Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone. To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.
Using this service, you can:
* search for a local business by name or category.
You can say “Giovanni’s Pizzeria” or just “pizza”.
* get connected to the business, free of charge.
* get the details by SMS if you’re using a mobile phone.
Just say “text message”.
Windows Vista users are complaining on Microsoft Corp.’s support forums about long start-up, shutdown and application load times compared with Windows XP.
The users, who sound pro-Vista for the most part, have vented about a variety of speed issues on Microsoft’s Performance & Maintenance forum. “I have XP and Vista running side-by-side [but] I twiddle my thumbs waiting for certain apps to load up on the Vista machine while the load is instantaneous on the older XP machine,” wrote a user identified as William. “I’ve tweaked it as best as I could with the info available and I am still very disappointed.”
Wrote another user, Kris: “Recently I upgraded from XP to Vista [Home] Premium. When I start the laptop and I see the last BIOS info and Vista starts loading, then I have to wait a full 6 (six!) minutes before I can open my first application (for example Outlook or IE or whatever).”
Well, as I have mentioned a couple times on this site, your WEI is going to be used by software companies to determine whether or not you can run some software..
I am unsure how ’strict’ they will be, but if they ever give you any hassles, you can just… fake it.
This is easily accomplished by going to /Windows/Performance/WinSAT/DataStore
Finding the most recent .SAT file, and.. editing it.. using an adminitrator access enabled tool..
Intel is planning to announce a new set of processors for the next generation of Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) on the 18th of April. Can a new CPU and some new design approaches unfold the sales disappointment that has been the UMPC/Origami initiative?
According to a leaked PowerPoint presentation available from HKEPC, the new UMPC reference design is code-named “McCaslin” and will feature a new CPU dubbed “Stealey.” The CPU is based on a Dothan design using a 90nm fabrication process running at 600 or 800MHz with a 400MHz front-side bus and 512KB of onboard level 2 cache.
RATHER THAN using the beta ForceWares, which are now up in the 100s, GeForce 8800 users running Windows XP have got a new version of the official release drivers to play with, dubbed version 97.94. There aren’t too many big differences here, and if you’re running all your games happily, you’re not going to find much of a reason to upgrade.
There’s a new performance profile for the Titan Quest demo, there’s a fix for 1080i MPEG2 playback and Company of Heroes now works properly in SLI when AA is set to 4x or 8x. However,
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