2006-November-23

All Streamyx line in the Johor Bahru area began to experience connection problem starting from 8:45AM. By 10:00AM the problem had cascaded to affect most Streamyx users in Malaysia. However Telekom Malaysia managed to resolve all problems by 10:30AM.

2006-October-30

Oracle announced that it will offer support for Linux at half the current going rate. Smaller companies that offers its own variant of Linux are likely to be squeezed out of the market soon.

2006-October-23

Mozilla released version 2 of its Firefox web browser. It is available for free download.

If you wish to use Firefox to run infoarch applications, please contact us for compatibility list.

Mizilla Firefox 2

2006-October-19

Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and made it available for free download.

Because Internet Explorer 7 will automatically use shrink-to-fit when printing, our applications do not currently support format printing in Internet Explorer 7. We are working with Microsoft to resolve this issue.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

2006-October-14

Fujitsu and Toshiba are the latest notebbok PC makers to announce the recall of Sony-made lithium-ion batteries used in some of their product lines, joining Lenovo, Apple, Dell, and bringing the worldwide number of recalls to over 7.7 million.

The products affected include Fujitsu's LifeBook, Toshiba's Satellite, Toshiba's DynaBook.

Hewlett-Packard Co. stated Monday it will not be issuing a recall. The company said it reviewed its products with Sony batteries and found that the designs were not prone to the overheating issues other companies seem to face.

The risk stems in part from the manufacturing process. The batteries can short-circuit because tiny shards of metal are left in their cells during production, Sony said, causing the batteries to overhead.

2006-October-6

Microsoft announced it plans to overhaul its anti-piracy scheme for Windows Vista. Called Software Protection Platform (SPP), the OS will immediately disable some of its features if it believes it's not licensed. If a legitimate copy is not bought within 30 days, the OS will only be able to boot into Windows Safe Mode, and restrict the user to just Internet Explorer for one hour, presumably giving the user one last time to buy Windows Vista online.

2006-July-27

Intel had officially launched its next generation processors. The Core 2 Duo, based on Intel's Core architecture, consumes less power, and is expected to have comparable or even slightly better performance than top-of-the-line AMD's dual core processor.

The Core 2 marks the end of the "Pentium" brand, whose latest incarnation, Pentium D, will eventually be phased out.