Archive for July 12th, 2009

Free netbooks for 2,300 Microsoft conference goers

The National Business Review is reporting that in one of its boldest bids yet to push Windows 7’s netbook-friendliness, the 2,300 who attend the Gold Coast leg of Microsoft’s TechEd event will each go away with a free HP Mini…

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Palm Pre developers gather Monday in first East Coast meeting

The first Palm Pre/webOS meeting for East Coasters will be held Monday in New York City.
The developer meetup is organized by Blueswitch, a 10-year-old Web development firm with experience in Windows Mobile applications. The company has begun a…

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IPhone 3.0 Users Report Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues

Ever since upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 on both my first generation iPhone and my brother’s current generation iPod touch, I’d been experiencing flaky Wi-Fi connectivity on both devices. I didn’t think much about it at first: Wi-Fi coverage has…

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Microsoft releases Silverlight 3

Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, a major new release of its multimedia software for Mac OS X and Windows — competition for Adobe’s Flash software. It’s a free download, compatible specifically with Intel-based Macs (an older version is available for…

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