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Choosing the Right Windows 7 Version
Just like any other previous Windows OS, Windows 7 will offer in many different flavors. For a mere mortal, choosing what version to use 
seems confusing. Don’t let the versioning scare you. Microsoft is a bit lazy this time. They are releasing 12 versions for Windows 7 against 18 on its’ Vista (Microsoft orginally planned to release more versions for Vista like the Itanium vresion but they cancelled).
Below are the versions for Windows 7
- Windows 7 Home Basic
- Windows 7 Starter
- Windows 7 Home Premium
- Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
- Windows 7 Home Premium N (European Union Only)
- Windows 7 Professional
- Windows 7 Professional (x64)
- Windows 7 Enterprise
- Windows 7 Enterprise (x64)
- Windows 7 Ultimate
- Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
Which version are REALLY available to the consumers?
Let’s further shorten the list on what version are really available for the regular user.
- Windows 7 Starter (32-bit or x64)
- Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
- Windows 7 Professional (x64)
- Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
Windows 7 Home Basic is only for new PC purchase in emerging markets. This will be unheard in North America and Europe.
Windows 7 Starter this is primarily for low end, budget PCs like netbook which will be sold worldwide.
Window 7 with N and K were produced for European Union and Korea market. This is to appease the anti-trust rules and
regulations on those countries.
Windows 7 Enterprise is for corporate users, available through corporate volume licensing subscription programs.
Windows 7 Ultimate functions like Windows 7 Enterprise except it is available at retail for new PCs (out of the box) and as stand-alone.
32-bit or x64?
The difference between the two is a bit technical in nature. To simplify, I suggest leave 32-bit word behind and transport your virtual world to to 64-bit(x64).
Windows 7 are still fully compatible with most if not all 32-bit software EXCEPT for some netbook computers that come with a version of Intel’s Atom processor which are not compatible with x64 instruction set.
The no.1 reason to step into 64-bit is BIG Memory! Windows 7 can use up to 192GB of RAM (it depends on version), compared to 32-bit version which can access to less than 4GB.
Intel and AMD are now both producing x64 platform. 64-bit is now the mainstream PC platform. With the increase of memory capacity and decreasing price, there’s no other way but to embrace x64 version.
Categories: InfoTech, Microsoft Tags: Microsoft, operating system, windows, Windows 7, windows 7 version
COMDDAP EXPO MANILA 2009
Discover new technology and applications that wil help increase productivity in your business. Meet up with top distributors and resellers of the world’s leading brand names. Gain market intelligence and be updated on the latest trends.
Get up close and take a first-hand look at the latest I.T. products and software for computing, imaging, printing, connecting and communications, security, entertainment and lifestyle applications.
This is the right time to show off your wares in the biggest one-stop shop for ICT products and services in Metro Manila. Be ready to take advantage of full-scale marketing and promotional salvo.
Reach out to both corporate buyers and end-users just in time for the Christmas buying season. COMDAPP Expo 2009 is rightly scheduled for your year-end sales blitz.
COMDDAP EXPO MANILA 2009
- Open to the public Read more…
Categories: All Resources, I.T. Events, InfoTech Tags: comddap, comddap 2009
Windows 7 Philippine Launch
Windows 7 has been launched in the United States on the 22nd of October 2009. Philippine launch is not far either.
Windows 7 Launch
Mark this two dates on your calendar, Nov. 7 and 8, 2009. Be at the SM North EDSA Cyberzone on those days and witness the Windows 7 big launch!
You may also avail of the launch price of Windows Home Basic for only PhP7,777. Standard retail price of this version is at PhP8,000.
How to avail the launch price?
1. Go to your nearest participating Microsoft reseller (or email delphinoy@yahoo.com) and pay 50% deposit fee.
2. Claim your Windows 7 Home Basic on Nov. 7, 2009.
Promo period is from Oct. 15 to Nov. 6, 2009 only. Hurry and get your Windows 7 copy.
Microsoft prepared games and prizes, have celebrities, demos and freebies! They’ll giving away lots of goodies. Everyone gets a chance to bring home gadgets, goodies, maybe even laptops!
Don’t think about it, just be there!
Calling people from Cebu! You’ll have your own Windows 7 launch soon!
eBay, Yahoo, Facebook Among Top 10 Trusted Companies
eBay topped the most trusted company in terms of privacy according to a recent study. Facebook stole the spotlight by securing the 10th place.
The two-part study from Ponemon Institute and Truste – both privacy specialists, surveyed more than 6,000 U.S. consumers. The latest survey mostly reflects which companies were seems to have the best privacy practices based on consumer brand perception and doesn’t necessarily translate to the most trustworthy companies.
Top 10 Most Trusted Companies In Privacy
- ebay
- Verizon
- US Postal Service
- WebMD
- IBM
- Procter & Gamble
- Nationwide
- Intuit
- Yahoo
This is the first time a social network company – Facebook, to break the top 10 list. Facebook had been on the privacy blunders in the past but because of the new privacy features that Facebook has offered, they were able to convinced the panel of judges to give the company a top spot on the “trusted list”. Some of the features added recently is the include friend list and increased control over public listings.
Among the criteria that were used in assessing the level of trustworthiness is whether a company:
- has a clear readability and easy to find privacy statement
- provides adequate access to account information
- uses cookies and discloses that to users
- shares data with other companies and affiliates
- has a data retention policy
- has a chief privacy officer
- whether they disclose a user’s e-mail during password reset
- and whether they use Web beacons.
What companies do you trust to guard your privacy?
Categories: InfoTech, Social Network Tags: Facebook, technology news
iPod Nano Shoots Now With Video Recording
Thew new iPod shoots video, a larger screen, and FM radio.
Want to post video on Facebook or MobileMe? Thew built-in video can record either in portrait or landscape mode – perfect for sharing to any social network communities.The video camera in iPod nano lets you shoot video – with video effects.It lets you record fun wherever you are. Upload and share it with friends on the Internet with a single click.
This iPod is amazing, the video quality is really surprising.
The superb music player has now a built-in mic too. All the surroundings audio can be recorded together with the video.
Why a video camera for the nano? “iPod nano is the world’s most popular music player with over 100 million sold,” said Jobs, Apple’s CEO.”The company was inspired by the popularity of pocket flash memory-based video cameras like those from Flip and Kodak,”Job said.
Special Effects Feature
Apple throws in fifteen special effects which include:
- Thermal
- Mirror
- XRay
- Motion Blur
- Sepia
- Cyborg
- Film Grain
- Black and White,
- Security Cam
- Bulge
- Kaleido
- Light Tunnel
- Dent
- Stretch
- Twirl
Another new addition to the nano 5G is an FM radio. Read more…
Categories: All Resources, InfoTech, Mobile, Social Network Tags: apple, hardware, ipod, ipod nano, Mobile, video
Asus Eee E-Book Reader
Asus, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics businesses, confirmed last week that it is planning to launch ebook by the end of this year.
Asus ebook will about to start a new revolutionize way on how an ebook reader should be. Not only it will be the cheapest digital reader to be sold in the market but Asus claims its new ebook reader will be smarter and more versatile that any current available reader in the market today.
According to Jerry Shen, the company’s president, they plan to unveil the device before the end of the year -with different models.
This futuristic ebook reader has a hinged spine, like a printed book. It’s like you are just reading a normal book, using the touchscreen to turn on the pages. It has also a feature to browse the web while seeing the current text on screen.
Asus screens boast a full color unlike the current ebook readers that have monochrome screens only.
And lastly, you can also make a cheap phone calls over the internet using this device because it has a “speaker, a webcam and a mic for Skype”.
65 Million Facebook Mobile Users
Facebook mobile users is now at 65 million. This is almost one-third of the total population of Facebook which is around 200 million already.
The recent growth is due to the mobile service which Facebook started in 2006. Facebook’s mobile web site m.facebook.com works on any mobile browser. It has x.facebook.com also which is designed specifically for touch screen phones like Android, Palm, iPhone and Nokia.
Facebook introduced a new feature called ‘Facebook Connect’. It is a system wherein a developer can integrate with Facebook for their own services. This will also provide the users a single log-ins for all Facebook services.
Mobile access is becoming increasingly important for Facebook in order to expand globally. Currently, the best mobile interfaces are found on iPhone and Blackberry. Facebook recently launch Facebook for iPhone 3.0 and people have been very pleased with the new features.
Nokia is also gearing on the same direction. Nokia just announced a new handset, the N900, which uses a Linux-based operating system called “Maemo.” This new gadget will have a Facebook application that allows users to update their location with their status.
Gmail Server Error
Google’s Gmail service was inaccessible last Tuesday in a severe outage that affected a majority of users who are relying on Google’s popular free e-mail service.
Google explained that Tuesday’s widespread outage occurred when the company took some servers offline to perform their scheduled routine maintenance. This caused its remaining routers to become overloaded with traffic.
Ben Treynor, a Google vice president of engineering apologized on their blog ““Thus, right up front, I’d like to apologize to all of you — today’s outage was a Big Deal, and we’re treating it as such,”. He wrote” We’ve turned our full attention to helping ensure this kind of event doesn’t happen again. Some of the actions are straightforward and are already done — for example, increasing request router capacity well beyond peak demand to provide headroom”.
Twitter users were trading updates about Gmail’s problems and became the a top trending topic on that day.
Google reported Tuesday afternoon that it fixed the problem.
Categories: InfoTech Tags: gmail, google, technology news
Relaunching of Delphinoy
Most of you are probably wondering why there’s not much update here within the last 2 months. This is because of some feedbacks from various colleagues which I received and they want the jobs category to be separated totally from the personal blog and news. With the released of the new version WordPress, I intend to re-organize and relaunch the website.
Watch out for a more organized, less cluttered, easier to navigate and more importantly ,a user friendly layout of Delphinoy.
