Microsoft plans to introduce its new operating system to consumers in January. Is it worth upgrading?
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Media Temple Crushes Shared Hosting
Media Temple launched a major new hosting service this morning called Grid Server. It matches low end shared hosting services in pricing ($20/month) but promises to grow along with the site, manage huge short term traffic spikes without a disruption in service or performance and avoid the “bad neighbor” problem common with shared hosting services. The basic $20 package includes 100 GB of storage, 1 TB of bandwidth and up to 100 individual sites.
Customer sites are not hosted on a single (dedicated, shared or virtual) machine. Instead, they are managed by hundreds of clustered servers, and Media Temple monitors the health of the entire grid as well as individual sites. If a site spikes in traffic, performance is unaffected and the site owner will simple be charged for overage on bandwidth and CPU usage. If the grid begins to get stressed, Media Temple simply adds more machines.
From Techcrunch
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Webaroo has added Wikipedia to their services on mobile devices. There have also been open source efforts to deliver it to the iPod (also check out the wiki) or a PDA. Wikipedia requires 6 GB of free space, 10 GB recommended.
Video Searching by Sight and Script
Researchers have designed an automated system to identify characters in television shows, paving the way for better video search.
From Technology Review
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USBCell is just a great idea …
Every now and then a really great idea comes along that makes you go “now why didn’t I think of that”. Probably the last innovation in this genre was the Windup Radio.
USBCELL is a AA battery that simply plugs into any USB port to recharge. No longer do you need to throw away used batteries or lug the chargers or adpators for rechargeable batteries.
With over 15 billion batteries needlessly thrown away each year, and with the increasing demand for portable power by modern electronic devices - the humble battery simply hasn’t caught up with the needs of modern life.
USBCell is a product of Moixa Energy (UK) Ltd which was founded by Simon Daniel and Chris Wright.
“Our mission is to invent and deliver technologies that provide consumers with better solutions for their mobile or home power requirements that are more usable, economic and environmentally friendly.”
MobileCrunch has a longer review of the USBCell following their successful showing at DEMO what’s also interesting to see are the other future products coming from Moxia.
From TechcrunchUK
Could Apple Become Games Console King?
For all the hype about iTV, here’s another potential application: iGames. Could Steve Jobs and co really have their eye on the console market?
From BusinessWeek
Japan gets PlayStation 3 price cut
Sony Corp. said Friday it will slash the price of its
much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20
percent, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war
against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.The announcement comes
just days after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would roll out an
external high definition DVD player for its Xbox 360 in an effort to
match the PlayStation 3, due to be released in November with its own
Blu-ray DVD technology.
From CNN Tech
Attensa 2.0 reads feeds and multimedia in Outlook, for free
Enterprise RSS and Attention company Attensa has released version 2.0 of their plug-in for Outlook and there are a number of notable changes that have been made. Most important, Attensa 2.0 is free. The company has moved to a strategy to sell customer support subscriptions and seed organizations with their product until a critical mass is met to offer their Enterprise Feed Server. I think that’s a very good idea.
The basic premise of Attensa is that it’s a feed reader that tracks users’ reading habits and adjusts its display to offer the most important feeds at the right time for each reader. The Feed Server product allows businesses to manage a large number of desktop clients with varying default feeds and permission levels behind a firewall.
Other changes that have been made in the 2.0 release include the ability to play audio and video files inside Outlook, a desktop toast alert tool for high priority items and a number of stability and deployment improvements.
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