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With the deepening of each platform, Microsoft begun to establish close links between the various platforms. This may be a good thing, when various platforms break a great gulf fixed between them for seamless collaboration, consumers’ work and life will beeasier. Microsoft has invested heavily  on Windows Mobile, and classified it under the brand of Windows,beginning from Windows Mobile 7 , this operating system and the mobile phones which run this operating system have been collectively referred to as Windows Phone.

Now that the brand should be classified under Windows, then Windows Mobile will be carried out significant changes. According to Microsoft’s recent recruiting notices, Windows Mobile platform will integrated Xbox Live, that is to say Xbox Live gaming platform will be extended to the outside of the host, the user can also play Xbox Live games with Windows Mobile phones in the future .

Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, said in a recruitment thet company is seeking project managers to take on the task that moving Xbox Live licensed games on the Windows Mobile platform , the integration of Xbox Live and Windows Mobile includes head portrait integration, social interaction and multi-screen experience .

Based on currently known information, Windows Mobile 7 will be released at the end of next year. Today HTC ’s Russia branch said that only HTC HD2 can upgrade to Windows Mobile 7. If we say that Windows Mobile 7 integrates Xbox Live, only HTC HD2 is possible to achieve its application.

December 30th Beijing Morning News , according to foreign media report today, the source disclosed, T-Mobile has been confirmed through the internal system ,it will operate their own branded Google phone Nexus One.

T-Mobile in the internal systems showed that it will operate an Android phone, but it will only be responsible for “billing, network coverage, features and tariff packages,” and so on, it will not provide other technical support, “Google and HTC will be responsible for solving the fault and replacing the handset. ”

The source also said that this phone will be available on January 5th next year.Users can only  order through Google. It is not clear the price of this phone.

Palm Pre network operator Sprint provided the latest software upgrade for the smartphone yesterday .The upgrade system version is WebOS 1.3.5 Build 194. Palm WebOS 1.3.5 upgrade made key improvements on the following aspects:

- Improved the life capacity of cell phone battery , particularly when the power runs out of time;

- Improved QCELP performance, users can send MMS when play audio or video files at the same time ;

- When the contact information including address, clicking can start Google Maps or Sprint’s navigation service;

- Simplify the size of updates, users can easily download by 2G networks.

Following the Kindle reached a new monthly sales record, Amazon has ushered a new milestone. Amazon recently announced that  e-book sales surpassed the traditional paper-based books for the first time on Christmas day. However, Amazon did not provide strong data.

Amazon Kindle’s performance is very strong at the end of the year,its sales also surpassed Apple’s iPod Touch media player. Kindle’s Hot sales have also led Amazon’s overall sales, according to statistics, the Amazon ushered the sales peak on December 14th , users ordered more than 9.5 million products that day, per second reached a record 110 .
 
From November 15th to December 19th, Kindle is still the best-selling electronic products of Amazon web site . Apple iPod Touch 8GB Media Player came in second, My Tour 4.3-inch Nuvi 260W GPS came in the third.

In addition, durong the above-mentioned period, the Amazon’s best-selling video games are “Wii Fit Plus”, “New Mario Brothers” and “Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2.”

Not only CPU and chipset technology of Intel arevexcellence, its network equipment is also outstanding. Its PRO100/1000 series of cards are widely used in desktops, notebooks and server fields , is a hardware guarantee of quality.

Driver version 14.8.3 update includes:

1, increase Intel (R) 82567V-3 Gigabit Network device support

2, amend a number of compatibility issues

Special Note: If you have previously installed other versions of the NIC driver 14.8,14.8.1,14.8.2, please uninstall it completely clean, then install the 14.8.3 version of the new drive to avoid unnecessary problems.

14.8.3 version of driver specific support for NIC models include:

Intel 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter

Intel 10 Gigabit AT, Intel 10 Gigabit AT2

Intel 10 Gigabit CX4 Dual Port

Intel 10 Gigabit SR Dual Port ExpressModule

Intel 10 Gigabit XF LR

Intel 10 Gigabit XF SR Dual Port

Intel 10 Gigabit XF SR

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520 Series

Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter

Intel Gigabit EF Dual Port

Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port

Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port

Intel Gigabit PT Quad Port Server ExpressModule

Intel PRO/100 Intelligent

Intel PRO/100 M

Intel PRO/100 S

Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port

Intel PRO/100 S Management Adapter

Intel PRO/100 S Server Adapter

Intel PRO/100 Smart Adapter

Intel PRO/100 VE Desktop Adapter

Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection

Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection

Intel PRO/100 + Adapter

Intel PRO/100 + Dual Port

Intel PRO/100 + Management Adapter

Intel PRO/100 +

Intel PRO/1000 CT Network Connection

Intel PRO/1000 F

Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit

Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter

Intel PRO/1000 GT Quad Port

Intel PRO/1000 MF Dual Port

Intel PRO/1000 MF

Intel PRO/1000 MF Server Adapter (LX)

Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter

Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port

Intel PRO/1000 MT Quad Port

Intel PRO/1000 MT

Intel PRO/1000 PF Dual Port

Intel PRO/1000 PF Quad Port

Intel PRO/1000 PF

Intel PRO/1000 PM Network Connection

Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter

Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port

Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Low Profile

Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port

Intel PRO/1000 PT

Intel PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapter

Intel PRO/1000 T Server Adapter

Intel PRO/1000 XF

Intel PRO/1000 XT Low Profile

Intel PRO/1000 XT

Intel PRO/10GbE CX4

Intel PRO/10GbE LR

Intel PRO/10GbE SR

Download address:

Intel PRO100/1000 Series Ethernet Driver 14.8.3 version For WinXP/XP-64/2003/2003-63/Vista/Vista-64/Win7/Win7-64/2008/2008-64

http://drivers.mydrivers.com/drivers/336-134637-Intel-Intel-PRO100-1000-14.8.3-For-WinXP/

Windows 7’s fine themes and wallpapers can be described as a bright spot, the majority of users  praise them. After the release of Microsoft Windows 7 on October 22th in the world, it does not stop in this respect ,and it designs and develops new themes for users . Last month, Microsoft announced a plan, it provides users with a variety of brands themes with many partners, including Ferrari, Ducati, Avatar Affan up, Coca-Cola and so on.

Recently, Microsoft’s English language official website offers four new themes, Cats Anytime , Dogs in Winter , Summit on the Summit , Twinkle Wish to provide a variety of small animal pictures, There are thick holiday greetings.

But at the moment, Microsoft’s Chinese language Web site do not provide several topics, we have these synchronized to the local, users can download a trial.
Local Download:

http://www.myfiles.com.cn/soft/26/26344.htm

Intel Chipset Device Software drives in version of the types in addition to including the early Alpha version, Beta version of this test board, in a stable version there is still a PC version and the version of the PV sub.

PC version is the product candidate Production Candidate

PV product version refers to the Production Version formal version , a candidate version and a formal version ,the reader should pay attention to distinguish when download. 

9.1.1.1025 PV version update includes:

1, remove the whed_dev.INF from the Win7 folder,  because  Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server has been able to support PNP0C33.DeviceDesc = “Windows Hardware Error Device”

2, improv the driver installation program that can better support for Windows Server 2008

3, address the problem that the installation program will overwrite whed_dev.inf documents, resulting in failure to detect WHEA

Version 9.1.1.1025 PV specific chipset models supported include:

Intel 5 series chipsets

Intel 4 series chipsets

Intel 3 series chipsets

Intel 900 Series Chipset

Intel 800 Series Chipset

Intel Server / Workstation series chipsets
Download address:

Intel Intel Chipset Driver 9.1.1.1025 PV Edition For Win2000/XP/2003/XP-64/2003-64/Vista/Vista-64/2008/2008-64/Win7/Win7-64

http://drivers.mydrivers.com/drivers/336-134405-Intel-Intel-Chipset-Device-Software-9.1./

Apple has disclosed to the media, the download of its iTunes U web-based education store has surpassed 100 million times.

iTunes U is a sub-section of Apple’s iTunes online store, providing various subjects to download audio or video programs, mainly are from universities and research institutions around the world,  total number of documents are more than 200,000. Apple said, iTunes U’s one of the most successful projects is the British Government’s Open University distance education program, providing a variety of courses across the humanities, science and technology, the users include a minimum of 15 million college students and 30000 graduate students, of which 25000 are from outside the UK .

iTunes U project was released in mid-2007 , but its origin is actually in the end of 2005 Apple and Stanford University launched a cooperative education program.

Beijing December 21 news: According to foreign media reports, recently, Google mobile blog announced that it has increased the speed on the mobile phone version of Gmail website , faster than in the past by two to three times.

Blog shows a statistical chart which shows the speed of either the best or the worst in the circumstances, the mobile phone version of Gmail site load is faster than that in the past greatly accelerated.

According to industry sources, the practical application in the United States, in the iPhone and Android mobile phone onto the Gmail home page requires only needs three seconds.

Media commented that this shows that Google not only in the ways to introduce new products, but also seek ways to improve the existing network services.

Gmail has produced a small page Web site at www.gmail.com for mobile users , which supports the computer version of the site most of the main features. In addition, the mobile phone version and computer version of your site’s data seamlessly synchronized, while the Push technology allows users without manually refresh inboxes.

Mozilla has repeatedly promised to release the official version of Firefox 3.6 before the end of this year, however, and today a Beta test version is released . Relative to the end of November release of Firefox 3.6 Beta 4, Beta 5 does not add too many features, mainly fixes 127 Bug problems since the Beta 4 .

Firefox 3.6 Beta is based on the Gecko 1.9.2 rendering platform, optimizing the operating system running on small devices,  such as Windows CE, and Maemo. Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 is faster than previous versions, the response is more sensitive and let’s look the new content:

- In order to prevent the collapse of your browser to allow third-party software has changed the way Firefox integration;

- To provide 70 multi-lingual version;

- Run the script asynchronously to improve performance to speed up the page load time;

- Amendments to the previous version of the more than 100 Bug, and further to improve performance, stability, security and function;

- Integrated support for Personas, you can click to change the browser skin;

- If the old plug-in version, Firefox will give tips to ensure the safety of users;

- Open format native full screen video playback, and support for Poster Frames;

- Support for Web Open Font Format WOFF;

- Improved JavaScript performance, the overall responsiveness of the browser and start-up speed;

- To support the new CSS, DOM, HTML5 Web technology.

Local Download:

Windows version: http://www.myfiles.com.cn/soft/0/112.htm

Linux version: http://www.myfiles.com.cn/soft/16/16517.htm

Mac Version: http://www.myfiles.com.cn/soft/16/16576.htm

Official Download:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html