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Intel Preps Mac OS X Developer Tools
Intel Corp. will port its software developer tools to Mac OS X and will ship its first beta later this year, the chip maker told developers on Tuesday at its first-ever session on Mac OS X at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Kevin Smith, director of Intel Compiler Labs, said that Intel will…
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Microsoft Buffs Sparkle ‘Flash Killer’
At its upcoming Professional Developers Conference next month, Microsoft Corp. is set to shed more details on its developer-oriented graphics tool, code-named Sparkle. Sparkle will be one element of the upcoming Expression Studio suite of design and developer tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), formerly known as Avalon. Expression Studio also is expected to…
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Analysis: Serious SATA Steps In for Storage
With 400GB total capacity, 7,200 rpm and 16MB of onboard cache, the current specs of the new Western Digital WD Caviar RE2 may look pretty boring—until you discover that the drive is designed for 24/7 duty cycles. Why am I making a big fuss over a hard-working SATA (Serial ATA) drive? With 24/7 levels of…
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Matchmaker Service Helps VARs Service Remote Customers
With VAR-to-VAR partnerships becoming integral to the way the channel does business, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to try playing matchmaker. Taking a cue from the eBay Inc. model of connecting buyers with sellers, New York-based ComputerRepair.com last year launched a Web-based service that matches channel companies looking for services…
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Microsoft Posts How-To on Working with RSS in Vista
Microsoft on Wednesday posted the first installment of a blog to advise developers on creating Web pages and RSS feeds that work correctly with IE 7 and Windows Vista. Microsoft plans to provide a common feed list of subscriptions and a common feed store of data in Vista, the Windows client release formerly known as…
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Do Microsoft’s Vista Hardware Guidelines Meet the Mark?
While the final hardware requirements for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system won’t be made public until next summer, testers say the first beta release of the operating system is performing moderately well on existing PC hardware. Microsoft released to testers the first beta of Vista one week ago. As it has been doing for the…
