August 18, 2008
Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7
The Register
Kelly Fiveash includes a comment made by two Microsoft executives in light of the company’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system release.
“‘We, as a team, definitely learned some lessons about ‘disclosure’ and how we can all too easily get ahead of ourselves in talking about features before our understanding of them is solid,’ said head of Windows and Windows Live engineering Steven Sinofsky and Windows core OS division wonk Jon DeVaan. ‘Our intent with Windows 7 and the pre-release communication is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about when we do talk.’”
Bargain hunted: SanDisk Sansa Shaker
Wired
Eliot Van Buskirk highlights features of SanDisk’s Sansa Shaker MP3 player which lets users skip to the next song by simply shaking the device.
“Its 512MB of expandable memory can fit about six hours of music encoded at 192 Kbps…Sansa Shaker supports only MP3s and has a built in speaker on the top, an SD Card expansion slot, two headphone jacks for sharing with a friend and simple twister controls for volume and next/last song on the top and bottom rims.”
Go ahead and nap, PC. We’ll wake you when we need you
ZD Net
Sam Diaz offers his thoughts on Intel’s Remote Wake technology, which enables users to wake their computers up remotely.
“Apparently, the technology wakes’ the computer remotely but leaves the monitor on the remote PC dark and disables the audio on it so it won’t disturb anyone who may be nearby. I haven’t been able to figure out if it puts the machine back to sleep when it’s done doing its thing. Having been a parent of a newborn, there was nothing worse then someone waking the baby from its nap and then leaving without putting the baby back down to finish his or her nap.”