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Zumobi Goes Live!
Zumobi is a Windows Mobile application that delivers widgets* with content you care about to your Windows Mobile phone in a fun and innovative way.
Zumobi’s widgets are called “Tiles,” and they have snack-size bites of Web-based information and entertainment that you can quickly access throughout the day.
Live videos coming to YouTube in 2008
Google’s popular video hosting site, YouTube, will support live streaming by the end of 2008, according to one of the site’s originators. Co-founder and chief technology officer Steve Chen disclosed the information at a recent party in New York City, insisting that “We’ll do it this year.”
Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost, Opera Still Champ
From CyberNet on its cross browser tests… I’ve compiled the results of the SunSpider javascript Benchmark test for each of the different browsers. All of the tests below were performed on the same Windows machine, and the Firefox 3 nightly builds definitely came out on top.
Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
If Google Gags, Won’t Microsoft-Yahoo?
Wall Street went bonkers yesterday over a ComScore report indicating that Google paid ad clicks growth had literally collapsed. Is that good or bad for Microsoft’s Yahoo acquisition? The answer is complicated, in part because there remains uncertainty about the decline’s cause.
EU fines Microsoft record $1.35 billion
The European Commission fined Microsoft a record 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) on Wednesday for defying sanctions imposed on the software giant for antitrust violations, far exceeding the original penalty.
New search powers lead Firefox 3
The latest version of web browser Firefox will make changes to the way people search for information online, says its developer.
Mozilla has told the BBC’s World Service that the new browser has been designed around the importance of search to users.
Microsoft will push IE 8 public beta
Microsoft has surprised watchers by saying that it will shortly make a first beta of Internet Explorer 8 generally available, according to a staffer at IT Week who wishes to remain anonymous.
Windows Vista with SP1 integrated on MSDN
Keith Combs is reporting that images of Windows Vista with SP1 already baked in are appearing on MSDN TechNet subscriber downloads. After checking myself, I find that only the English, French, German, Japanese & Spanish x86 versions are available thus far. Maybe they are still updating and the x64 versions will start appearing in a [...]
Early Vista SP1 64-bit installs causing new problems?
An iTWire journo by the name of Alex has found yet another Vista SP1 issue to bitch about, this time it’s the x64 version and early reports are pointing to several problems. Anything from the “Windows Performance Rating” vanishing, to the poor souls Treo not being recognized through “Windows Mobile Center” after SP1 installation.
