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14/07/2006 - Microsoft Windows Fundamentals per riutilizzare pc vecchi - Microsoft Windows Fundamentals permette di utilizzare i vecchi pc beneficiando di alcune caratteristiche di sicurezza tipiche di Windows XP |
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14/07/2006 - IBM: Cell ha problemi di resa produttiva? - Il processore di IBM, Sony e Toshiba potrebbe incontrare problemi di produzione a causa della propria complessità. Difficile assicurare alti volumi? |
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14/07/2006 - Sei giochi Electronic Arts per Nintendo Wii - Electronic Arts annuncia di essere al lavoro su sei giochi destinati alla nuova console di Nintendo. |
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14/07/2006 - Splash Damage posticipa Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Attraverso un diario di sviluppo pubblicato da GameSpy, Splash Damage annuncia di dover posticipare il rilascio di Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. |
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14/07/2006 - Taglio di organico per Intel - L'operazione di revisione interna di Intel passa attraverso una nuova fase: tagliato il posto a 1.000 manager |
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14/07/2006 - Microsoft Power Point nel mirino - Sono passati solo pochi giorni dal "patch day" di luglio e Symantec comunica un nuovo bug di Microsoft PowerPoint |
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14/07/2006 - Storage organico, una prospettiva futuribile? - Una proteina organica modificata geneticamente potrebbe permettere la realizzazione di dischi ad alta capacità in grado di immagazzinare fino a 50TB di dati |
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14/07/2006 - Nuova console di gioco da Envizions - Envizions Computer Entertainment svela che immetterà sul mercato una nuova console di gioco. Uscita prevista entro il 2006. |
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14/07/2006 - Una scheda di rete per i videogiocatori - BigFoot Networks propone una scheda di rete dedicata, specificatamente pensata per il pubblico dei videogiocatori incalliti |
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14/07/2006 - Grim Fandango con Burton, Halo con Washington, World of Warcraft senza Spielberg - Emergono contemporaneamente diverse indiscrezioni riguardo i progetti cinematografici tratti da importanti successi videoludici. Coinvolti i film di Grim Fandango, Halo e World of Warcraft. |
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14/07/2006 - MPC-9000: il Golia dei sistemi portatili - Chi avrebbe mai pensato di realizzare un sistema portatile in formato ATX standard? Del resto è facile: bastano un paio di rotelle... |
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14/07/2006 - Al debutto le cpu Core 2 Duo - Disponibili le prime informazioni ufficiali, oltre che le analisi prestazionali comparate, delle nuove generazioni di processore Intel per sistemi desktop |
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14/07/2006 - America's Army si prepara al co-op - Un aggiornamento immetterà un'inedita modalità co-operativa in America's Army, lo sparatutto 3D distribuito gratuitamente e sostenuto economicamente dall'esercito degli Stati Uniti. |
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13/07/2006 - Rilasciato VMware Server - VMware Server è stato recentemente rilasciato. E' disponibile gratuitamente mentre alcune forme di supporto tecnico sono fornite a pagamento |
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13/07/2006 - Toshiba e SanDisk: piani di investimento per joint-venture - I due colossi hanno annunciato ufficialmente i piani di investimento necessari per la realizzazione della nuova joint venture Flash Alliance per la produzione di memorie flash |
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13/07/2006 - Anche Mark Rein polemizza sui videogiochi ad episodi - In un intervento al Develop Conference, il vice presidente di Epic Games si schiera dalla parte di coloro che criticano fermamente la distribuzione ad episodi dei videogiochi. |
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13/07/2006 - Chartered consegna i primi processori AMD - La fonderia di Singapore, in linea con i tempi, da il via alle prime consegne di processori AMD a 90 nanometri |
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13/07/2006 - Annunciato Havok 4.0 - Havok ha annunciato i tool di sviluppo Havok 4.0 per la programmazione della simulazione fisica all'interno delle scene 3D |
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13/07/2006 - I segreti di Call of Duty 3 - Activision e Treyarch svelano diversi elementi del gameplay del terzo episodio dello sparatutto 3D ambientato nella seconda guerra mondiale. |
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13/07/2006 - Microsoft, arriva la multa dalla Commissione Europea - La Commissione Europea multa Microsoft per una cifra di 280,5 milioni di euro, che potrebbe raddoppiare in caso di mancato adeguamento in tempi brevi |
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13/07/2006 - Server Debian violato - Questa mattina una nota ufficiale del progetto Debian informa in merito alla violazione di un server del network |
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13/07/2006 - La cura per il vampirismo nel nuovo aggiornamento di Oblivion - Bethesda Softworks annuncia le caratteristiche del prossimo aggiornamento a pagamento di Oblivion. |
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13/07/2006 - Ricoh, lettore unificato Blu-ray e HD-DVD - Ricoh metterà a disposizione delle grandi aziende dell'intrattenimento domestico un'unità laser in grado di leggere sia i formati Blu-ray che quelli HD-DVD |
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13/07/2006 - Ritorna Demis Hassabis con un progetto segreto - Uno dei più grandi game designer torna nel mondo dei videogiochi che contano con un progetto top secret. |
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15/07/2006 - Firefox 2, ecco la prima Beta - Dopo mesi di aplha testing, Firefox 2.0 e' giunto alla prima beta ufficiale. Questa release contiene praticamente tutte le funzionalita' che saranno presenti nella release finale, e puo' essere provata subito |
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15/07/2006 - Microsoft: ecco perche` abbracciamo OpenDocument - Ha sorpreso molti la scelta del big di Redmond di lavorare in modalita' open source su un tool di conversione per il supporto ODF in Office. L'azienda ora spiega: una scelta che rispetta i clienti. L'intervista di PI |
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15/07/2006 - Vodafone chiede i danni a Telecom Italia - L'operatore anglo-italiano accusa la rivale di abuso di posizione dominante e in tribunale chiede un risarcimento di oltre mezzo miliardo di euro. I dettagli |
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15/07/2006 - Download/ Giffe`, Expose`, GimpShoppe` - 14 luglio, la Revolution! Gimp diventa come Photoshop, le gif si ottimizzano, le foto di gruppo si migliorano, le finestre diventano di vetro e si organizzano |
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15/07/2006 - I messenger di Yahoo! e MS si parlano - L'alleanza tra Microsoft e Yahoo! nel settore ha dato il suo primo frutto: la possibilita', per gli utenti dei rispettivi servizi di instant messaging, di chattare tra loro. In futuro potranno anche parlarsi via VoIP |
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15/07/2006 - Microsoft ora Virtual PC lo regala - In attesa del nuovo Virtual PC 2007, BigM rende gratuita l'edizione 2004 del proprio famoso software di virtualizzazione. Nel frattempo VMware ha rilasciato la versione 1.0 del proprio server entry-level |
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15/07/2006 - Symbian OS 9.3 parla anche Wi-Fi - Symbian ha aggiornato l'omonimo sistema operativo per smartphone, e tra le caratteristiche di maggior rilievo vi e' il supporto nativo alla connettivita' Wi-Fi. Strada spianata agli smartphone ibridi |
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15/07/2006 - DVD da 50 terabyte? Basta una proteina - Dischi ottici coperti da strati sottili di uno speciale materiale organico saranno in grado d'immagazzinare montagne di dati. Lo promettono alcuni ricercatori. Ma quale Blu-ray? |
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15/07/2006 - Quasi pronto un acceleratore del pensiero - Un nuovo strumento che associa cervello umano e computer e' studiato per consentire l'elaborazione di immagini ad una velocita' di dieci volte superiore a quanto avviene normalmente. Il Pentagono si interessa e finanzia |
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15/07/2006 - I batteri elettroconduttori ci circondano - Uno scienziato statunitense ha scoperto che la Terra e'... cablata da batteri che sfruttano le proprie membrane come nanoconduttori di elettricita'. Da qui l'idea: costruire colonie di batteri da usare come celle d'energia |
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15/07/2006 - Chip cerebrale sconfigge la tetraplegia - Nuova sperimentazione di BrainGate: un successo strepitoso. Un 25enne tetraplegico e' riuscito ad usare il computer con la sola forza del pensiero. Si accendono le speranze per molti portatori di handicap |
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15/07/2006 - Sony prepara il funerale del formato UMD - Prezzi alti, blindatura DRM e scarsa compatibilita' determinano la fine del formato che avrebbe dovuto essere lanciato dalla PSP dell'azienda. Che ora spera in Memory Stick agli steroidi |
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15/07/2006 - Social network, brevetto indigeribile - Adam Seifer, tra i fondatori della comunita' virtuale SixDegrees, sostiene che il brevetto sui social network di Friendster non tiene conto della prior art. Scoppia la polemica tra i blogger. Intanto MySpace supera Yahoo! |
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15/07/2006 - Jukebox indipendente per indipendenti - Pump Audio consente di acquistare canzoni, effetti sonori e musiche d'accompagnamento a basso costo. Uno strumento in piu' per le produzioni dal basso. Ecco come funziona |
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15/07/2006 - Craccato un server di Debian.org - Gli sviluppatori del celebre progetto open source stanno investigando su un attacco che ha compromesso uno dei server dell'organizzazione. La macchina e' stata messa off-line insieme ad altri computer della rete |
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15/07/2006 - Phishing, l'attacco ora e` real-time - I password-token forniti dagli istituti di credito per i servizi di e-banking salvano dai phisher? Non sempre: girano le prime aggressioni che neutralizzano questo fattore di sicurezza aggiuntiva |
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15/07/2006 - Parigi, un PC invece del caffe` - Un euro al giorno: questo potrebbero pagare per un computer in buone condizioni le famiglie meno abbienti della Francia, quelle che ancora non siano riuscite a mettere le mani su un PC |
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15/07/2006 - Apple abbandona la causa contro i blogger - La Mela rinuncia a perseguire i blogger californiani a cui attribuisce una fuga di notizie su un prodotto ancora in sviluppo. Per la California i blog, come i giornali, non sono tenuti a rivelare le fonti |
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15/07/2006 - Pechino, scarcerazione per Hao Wu - Il blogger e' rimasto in carcere per molti mesi a causa della sua triste patologia: documentava le storture del regime pechinese. RSF avverte: decine i cyberdissidenti ancora in carcere |
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15/07/2006 - Corso Linux per Open System Engineer - A Bolzano |
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15/07/2006 - Newspapers, Yahoo looking at partnership - In a world where the Internet provides news and advertising on demand, newspapers are struggling to attract readers and revenues. In particular, the rise of classified advertising sites like Craigslist has led to a corresponding slide in ad revenues for the tabloids and broadsheets.
Yahoo, the most-trafficked nonpornographic website in the world, and a number of newspapers are in discussions about working together on news, classified ads, and "content packages" focused on certain topics. Local newspapers would "feed" their news to Yahoo, which would then aggregate it for readers based on their location or other factors.
The low-hanging fruit is classified ads, especially jobs. "Help-wanted is the quick cash," according to a source close to the negotiations. By partnering with Yahoo to host help-wanted and other classified ads, the newspapers would be able to make their classified offerings more attractive as they would be hosted in an easily searchable and high-profile location and could be readily targeted to readers all over the country.
Online help-wanted ads are nothing new. Craigslist has a "help wanted" section, and other jobs sites already exist, including CareerBuilder, a joint venture of the Tribune, Gannet, and Knight Ridder newspaper companies.
Newspapers have been struggling to figure out a way to embrace the Internet while continuing to remain profitable. Paid subscriptions for online content have failed for all but truly high-profile publications like the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. For the rest, paying for content online has proven to be a turn-off for readers, and some newspapers are even doing away with registrations, choosing instead to offer up their content unencumbered.
The Internet has irrevocably changed the game for newspapers, and at this point, it's a matter of their figuring out a way to keep readers interested both offline and on. A tie-in to a major portal like Yahoo! may boost the fortunes of some local papers, but it won't replace 50¢ dropped in the newspaper box on the corner.
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14/07/2006 - $300 Linux Computers - AMD64-based desktop systems will be offered for $300 to consumers. How? It is because of a partnership between Britt Systems and Technalign. To keep the price so low, BrittSystems will ship the computers with a version of the Linux operating system. The machines will features an AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor,256MB of memory, 80GB SATA hard drive, CD-RW drive. 400W power supply and afloppy drive. The machine will run on TaFusion MEPISLinux which is also known as Frontier. Also included is OpenOffice.org which is a rather competent competitor to Microsoft Office alongwith the Thunderbird email client.
"This new offering will allowindividuals and companies to get a powerful entry level system at the lowestpossible investment. Most companies offering an entry level system under $300usually provide much less processing power, smaller hard drives, a standardCD-ROM, and no floppy drive," said the CEO of Technalign. The lack of a Microsoft-based operating system is crucial tothe low-price of the desktops, but some other compromises had to be made. The systems only come with a 90-day factory warranty although the separate components still retain their respective warranties which range from one tothree years. First shipments will go out on July 31.
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14/07/2006 - Google Checkout Gains Rapid Adoption - Early this month Google launched Google Checkout - online payment system. This system is focused on providing security to users and vendors. Surprisingly Google announced that its Checkout system would not attempt to compete with Ebay or Paypal. Since the launch on June 29th, Google CheckOut has been receiving rapid adoption by online vendors. Some notable companies include:
| Buy.com | eCosts
| Shop PBS
| Starbucks Store
| Timberland
| Fossil
| Zales
| Dockers
| BluFly
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eBay announced that it will not support Google CheckOut. Earlier this month eBay added Google CheckOut to its list of non-accepted payment options because they felt CheckOut was too new and not trustworthy for handling online transactions. eBay informed its members that it may exercise account suspensions and loss of premium statuses if sellers are found to be using Google CheckOut.
Numerous reports claimed that users were outraged by eBay's decision and thatthey were generally unhappy with PayPal's services over the lastseveral years. Google stated that its service is highly secure and its experience with handling transactions for its AdSense and AdWordsservices indicated that CheckOut is a trustworthy service.
Despite the lack of support by eBay, Google CheckOut is gaining popularity. Support from companies like StarBucks, Fossil, PBS, uBid.com and othersindicate that Google CheckOut is on its way to becoming one of the few trusted forms of online payment.
News source: DailyTech
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14/07/2006 - UK to outlaw "stand-by" buttons - Readers in the UK will be well aware of the government's recent focus on energy consumption and now they're going one step further and imposing an outright ban on stand-by buttons on remote controls in a bit to save energy.
The country is hoping to switch off fossil-fuels and turn on environment-friendly methods of generating power, but shows an equal interest in saving energy around the house. According to a report, the average British household uses 8% of its total energy usage by leaving electrical devices on stand-by.
TVs, DVD players and video recorders will no longer be left in electronic-purgatory, as the government imposes harsh-but-fair tactics on electronics manufacturers. Other devices that found their way onto the end of the government's hitlist included lighting, set-top boxes, chargers, fridges, freezers, washing machines and PCs.
The government insisted that all of these devices must be re-designed with energy efficiency in mind.
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14/07/2006 - Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Screenshots - Bink has been playing around with "Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs". The result can be seen in screenshots posted on his gallery.
Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) is a Windows-based operating system designed for enterprise customers with legacy PCs who are not in a position to purchase new hardware. WinFLP provides the same security and manageability as Microsoft Windows XP SP2 while providing a smooth migration path to the latest hardware and operating system.
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) requires:- A minimum of 611 MB of free hard drive space. Actual requirements will vary based on your system configuration and the applications and features you choose to install. Installing all optional components requires 1151 MB of disk space. These requirements are reported on the screen as you select options in the Setup wizard. Additional hard disk space may be required if you are installing over a network. Also, you should reserve additional space for future updates and service packs.
- A computer with 233 megahertz or higher processor clock speed (300 MHz is recommended); Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor is recommended.
- 64 MB of RAM. 256 MB of RAM is recommended.
Bink installed it on a Vmware Workstation Virtual Machine with 128 MB of RAM.
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14/07/2006 - Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked - At the end of 2005 I made some predictions about the VoIP industry which I will review further in a day or two. While a couple of my predictions have already proved correct, perhaps the most interesting was:
6. The Skype protocol will be reverse engineered by August 2006 and application code will be offered for license.
Today I received a call through Skype from a friend at a company in China, except he told me he was not using Skype to call me. His company has successfully reverse engineered the Skype protocol and he wanted to call me in the United States to see how it worked between physically distant IP addresses. We talked for a little over nine minutes before the call dropped. Then I called him back using my Skype and we spoke for another three minutes.
The first time we talked there was a noticeable echo on my end. The second time the voice quality was good ol' Skype crystal clear. At present they only support placing Skype peer-to-peer phone calls and they have not yet implemented presence. They have plans to add presence, instant messaging, and a host of other features. Their end goal is to create a client 100% compatible with Skype. They sent me a screen shot of their software (below) and my IP address was 100% correct.
Credit goes to Copernic, who posted this in Back page News on our forum.
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14/07/2006 - AMD to complain about Intel in Germany - AMD will formally complain to German anti-trust authorities about alleged attempts made by Intel to stop certain retailers selling PCs based on AMD processors, the chip maker said yesterday.Earlier this week, it emerged an unknown company has already filed a formal complaint about Intel with Germany's Federal Cartel Office (FCO). The organisation confirmed the complaint had been filed but would provide no further details - including the name of the grumbler. In briefings to journalists yesterday, AMD spokespeople claimed the company has written evidence to support the charges of anti-competitive behaviour it has levelled at Intel. But then it has said as much before, in the lawsuits it filed in the US and Japanese District Courts last year
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14/07/2006 - MySQL to draw curtain on older databases - MySQL has published its first "end of life" timetable for its open-source database and will no longer provide free updates for some older versions of the product starting next month, it said this week. The company has been relatively generous in the past in providing free updates for versions of its database as old as five years or more. Maintaining several releases at once costs the company money, however, and it will soon start charging for updates to the older versions, MySQL said.
"Keeping older versions alive for a long time is appreciated by our community and our customers alike. However, we are no longer in a position to maintain our older versions without remuneration," Kaj Arnö, MySQL's vice president for community relations, wrote in the company's blog Wednesday. Customers using MySQL 3.23 and MySQL 4.0 will have to buy a MySQL Network Subscription to receive binary updates for those products after Aug 1 (for 3.23) and Oct. 1 (for 4.0), Arnö wrote. A basic subscription starts at US$595 per server per year in the U.S., or €495 in Europe.
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14/07/2006 - Microsoft Confirms PowerPoint Zero-Day Attack - First Word, then Excel, now PowerPoint. For the third time in two months, a zero-day vulnerability in a widely used Microsoft Office software application is being used in targeted hacker attacks. The latest attack exploits a previously undocumented flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint, the ubiquitous presentation program used by millions of users around the world.
The attack comes just days after Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday and closely mirrors the situation in June when a zero-day Excel attack was discovered 24 hours after Patch Day. Virus hunters at Symantec linked the zero-day attack to a Trojan horse program called Trojan.PPDropper.B that arrives via e-mail from a Gmail address. The subject line of the mail and the .ppt file-name are in Chinese characters, suggesting that the attacks are emanating from-and attacking targets-in the Far East. If the PowerPoint attachment is opened, the Trojan drops and executes a variant of Backdoor.Bifrose.E, a keystroke logger that is used to steal sensitive information and send it back to a remote server controlled by malicious hackers.
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14/07/2006 - Microsoft's Digital Home Efforts Fall Short? - Solution providers at D&H Distributing's fifth annual Digital Convergence Expo criticized Microsoft's digital home efforts, but praised chip giant Intel for helping drive market adoption in conjunction with VARs. Several attendees said they see Microsoft's somewhat flaccid response to the digital home opportunity as a potential inhibitor to market growth.
One sign of the difference between Intel and Microsoft: an Intel Viiv session packed with several hundred solution providers. Microsoft had a small booth promoting its XBox 360 game system and ergonomic keyboard. "If you look at what Intel is doing compared to Microsoft, it is two different worlds," said Jimmy Garson, CEO of DataVision, a New York superstore. "Intel really realizes and sees how they are going to drive more PC sales in making the PC the center of the home." By comparison, he said, Microsoft is "doing nothing." Garson said he hopes Intel's relationship with Apple may help "wake up Microsoft" to provide a more aggressive digital home effort. A representative at Microsoft's booth would not comment
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