Wal-Mart will start selling a fully loaded laptop from Hewlett-Packard for a breakthrough price of US$298 on July 26, but it may have a caveat: The Windows Vista OS included with the machine may not qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7. The laptop — a Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM — has attracted attention because of its low promotional price and generous features, which include a large screen, fast processor and Windows Vista Home Basic OS.
Microsoft has closed out perhaps its most difficult year as a public company in less than stellar fashion. On Thursday, the company significantly missed Wall Street’s fourth-quarter revenue target and reported the first decline in full-year revenue in its 34-year history. The company, the world’s largest software maker, posted net income of $3.05 billion, or 34 cents a share, for its fourth quarter, which ended June 30. That was down sharply from the $4.30 billion, or 46 cents a share, it earned in the fourth quarter a year ago. Excluding charges tied to legal matters, layoffs and investments, Microsoft earned 36 cents a share during the quarter, meeting the forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
If there were a steeple on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the bells would be ringing like mad this afternoon. The company just announced that it has finished Windows 7, the latest version of the flagship operating system that’s the foundation of Microsoft’s business. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer delivered the news at a conference in Atlanta, while the Windows President Steven Sinofsky in Redmond posted details on his team’s blog today.
After boasting over the 128GB Data Traveler 200 Flash Drive marvel, Kingston has now announced whopping 256GB DataTraveler 300 USB Flash Drive. This high capacity USB flash drive comes with new Password Traveler software that allows creating and access password protected area on the drive called ‘Privacy Zone’. At this moment, Kingston Europe is selling Kingston DataTraveler 300 256GB flash drive at an astonishing price of 657 Euros (Rs. 45, 100) which is more than even 256GB SSDs.

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