft released the Toolkit several weeks before the new operating system.
– Microsoft has released the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, a Â“solution
acceleratorÂ” that supports IT administrators in their deployment of not only the
upcoming Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but also Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

Although t…

Symantec Norton 2010 Pushes Reputation Technology in Malware Battle

September 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Symantec releases Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 and touts the products’ anti-malware use of reputation technology. This exemplifies a trend among security vendors in recent years of moving beyond traditional signature-based approaches to fighting malware.
– It is no secret that the anti-virus market has been
struggling to keep up with threats.
For that reason, many security vendors have been moving away from a strictly
signature-based approach in favor of other types of malware protection using techniques
like whitelisting and behavioral-based det…

DICE DELIVERS BEST OF BREED MULTIPLAYER ACTION ON MARCH 2, 2010 WITH BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2

August 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Get ready to storm the battlefield! DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that Battlefield: Bad Companyâ„¢ 2 will be available March 2, 2010 in North America and March 5, 2010 in Europe. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will deliver a level of destruction, vehicular warfare, squad play and open world environments never [...]

EA MONTREAL ANNOUNCES ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY WILL HIT RETAIL STORES IN JANUARY 2010

August 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Exclusive Access to All-New Multi-player Mode â€˜Extractionâ€™ Available with Pre-order Montreal, Canada â€“ August 13, 2009 â€“ Start off 2010 with a bang! EA Montreal, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced ARMY OF TWOâ„¢: THE 40th DAY will ship on January 12, 2010 in North America and January 8, 2010 in [...]

Microsoft Locks Down Office.com, Likely for Office 2010

August 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft has secured office.com, suggesting that its upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 will debut on a site other than office.microsoft.com. Unlike previous versions of the productivity suite, Office 2010 will have a substantial Web-based component, with Microsoft Live subscribers able to access stripped-down versions of OneNote, Excel, Word and PowerPoint for free online. For businesses, Microsoft also plans on offering Office 2010 as both a hosted subscription service and on-premises solution.
– Microsoft has secured the Office.com URL, which will presumably become the platform for
its upcoming Microsoft Office 2010.

A quick search on Whois.net reveals that Microsoft Corporation
was indeed registered as Domain Administrator of office.com as of Aug. 4. The registration expires on April…

Ethernet Switch Market Will Rebound in 2010: Dell’Oro

August 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Driven by the demand for 10GbE and the moves by such vendors as Cisco, HP and IBM to a more converged data center, DellOro Group analysts expect that the market for Ethernet switches will begin to grow again next year. However, the sharp decline in the market in the first quarter of 2009 will make for a difficult year, with revenues dropping by 20 percent.
– The push by such vendors as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard to offer more
converged data center solutions will help drive the expected rebound in the
Ethernet switch market in 2010, according to a report by DellOro Group.
Another key driver will be the growing demand for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, th…

Toshiba 64GB SDXC Memory Card Coming in 2010

August 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Toshiba will begin shipping samples of a 64GB SDXC memory card to OEM manufacturers this fall, with the expectation that cards will reach retailers in the first part of 2010. It also announced plans for 32GB and 16GB SDHC cards. Toshiba reports that all three are compliant with the worlds fastest data transfer rate.
– Toshiba has unveiled plans for a 64GB SDXC memory card, with what it says is
the worlds fastest data transfer rate. The card is also compliant with the new
SD Memory Standard Version 3.0 UHS104, which
is said to deliver data rates of 104MB per second.

Additionally, Toshiba has included its S…

Palm Pre Arriving on Verizon Wireless’ Network in 2010

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

The Palm Pre smartphone will no longer be exclusive to the Sprint network, and will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network Â“early next year,Â” said Verizon COO Denny Stigl during the carriers July 27 quarterly earnings call. Strigl also said a BlackBerry Storm refresh and a device running the Google Android OS are on the way.
– During a July 27 Verizon
Wireless conference call with analysts and media, intended for the carrier to
share its revenue results for the second quarter of 2009, Verizons
president and chief operating officer, Denny Strigl, said Verizon will offer
the Palm Pre in early 2010.

During a questio…

JitD 2010: Official Announcement

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

JitD 2010: Official Announcement

Last week we tipped you off to Jam in the Dam 2010, today we got the official announcement, and we’re so excited about the return we wanted to share the “official word” with you. What follows is a note directly from the fine folks who put this event together.

YMSB :: Jam In The Dam 2007 by Sam Friedman

WE’RE BACK!! It is SO great to be able to send this to you all and let you
know of our plans for the 5th Anniversary of Jam in the Dam. The
festivities will ensue March 21-22-23, 2010, back ‘home’ at the Melkweg in
Amsterdam.

Our plans for 2009 hit a fairly large bump in the road, when the festival
founder Armand Sadlier finally gave in to his slowly declining lung health.
He was never a cigarette smoker, so even more a cruel blow. Luckily, he was able to go to Duke University Hospital, and received a double-lung
transplant last October. He has done extremely well thus far, and wants to
thank everyone who expressed kind wishes and said prayers. Just four months later, in February, he was able to ski in Vermont with his family. We’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to become an organ donor, if you aren’t already. It’s the reason Jam in the Dam still rocks on.

But let’s get back to the music! Of course Armand’s old friends Umphrey’s McGee will be there. Their career has really picked up speed since our
first show in 2005. You couldn’t find a nicer, more talented bunch of
musicians, and they truly deserve it.

Joining them is Yonder Mountain String Band, who appeared in 2007, and were a
big hit with the Europeans, who seem to love their bluegrass. Brendan Bayliss and Jeff Austin, the lead singers of UM and YMSB, have a project called db30. They actually have a recording coming out together, and will play an acoustic set during the festival.

Two years ago, we showed Electric Apricot in the cinema at the Melkweg.
It’s a really funny movie directed by Les Claypool, and we’ve been wanting
to get Les to Amsterdam for three years. Well, we finally got it done, and
the founder of Primus will be joining the fun. This will be the first time
he has been to Europe without Primus, and he is a festival staple here in
the States. We will definitely show the movie again this year.

Rounding out the lineup will be The New Mastersounds and The Bridge. TNM are from Leeds, England and the four-piece, high-energy jazz/fusion funk band are great. We saw them at the All Good Festival last week, and they blew it up. We smell a new favorite band for some folks. The Bridge is an under-the-radar band who is huge in their hometown of Baltimore, and has a real New Orleans feel. Cris Jacobs is a great singer, and when Kenny the mandolin player starts beat-boxing with Cris on lap steel, it’s something you’ve never seen. Mike Gordon from Phish chose them as the opener for his east coast tour last fall.

As always, there will be lots of sit-ins and crazy collaborations. We are
also planning to shoot a new DVD for the 5th Anniversary. Travel packages
will be available through ConsideritDan and CS Travel sometime in August. We will be doing our annual canal boat cruises, which is THE best way to see Amsterdam. More info on those at a later date.

Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, July 29 at noon at http://jaminthedam.com. As a special treat for our most loyal fans, the first 75 people to buy tickets will get a free canal boat cruise on one of the festival days! (A $50 value which includes an open bar.) Tickets for the 2010 show will be $250 for a 3-day pass.

In Europe, http://ticketmaster.nl/ will be selling tickets for 170 euro for the 3-day pass, and 60 euro for single day tickets. Chances are, the Euro-on sale will lag a week or so behind the U.S. Music Today DOES ship tickets internationally, so anyone outside the U.S. can still try to be in the first 75. The demand here in the States is very low for single day tickets, but anyone interested in those should send an email to jitd@visionintl.com

That’s it for now! Anyone unfamiliar with the show format can stop by the
website for ‘The Scoop’ http://jaminthedam.com/Welcome.html and all your questions can be answered by others who have attended at our message board. All bands play all days, in one of the two rooms in the venue. Schedule TBA. We can’t wait to see all your smiling faces in the greatest city on Earth!

Check our coverage of the 2008 JitD here.

Apple Rushing Tablet for Early 2010 Release?

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Reports from the Financial Times and Apple Insider suggest Apple is readying a tablet, probably priced below $1,000, for a Christmas or first-quarter 2010 release.
– Rumors surrounding Apples potential tablet PC, about which the company has
so far kept silent, continue to sweep across the Internet, most recently with a
report from Apple blog Apple Insider
that the company is Â“racing towardÂ” a 2010 release date for a 3G tablet-style
computer. Quoting unnamed …

Here today, gone by 2010

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Russia reserve fund is emptying fast

Russia’s reserve fund, built up over several years thanks to high oil prices, will shrink to US$52bn in the third quarter of this year from a peak of US$137bn in March, and is expected to be empty by the end of 2010 as transfers are required to plug the yawning gap between government revenue and spending. Assuming that by 2011 the global economy is growing robustly once more, the reserve fund will have done its job. If not, Russia’s government, which has hiked spending sharply in recent years, is likely to return to the international debt markets—and this could change the political realities in which the country’s rulers operate.

Russia’s government will transfer Rb1.36trn (US$43.7bn) from its reserve fund to the state budget during the third quarter of this year, the government announced on July 22nd after Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, had signed a decree to approve the measure. As a result, the reserve fund will have just Rb1.6trn by the start of October, compared with a peak balance of nearly Rb4.9trn in March. …

Here today, gone by 2010

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Russia reserve fund is emptying fast

Microsoft`s Big Week: Showing Off Office 2010, Windows 7 at Worldwide Partner Conference

July 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft used its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans to show off its newest products and assume a more aggressive public stance against Apple, Google and other rivals. In addition to the upcoming Windows 7, its new operating system, Microsoft also demonstrated Microsoft Office 2010, Windows Server 2008, Windows Mobile 6.5 and its public cloud-computing platform, Azure.
– Microsofts
Worldwide Partner Conference, running in New Orleans from July 13-16,
saw the company demonstrating a wide swath of its upcoming products,
including Office 2010, Windows 7, Silverlight 3, Windows Server 2008
and Windows Mobile 6.5, as the company seeks to regain and retain
market sha…

Isobel White: Same Sex Marriage in CA: 8 Reasons Why We Should Lay Off the Debate over 2010 v. 2012

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

In recent weeks, some prominent LGBT organizations have been attempting to energize the rest of us by holding “2010 v. 2012 forums,” where we debate…

Microsoft Office 2010 Could Be a Revenue Boon or Bomb

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft Office 2010 marks the transition of the productivity suite from primarily desktop-based applications to products served for free from either the cloud or a combination of cloud and on-premises data center. Considering that a large portion of Microsofts bottom-line revenue is derived from its productivity and business products, the inevitable question arises: How will Office’s transition to the cloud affect the companys bottom line?
– The shift of Microsoft
Office 2010 from a primarily desktop to cloud-based application suite was a
fairly radical one for Microsoft, which is looking for a strategic advantage
over Google and other companies that have launched online productivity
products.
Once released, Office 2010 will a…

Microsoft Office 2010 Debuts, Challenges Google Apps

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft Office 2010 will be offered as a free online service to Microsoft Live subscribers, directly challenging Google Apps and other free cloud-based applications. Although Microsoft’s market dominance has traditionally been centered on the desktop, the products rolling out at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans show that Microsoft is increasingly seeing cloud-based applications and productivity suites as the wave of the future.
– Microsoft Office 2010, the newest version of Microsoft’s office productivity
suite, will be launched as a free online service for subscribers of Microsoft
Live. The move is a potentially radical one for Microsoft a
company whose market dominance has traditionally been based on desktop-centered
a…

Labs Gallery: Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview in Pictures

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Just when Windows users started to become accustomed to seeing .docx extensions and to finding their way around on the infamous Office 2007 Ribbon, Microsoft is shaking things up again with a brand new version of its omnipresent productivity suite, Office 2010. eWEEK Labs has been trying out the Technical Preview version of the new suite, and we’ve encountered a raft of really useful new features, particularly around data visualization in Excel. What’s more, Office 2010 is mercifully devoid of major file format or interface metaphor shifts.

This Technical Preview will be accessible to a limited group of testers, but you can try to get added to the list by signing up at www.office2010themovie.com. Expect to see a broad public beta later this year. Until then, check out the screen gallery below for our take on Office 2010 so far.
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