Archive for August 21st, 2007
Aug
21
Microsoft finally has gone public with the planned launch dates for two of its Business Division server products.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 — Microsoft’s latest business-intelligence add-on, which is a business-scorecarding product — will launch officially on September 19, 2007.
Microsoft released the most recent test version of PerformancePoint Server, Community Technology Preview (CTP) release 4,
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Aug
21
Two months after the iPhone’s launch, Apple has begun selling "Apple Certified Refurbished" 8GB and 4GB iPhones online for $499 and $399, representing a 17% and 21% discount, respectively. Apple offers free shipping on both models and says that the refurbished phones ship with 1-3 business days. Apple also offers the AppleCare Protection plan for the
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Aug
21
Due to the public relations crisis from the announcement of shutting down Google Video Store, the Official Google Blog issued an update on this matter in the hope that it will fix things.
To recap: we decided to end the Google Video download to own/rent (DTO/DTR) program, and are now refocusing our
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Aug
21
Wal-Mart said Tuesday it will begin offering MP3 tracks from its music download service through arrangements with labels EMI and Universal.
Tracks will be priced at 94 cents and albums at $9.22 USD. Artists at launch include The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, and Maroon 5, among others.
As a promotion, certain classic albums will be offered at a
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Aug
21
What: A webcast with Microsoft Corp. executives to highlight the general availability of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Meeting, part of Microsoft’s unified communications portfolio, which also includes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Who: Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, and Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division
When: Tuesday, Oct. 16,
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Aug
21
A rep for Firefox’s PR firm let us know that Firefox is set to launch Firefox Campus Edition later today. It’s essentially Firefox with a “back to school bundle No Comments » - Posted by DG
Aug
21
This is the second in the series of “Inside The…” books for SoftGrid, “Inside The Sequencer”. The purpose of this text is to define the process of the SoftGrid Sequencer. As a precursor, the text entitled “Inside the Grid” should have been read prior to this document.
As a review from “Inside the Grid”, the Sequencer
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Aug
21
Microsoft looks to have added another company to its growing group of Windows Live partners with Reuters reporting that Bebo is to use the platform for its social networking site. Recently declared the largest social networking service in the UK, and reputedly having 36million users globally, Bebo will add Windows Live integration by
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Aug
21
A security researcher has published the first exploit against one of the 14 vulnerabilities patched last week by Microsoft Corp., security company Symantec Corp. has warned customers.
In a posting to the Full Disclosures security mailing list, Alla Bezroutchko, a senior security engineer at Brussels-based Scanit NV/SA, spelled out JavaScript code that crashes Internet Explorer 6.0
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Aug
21
The AdWords blog has introduced the ability to export your AdWords reports to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. If you aren't familiar with it, Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that allows you to upload and access your documents online, just by signing in to your Google Account.
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Aug
21
The Official AdSense blog has announced the avilability of AdSense widget that let you insert Google ads between your blog posts in Blogger.
Here's what you've to do:
Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com.
Visit your blog's Template tab and click on the
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Aug
21
For those folks planning to sample the BioShock demo, both AMD and Nvidia have released driver updates to ensure optimal compatibility with the game.
AMD's update is available in the form of a hotfix, which can be downloaded from this page for both Windows Vista and Windows XP. The hotfix reportedly solves problems
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Aug
21
This download contains documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007.
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Aug
21
SaaS office productivity provider Zoho is about to make its online word processor Zoho Writer available offline with the help of Google. The result could offer a glimpse into the not too distant future of all office applications.
One of the criticisms of online office productivity tools such as Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Zoho Writer and others
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Aug
21
The "complicated" design that AMD chose for Barcelona, its first quad-core server processor, caused more than six months of delays before the chip was ready, CEO Hector Ruiz told the San Jose Mercury News.
In an interview published in Sunday's Mercury News (the excerpts don't seem to be online yet), Ruiz said "every time we ran
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