Month: June 2008

  • WIndows XP expires on June 30

    XP will spell eXPiry. Microsoft will stop selling the XP version to retailers and PC manufacturers from June 30. read more | digg story

  • Goodbye and god bless you Bill Gates!

    Bill Gates is one of the most influential and wealthiest people the world has ever seen. He’s a ruthless businessman who built Microsoft into a software empire that would dominate office and home computing around the world. read more | digg story

  • MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates

    “Now that Gates has ‘retired’ from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, ‘We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji’s group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog,’ said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange…

  • Weather no match for new car

    HSV Dealer Team driver Rick Kelly said his new VE Commodore, which debuts at Hidden Valley next week, performed well at a recent shake-down. read more | digg story

  • Little mythbusts ethanol

    TeamVodafone engineer Campbell Little says there are about “four million” things on the internet both singing the praises of ethanol fuel and criticising it to its death. read more | digg story

  • Look Fast – Aerox Team Yamaha Race Replica

    The latest in a serie of Valentino Rossi MotoGP the series of Yamaha M1. The Aerox Team Yamaha Race Replica features circuit style and an high output liquid cooled two stroke 50cc motor, brembo brakes, high grip 12″ tyres, and colour decals straight from the race versions. At just over Euro 2,500 it is not…

  • Microsoft To Let Other Companies Build, Release 360 Consoles

    We’ll tell you what’s up with Microsoft: new hardware options. It may sound totally insane, but word has it that Microsoft may begin allowing third-party manufacturers to create Xbox 360 hardware. And we’re not talking about peripherals, people; we mean hardware that runs 360 game discs created by someone other than Microsoft. read more |…

  • Indianapolis Not on 2009 Provisional F1 Calendar

    The FIA has unveiled the provisional calendar for the 2009 season, confirming the arrival of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the absence of a race in the United States. The season will begin again in Australia in late March and will finish in Abu Dhabi in November. The calendar will have 19 races, one…

  • GeForce 177.40 beta drivers ready for download

    These new drivers are dated June 16 and come with support for the GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards, the recently-introduced GeForce GTX 280 and 260s and a few more, yet unreleased, 9 generation and GT200-powered cards. read more | digg story

  • Tyre change for Darwin

    A new, more sustainable control tyre will be introduced to the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Hidden Valley. read more | digg story