ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
As promised, on Thursday Microsoft released the Release Candidate build (7100) to MSDN and TechNet subscribers at http://technet.microsoft.com. The fact that it’s been available on P2P sites for about a week should in no way embarrass Microsoft.
Just to be clear, unless you are downloading from the aforementioned P2P sites, [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
It’s not ready for prime time yet, but this would be the perfect sort of app to handle updates on the swine flu outbreak which is sweeping across the globe. Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new private beta, of a product called Vine. Vine is sort of social networking, but focused [...]

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RealTechNews
Special Report: The CDC (Center for Disease Control) claims it is not serious yet, but we like to look at data before making up our minds. So we turned to Google and Twitter for the most up to date flu information. Now you can too:
Swine Flu MashUp on Google Maps

Google Flu Trends
Google has [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Not satisfied with winning chess matches against humans, IBM is set to take on the game show “Jeopardy!”
According to a Monday press release, IBM has been (over the last two years) developing a question-answer system it has dubbed “Watson.” Researchers believe that “Watson” will be able to understand complex questions and [...]

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By Yan Fortin
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
With all the fear mongering that is happening right now with the swine flu craze, we figured that quite a few of you would be interested in learning what exactly is swine flu and how it actually crossed the species barrier in the first place. To answer the question, the Geeks [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Pure Digital, recently acquired by Cisco, just introduced an HD version of its Ultra camcorder. Well, not really. Actually, Best Buy introduced it for them, by putting the devices out for sale before Pure Digital had a chance to put out its own press release.
In fact, if you look on [...]

ShareBy Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews 
On the same theme as our earlier post: we’re staying with SSD installations. This time the very first review of the new Imation Upgrade Kit.
From DigitalReviews.net: 
What a brilliant idea!  Most people who want to upgrade to the speed and performance of a solid-state drive might be put off by the [...]

ShareBy Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews 
Most of the tests that you come across on websites like ours deal with bits and bytes as well as speeds and specs.  Sometimes these seem far removed from real life issues…
So, how about a perspective from a user on installing an SSD in a notebook and letting us know the [...]