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Samsung Q1: a first look
Reviews CeBIT: Samsung's first-generation Ultra Mobile PC is an intriguing device, but currently you don't get enough functionality or battery life for your money.
Microsoft shows off JPEG rival
News If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Media players
Microsoft unveils new betas for Office, Vista
News With the test releases, Redmond wants to demonstrate that it's on track after missing several deadlines.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office
Windows 7 location smarts spark privacy debate
News news analysis A new interface paves the way for more software makers to more easily make use of location information, although the move also raises potential privacy issues.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Privacy, Location-based services, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Application, Location, Privacy, Microsoft Windows 7, Service
Startup aims to put extra chip inside Netbooks
News Quartics is pitching a "co-processsor" for Netbooks that would augment the CPU and graphics chip for handling Flash movies and videoconferencing.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Processors, PC Company, Chip, Graphics, Video, WinHEC, processor, AST Computers, Laptop Computer
Microsoft to show off PC prototype
News Microsoft next week plans to unveil a prototype PC that would function as a central communications console.
Microsoft still tinkering with 'secure' design
News The software giant warns developers at its WinHEC conference that changes continue to be made in the security technology component of next-generation PCs.
Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confab
News At this year's WinHEC confab, Microsoft puts the emphasis on its looming Windows releases, along with Office 2007.
Tags: Components, Microsoft Windows
Is your PC ready for Longhorn?
News Microsoft plans to give developers their "first close look" at hardware requirements needed to run the next version of Windows at a conference in May.
Microsoft bug-checking tools promise fewer crashes
News Company delivers new versions of source code analysis tools that seek to eliminate common flaws in driver software.
Tags: Hardware, Security, Software engineering/development
Controversial Microsoft plan heads for Longhorn
News Company is still fiddling with its "trusted" PC security technology but says some version of it will be in new Windows.
Tags: Longhorn
Microsoft, HP unveil new business PCs
News Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard offered an early look at their latest concept for business PCs on the eve before its unveiling.
Intel shows off new mobile chips
News The chipmaker announces its production of the upcoming "Banias" processor, the company's first chip purely designed for use in mobile PCs.
IP addressing: Next wave
Insight While you probably know that the IETF drafted an IPv6 specification for the next generation of the Internet Protocol, you may not be familiar with its specifics--or why it's important to enterprises.
Microsoft: Longhorn to arrive in 2005
News Ending recent speculation, a Microsoft executive says Longhorn, the next major client version of Windows, will debut in 2005 with buffed-up display technology.
