Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for download Saturday after its servers were overwhelmed with users trying to download the operating system.
On its Windows 7 site, Microsoft posted a note saying “The Windows 7 Beta is now available for download.” The Windows 7 site lists a page where the beta can be downloaded.
On Friday, [...]
An Atom-based tablet from Panasonic.
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This product is so new, it doesn’t even have a name. Yet.
During the announcement of the new ToughBook notebooks, Panasonic also took the opportunity to show off one of its upcoming Intel Atom-based tablets. This white unit is meant for use in the medical field. Aside from a touch-screen display, [...]
When Intel launched its first six-core x86 microprocessor - a high-end processor to crunch huge amount of data - designed and developed by its Indian team, there was relief at its India office.
This made-in-India project, code-named Dunnington, was launched after another much-touted India-specific project - Whitefield - was aborted mid-way by Intel in 2005, citing [...]
As reporters, we tend to be wary whenever a company claims to be the first, the best, or the smallest of anything. But when we saw an image of CompuLab’s Fit-PC Slim, we thought it could very well be the tiniest machine capable of running Windows XP yet.
The original Fit-PC 1.0 was already a minute machine, [...]
Street View endows Google Maps with a driver’s-eye view of the world, and now people actually on the street will be able to use it, too.
The company announced a new version of its Google Maps for Mobilesoftware that includes support for Street View, as well as walking directions and reviews of businesses. Google said the new [...]
Scientists at the University of Rochester have created what they say is the first true 3D processor–and it’s running at 1.4GHz.
Unlike past attempts at 3D processors, which were simply a number of processors stacked on top of one another, the “Rochester Cube,” as it is being called, was designed from the ground up to optimize all key-processing [...]
Stanford scientists gloat over their incredible accomplishment.
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According to a Reuter’s story, on Monday a four-foot-long, helicopter, equipped with an artificial intelligence system developed by computer scientists at Stanford University flew over the campus. The helicopter had taught itself to fly by watching the aerobatics of a radio-controlled helicopter flown by a human. Also on Monday, I [...]
