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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
From Robert McLaws and his blog Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET – Windows Vista Edition A .NET Developer’s Perspective on the Windows Vista Experience.
I’ve been defending Microsoft’s ship schedule for Windows Vista for quite some time. Up to this point, I’ve been confident that Vista would be at [...]

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Armor Holdings Inc. plans to start selling their “liquid armor” next year. From the Business Week article: “it’s a mix of polyethylene glycol, a polymer found in laxatives and other consumer products, and nanobits of silica, or purified sand. Together they produce a “sheer-thickening liquid” that stiffens [...]

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E3 probably won’t mean anything to you unless you are a gamer, but it’s the Electronic Entertainment Expo, run by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). It is reportedly the world’s largest annual trade show for the computer and video games industry. Next-Gen.biz has a story that states the [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Makes me wonder if this is “planned obsolescence” or what. Yes, I realize that even if the iPod was designed for a longer life, it will most likely be technologically obsolete long before then, and most people will want to update. I was reading a Chicago Tribune article, [...]

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Finally, what we’ve needed to happen is starting to happen, Zango affiliates are starting to come forward to let us know what Zango is asking them to do, case in point, recently, Zango denied targeting MySpace, saying “Those two test accounts were actually created by one of our developers who was [...]

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The Venetian Hotel and Casino will being field tests of mobile gaming devices this year. Yep, that’s right – now you can be gambling even when you’re in the middle of that 1 hour buffet line, or poolside or perhaps in the middle of your boring convention [...]

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Well, it’s really to download it, not to use it. But the Office 2007 Beta has proved so popular that it has been downloaded 3 million times, and Microsoft says it needs to recoup its costs.
Consumers who download the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 will be charged $1.50 [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Gone are the days when if someone hit your car they would leave you a note (at least, a lot of people won’t do this any longer). TruScene aims to keep your insurance rates low by monitoring your car. You attach the device to your rearview mirror, [...]