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Netflix comes to Windows Media Center

]]> Starting tomorrow, Windows Media Center users who are also Netflix members will gain access to more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly within Windows Media Center on their PCs.


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Netflix comes to Windows Media Center

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Why text messages are limited to 160 characters

]]> Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters

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Why text messages are limited to 160 characters

]]> http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/04/why-text-messages-are-limited-to-160-characters/feed/ 0 Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/04/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools/ http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/04/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 17:02:07 +0000 Sankeerth http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/04/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools/

Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools

]]> The best way to recover from unexpected data loss is to be properly prepared. With one of the following tools on hand, you’ll always be ready to save your data from the Reaper.

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Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools

]]> http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/04/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools/feed/ 0 Microsoft to give away free Windows 7 for a year http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-to-give-away-free-windows-7-for-a-year/ http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-to-give-away-free-windows-7-for-a-year/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 18:33:37 +0000 Sankeerth http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-to-give-away-free-windows-7-for-a-year/

Microsoft to give away free Windows 7 for a year

]]> On May 5th, general users will have access to an entire year of Microsoft’s brand new operating system, Windows 7, for free! It is already available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.

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Microsoft to give away free Windows 7 for a year

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Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record – 101 Mbps

]]> The new service will offer download speeds of 101 megabits per second and upload speeds of 15 Mbps for a cost of $99.95 per month. It will be available May 11 to all 5 million of the people in areas served by Cablevision, mainly in the New York City suburbs. In Japan, J:Com uses the same technology to offer 160 Mbps service for 6,000 yen ($60)/mo.

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Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record – 101 Mbps

]]> http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/cablevision-goes-for-us-broadband-speed-record-101-mbps/feed/ 0 Microsoft’s Pink Smartphone To Rival iPhone On Verizon!! http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsofts-pink-smartphone-to-rival-iphone-on-verizon/ http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsofts-pink-smartphone-to-rival-iphone-on-verizon/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 18:29:37 +0000 Sankeerth http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsofts-pink-smartphone-to-rival-iphone-on-verizon/

Microsoft’s Pink Smartphone To Rival iPhone On Verizon!!

]]> It’s crazy, we know. Just hours after hearing shockingly believable whispers that Apple’s white-hot iPhone 3G could be sashaying over to Verizon Wireless, in flies a Wall Street Journal report asserting that the suits in Redmond are (also?) in talks with America’s largest carrier. Should be launched next year!!!

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Microsoft’s Pink Smartphone To Rival iPhone On Verizon!!

]]> http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsofts-pink-smartphone-to-rival-iphone-on-verizon/feed/ 0 Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-offers-secure-windows-%e2%80%a6-but-only-to-the-government/ http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-offers-secure-windows-%e2%80%a6-but-only-to-the-government/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 16:50:06 +0000 Sankeerth http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-offers-secure-windows-%e2%80%a6-but-only-to-the-government/

Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government

]]> It’s the most secure distribution version of Windows XP ever produced by Microsoft: More than 600 settings are locked down tight, and critical security patches can be installed in an average of 72 hours instead of 57 days. The only problem is, you have to join the Air Force to get it.

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Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government

]]> http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-offers-secure-windows-%e2%80%a6-but-only-to-the-government/feed/ 0 Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/28/microsoft-vine-to-connect-family-friends-when-crisis-hits/ http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/28/microsoft-vine-to-connect-family-friends-when-crisis-hits/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:10:28 +0000 Sankeerth http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/28/microsoft-vine-to-connect-family-friends-when-crisis-hits/

Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits

]]> Launching as a private beta on Tue, Vine is designed to keep family and friends in touch when other communication methods are either broken or not particularly efficient. Times of crisis usually involve a breakdown in mobile phone or other key communication infrastructures, and Vine is designed to be as hardy as possible to keep people connected.

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Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits

]]> http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/28/microsoft-vine-to-connect-family-friends-when-crisis-hits/feed/ 0 Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/27/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-features/ http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/27/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-features/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:44:43 +0000 Sankeerth http://www.sankeerth.com/2009/04/27/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-features/

Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features

]]> A hot copy of Windows 7 RC1 is on our desktop and we’re diligently poking around. But here are the three best new new things in Windows 7 Build 7100. Perhaps the best? Stream your music library over the Internet with Windows Media Player.

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Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features

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