Sep 052009
 

AT&T; is, or soon will be, struggling to retain customers. Will this help? From PC Magazine…

AT&T; Will Enable iPhone MMS on Sept. 25 – News and Analysis by PC Magazine: “AT&T; on Thursday confirmed that it will offer multimedia messaging service (MMS) on the iPhone starting September 25.

AT&T; will enable MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers that day via a software update, the company said.”

 Posted by at 11:25 am
Sep 042009
 

A good explanation to a common question. By Alan Norton at TechRepublic.com…

Learn why 250GB is not ever reported as 250GB | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com:

How all of this madness started is a fascinating stroll down the halls of computer history. Anyone who knows anything at all about computers knows that computers use binary numbers to count. Each piece of information used by a computer has one of two values, 0 or 1, called bits – short for binary digits. Eight bits are combined to create a byte. By the very nature of memory, (Table A) more bytes are usually added by doubling them from 1 to 2, and then doubling them again nine more times until we reach 1,024 bytes.”

 Posted by at 11:34 pm
Sep 032009
 

From TechRepublic.com and yes, I’m sticking to my guns…

Snow Leopard fails to convince CIOs to adopt more Macs | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com: “The most talked about new feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which debuted on August 28, is its native integration with Microsoft Exchange. The assumption was that this one feature could have the same kind of impact in opening the Mac market to corporate users as Exchange integration had on bringing the iPhone to business professionals. A new survey of TechRepublic’s CIO Jury completely debunks that assumption.”

 Posted by at 7:06 pm
Sep 032009
 

From CIO.com…

Five Reasons to Download the Windows 7 Trial Right Now – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership: “By Tony Bradley

September 02, 2009 — PC World —

Microsoft announced the availability of a 90-day free trial of the final RTM (release to manufacturing) version of Windows 7 Enterprise edition. Whether you are anxiously awaiting the new operating system, or skeptical of the hype around Windows 7, here are five reasons you should jump on the free trial.”

 Posted by at 1:18 pm
Sep 022009
 

From the PowerPoint Team Blog…

The PowerPoint Team Blog : The New PowerPoint Media Experience: “The New PowerPoint Media Experience

One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content. With improvements in bandwidth, computing power, and media devices, we’re seeing media – particularly video – used in all walks of life to enrich communication. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback on PowerPoint’s video capabilities over the years, and we’re very excited about the features we’re rolling out in 2010 to make this experience not only dependable, but pleasurable too.”

 Posted by at 7:42 pm