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Microsoft has announced that its final update of the current beta Internet Explorer 8 browser will be released in next year's first quarter -- after which it will launch the final release. Some observers had been expecting the final update to be released this year.
After one more update of beta IE8 early in 2009, the next public release is "typically called a 'release candidate,'" Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch explained earlier this week on a company blog. The release candidate, he noted, indicates the end of the beta period.
'Complete and Done'
The replacement for the Homeland Security Department's computerized network for nationwide information sharing could be headed down the same path as its cumbersome original, said a government report released Wednesday.
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Hamish Johnston over at the Physics World blog comes across this paper by Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga, Victor M. Castano in arXiv.
Via Technologies has unleashed a new OpenBook reference design for low-cost notebooks that will enable computer makers to bring low-cost ultra-portable products to market beginning in the third quarter.
The new design platform, based on Via's power-efficient, cool-running C7-M microprocessor, offers designers an "open approach to case-design customization and wireless connectivity flexibility," said Vice President Richard Brown.
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