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As the follow up of the article “Apple Switches To Intel Chips“, on Monday, June 6, 2005, Apple confirmed to use Intel chips beginning in mid 2006.
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“Our goal is to provide our customers with the best personal computers in the world, and looking ahead Intel has the strongest processor roadmap by far,†said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It’s been ten years since our transition to the PowerPC, and we think Intel’s technology will help us create the best personal computers for the next ten years.â€
Now with a small hack to the Windows OS, we can enjoy some XP Pro features in Windows XP Home.
German computer magazine C’T claims that by changing only 2 bytes from the file setupreg.hiv in Windows’s XP Home kit, users can get access to certain functions only avalaible in Windows XP Professional, such as Remote Desktop, User management and enhanced security features.
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Minor Hack Turns XP Home To XP Pro Lite
At a press conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, Nokia revealed its strategy to bring the benefits of mobility to new growth markets by introducing the Nokia 1110 and Nokia 1600. This two models are aiming at first time users and consumers in growth markets like Africa. Somehow, I can’t find both of them in Nokia’s Malaysia website, not even the US website too.
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Nokia Unveiled Nokia 1110 & 1600
The first-ever ThinkPad X41 Tablet Series (X41T) that converts to a tablet PC will make its debut on Monday, June 6,2005.
This is the first computer released by China’s Lenovo Group following its purchase of IBM’s legendary PC business earlier this year.
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First ThinkPad Tablet Debut
A spam e-mail that attached pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden but carries a malicious trojan in the attachment has been spreading recently.
Millions of copies of various versions of the e-mail were mass-mailed on Thursday, June 2, 2005. All versions of the message announced that the al-Qaida leader had been seized and included an attachment called “pics” that, when opened, attempted to download a worm to the victim’s PC.
McAfee announced on June 2, 2005, the acquisition of Wireless Security Corp, which is a privately held company that offers innovative Wi-Fi security solutions to protect home and small business wireless networks from unauthorized access to a wireless network, its contents, or Internet service.