October 20, 2009
Gateway intros 15.6 and 11.6-inch EC Series laptops: EC58, EC54 and EC14
Engadget
Darren Murph provides details about Gateway’s new laptop products that will support Microsoft Windows 7.
“Starting things off is the 11.6-inch EC14, which gets going at $549.99 and includes a 1.3GHz Pentium Dual Core SU1400 CPU, 1,366 x 768 resolution LED-backlit panel, Intel’s GMA 4500MHD graphics, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a built-in webcam and multicard reader, 320GB HDD, WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, a trio of USB 2.0 sockets, HDMI output, multi-gesture trackpad and a battery good for around “six to eight hours” of life. The EC58 and EC54 models are 15.6-inchers, with a base model starting at $649.99 and featuring most of the same specs in a larger enclosure.”
Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud
TechCrunch
Leena Rao writes that Microsoft has announced it will upgrade and add functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly.
“Visual Studio is Microsoft’s a development environment that can be used to develop web applications, sites and services based on Microsoft’s technology platforms. Visual Studio 2010 will have additional testing options for developers to ensure quality code. Microsoft has included built-in tools for Windows 7 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and new drag and drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation. And with Visual Studio, developers can also build applications that cut across both Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure and on-premises databases.”
Should You Grow Your Business Quickly – Or Slowly?
MSPmentor
Mitch York shares some of Anita Campell, a small-business blogger’s thoughts on how small business start-ups can be successful.
“The slower you grow, the less chance you have of wasting resources. Businesses that expand too quickly make more mistakes, and in the first few years of a business one too many mistakes can be fatal.”