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VMWare: Your Next Smartphone Might Run Two OSes At Once
3:53AM Brian Barrett | In an interview with Computerworld, VMWare’s head of mobile phone virtualization has indicated that the company wants to move beyond dual-boot systems to allow phones to run a private and work operating system at the same time. They’ve already demonstrated the potential on a Nokia N800 running Windows CE and Android concurrently; now they’re looking into multiple user interface scenarios for current generation smartphones. [Computerworld] More »
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Handbrake DVD Ripper Just Went 64-Bit
8:04AM Brian Lam | Handbrake just updated to 0.9.4 which uses x264 libraries to encode faster and smaller file sizes. On my iMac Core i7 a DVD ripped 25% faster. More »
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Verizon Levels Guns At Apple, Not AT&T, With Droid Phone Blitz
2:50AM Jack Loftus | This 30-second Droid spot started airing last night during the ALCS. Dan may not like it, but even so there’s no denying that Verizon, in the words of Matt Buchanan, has gone totally balls in with an Android phone. More »
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Concept Windows 7 Ads Shot With 5D Mark II Set The Bar High
2:50AM Sean Fallon
Microsoft is set to bombard us all with Windows 7 ads around the October 22nd launch—and director Marty Martin’s concept spots are setting the bar high. More »
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5:17AM Sean Fallon | Not sure how this whole Windows 7 upgrade thing will work for you? Well, this official Microsoft chart probably won’t help one damn bit. More »
Official Windows 7 Upgrade Chart Is Officially Confusing
5:17AM Sean Fallon | Not sure how this whole Windows 7 upgrade thing will work for you? Well, this official Microsoft chart probably won’t help one damn bit. More »
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Windows 7 RTM Cracked (What Took So Long?)
5:18AM Sean Fallon | I mean, it’s been six days since the RTM first leaked on BitTorrent. SIx days! That’s like an eternity. At any rate, it is true—Windows 7 RTM Ultimate has already been cracked using a Lenovo OEM product key. More »
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Android Donut Might Not Have Multitouch After All
8:01AM Jack Loftus | We thought Android Donut sounded a bit too good to be true yesterday when we saw the latest code, and today that educated guess appears to be correct. According to one Android developer, multitouch is not in the cards. More »
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Microsoft Outlines The Rules For Windows 7 RC Upgrading
1:53AM Sean Fallon | The bottom line is this: if you want to upgrade to Windows 7 from RC, you are going to deal with some crap. More »
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Live Android Lets You Run Android On Your PC
10:50PM Matt Buchanan | Live Android is a LiveCD image for running Android on your x86-based PC, so you check it out without blowing up everything else on your hard drive. It’ll run it inside of virtualisation apps too. [Live-Android via DownloadSquad]
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