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Microsoft will release the Beta 1 version of the Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista operating system next week, while the final version will be delivered most likely in November 2007, according to Mary Jo Foley’s Blog. “Microsoft is expected to emphasize that SP1 is more about fixes than new features. Most of the elements of SP1 are expected to enhance or supplment features that are already part of Vista”, Mary Jo Foley’s sources said

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Beta Version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Coming Next Week

Have you ever been in a state of dilemma regarding the decision-factors pertaining to the selection of the right mobile PC device. Be it a laptop, a notebook PC or a tablet; there are hundreds of factors to be taken into consideration while planning to buy a laptop or its counter-parts. The first and foremost question to ask yourself is “Why not a Desktop?”

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Choosing the right mobile PC (Abridged Version)

Today’s apps must work in an increasingly mobile environment and must allow new means of input: ink, touch, and more. Build a great application that encompasses these needs, write an article about what you’ve done, and you may win one of three cool Samsung Ultra-Mobile PCs . One winner per month, 3/15/07–6/15/07

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Windows Vista Mobile PC App Competition at CodeProject.com

O2 released its first 3.5G Pocket PC in HK on the last day of February. The new Xda Atom Life basically looks pretty much the same as its predecessor, the Xda Atom: a black body with simple and clean outline, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a media player navigation panel along with the basic Pocket PC buttons, and a pair of shortcut bottons on the lower right side of the phone’s body. In addition, it has a 0.3-megapixel supplementary camera for video conferencing purpose.

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O2 Xda Atom Life, A HSDPA Pocket PC [4]

Jabra recently introduced a new Bluetooth 2.0 headset, the Jabra BT8010, which comes with pretty much everything you would want for a Bluetooth headset. The BT8010 features supports for A2DP and AVRCP , the new Jog Wheel rotating control, and a supplementary earphone which allows you to enjoy dual channel stereo sound while listening to music on your mobile device.

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Jabra BT8010 Stereo Bluetooth Headset [7]

Sony Ericsson today announced two new Cyber-shot phones, the K810 and the K550. The K810 basically share the same features as the K800, it comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, Cyber-shot Xenon flash with red eye reduction, 17mm thin 2.0” QVGA 262k TFT display, M2 slot with 128MB M2 in-box, 64MB user free memory, and other similar functions.

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Sony Ericsson Announced Two New Cyber-shot Phones [4]

Vista Shines as Tablet Platform Nice quotes: “The handwriting recognition is greatly improved, and pen flicks, which allow users to navigate the notebook using a flick of the pen, is an addition Tablet PC users are bound to use extensively.” “Handwriting recognition was faster and more accurate than it was pre-Vista, and the device’s full-featured TIP (Tablet Input Panel) made input easy.” – Ken Dacey, Tablet PC Test Lead

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eWEEK says "Vista Shines as a Tablet Platform"

Just when we thought the DELL XPS M1710 is gonna top the most powerful notebook computer for this year, PC MicroWorks released the a duo core SLI capable notebook computer – the Vega . It seems that the best things come in pair for the Vega, it is powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, jaw dropping dual 512MB nVidia Geforce Go 7950GTX or dual 512MB nVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M SLI GPUs, and dual 160 GB SATA hard drives (it also offers options for up to 600GB Perpendicular at 4200RPM)

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Vega – Dual Core SLI Capable Notebook [8]

I’ve been developing the outline of a Trainer’s Training Course that combines Fluency with IT (using Lawrence Snyder ‘s 2nd Edition , and the BeneFIT site at UWash) with constructivist approaches to Educational Technology (using Grabe & Grabe, I only have the 2nd Edition, a 4th Edition is out), both adapted to the local situation in Cebu. Actually, it will only cover half of Snyder’s book on FIT, up to spreadsheets and security. I am dividing it into four modules, I’ll post details later when they are more stable

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Teacher Fluency with IT for ACTIVE Learning

When we first started this blog, last summer, Beta 1 of Windows Vista had just become available. Looking back, it seems we had to make a lot of noise about how to get Windows Vista bits working on Tablet PC. Wow, what a difference a Beta makes! Actually, we’re still some time away from a formal “Beta 2″ release, but I feel somebody should report on our progress… we released a new CTP a few weeks ago (Feb 2006) which is a snapshot of our Beta 2 work — available for download by MSDN Subscribers — and if I may say so, the overall experience on my Tablet PC is really quite nice.

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Windows Vista Feb 2006 CTP Rocks on Tablet PC!

THIS JUST IN!!! LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 — This is Carla Christoff, your Mango Tango laptop bag style consultant reporting live from the floor of the 2006 International Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, where I must regretfully inform you, my fellow laptop-lugging fashionistas, that it is a sad, sad day for women who want to carry laptop bags of style. Amidst the hundreds of thousands of gadget-worshiping gadflies and technology gurus that have gathered here in the city of excess to showcase their latest versions and greatest excursions (into cyberspace); nary has an innovation been made in the laptop bag sector.

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NEWS FLASH…..Mango Tango laptop bags with personality!

In December 2005, Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview of Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named “Avalon”), the new presentation subsystem for Windows that unifies development of documents, graphics, and applications into a common platform. The InkCanvas element in this new platform is your “one-stop shopping” solution for collecting and rendering ink inside of applications designed for Windows Presentation Foundation

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Ink in 3-D with Windows Presentation Foundation (December CTP)

Craig Ringer > What about a network / PXE install? Most > laptopssupport PXE, and it’s often easier to > set upthan finding (a) a working floppy > drive and (b) at least one working floppy > disk. If you’re talking about PXE-booting through Microsoft RIS, it is true that many laptops do support network boots, but RIS adds certain hardware requirements

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re: Netboot / PXE

This post made me appreciate my (comparatively) ancient Macintosh G3 Powerbook, from before Firewire replaced SCSI. I had to hack it with some crazy firmware patch to make 10.3 go on nicely, but it’s honestly my favorite computer because it just sorta works, and was super-cheap for a computer this useful.

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Lots of love for old laptops

Twice a year reformats?? I’m still running the installation of Windows XP I put on here two years ago when I built the machine. Since then it’s had a few betas and release candidates of XP SP2, and a number of VS2005 “Whidbey” Betas and CTPs, as well as ‘Avalon’ and ‘Indigo’ CTPs and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 and post-Beta 2 CTPs.

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re: Another dead computer: My personal laptop