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Intel’s Mobile Strategy Pursues Internet on the Go

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Intel unveiled its mobile strategy Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. Personalization and content are key drivers behind the increased demand for notebook PCs and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), according to Intel executives David Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher. “The Internet is one of the driving forces in today’s PC market, and there is…

The Windows 7 Road to Success: Is It There Yet?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Earlier this week, Windows 7 became the highest grossing pre-order product in Amazon UK history, topping those of J.K. Rowling’s book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, according to media reports. The reason for making the correlation between a much-anticipated OS and a very popular book, presumably, was to demonstrate that even before its much-hyped…

Weighing Windows 7’s Wallop

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

So how’s your head after that wild Windows 7 launch party with the Stepford crew? Still got the spins? OK, if you really did throw or attend an official Windows 7 launch party, then that’s … interesting. I sincerely hope you had a good time. For the rest of us, the official introduction of Windows…

Windows 7 Is a Snooze

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Windows 7 is on my wish list. I wish Microsoft didn’t raise theequipment ante required to run its new operating system. I wishMicrosoft built in an easy upgrade path from Windows XP. I wishMicrosoft provided Windows 7 with some kind of Wow Factor that gave me acompelling reason to change my computing strategy. Instead, all…

Women: IT Needs You – Men: Get Over It

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

I was idly scanning a press release in my inbox the other day stating that the National Academy of Sciences planned to honor 17 individuals in 2010 for their “extraordinary scientific achievements in the areas of biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy and psychology.” Five of the recipients were women. I remembered having read about Marie Curie…

Apple’s Got Algorithm

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish software developer that specializes in compression algorithms for mobile phones. AlgoTrim developed algorithms for “lossless” compression, whereby processing instructions in operating systems and applications are not only sped up but require less flash memory. The company will create solutions for “modern computational photography,” it says, which would use sensors,…

FOSS Community Struggles to Patch Against Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Many in the open-source community worked feverishly this week to respond to heightened fears that software updates to fix the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities would put millions of computers at risk of slowdowns or even total disability. Updated kernels were released for mitigation of Meltdown variant 3, or CVE-2017-5754, for X86-64 architecture, Dean Henrichsmeyer, vice…

Skype Comes to Linux in a Snap

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Canonical on Thursday announced the availability of Skype as a Snap file, the universal Linux app packaging format. The release means that Skype can deliver its communication service to a wider range of Linux users, not just those who run Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution. Skype, a Microsoft product, is an application that lets users make…

When It’s Time for a Linux Distro Change

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

It’s common for Linux users to hop between distributions and survey the field, and I recently reached a point where I had to seriously rethink the one I was using most of the time. Between hardware compatibility issues with my old standby and some discouraging missteps with other go-to choices, I felt the time had…

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