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Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Released

roryd — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:26 +0000

As of 10am PDT (6pm GMT), the final release of PP3 for WHS is available.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sky puts content on Xbox console

roryd — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:24:05 +0000

Is this the beginning of a fundamental change in the way we receive and watch programming?

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sky puts content on Xbox console

BSkyB link with Microsoft on X-Box

roryd — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:38:56 +0000

Ohhh, this could be interesting!

“Rapid TV News understands that the long-awaited link up between BSkyB and Microsoft’s X-Box is at last going to happen. Full details will be announced tomorrow (Friday, May 29). The unveiling “Experience the Vision’ press event will explain more.” – RapidTVNews.com

BSkyB link with Microsoft on X-Box – Rapid TV News

Microsoft Announces the Expansion of the Zune Entertainment Service to New Platform and Markets; Confirms New Zune HD Portable Media Player: Premium Zune digital entertainment service to be available internationally on Xbox LIVE.

roryd — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:36:38 +0000

AT LAST!!!

From microsoft.com: “REDMOND, Wash. — May 26, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the evolution of Zune, the company’s end-to-end music and entertainment service, to a new platform and new markets. Zune will extend its video service to Xbox LIVE internationally this fall. This marks an important development in the Zune strategy and brings the Zune brand to more than 17 million international Xbox LIVE subscribers. In addition, Microsoft confirmed the next generation of the Zune portable media player, Zune HD. Available in the U.S. this fall, Zune HD is the first portable media player that combines a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD) video output capabilities, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch screen, Wi-Fi and an Internet browser.”

e-Accident: Fax dead, e-mail seriously injured…middle-aged people confused

roryd — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:33:31 +0000

Have you any views on the introduction of a general ban on sending faxes in the enterprise? In this day and age, I feel it’s perfectly acceptable to expect someone to be able to receive an e-mail. As an enterprise, we obviously still need to receive faxes, but that can be handled by Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging as it stands. Sending outgoing faxes from PCs would require unnecessary expenditure, and I just feel that we should bite the bullet on this, do away with the actual machines, the analogue telephone lines they need, the toner and paper they use, and put this ancient technology out of our misery. If someone needs to send a piece of paper or a signed document to someone, they can scan it and e-mail it.

To be perfectly honest, e-mail is on the way out too. It’s a middle-aged, middle-class way of communicating, equivalent to our parents writing letters. My kids all have e-mail, but they only use it to register on web sites, and never for communicating. In ten years time, how will we communicate with the next generation of customers? Twitter? Facebook? Bebo? TwitFace? It won’t be by e-mail anyway.

And as for that noise the kids call music…

Answers on a postcard, please…

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2

roryd — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:39:44 +0000

From the Windows Home Server Team Blog:

“We are pleased to announce Windows Home Server Power Pack 2. Power Pack 2 fixes known issues and adds new features to improve the Windows Home Server experience. Enhancements include: Improvements to remote access configuration, enhanced functionality for computers running Windows Media Center, and content streaming support for Windows Media Center Extenders. Power Pack 2 adds Italian language support on new home servers.

Power Pack 2 will be made available via Windows Update. Users need to have Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 already installed on their home server. Power Pack 2 will automatically install as part of Windows Update if Automatic Updates is enabled on the home server. (How to turn on automatic updates.) The English version release date is March 24^th. Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish is currently scheduled to be available before the end of April.”

Full details of the updates can be found here.

WordPress for the iPhone

roryd — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:09:51 +0000

Now available from the AppStore (and if you’re reading this, then it also works!).

2008 Global Cellphone Sales Stats

roryd — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:26:27 +0000

Thanks to ABI Research, we now know the breakdown of global mobile device sales for 2008. Out of a total of 1.21 billion devices sold, the market shares are:

Nokia – 38.6%
Samsung – 16.2%
Motorola – 8.3%
LG – 8.3%
Sony Ericsson – 8%
RIM – 1.9%
Apple – 1.1%

LED light bulbs to cut energy bills by 75%

roryd — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:47:59 +0000

With the way my kids eat energy, I could do with a few boxes of these…

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/29/led-light-bulbs-to-cut-energy-bills-by-75

Zune 3.0 Software available now

roryd — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:28:55 +0000

Download it here…