Thursday, May 31, 2012

Samsung Launches Galaxy S III in India

Samsung on Thursday launched its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone in India, according to reports.
The latest release in the Galaxy lineup is priced at 43,180 Indian rupees, or $768, The Wall Street Journal reported. India is one of Samsung's top three strategic markets, after the U.S. and Europe.
Samsung intends to grab a 60 percent share of India's smartphone market this year. Last year, the South

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Aged Windows XP costs 5x more to manage than Windows 7

Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for the older OS are more than five times that of Windows 7.
Microsoft has been banging the Windows XP upgrade drum for years, but stepped up the campaign in 2012, including starting a "two-year countdown" to the demise of security support. Last month, Microsoft was blunt, saying "If your organization has not started the migration to a modern PC, you are late."
Windows XP exits all support, including monthly security patches, in April 2014.
In a blog post Thursday, Erwin Visser, a senior director for Windows, used data collected by IDC to make Microsoft's upgrade case.

"The bottom line...[is that] businesses that migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 will see significant return on investment," said Visser.
Microsoft sponsored the survey conducted by IDC, which in turn interviewed nine enterprises or large organizations to drill into the

Friday, May 11, 2012

Make Your Windows XP Run Faster Than Never Before

These are some tricks that make use of programs listed in this guide and nothing will happen even if you go.

DISABLE INDEXING SERVICES

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:
1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

OPTIMISE DISPLAY SETTINGS

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:
1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced