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HP upgrading Home Server lineup, Apple may follow suit

Rafe Needleman | Dec 30, 2008

Hewlett-Packard announced Monday that it is upgrading its MediaSmart server lineup with new, more powerful hardware and, more importantly, with software support for Macs and improved over-the-Net streaming of users' media files (A software update will allow users of existing MediaSmart boxes to access some of the new features). Also Monday, 9to5Mac speculated that one of the Macworld announcements in January will be an expanded Time Capsule product with similar features.

Currently, HP's MediaSmart servers, running Microsoft's Windows Home Server software, cannot serve as backup platforms for Macs running the Time Machine backup software, and data stored on a WHS product is available only in a very limited fashion over the open Internet. Similarly, Apple's current Time Capsule backup appliance does not come with backup software for Windows PCs, and does not support media sharing over the Net.
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Windows 7 beta 1 makes early debut

Steven Musil | Dec 29, 2008

The first beta of Microsoft's next operating system has apparently been spotted in the wild.

The first beta of Windows 7, which is expected to hit retailer shelves in time for the 2009 holiday shopping season, has reportedly popped up on torrent trackers as an ISO file. ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes also reports having a copy and has posted his first impressions of the beta.
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Twitority refines Twitter search--or kills it

Rafe Needleman | Dec 29, 2008

Twitority, the new alternative to Twitter's own search engine, is a brilliant idea. Or an incredibly stupid one. It depends on what you are looking for.

Over the weekend after Christmas, Seemic CEO Loic Le Meur put up a blog post saying Twitter's search engine is insufficiently discriminating. If you're looking for the best Twitter posts on a topic, he says, you want results from the most authoritative people to be ranked higher than Tweets from the rabble. Le Meur proposed a search engine that ranked Twitter posts based in part on the number of followers the poster had. He equated this, roughly, with the influence of the poster and thus the importance of the post. And then Jon Wheatly went and built it.
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Print news is fading, but the content lives on

Dan Farber | Dec 26, 2008

It's been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog, physical world as a source of information and connections.

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press conducted a survey that rendered two obvious conclusions: The Internet has overtaken newspapers as a source of national and international news, and television, led by CNN, continues to serve as the main source.

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According to the Pew survey, 40 percent of respondents (versus 24 percent in 2007) said the Internet is their primary source for national and international news. That compares with 35 percent (versus 34 percent 2007) who rely on newspapers and 70 percent (versus 74 percent in 2007) who use television as their main source. Given the historic presidential campaign and economic woes this year, the large percentage increase year-over-year for the Internet is not surprising.
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Year of the Ox flash drive

John Chan | Dec 26, 2008

(Credit: Kingston)

Christmas may have just ended but Kingston is wasting no time in preparation for the Chinese Lunar New Year. It has announced a limited edition Data Traveler Year of the Ox flash drive for good fortune in 2009. The Taiwan-based company will release this product in 4GB and 8GB capacities. It features a red, stylized ox on a gold background--colors which are supposed to symbolize happiness and wealth. Check with your local Kingston office for price and availability if you are keen on getting one.

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