http://www.xandz.net Technology News Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:51:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There Are Four Ways to Get an Invite 1. You signed up early for a Google Wave account with this request form. If you didn't fill it out, we recommend you do it now for the next wave of invites. (see what we did there?) 2. You have an account on the ... http://www.xandz.net/2009/10/01/how-to-get-a-google-wave-invite/ The Google Wave team put out this 10 minute (more like 7-8) overview of Wave, to give people a quick and compressed description and showcase of the product. http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/30/10-minute-google-wave-overview/ Microsoft Research just announced their experimental OS, Barrelfish. The project is aimed straight at making Operating Systems take advantage of newer multi-core processors, instead of letting their power go to waste.Microsoft is implementing a kind of database that shuffles information between the cores, allowing the cores to communicate much more ... http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/29/microsoft-barrelfish-not-your-average-os/ Back in July Google said they would send out 100,000 invitations to Google Wave in September, and that day is finally just around the corner. Google has confirmed on their blog that 100,000 Google Wave invites will be sent out tomorrow, September 30th.We contacted Google and they have assured us ... http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/29/100000-google-wave-invites-going-out-tomorrow/ Microsoft has officially made the full version of its Security Essentials software available to the public, for absolutely free.For those that did not use the software in its beta stages, Security Essentials promises to cover all the security basics, and protect you from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. The ... http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/29/microsoft-security-essentials-goes-non-beta-free-for-all/ Through a rough draft of HP's Winter 2009/2010 consumer catalog comes word of three, previously unannounced machines: the touchscreen dv3, ultaportable dm1, and the Pavilion dv8 with the Core i7. The Pavilion dv3 with TouchSmart comes with a 13.3-inch touchscreen, while the dm1 comes with a 11.6-inch screen. http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/29/hp-leaks-the-pavilion-dv3-dm1-and-core-i7-dv8/ AT&T has been offering IM Relay since the earlier this year, allowing users to communicate through an operator over the phone. But the company is ready to one-up themselves, announcing an upgrade to the service that will allow real-time communication between callers. Users now receive messages word by word, as they ... http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/28/att-releases-real-time-im-relay-for-hearing-impaired/ webOS 1.2.0 has just been released today. The big new features for the update include support for app purchases in the Catalog in addition to a ton of little fixes and improvements. Here's a list of the changes from Palm: Search is now available in the email app, allowing you to find ... http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/28/webos-1-2-now-available/ Microsoft has just unveiled some new ads for Windows 7, and they are surprisingly good. The ads focus on the new UI elements, which really help define the visual differences between 7 and Vista. [Via CNET] http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/27/new-windows-7-ads/ As the wave of NVIDIA Ion-based machines continue to be released, we now have the Lenovo IdeaCenter Q110 nettop. You can grab it now preloaded with Vista for $399, with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB HDD. http://www.xandz.net/2009/09/26/lenovo-ideacenter-q110-on-sale-now/