BRIGHT SIDE OF NEWS v0.8. About | Advertise | Contact BSN USER Login
| Register
SUBSCRIBE Newsletter | RSS Feeds
v0.8
Friday, November 20, 2009
Email this to a friend.
Your friend's e-mail:
Your Name:
Your e-mail:
Message subject:
AMD uses Intel's $1.25 billion to repay debt
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Last week's landmark settlement between Intel and AMD ended with Intel paying AMD $1.25 billion and signing a royalty-free x86 license. But what will AMD do with all that money…?
On 11/19/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (8) Read more
Patrick P. Gelsinger leaves Intel, sees the light in EMC
BUSINESS NEWS
The chief architect behind 386 architecture and respected executive decided to leave Intel one week before IDF Fall 2009 in San Francisco.
On 9/14/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Makes it to RC-1 Today
ENTERPRISE, SOFTWARE NEWS
Microsoft's Exchange 2010, one of most popular Enterprise mail services out there hit RC-1 Status today and popped up without fanfare on TechNet and MSDN.
On 8/21/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more
Microsoft to [finally!] bring Outlook on Mac OSX
APPLE, ENTERPRISE, SOFTWARE NEWS
Redmond giant finally announced the arrival of their cornerstone Office application: Outlook will replace Entourage in next-gen version of Office for Mac.
On 8/14/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (1) Read more

Verizon Wireless CEO Debunks Mythical Myths. Or does he?
ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Lowell C. McAdam, president/CEO of Verizon Wireless wrote a letter to New York Times editor Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to debunk "myths" about the US cellphone market.
On 7/28/2009 by Toby Hudon... Comments (0) Read more
VisionTek rubbishes rumors, confirm secured funding in place
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
At 9:18AM PDT, we were contacted by Michael Innes, COO of VisionTek citing stories appearing in various media. At 3:20PM, we got statements from interested parties.
On 7/17/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more

Zoho's CEO attacks Microsoft over Office 2010
CLOUD COMPUTING, SOFTWARE NEWS
As we announced, Microsoft unveiled Office 2010 at its conference in New Orleans. Rising star of cloud computing decided to strike back.
On 7/13/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (3) Read more
Did Google OS spoil Microsoft's Office Live surprise?
SOFTWARE, BUSINESS RUMORS
According to a rumor, Google showed his operating system this week in order to beat Microsoft - giant from Redmont is allegedly planning "something special" for next Monday.
On 7/9/2009 by Daniela Kustre... Comments (0) Read more

Chrome OS increases Interest in Google, Apple Anti Trust
BUSINESS, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE ANALYSIS
With Google and Apple already under investigation for sharing board members, Chrome OS may inscrease the chance of action by the US FTC.
On 7/9/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more
VMware CEO: Intel's x86 is filled with "junk silicon"
HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE NEWS
If you wondered why Intel's reps are now touting power efficiency of its x86 CPUs, the reason is simple: VMware's CEO called the x86 architecture a "power hog" and "junk silicon".
On 7/5/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (6) Read more

AMD considering selling its Phenom II 42 TWKR processors?
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS

In a twitter post by AMD's venerable Chief MarketingOfficer, Nigel Dessau posted an interesting question. Our analysis shows AMD the answer.

On 7/1/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more
Batterygate Part 2 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS

To quote Steve Jobs [paraphrasing Pablo Picasso]: "Good artists copy; great artists steal." And in the words of Benjamin Disraeli:  "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

On 6/29/2009 by Toby Hudon... Comments (3) Read more

A Must Have: Top 30 Free Windows Apps
SOFTWARE REVIEWS

BSN* presents Top 30 free Windows applications. Originally, we wrote this article as a Top 30 Netbook apps, since listed software is light on system demands, but we believe that every PC should use this software suite.

On 6/13/2009 by Daniela Kustre... Comments (12) Read more
 Is MS Office Going Free, Online, and Ad-supported Next Year?
SOFTWARE, BUSINESS RUMORS

TechCrunch ran a story about Microsoft's plans for an ad-supported Office 2010 Online. After a reaction by Microsoft and Credit Suisse, the story got pulled. Too late for the Internet, though...

On 6/7/2009 by Daniela Kustre... Comments (0) Read more

OpenOffice.org 3.1 is out
SOFTWARE NEWS

OpenOffice.org 3.1 is out - this update brings a number of smaller upgrades, for which it was, according to the project leaders over at Sun/Oracle resulted in a change of about half a million lines of code.

On 5/10/2009 by Daniela Kustre... Comments (0) Read more
Russians release near-instant password cracker for Excel spreadsheets
SECURITY, SOFTWARE NEWS

ElcomSoft updated their Advanced Office Password Breaker suite with Rainbow Tables, new algorithm that is able to remove passwords in near-realtime from Excel spreadsheets using Microsoft's standard 40-bit encryption.

On 4/16/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Windows XP support shuts down, security lifeline until 2014
SECURITY, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS NEWS

With the waking up of Pacific Coast, Microsoft ceases its mainstream support for WinXP, even though the company will go on with security updates until April 8th, 2014.

On 4/14/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
HD Videos & Slideshow
  • INTERVIEW: Mike Kreiten
  • AirLive AirVideo-2000
  • Ages Of Illathid
  • Aion
Highlight
  • Corsair Flash Voyager Sticks Come Unglued
  • UPDATE #1: EVGA, where did your lifetime warranty go?
  • Modern Warfare 2 tests our Short Attention Span
  • Duct tape, Pumpkin and Apples bring robot to life
  • Duct tape, Pumpkin and Apples bring robot to life
IP address change delay

Greetings,

The planned network provider change will not happen as planned, due to our site administrator ending in hospital as a consequence of his gliding accident. The wounds are not life-threatening but Mr. Ivica Hosko is still in the hospital, four days after the crash with transportation to Zagreb in two days time. We send our best wishes and hope for a speedy recovery. As soon as Mr. Hosko returns to his daily post, we'll announce the details of our network provider switch.

The following message is for Mr. Ivica himself:  "Ivica, you nut - gliding around a 2km/6600ft mountain with changeable winds in November?"

Thanks for understanding,

Ed-in-chief

© 2009 Bright Side Of News*, All rights reserved.