Photosynth of Inauguration Photos

The CNN-Microsoft project to create a commemorative 3D portrait of the presidential inauguration is live, and you can view it here. Using Microsoft’s Photosynth technology, the joint venture is designed to capture the historical event by stitching together digital photos shared by anyone who was there. The Photosynth software, part of Microsoft’s [...]

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Windows 7 Patch Released

Microsoft issued its first patch for the just-released Windows 7 beta, but it passed on plugging a hole in an important file-sharing protocol that it fixed in older versions of the operating system.
Yesterday, Windows Update, Microsoft’s primary update service, began delivering the first patch to Windows 7 since the company struggled to launch the public [...]

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Windows 7 beta download delayed

Microsoft has delayed the public release of its Windows 7 beta download due to an overwhelming demand that its servers couldn’t handle.
“Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta,”.

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Google releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

Less than a month after announcing that version 1.0 of its Chrome Web browser is no longer a beta, Google has released an alpha version of Chrome 2.0. Available through Google’s Chrome Developer Channel, the updated browser brings many notable improvements over Chrome 1.0.
The alpha version of Chrome 2.0 shows that Google continues to play [...]

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AMD Launches Its Fastest Desktop Chips Ever

In an attempt to gain an advantage in the gaming PC market, Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday launched what it called its “highest-performing CPUs” to date.
Two new quad-core Phenom II processors, aimed at high-end desktop PCs, were announced by AMD at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The chips succeed the Phenom processor the [...]

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