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A year after unveiling a free e-mail service with a full gigabyte of storage, Google is doubling the capacity of each account and plans to keep bumping up the limit in the future. Once the upgrade takes effect Friday, Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and attachments for each account. Even more capacity
Well the last two months have been fun. Todd, the Head Geek asked me to handle the daily news while he finished his project. His project is about done and I have other commitments, so today will be the last day of me handling the daily news. I will still be doing some Apple articles, so you’re not totally rid of me. :-)
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it has released a number of 64-bit operating systems to manufacturing, including Windows XP Professional, in time for a scheduled release in late April. Specifically, Microsoft said that Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition, and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
According to iPod lounge, Hewlett-Packard is still interested in keeping it’s relationship with Apple and the iPod. I have always wondered why HP entered in this arrangement if they were not going to take advantage of it. Now HP will be releasing a new desktop with a built-in iPod dock. Maybe this will be the start some new projects from HP.
If you own a domain name, you know the benefits of registering it under a private proxy which keeps your name, address and contact information away from the prying eyes of spammers, stalkers or solicitors. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, (NTIA), the telecommunications and Internet arm of the Department of Commerce, has disallowed private registrations for .US domain names. This was made without a hearing or an opportunity for a rebuttal or response from those affected. After giving only two weeks' notice, the NTIA has stated that they would not consider any arguments and that its decision is final. According to a website called The Danger of No Privacy, here is a list of the reasons you want an anonymous domain name registration.
Update: Yahoo says the copyright notice in the RSS feed was a mistake and that it was never supposed to be there. It is to be fixed shortly. It was brought to my attention today that Yahoo is copyrighting the RSS feeds for those that are setting up Yahoo 360 accounts. Some are already refusing to use the service because
News.com has a huge article this morning about Microsoft’s Windows new operating system being released next year code-named Longhorn. The article makes several points, in a nutshell, here they are. Microsoft has had so many delays with Longhorn that it’s forced them to keep updating the current Windows XP. It’s gotten to the point where XP has become the most stable of any Windows system to date. Several of the new features in Longhorn are supposedly being dropped to get the OS out the door next year. Plus several of Longhorn’s features were or will about to be implemented into Windows XP to handle security problems or feature requests.
Hitachi’s new Deskstar 7K500 drive is the first desktop hard drive to reach 500 GB in size and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. You’ll be able to buy it with the older ATA interface for about $500 MSRP, or with the new SATA II interface for about $520 MSRP. It was reported to be ready for shipment in the 2nd quarter of this year. PC World has a big article on the tech behind the drive and the interface.
Toshiba has developed a new Lithium-ion battery which charges up to 80% of it’s capacity in just 1 minute. Toshiba's prototype battery has a capacity of 600mAh and measures.8mm thick, 62mm high and 35mm deep. It was demonstrated in hard disc music player for about 10 minutes by charging 5 milliwatts in 5 seconds. According to a Toshiba Lab spokesman, the battery shows less than 1 percent deterioration in capacity after 1,000 cycles of discharging and recharging. The battery is planned to be available in 2006. Here are more details from the eetimes.com.
In an InfoWorld Gripe Line Blog, anonymous Dell employees are asked to make their feelings known about working for Dell. As we all know, Dell moved their tech support to India and they have employees in other parts of the world now too. It sounds like the new users dumb questions and working with Windows constant crashing and errors have driven even the Indian support workers to the brink of giving up. Here are a few quotes from the above story..
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The term “hackers” can conjure images of teenager misfits, breaking into your credit card account in order to get into porn sites on the web. But these days when you talk about hackers your talking about those programmers that can make software sing. They take open source code and turn it into main-stream applications.
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