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Last chance to get legal, free Windows 7
August 18th, 2009 | 
Author: While Microsoft’s Windows 7 will go on sale in just about two months, there is still a little time to get a free copy of the operating system.
Well, at least a free test copy of Windows 7, anyway. Users have until Thursday to download the “release candidate” version of the software–the final test version of the operating system. It’s a good option for those who have a spare machine to try out the software or for Mac users looking to experiment with running Windows either in virtualization software or via Boot Camp.
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Report: Sony’s OLED TVs on hold
Nobody, least of all Sony, ever said it would be easy to start cranking out OLED TVs. It doesn’t help matters to be in a financial crunch.
So it should come as little surprise that according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscriber access only), losses in Sony’s TV division are driving the electronics giant to put a hold on future OLEDs TVs.
Sony shows off its OLED TVs at CES 2007. That’s a 27-inch model in the middle; all the others are 11-inch models.
(Credit: Michael Kanellos/CNET)
Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal says that new OLED (organic light-emitting diode) production would compound the poor performance at Sony’s TV division–which looks likely to lose money again for the sixth straight year, meaning a return to profitability is paramount.
Sony’s TV division lost 127 billion yen ($1.34 billion) in fiscal 2008, noted the Journal, accounting for more than half of the company’s operating losses for the year.
More than two years ago, Sony showed off its OLED TVs, in 11-inch and 27-inch formats, to great excitement, and the company was hopeful to start getting them out the door sometime in 2008. But the 11-inch model sported a $2,500 price tag, versus 50-inch LCD TVs that cost the same or less.
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Google links Apps to Groups for quicker sharing
Google has linked its online applications suite with its Groups service, making it possible to share documents, sites, and calendars among defined groups of people.
Before the new functionality was launched Monday, Google Apps users wanting to share items had either to make them entirely public, or share them on a person-by-person basis.
The change means that, for example, a spreadsheet shared with a Google Group will be accessible immediately to anyone joining that group, or rendered inaccessible to those leaving the group.
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Gmail push on iPhone? Meet GPush
The arrival of push notification in Apple’s 3.0 iPhone software whipped up excitement, though its real-world application still left users wanting more. On Monday, Tiverias Apps released GPush (iTunes link), a small (0.3MB), ninety nine cent application that fills in a gap with push notification for your Gmail account.
GPush alerts you to incoming Gmail messages with a red icon badge, a chime, and a semi-transparent alert window that reads the sender’s name and the subject line. (You can change these in the Notification settings.) The application interface itself does little, apart from collecting your login information once, and manually reregistering your credentials. All the rest works behind the scenes.
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Did Borders Reveal The “Apple iPAD?”
A survey sent to “friends” of Borders Books and Music (and spotted by an eagle-eyed editor at MacLife) asks if consumers plan on buying an “Apple IPAD (Large Screen Reading Device) this year.”
Hmm… interesting. Could this iPAD be another name for the much-rumored Apple Tablet supposedly to be announced imminently? Is a book reader part of the tablet’s bag of tricks? Could Borders have slipped up and mentioned the name of the un-announced product? Or maybe the company made a mistake, and they meant iPod. The company has previously mis-named the iPod Touch the “Apple iTouch,” after all.
I’m old-school when it comes to books. I like paper. But I realize that many, many people with literary leanings are hopping on the Kindle or Amazon Reader bandwagons. Do you think Apple will deliver a better book-reading experience, if that is what they’re planning to do? Do you read at all?
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