Thursday, June 4, 2009

Windows 7 release date; Phorm's new service; GeForce 3D review

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Computing In The Real World

4 June
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Dear Charles,

Welcome to the latest PC Pro newsletter

News headlines: Windows 7 gets an official release date; Phorm launches new web-recommendations service; and Adobe infuriates UK customers with a 10% price hike

This week's new reviews: Nvidia literally takes gaming to another dimension with the GeForce 3D Vision; AMD's Six-Core Opteron smashes records in the Boston Quattro 6000GP; and VeryPC proves going green doesn't mean abandoning performance with the GreenPC TT3V

PC Pro podcast: In this week's show we discuss how Google reinvented email and Microsoft's reinvented its search engine; we debate the film industry's latest idea for culling internet piracy; and Mike Jennings nominates the blisteringly fast Wired2Fire Hellspawn desktop PC as our Hot Hardware of the Week. Download it now

Best of the blogs: Jon Honeyball contemplates the business benefits of Microsoft's Project Natal; Tom Arah explores the two sides of Adobe; and Stuart Turton celebrates the brilliance of Gnome Do

Barry Collins - Online Editor

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NEWS

It's official: Windows 7 release date
Microsoft has confirmed Windows 7 will arrive later this year - click here to find out the exact date

Phorm launches consumer service - but where are the ISPs?
Phorm unveils new web recommendations service - but British ISPs are still holding off

Adobe hikes UK prices by 10%
Creative Suite 4 prices hiked by 10% as Adobe blames exchange rates

New Snapdragon heralds start of "smartbook" era
Qualcomm's Atom rival has been bolstered with a faster processor and reduced power consumption

Bing goes live in Britain
Microsoft's revamped search service is now open to British surfers

Google unveils new Wave of communication
Search giant merges instant messaging, blogging and social networking with Wave

Dell scraps Mini 9 netbook
Dell's first foray into the netbook market has reached "the end of its life" according to the company

Army begins tweeting from frontlines
Social-networking craze hits US Army - which is tweeting from Afghanistan

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