New article: Sending emails after midnight? Don’t even think about it!

Should you send late-night emails? Email expert Marsha Egan says "no".

Read this OutlookPower article.

Posted on: June 28, 2010 9:00 am

Windows 7 Compared to Other Top-Sellers

If you want to know just how fast Windows 7 is selling for Microsoft, this article includes some comparisons, such as: Ford’s Model T (1908-1927) sold at the rate of one car every 37 seconds while Win7 is selling is going at 7 copies per second.

Posted on: June 28, 2010 9:00 am

Windows 7 SP1 ‘beta’ leaks, hits torrents

According to those who have looked at it, Service Pack 1 for Win7 is nothing more than a rollup of hotfixes while that for Windows Server 2008 R2 will offer some new features.

Posted on: June 28, 2010 9:00 am

MyNomadesk.com Integrates with Zoho

Nomadesk announced the integration of Zoho with MyNomadesk.com for editing and viewing of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Zoho integrates with Nomadesk, to open an MS document in an external window where it can be viewed or changed from a browser.

Posted on: June 28, 2010 9:00 am

Stampede Technologies Awarded Patent for AutoZip

Stampede Technologies, Inc. has received a patent for its AutoZip advanced client/server compression solution for zipping and unzipping Web-based file attachments. AutoZip dynamically converts file attachments into .ZIP files as they are added to Web applications such as Outlook Web Access, SharePoint portals, Domino Web Access, etc.

Posted on: June 28, 2010 9:00 am

ActivePython Updated for Finance, Scientific Users

ActiveState has added some new libraries to its ActivePython package. The new libraries, NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib, are used in scientific and financial programs.

Posted on: June 25, 2010 9:00 am

Attack of the Cosmic Rays!

Bug tracking is time consuming at best. But tracking a single bit error… This article walks through the process of discovering and defining an interesting problem – cosmic rays flipping switches.

Posted on: June 25, 2010 9:00 am

Salesforce retaliates; sues Microsoft for allged patent infringement

Back in May, Microsoft sued Salesforce for alleged patent infringement. Yesterday, Salesforce filed their own suit, alleging Microsoft’s .Net and SharePoint infringe on patents held by Salesforce.

Posted on: June 25, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft’s Free Windows Live Essentials Beta Debuts

Windows Live Essentials is a collections of programs including a mail, messaging, movie and photo software, and a text editor. The beta can be downloaded but requires Vista or Windows 7.

Posted on: June 25, 2010 9:00 am

Intel: 2-year-old Nvidia GPU Outperforms 3.2GHz Core I7

Intel researchers probably didn’t want to prove this – Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 280, released in 2008, runs up to 14 times faster than Intel’s 3.2GHz Core i7 960 processor.

Posted on: June 24, 2010 9:00 am