While Mac users bob and gasp in the wake of the release of Apple’s new operating system, Snow Leopard, Windows users are gloating (a bit preemptively). As Microsoft gears up to unleash its long-awaited operating system, Windows 7, friends and foes alike are hailing its amazing security. One industry publication declares that “the new version of Windows is stacking up to be the most secure to date.”

That’s a high and mighty claim for an operating system that has historically had more bugs, viruses, glitches, malfunctions, spyware, malware, and problems than all the other operating systems combined. Ok, that sounds a little harsh, but when you’re a household name in computing and founded by the erstwhile richest man in the world, people will throw rocks at you. Those rocks came in the form of a veritable torrent of hack-happy engineers unleashing their twistedness to deconstruct Windows versions from the system BIOS up. It’s been going on for a long time.
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SanDisk has taken this idea of digital music and ran with it. They have just introduced slotMusic, which plays on microSD cards. Because of the failed attempt to control or stop illegal downloading of music they decided to release a DRM free format for mp3 albums. Many big named record labels have already signed on like Sony BMG, BMI Music, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group.

Over forty artists are available now including Chris Brown, Coldplay, Daughtry, Katy Perry, Nickelback, and Tim McGraw. They also released some classic albums by ABBA, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and KISS. The 1GB microSD album is priced at $15, which includes high-quality (320kbps) MP3s, artwork, videos, and other digital content. Here is a Press Release from SanDisk talking more about the artists and the slotMusic microSD cards.
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Ever wondered what a collaborative social network site might look like? Yes, we know that is pretty much the definition of every social network out there, but this one looks to be a little different from it’s older brothers.

BAAGZ makes good use of the Search By Serendipity technology that currently powers exalead.com. Essentially it is a form of social site that represents the first live network of shared interests. These shared interests are characterized by the public content contained within individual folders, called “baagz”. These act as shortcuts to  favourite Web sites, articles, pictures, videos, RSS feeds and notes. Read the rest

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Anyone aware of Powerset will know that they have been busy blowing their air all over the place regarding their “coming soon” technology that is set to give the smack down to Google. As yet, only a select few know much about them and have had a chance to see their tech.

As of today a new company has opened it’s doors well ahead of Powerset. This new company is called True Knowledge and is seriously impressive. They are based in the UK, have some large funding and some seriously impressive technology. Read the rest

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