College isn’t cheap these days, even if you’re attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has just announced that it’s offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off the usual retail price. Even if you’re not a college student, though, the Mac BU is offering a range of “holiday” discounts on Office as well. Office 2008 for Mac comes in two different editions. The Home   read more

SquareTrade, Inc., a company that offers extended warranties on all sorts of consumer electronics, has published a study on laptop longevity based on 30,000 costumer experiences. The numbers show that Apple is fourth in terms of reliability, as machines from the Cupertino company suffered a smidgen over 10 percent failure rate over a two-year period and an estimated 17.4 percent rate over three years. Asus, Toshiba, and Sony all had lower two-year and estimated three-year failure rates, with Asus taking the top spot at just under 10 percent over two years and an estimated 15.6 percent   read more

Perhaps the heat from the "Firewall" is still there, still calming the impression in the mind's image enthusiasts mystery novels, who want to co-operated with each inspector Kurt Wallander long way on the project smart and alone. And "One step Behind" and did not disappoint the reader, there is a country of Sweden with a new type of crime, cold, frost, the horror of the case Rain is still free, the birds singing, clouds, dreams interrupted or wind night Kurt Wallander is still a heart is led by courageous unparalleled, intuitive acumen, critical thinking and smart execution desire for justice   read more

At Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC09), the Microsoft Surface team announced the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition. It has actually been available on the Microsoft Download Center (144.2MB) since earlier this month, but only now has it been made official. Developers interested in the Microsoft Surface can now easily access the software at no cost. While the actual Microsoft Surface is of course required to deploy an application, and many are already using Surface Developer units to create and test their   read more

Camino—the Gecko-based browser with native Cocoa interface and more seamless Mac OS X integration—ha finally landed an official 2.0 release. The browser uses a much newer version of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine (the same one used in Firefox) along with updated tabs and improved security features. However, Camino still lags Firefox in support for Web fonts and advanced HTML5 features like <video> and offline storage. Camino 2.0 has a number of new features over the 1.x series, which has been mostly in maintenance mode for the last couple of years. Tabbed browsing has   read more

SquareTrade, Inc., a company that offers extended warranties on all sorts of consumer electronics, has published a study on laptop longevity based on 30,000 costumer experiences. The numbers show that Apple is fourth in terms of reliability, as machines from the Cupertino company suffered a smidgen over 10 percent failure rate over a two-year period and an estimated 17.4 percent rate over three years. Asus, Toshiba, and Sony all had lower two-year and estimated three-year failure rates, with Asus taking the top spot at just under 10 percent over two years and an estimated 15.6 percent over three   read more

Google announced Wednesday that Google Earth for iPhone has been updated to version 2.0. Though the major version number has incremented, the update is rather minor except for a new ability to connect to your saved Google Maps and view them overlaid on its virtual globe. The main reason to grab this update is in integrated ability to view maps that you have saved to “My Maps” using Google Maps or the desktop version of Google Earth. Google offered the examples of checking maps for Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler likes to travel or where chef Ferran Adri   read more

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at IBM have presented at paper at the SC09 supercomputing conference describing a milestone in cognitive computing: the group’s massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, now has the ability to simulate a brain with about 4.5 percent the cerebral cortex capacity of a human brain, and significantly more brain capacity than a cat.   read more

IBM introduced ThinkPad in 1992 and later Lenovo was able to purchase this division and started production of different models of ThinkPad. Since many years ThinkPads have revolutionized the use of consumers with sleek designs, mobility and performance. The standard of ThinkPad in general has features such as Magnesium-alloy chassis, carbon fiber reinforced plastic, lower price, rubber cushion, safety for consumers etc.The series of ThinkPad based on the category can be classified as Budget – ThinkPad R Series, ThinkPad SL Series for Small Business, ThinkPad T Series for Performance, ThinkPad   read more

Yahoo Go will soon be gone, a mobile application was released in 2006 this will be closed on January 12, 2010. Yahoo Go is a portal service that allows users to access content within Yahoo itself. This includes emails, contacts, calendar, photos, and so on. In 2007 past year, Yahoo offered in cooperation with the HTC version 2.0 of this application in windows mobile handset. Then Yahoo also improve with version 3.0. But the years ahead, it seems yahoo no longer focus on the application, this can be seen from the lack of development of the new version of Yahoo Go on this year. Step closure application   read more