Microsoft's Apple "Get a Mac" killer is live as of September 4, 2008. The new $300 million Windows campaign put together by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, has debuted with the first video ad featuring none other than Microsoft part-time Chairman Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Gates shopping for discount shoes with a trusty and voluntary Seinfeld sidekick is bound to put Apple out of business, but even if the Cupertino-based hardware company's "Get a Mac" ads catalyzed a reaction ...
[read more >>] Google Chrome is out, brand new and shiny, and with its launch a new set of standards for all web browsers is implemented for both end users and developers. At this moment the Internet is flooded with details and info on Google's newest and hottest application designed to link the user to the pool of information on the web. Unlike successful browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera and even Internet Explorer, Google's approach in building Chrome differs in that the app is built from scratch without ...
[read more >>] Sony is certainly moving fast when it comes to new product releases. They are now saying that the new PSP-3000, a hardware update for the gaming handheld from Sony, is set to be launched on the Japanese market as soon as October 16, as part of a bundle and as a standalone product. The new version of the console features several significant changes from the previous incarnations of the PlayStation Portable. The most important change is set to be made to the screen. Advances in LCD technology since the handhel...
[read more >>] Intel's famous and long-awaited Montevina platform (now officially known as Centrino 2) was just launched around one and a half months ago, on July the 15th, the first products based on it arriving almost at same time with the official announcement. And one of these early implementations of Montevina is the Sony Vaio FW notebook, a 16.4-inch portable computing system that was officially launched back in mid-July and that brought to the market a few very interesting features, mostly related to the design and ...
[read more >>] The news about Google's upcoming web browser, the Chrome, has been flying around the Internet all day long, our editors writing some comprehensive reports about it earlier today. However, it would seem that the search-engine giant has finally decided to let the downloading begin and so, without further ado, we give you the Google Chrome, right here on Softpedia (just the Windows version, for the time being, with the Mac and Linux versions scheduled to arrive in the near future). What we'll be able to pr...
[read more >>] If Microsoft is moving into the Cloud, Google is expanding to the Desktop and to the Windows client. The Mountain-View search giant is on the verge of making available a beta version of Google Chrome, a browser initially designed to integrate only with the Windows platform, but which is set to be tailored to additional platforms in the future. Not even out yet, Google Chrome is positioned as an Internet Explorer killer, far beyond what Microsoft's rivals Mozilla and Opera have been capable of doing with thei...
[read more >>] Blizzard has a history of unparalleled innovation when it comes to strategy gaming and especially to its Starcraft franchise. Warcraft was always more formulaic in its approach to strategy, but Starcraft incorporated some elements that were really revolutionary when the game shipped. One of these elements was that the game managed to present the player with a choice of three fully fleshed and original factions that were pretty well balanced even at launch and that were different enough to produce very inter...
[read more >>] Welcome to our 9th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! In this edition, you can read about: the new GNOME edition released by the Zenwalk Linux team; the 7.5 release of MEPIS AntiX that introduces the AntiX Control Centre; Rack-Soft introduces VoipNow browser module that allows click to call functions within the visited web pages; Ubuntu updates its kernel; Fedora Unity Project releases a new Re-Spin edition for Werewolf (Fedora 8); Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0 brings you BibleTime and Gnome Office; BLFS (Beyond Lin...
[read more >>] There are people out there who really believe that the radio, the plain old common radio, is living its last days before becoming completely obsolete and disappearing for good from our new media world. Despite such ideas, designers like the Aussie John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen keep on delivering projects that are simply so astonishing that they instantly bring a breath of fresh air on the scene, questioning again the utility and the comforting role of traditional radio. This is the case of the Hidden Radio proj...
[read more >>] Several Lenevo ThinkPad X61 users are complaining about their tablet PC, which appears to generate too much heat in the right palm rest area. The issue isn't related to the tablet PC's graphics chip, as you might presume, but rather to a wireless adapter that is installed under the palm rest. According to the users who have complained about the problem, when the ThinkPad X61 wireless module is activated, it generates a considerable amount of heat, so much so that it can have serious health implications ...
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