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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Neowin.net / Main - Neowin News Review: ZAGG invisibleSHIELD March 24, 2009 at 8:31 pm During CES this past January, Neowin had the opportunity to catch up with the guys from ZAGG, makers of invisibleSHIELD, a polyurethane film designed to make your portable devices scratch proof. The invisibleSHIELD film was originally developed to protect the leading edge of helicopter rotor blades, and yes, it's that tough. They had numerous video clips cycling through a presentation that they had setup in a motorhome that depicted numerous stress and scratch tests. After viewing their presentation and a couple of live demonstrations where they willingly threw their own devices into a bucket of nails and shook them around vigorously, only to emerge unscathed, we were impressed. Read full story... Nasa and Microsoft bring Universe to Web March 24, 2009 at 8:30 pm Microsoft today announced a new partnership with NASA to bring images & data of moon and Mars to Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope (WWT) for Internet viewing. Through a Space Act agreement, Microsoft and NASA will jointly develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make NASA content available including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon for viewing through WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's online virtual telescope. The above image shows the Proctor Crater on Mars. The bright, small ridges are sand ripples, and the larger, darker bedforms are sand dunes. We will get to see more interesting images in WWT later this year, as part of a joint Space Act Agreement. Read full story... Windows Mobile 7 screenshots show up March 24, 2009 at 6:30 pm WMPoweruser has come up with some screenshots which it believes to be of the upcoming Windows Mobile 7. Below are the alleged images of Windows Mobile 7 that appear in their site. Windows Mobile 6.5 Beta was recently distributed to Microsoft employees for testing and is scheduled for an April 2009 RTM release. More changes in the Windows Mobile 6.5 were demoed in the Mix09 event. However, Windows Mobile 7 will not be reaching us until 2010 and expect the UI to rapidly change in the coming months. *Images Courtesy: WMPoweruser Read full story... Review: OCZ Apex Series 120GB SSD March 24, 2009 at 3:34 pm The OCZ Apex Series of Solid State Drives (referred to as SSDs from now on) has been out for a few months now, and thanks to the kind people at OCZ, I've been able to get my hands on one of the 120GB models from the series. I will be reviewing both the product, and the technology, comparing the benchmark and test results from the SSD with the results from a traditional hard drive, but we will go into that later. First of all, let's take a look at the SSD itself. Read full story... Bang On: It's easy to hate the Xbox 360 March 24, 2009 at 11:09 am The Xbox 360 has had quite a poor record when it comes to build quality. My experience with Microsoft's wonder console does little to change what so many people already know: The Xbox 360 is more fragile than paper-mâché in a rain storm. It's almost as though simply glancing at the console in the wrong way can send it into cardiac arrest. It's just so easy to hate it. I've already complained about my excruciatingly frustrating experience with Xbox support, so we can all rejoice in the fact that this tale does not include any dealings with them. Working for a major retailer, I've had the extended warranty, from the store, since day one. Read full story... Office 14 to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors March 24, 2009 at 8:02 am Beta releases have become a great way to discover potentialy unannounced products by snooping around in the files that accompany the beta. Ed Bott did said snooping and is now claiming that Office 14 will ship in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Located within the Migwiz.xml file shows the code extensions that prove that a 64-bit version does exist. This is great news for users that can take advantage of the 64-bit flavor and should come as welcomed news that Microsoft is expanding support for 64-bit. One day soon we will hopefully be able to drop 32-bit forever. Read full story... BackWeb files patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft March 24, 2009 at 7:29 am Backweb, an Israeli company which creates communications acceleration software based on Push technology for the Web, intranets and extranets has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the Microsoft Windows Update feature infringes on Backweb's 1999 patent titled Method and apparatus for transmitting and displaying information between a remote network and a local computer. BackWeb alleges that Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Windows Update and other products infringe four U.S. patents owned by BackWeb, covering methods for transmitting information between a remote network and a local computer (U.S Patent No: 5,913,040 ) and distributed client-based data caching systems. The Microsoft products at issue are used regularly for Windows updates, IE, and Office applications. Read full story...   This email was sent to detikdetiknews@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.