Archive for August 14th, 2007


Aug 14

Microsoft SoftGrid: Terminal Services Case Study

I generally try to avoid too much marketing stuff but this is a really neat case study that recently came out and I thought you might be interested in seeing it.  The overview is below but if you want to jump right in you can access the site here. Solution Overview Partner Profile Gen, a subsidiary
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Aug 14

Windows Live Hotmail More Updates Info

With the announced release of Windows Live Hotmail still rolling out, a bit more information has come out in the form of some blog posts from Hotmail team members.  First, Steve Kafka goes more in depth into cleaning up your address
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Aug 14

WMI Permissions Troubleshooting

Tish post covers some common issues and ways that you can troubleshoot and recover from them - specifically rights and permissions.  We're not going to get into troubleshooting scripts - what we're looking at is troubleshooting WMI itself.  So without further ado, let's dive
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Aug 14

Yahoo! Tops Google “as the highest-rated search and portal site customer satisfaction”

For the first time, Google has lost its crown to Yahoo as the highest-rated search and portal site in a key customer satisfaction survey. Since 2002, when the University of Michigan first began tracking Google in its American Customer Satisfaction Index, Google has led the pack for e-business sites, which the ACSE defines as portals, search
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Aug 14

Gamefest 2007: Microsoft Disrupting Gaming Industry

As Nintendo was starting to introduce Wii to the industry (when it was still called Revolution), they constantly used the buzzword "disrupt." Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said the Nintendo DS was "disrupting development" and Wii was meant to "disrupt console gaming" -- and that's exactly how Microsoft phrased their three-pronged approach to expanding the videogame market
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Aug 14

Custom Query String UTW WordPress Plugin

This plugin is intended to be used in advanced linking stuctures such as those described in Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches. Rather than blocking duplicate content pages, they can be used to your advantage, but as customized landing pages and a method of channelling "Google Juice" away from pages that are receiving the majority of
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Aug 14

Nokia 46 million batteries may risk overheating

Nokia Corp. is offering to replace 46 million batteries manufactured by another company for use in its mobile phones because of a risk of overheating, Nokia said on Tuesday. The faulty batteries were manufactured by Japan's Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. and sold in a wide range of Nokia phones, from its low-end 1100 family of products up
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Aug 14

Google Maps Embedding into your site

While made online mapping more accessible and easy to integrate with your data, it's still not trivial to include a simple map in your site. You could make a screenshot, but your map wouldn't be interactive, or you could use Google Maps API, but that's too complicated if you don't know JavaScript. Fortunately, there are sites
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Aug 14

Intel Received High-end Desktop Chipset For Nehalem Architecture

Industry sources confirmed to TG Daily that Intel has received first silicon of its "Tylersburg" chipset, which will be available for high-end desktop processors built on Intel's new Nehalem architecture due in 2008. Tylersburg HEDT ("high-end desktop") is a 65 nm chipset that is likely to follow Intel's "Logan" and "Bigby" single- and dual-socket 3-series chipsets (formerly
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Aug 14

Microsoft August Security Updates

Microsoft has released the latest monthly security updates for August 2007 and has made them available for download from the Microsoft Download Center or via Windows Update/Microsoft Update.Windows/Office: KB936227: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution KB921503: Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow Remote Code
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Aug 14

YUI Compressor

Julien Lecomte has created a new tool that aims to minify better than JSMin, and compress better than the Dojo compressor: The What: The YUI Compressor is a new JavaScript minifier. Its level of compaction is higher than the Dojo compressor, and it is as safe as JSMin. Tests on the YUI library have shown savings
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Aug 14

Google Health Screenshots “First Look”

Google Health, codename “Weaver
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Aug 14

Storm Trojan roared back to spam surge

Storm, the Trojan that Hoovers PCs into hacker-controlled botnets, roared back into life last month in several waves, security researchers said Monday, and has blown by 2005's Sober to become the most prolific e-mail-borne malware ever. "This is the biggest since Sober in mid-to-late 2005," said Sam Masiello, the director of threat research at MX Logic, referring
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Aug 14

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 2

The Exchange team blog has announced the release of Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 2, which is available as a community technology preview.  This is a great milestone for the product and the team and builds on the great work we did in Exchange 2007.  We are distributing the release through MSDN and
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Aug 14

Get to know what’s under the hood of a website with BuiltWith

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves. BuiltWith technology tracking includes:
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