The Beta version of Windows 7 will be available for public download and try out on January 9th, 2009, as announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES yesterday. This download only available for a “limited time” and it will cap the download after 2.5 millions downloads. The download will expires on August 1st, 2009.

The Beta download will be available in both 32 and 64 bit and only for English, Japanese, German, Hindi and Arabic edition, in form of .iso file (3,230.10 MB for 64-bit and 2,497.48 MB for 32-bit). So users must have DVD writer to burn disk image to a blank disc.

At the same time, Microsoft’s also provided a list of the minimum system specification for people who want to run the beta version on their computer. The beta version only requires a PC or notebook with as low as 1GHz processor clock speed, 1GB of memory, 16GB of hard disk space and 128MB of graphic memory to support for DX9 graphics and aero interface.

However, Microsoft doesn’t specify the exact release date for final version, other than say that official target for the completed version of Windows 7 is early next year.

The beta download will be available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx

Asus is one of the most important players in the netbook world, as they are often to be the first to bring new platforms and features to market. Not only has they claimed to launch the first Intel Atom’s notebook, the Eee PC 900A, they also claim to having the very first commercially available netbook, the Eee PC 701, also the launch of the first 10” netbook, the Eee PC1000. Asus continuously produce more and more mini laptops, portable and performance netbook, one of it is N10Jc.

Got a title “corporate notebook” from Asus, N10Jc seems similar to the company’s Eee 100H 80G XP, added with some better design and greater performance. Asus N10Jc can be categorized as ultraportable notebook, regardless of bearing a price ($650) that is reasonably priced for an ultraportable (but expensive for a netbook).

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This Monday, Acer has launches a super Quad-Core notebook, which is the cheapest price available in market.

According to Acer, Acer Aspire 8930G-7665 notebook is designed as a desktop replacement or gaming notebook. It powered by Intel’s Core 2 Quad mobile processor clocked up to 2.53GHz with 12MB of cache.

The notebook features 18.4” screen that capable to display high-definition video and images. Enhanced with 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT, Wi-Fi wireless networking and Blu-ray Disc drive, this could be the absolute gaming system and suitable for power user. It also comes with Windows Vista 64-bit, which make it a perfect system.

Acer also announced that the notebook is now available through retailers in U.S with the price starting at $1,799. With this price, this could be cheapest quad-core laptops compared than other top notebook vendors. According to analyst firm IDC, Acer is the world’s 3rd largest PC vendor behind Dell and HP. Both Dell and HP offer quad-core notebook with prices starting at over $2000 for either mobile workstations or gaming laptops.

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Another Google Android phone is coming. The T-Mobile G2 will make it first appearance on next month (January 26), according to “rumors report” by Cell Phone Signal. According to the blog, the G2 is expected to have a full touch screen, Wi-Fi connectivity, VGA camera for video calls, and 5-megapixel autofocus camera.

Boy Genius Report has reported that the release date will actually be in April 2009, but the specs information released by Cell Phone Signal are accurate. In addition, the T-Mobile G2 would not have build-in QWERTY keyboards, but the trackball at the bottom of the device remain. T-Mobile G2 is also expected to be sold everywhere around the world, unlike G1.

This week, private group of developers (known as Cupcake) make some improvements to the Android operating system. The Cupcake will make Android into larger and powerful, open source Android project.

Most of the improvements made to Android operating system lately are related to bug fixes, affecting elements such as, conversation list scrolling, alarm clock, and the e-mail. A number of new features also added, such as the ability to save MMS attachments. The latest Android operating system also enhanced with basic x86 support, and Linux kernel 2.6.27.

Google has extends the capability of their Search Appliance and prepared other enhancements that enable people search their company documents.

Matthew Glotzbach (Google’s director of product management for enterprise), says that the newer model of the device could handle until 10 millions document. This is major improvement as the earlier version of the device only can store 3 million documents. Additional changes include the capability to show search results based on vivid metadata related with documents and the capability for administrators to tailor search results for different categories of staff, he said.

Google makes the main source of its profit and income by selling text ads (Adwords) that show on their search engine or Adsense publishers, but the Search Appliance is one of a handful of extra areas where the company is enthusiastically trying to make money.

The price for the hardware starts at $30,000 for entry-level model (500,000 documents), which including supports for hardware problem for two years. However, Google does not reveal the cost for the higher-level models, which include the ability for one machine to take over for another that fails because of unexpected situation or disaster.

The Search Appliances display its results based on many criteria, which factors more than 100 criteria for each query. They can also use the connectors to access files archived by using document management system (e.g. EMC Documentum). Besides that, they can pull out structured data stored in databases and software for customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning.

For more information about Google Search Appliance, please visit http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/

Recently, Microsoft’s Live labs engineers have released their first ever application for Apple’s popular Smartphone – iPhone. This is different because Microsoft develops this application for iPhone first, even before develop it for their own mobile platform. The application was added to Apple’s Store on Saturday.

The application was called Seadragon Mobile (Microsoft’s Photosynth backbone), which is a free image-browsing application that allows users to zoom images while online. This application also capable to take a group of photographs and combine them together in an artificial 3D environment.

The other iPhone applications are currently in development in Redmond, called Microsoft Tellme. This is the first Microsoft’s iPhone application in the form of a voice-activated search developed for a number of phones types, including BlackBerry and iPhone.

So why Microsoft develop Seadragon for iPhone first?
Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live labs says that the most mobile phones that available today do not have accelerated graphics build on them. As the iPhone do, Microsoft develop iPhone version of Seadragon first.

Seadragon Features
- Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects.
- Transactions are butter and smooth.
- Performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen.
- Scaling is rapid and near perfect for screens of any resolutions.