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Posted by Garett Rogers @ 8:05 am   Year:September 23rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 23rd, 2007 Two new Gmail features in the queue Posted by Garett Rogers @ 8:05 am Categories: Gmail, Google, Google Translate Tags: Google Gmail, Google Gears, E-mail Providers, Internet, Garett Rogers After discovering that Google is testing a new version of Gmail yesterday, I decided to take a closer look at more of the snippets that need to be translated for Gmail. Most of them seem to be straight forward and correspond to existing features, however there are some interesting ones that dont seem to fit anywhere. Here are two new features that will be launched either before, or after Gmail 2.0: Google Gears integration It was hinted at in recent reports, but there has been no hard evidence of Googles plans to integrate Google Gears with Gmail until now. Two sni...

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Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 5:09 am   Year:September 23rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 23rd, 2007 Vista SP1 tries to hide the Ultimate Extras shame Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 5:09 am Categories: Microsoft, Vista Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes While many are waiting on Windows Vista SP1 to come along to knock off some of Vistas rough corners, it seems that some at Microsoft will welcome the release too - specifically Microsoft’s Windows Ultimate group. Long Zheng explains why: On a related note, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 even tries to hide the Ultimate Extras shame by removing much of the information in the Control Panel applet. This is what you see in the current RTM version about Ul...

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Posted by Garett Rogers @ 9:30 pm   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 New version of Gmail being tested Posted by Garett Rogers @ 9:30 pm Categories: Gmail Tags: Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Internet, Garett Rogers Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004, and has revolutionized the way many of us use email. The interface has remained largely untouched since it launched, but get ready, its soon to undergo a change in what they describe as a New Version. Only a select few people have access to use the new interface mainly employees and trusted people outside the company called Trusted Testers. Unfortunately, there are no leaked screenshots to look at yet, but if you are one of the lucky few testers, I would love to take a peek. How do I know they are working on a New Version? Well, Google lets every-day users who are fluent...

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Posted by Matthew Miller @ 9:21 pm   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve supports HotSpot @Home Posted by Matthew Miller @ 9:21 pm Categories: Smartphone, BlackBerry, Wireless carriers, mobile services Tags: HotSpot, Phone, T-Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Device Price, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Wireless, Hardware, Matthew Miller I tried out the T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service as a beta tester over a year ago and then gave the service a try when it rolled out in a limited capacity in Washington State. The service then rolled out nationwide in late June of this year and I was lucky enough to receive a free phone for being a long-time customer. However, it was a Samsung t409 feature phone and just didnt cut it when I am used to high-powered smartphones. I was resigned to wait until a more full featur...

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Posted by Harry Fuller @ 6:32 pm   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 Male extinction: is this good news for the planet? Posted by Harry Fuller @ 6:32 pm Categories: Blogroll, research, China, India, water, Europe, Russia, conservation Tags: Life, Baby, Girl Baby, Globalization, Sales Channel, Strategy, Management, Sales, Harry Fuller Believers in Gaia might say this is the Earths revenege. I cant quote what my wife said. And my ex-wife, well, fergeddaboutit. Scientists say its simply biochemistry. Men are becoming rarer, perhaps slipping slowly into extinction. Cryogenic sperm banks could become a huge growth industry. So could the export of male babies. First, this noteone Greenland village now produces only girl babies. The blame goes to PCBs and other man-made pollutants that get concentrated in the blubber of the ar...

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Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 10:16 am   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 Why bicycles are so stable? Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 10:16 am Categories: Engineering Innovation, Leisure Tags: For almost 150 years now, mathematicians have tried to understand why a bicycle could be so stable. Now, researchers of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), working with colleagues from Cornell University and the University of Nottingham, UK, say theyve build a model which unravels how a bicycle works. As said a bicycle maker, when designing a bike, only three parameters are used: the general geometry, the distance between the axles, and the angle at which the fork points downwards. The new mathematical model includes 25 parameters and will permit to build bicycles aimed directly at special target groups. Already, a Dutch bicycl...

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Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 9:41 am   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 Guerrilla SOA leader: inch by inch, its a cinch Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 9:41 am Categories: General, Business ROI Tags: Leader, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick Theres been quite a bit of discussion across the blogosphere around the Guerrilla SOA tactics proposed by Jim World Wide Webber, as recently articulated in a video podcast. Check out Rich Seeleys article, which presents both sides of the matter. (Yours truly had jumped in on the discussion here and here.) Jim makes some additional observations, answering critics of his approach. For example, there are assertions that grassroots approaches such as Guerrilla SOA are simply unconnected SOA efforts that will simply l...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 9:27 am   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 Expect a settlement in Monsoon GPL suit Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 9:27 am Categories: General, Applications, Linux, Software Licensing, Legal, Hardware, video, GPL Tags: GPL, Settlement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn UPDATE: That didnt take long. Those who expected a quick settlement win just what folks won on Iron Chef, namely the peoples ovation and fame forever. Monsoon Multimedia, by the way, is based in Noida, India, near Delhi. Despite an immense excitement over the filing of a GPL violations suit against Monsoon Multimedia, makers of the Hava media player, expect a settlement fairly soon. I was sent a link to a Hava support thread on the issue, which was still online at this writing. The thread makes it clear that the facts of the case are ...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 8:28 am   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 Tablet PCs improve doctor-patient interaction Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 8:28 am Categories: General, Medical Office IT, Internet, Medical Office Equipment, Networking, Consumer Information, Physician Information, Medical IT Tags: Patient, PC, Tablet PC, Tablet, Dana Blankenhorn A three-year study in 30 oncologyclinics claims that tablet PCs actually improve results when they are shared by doctors and patients. Now some grains of salt. The company managing the study, Thomson Healthcare, is thesystem vendor. Supportive Oncology Services, which also participated, is the software vendor. The study used the ACORN research network of oncology offices. But the Journal of Supportive Care of Cancer is of high quality. This is peer-reviewed stuff.The study al...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 7:16 am   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 GMTA: Mobile TV is So overhyped Posted by Russell Shaw @ 7:16 am Categories: Mobile, Predictions and Observations Tags: Mobile, Mobile TV, TV, TechDirt, Mike, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw Ive railed against this craze before. I think it is informed by Platformitis, an overwrought obsession on the part of freaked-out tv types that hey, our viewers are increasingly out and about, by golly they all have cellphones, and we need to get to their eyeballs where those eyeballs happen to be. But ah, another voice in the wilderness that agrees with me that Mobile TV aint gonna be all that big. Techdirts Mike Masnick also sees through all this Mobile TV hype. Mikes two big reasons: Mobile users are just that-mobile. Most often, they are ...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 6:56 am   Year:September 22nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 22nd, 2007 Medical records on an iPhone? Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 6:56 am Categories: General, Hospital IT, Internet, Networking, Medical IT, Curioisities, Medical Records Tags: Apple iPhone, Gimmick, Health Care, Medical Record, Futurism, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Corporate Communications With dozens of electronic health record outfits struggling for market share, you need a gimmick to get attention. Life Record has just such a gimmick. Put your health records on your iPhone. This is obviously a gimmick because there are not yet many iPhones out there, and AT&T charges out the wazoo for data transfers. But the deal does let Life Record talk about its concept of Web-based health records, which is a worthy subject of discussion. ...

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