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Archive for July 17th, 2007

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Jul 17

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the latest and last of the wildly popular Harry Potter books that is due to go on sale this weekend, has hit BitTorrent. Various torrents of the novel consist of photographed pages (as above) with reading quality that isn’t perfect, but for desperate

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An esoteric but key U.S. technical standards committee decided last week not to endorse Microsoft's Office Open XML document specification, increasing the odds that the U.S. will vote against approving Open XML as an open standard next month at an ISO standards body meeting. An endorsement by V1, the technical committee that advises the InterNational Committee for

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Today, ComScore released their new set of search engine share stats for May through June and things are looking good for Live Search. This reported 2.9% bump in Microsoft's search share serves as more support to the Compete.com data of last week. As expected, ComScore is also crediting Microsoft's Live

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AOL has a slew of new beta products all powered by Dojo. The portal piece differs from iGoogle and the like by not using iframes. At first I was surprised at this (security concerns), but then you see that the portlets are fairly locked down. Mgnet is an interesting

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Today Javeline unveils the open source release of PlatForm which brings declarative development to the Ajax world. Javeline PlatForm is an extendible open source Ajax application platform to create flexible, maintainable applications that run on virtually any browser on any device and operating system. The tutorial site ajax.org provides a quick set of tutorials familiarizing the

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The AdSense blog has announced the launch of a new feature called “Site Authentication”. The Site Authentication feature give AdSense crawler access to your password protected pages by passing it information to log into your site. All you need to do is provide AdSense with a username and password. Then the AdSense crawler will gain

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Komodo Edit provides editing for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl; plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML. Background syntax checking and syntax coloring catch errors immediately, while autocomplete and calltips guide you as you write.

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Last week we reported that Google was to add an "Unavailable After" META Tag. Since then, we've spoke to Dan Crow of Google, who provided more information on how to use it, as well information on a new way to send robots blocking info within HTTP headers. The "unavailable_after" Meta tag will allow you to tell

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Since the launch of Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), The CSE team has been continously rolling out new additions to CSE. The CSE team has added another feather to its cap by releasing: We're announcing Custom Search Business Edition (CSBE), an offering tailored to businesses that want more control over the search experience

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Ph.D. Fellowship Program offers funding, travel grant and internship at Microsoft Research India; aims to encourage students to pursue careers in research. Microsoft Research India today announced its Ph.D. Fellowship Program awards for 2007. The Ph.D. Fellowship Program aims to encourage students to take up doctoral education in computer science and help the growth of the research

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a-squared Free scans the computer for malicious software (Malware). The term Malware describes Trojan Horses, Dialer, Worms, Spyware and others. a-squared Free is specialized in finding and removing them securely. The disk scan checks all files on your disks for Malware. The scanner also scans for Spyware Traces and Tracking Cookies. The included Memory Scan detects

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Deo Melgaco has a fascinating set of posts looking at Wal-Mart and Microsoft and the costs associated with employees. The highlight is the chart that shows the annual net income for the two companies, plus Oracle and Costco, compared with the number of people employed. Microsoft profitted to the tune of $12.6 billion last year on

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that Zune™ will have a significant presence at 28 Live Nation concert venues across the United States this summer as part of its continuing drive to connect music fans with the bands they love. Zune will have a strong on-site presence with its Zune Spots, inviting consumers to try the devices and

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Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it’s referring to as “Vista Service Pack 1 Preview,

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This plugin allow to bind a Page to a Category, and display the page content on top of category page, tweaking archives.php or adding a custom category.php file (example file for default WP theme is bundled in the plugin). It provide a theme function called page2cat_output(), which accept $cat as a parameter.

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