Tech News of the month

Window 7  pricing made public

$319.99 for Windows 7 Ultimate,

$299.9 for Professional and

$199.99 for Home Premium.

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What’s the FOSS about?

The inaugural issue of the international Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Law Review launched recently. It will be a forum for discussions on issues regarding best practices in open source and FOSS implementation.

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We want Firefox

That’s what employees from the US state department told Hillary Clinton. The browser is apparently        approved by the entire intelligence community.

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Hotmail and other Live services to have 500 GB of space.

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Kingstone launches a 256GB pen drive in Europe.

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Ubisoft to develop game for Facebook.

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MSI to add and feature to boards that allow it automatically overclock on a press of a button.

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A disc ISO of Google’s operating system Android is available for download.

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AMD’s 785G chipset uses the DirectX 10.1 supported Radeon 4200 GPU.

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FreeDOS turned 15 this June.

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Terre Star launches the first satellite Windows Mobile phone.

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Overclockers push the Phenom II 955 beyond 7GHz.

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Gmail finally went out of beta after five years.

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Copper makes for the ideal component when designing heatsinks. Unfortunately it’s prone to corrosion especially in contact with moisture.

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Windows 7 on USB drives?

While there is no official word yet, there are rumours flying around that Microsoft will offer Windows 7 on USB drives, as many netbooks do not have optical drives.

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USB 3.0 starts shipping

lucidPort has started shipping ports for the new standare, USB 3.0, called USB300. The port offers ten times the speed of USB 2.0

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Super Talent Picox

Buffalo, one of the leading momory solution companies, has released 5mm long USB drives, which  still manage to pack in 16GB of memory – housed in the plug itself.

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IronKey Protection

IronKey offers military gade protection on its USB drives to consumers. It has released a new series of USB drives, in the $200 range, which use a technology known as cryptochip to secure the data.