Computers News

Apparently, not many folks are aware of the fact that installing a Windows Vista upgrade on your XP hard drive invalidates your XP key. Which means, once you’ve installed the Vista upgrade, you’re stuck with it and cannot go back to XP.

Microsoft, please and I mean it seriously, please give us one reason to say something positive about you folks this month?

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Google’s recent announcement of its Google Apps for Domains service. Prompted us to go ahead and complete the setup of a test domain that we had setup a few months ago to see how we could use the Apps platform to create and maintain some websites that we own.

First let us take a look at what the service offers, before we go into reasons why we think that Google is missing out on an opportunity — a huge opportunity.

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Ning, a company that has an illustrious management team has just launched a new social networking platform. Platform? Well, sort of. While the primary focus of the site seems to be similar to what we’ve seen with other social networks like mySpace / LinkedIn, one of the key differences with what they’re doing is offering premium services to those who want to use their own domain names and run their own advertising on a private label site.

Eh?

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HDMI Licensing, the group that handles the licensing of the technology specifications to manufacturers has just announced that over 50 PC products that support HDMI are currently in the market.

HDMI is the current standard for connecting HD components to each other, specially HDTVs. With the introduction of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray based drives, growing popularity of high definition IPTV and HD Camcorders that support HDMI, it is no surprise that computer manufacturers are increasingly looking at HDMI over DVI based interfaces.

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A Chicago legislator has introduced a bill in Illinois’s state senate to ban MySpace and other social networking sites from computers in public libraries and schools. The bill comes as no surprise, as last week, three children were not only cruelly beaten by MySpace and Friendster but were later thrown in a dumpster by Facebook.

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"Problems with the Xbox 360? What problems?" This was the gist of Microsoft’s response to a reprimand issued by Britain’s consumer affairs show Watchdog, accusing the company of making faulty Xbox 360 consoles. Microsoft retorted and expressed mild, corporately-controlled outrage at the accusations, which, unfortunately, happen to be true.

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It’s Valentine’s Day, and we’re in an over-commercialized-holiday-type mood, so we present to you — the Love Mouse — a gadget so red, so heart-shaped, so obscenely cheesy/cute/cliche’d that if you don’t get this for your loved one, well, you may as well give up on the relationship altogether.

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We’ve always thought that the reason people downloaded music, movies and video games illegally was because they were too lazy.

The success of iTunes proves that people will buy what’s easy to buy and Virgin Games hopes to capitalize on that by announcing the "iTunes" of video gaming — a program that will not only allow you to download games on the Internet, but do so without being sued for millions of dollars.

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Without giving us any time to continue our mocking of Vista, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Windows development, Ben Fathi, revealed that Windows Vienna — the successor to Vista — will be launching in 2009. Oh, Vista, we hardly even knew you! If all goes as planned, Vienna will not only fix the problems that still haven’t been fixed by Vista, it’ll also create at least seventeen hundred more of them for your general perusal and frustration. We know, we can’t wait either.

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Dell, invigorated a little bit by the return of err .. Mr Dell, has been busy announcing a number of new products and initiatives. Along with a recent announcement to sell Sony Bravia LCD TVs online, on their shop, Dell has also stepped into a new market by announcing a new rugged laptop.

The ATG (which stands for All Terrain Grade) is designed to MIL-STD 810F standards and will enter an already tough market which is dominated by the Panasonic Toughbook and HP.

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