Archive for June, 2010

HP to Release a Netbook for Elementary School

HP-Mini-210-1099SE_Vivienne-Tam-edition_2HP has announced a release of a netbook for schools – the HP Mini 100e Educational Edition. The device will cost 300 USD and it is aimed for elementary school children.

The CRT size of the HP Mini 100e is 10,1 in with a 1024x 600 px resolution. The display is equipped with a photodiode nightglow.

The netbook is equipped with the Intel Atom N455 processor and a set of Intel NM10 Express microchips. The HP Mini 100e also has a gigabyte of DDR3 ram. The keyboard is protected against   moisture. The keyboard is 92 percent of the size of a typical keyboard. The device weighs around 1,45 kg.

The netbook can be supplied with a preinstalled Windows XP Home OS, Windows 7 Starter or SuSE Linux 11. Together with Windows, students also get a limited version of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as Microsoft Math and Microsoft Security Essentials.

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Google Makes Search Results 50 Percent More Accurate

google_caffeineGoogle has introduced a new website indexing system called Caffeine. According to Google’s blog, the new index makes search results 50 percent more accurate as compared with the previous version.

Caffeine will have the largest volume of Internet content of all the other indexing systems used by the search engine previously. At the same time, Google reports, the index will be updated faster than before. Therefore, users will see links to new sites in their search results faster than before.

The blog also explains that the previous version of the index consisted of several layers which were updated periodically, with each layer being refreshed at different rates. The new index will analyze internet sites on a continuous basis in small fragments.

The total volume of the Caffeine database exceeds 100 million gigabytes. Several hundred thousand gigabytes of new data added to the index.

User testing of the new system began in 2009 and continued through November of last year.

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Microsoft Releases “Cloud” Office

microsoft-cloud officeOn June 7 Microsoft Corporation released an office web-application package Office Web Apps for its “cloud” file storage system SkyDrive.

Any user registered with Windows Live can create, edit and download their office documents in Office Web Apps. The program also supports the creation of Word documents, Excel tables, PowerPoint presentations and OneNote notes.

Web Office doesn’t just operate in Internet Explorer but in a number of other browsers. Documents can also be viewed through a browser on smartphones. In the future, Office Apps for Web will also have an embedded system for accessing Hotmail .

The new service is available to all residents of the USA, Great Britain, Canada and Ireland. People in other countries can also use it. For this they need to follow a special link. Moreover, Microsoft gives no guarantee so far that the program will work smoothly with other languages as different from English.

Posted in Corporate software, IT News at 02:06

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Google to Release Chrome OS by End of the Season

google-chrome-osGoogle Corporation plans to release the Chrome OS by the end of the year, said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Google, at the Computex computer exhibition, which took place in Taiwan.

According to Mr. Pichai, who supervises the Chrome project at Google, the first version of the OS will be developed especially for laptops. At the same time, the company will be quite selective in terms of the future distribution of the platform at the market.

It is also expected that the free Google OS will be made compatible with Microsoft’s systems which dominate 90 percent of the computer operation systems market. Google’s Chrome internet browser will be in the basis for the Chrome OS. Mr. Pichai also points out that from the very first day of release of Chrome OS, several web-applications supported by the browser will be available for the platform.

Google announced its plans concerning the creation of its own Linux-based OS in 2009, , (and it will be oriented to work in the Internet?).

In November the company demonstrated the OS and revealed its source code for developers. It was also revealed that Chrome OS will support HTML5 and Flash technology.

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Microsoft Finds more than 30 Drawbacks in its Solutions

Microsoft Corporation prepared a new patch set for its software solutions which is to be released on Tuesday, June 8.ms security holes

The preliminary notice says that a total of 34 drawbacks were spotted. These faults were found in Windows OS and all supporting versions (including Windows 7), MS Office applications, Internet Explorer and the Windows SharePoint Services platform.

Microsoft intends to publish 10 security bulletins, three of which will contain descriptions of critically dangerous vulnerabilities, whereas other drawbacks were labeled as “significant”. Many of the spotted vulnerabilities can be used by hackers in order to get unauthorized access to a remote computer and insert  random malicious code.

The patches will also include a workaround for a vulnerability in IE spotted at the end of April. The problem is connected with the specifics of processing VBScript code and Windows help files (.hlp).

As usual, the updated version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool will arrive along with other updates, which will remove the most common malicious programs. The patches can be downloaded through Windows Update and Microsoft Update services and automated updating tools embedded in Windows.

Posted in Corporate software, IT News at 04:06

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