Microsoft's virtualization products

HOUSTON, TX–Microsoft has released a collection of virtualization products that the company says demonstrates its interest in capturing the server virtualization market.

During his keynote Wednesday at Microsoft’s 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference here, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, said the company intends to capture the vast majority of servers that are not running virtualization technology.

To that end, Kelly announced a set of new virtualization products, starting with the company’s hypervisor virtualization system, Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008, that is available via Windows Update.

He added that Hyper-V would cost a third of that offered by competitor, VMware.

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iPhone 3G dissected

Super cool guys at ifixit have successfully dissected the iPhone 3G at 0001h, July 11, 2008! Now that’s cool :D

iFixit.com dudes flew to New Zealand to be the ones first to buy and disassemble the iPhone 3G. Call that madness or craziness!

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Google Agrees That It Will Meet Privacy Laws regarding Street View Tool

Google has said it is using face blurring technology to preserve the privacy of individuals photographed.

“In our view they need a person’s consent if they make use of a person’s face for commercial ends,” Simon Davies, of Privacy International.

Street View has already been launched in the US and includes photos of streets in major American cities. Photographing of areas in the UK, including London, is believed to have started last week.

Via BBC

Spb Day 2008: the User Angle on Mobility

Spb Software, the leading Windows Mobile applications vendor will host its fifth annual Spb Day conference on August 9th in St. Petersburg, Russia. Spb Day is a user-friendly, local Windows Mobile community get-together, where users, developers, media, device manufacturers, and mobile operators gather to exchange mobility views and ideas in an informal setting. This year’s Spb Day participants will enjoy each other’s company, discuss the newest mobile devices and technologies, and be among the first to play with Spb’s latest mobile entertainment products.

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Use google docs for live blogging

Advantages for using google docs for live blogging:-

  1. you are live-blogging on your own website and not on some third-party platform – that means you retain all the web traffic
  2. Google Docs offers a very rich blog editor so you get to include photos, hyperlinks, tables, etc in your blog post as per the need
  3. Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut is your best friend – you can save content without reloading the page.

This tutorial will show you how to use Google Docs word processor for blogging a live event – it could be a keynote address or a conference call with media or someone speaking at a local BarCamp in your city.

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Illium eWallet 6.1 released

If you use eWallet, then there is some exciting news for you. Illium software house has just released eWallet 6.1 for Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Windows PCs, UMPCs and U3 Smart Drives.

The new features include:

  • Personalize your card fields to work best for you: assign a type to any field in a card. Set multiple hidden fields, phone numbers, live email or web links, choose which fields to use with AutoPass – any type of data you want!
  • Get quick access to your most-used cards: create card shortcuts and build a Favorites folder for the info you want to open fast.
  • Design the background you want for every card: choose a gradient or solid color, add one of our free background images or create your own!
  • Search smarter: the Find feature now gives you a list of all possible cards that match what you’re looking for. Continue reading “Illium eWallet 6.1 released”

ASUS ZX1 Lamborghini Phone Cancelled

It’s been touted and shown off for a few months now, but it looks like ASUS may have finally given up on its luxurious Lamborghini-branded ZX1 smartphone, at least if Alex of MoDaCo is to be believed. According to him, ASUS has cancelled the planned summer launch of the device in order to ensure that “more important devices” scheduled for Q4 of this year are released on time. No word if that means we may still eventually see the pricey phone released sooner or later, but we wouldn’t recommend holding your breath at the moment.

via Engadget