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June 08, 2007 | Comments: (0)

SMB Tech News Today; 6/8

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Sitting in an APC conference room listening to electrical engineers talk about power and cooling. Another hour of this and I'm going to peel my face off.

* Parallels Desktop goes to version 3. Now that the Mac is back, maybe I'll install this. Big news is that it's supposed to be 3D-graphics capable. Unfortunately, I drove over to APC with Sasquatch Venezia who tested this thing last night and while it'll play solitaire smoothly, it's still not enough juice to run Vista's Aero interface. Awwww. He's supposed to have a review up soon. (Source: InfoWorld)

* New H1-B immigration bill does face plant in the Senate. Lots of controversy on this bill. New cap of about 115,000 H1-B visas under the new law and a point system that was supposed to free these workers from the employers who bring them in. Gotta say, I'm not sorry to see it go because it read more than a little funny. (Source: CNet)

* More new software: new version of Ad-Aware. I've liked this spyware hunter-killer since it came out for two reasons: First, it's good; second, it's available in a free version. Updated personal privacy features, but the downside is that no Vista-compatible version will be available until August at the earliest. (Source: PC World)

* MIT shows off WiTricity. It's Friday so we end on a semi-weird one. Someone else in Philly talked about wireless electricity in the recent past, but the geeks from MIT just demoed it, lighting a lightbulb without cabled electricity. Also dubbed the name WiTricity. Wonder what they'll call the tumors this'll cause. (Source: InformationWeek)

Posted by Oliver Rist on June 8, 2007 10:10 AM

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