Archive for October 30th, 2007
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Microsoft's new addition to its adCenter suite of advertiser and website owner tools, code named Gatineau, was released into beta today, as announced on the adCenter blog.
Gatineau is accessible as a tab on adCenter, which requires an adCenter account, which at this time requires a credit card and a one time
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Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system may soon have a sour taste in their mouth as reports file in that users are unable to work with the latest version of the Java programming language. Following the release of OS X Leopard on Friday evening, threads began to appear in Apple's
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The fact that the U.S. is "falling back" a week late has left some folks with a few headaches, along with an unwarranted extra hour of sleep.
Daylight saving time, which ordinarily would have kicked in last week, won't take place until next week. Congress is to thank (or blame) for the change, which also meant daylight
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If you previously downloaded the Beta 2 VPC for Visual Studio 2008, the OS used for that instance has an expiration of November 1, 2007. (Note that this only affects the VPCs, not the setup packages, so if you installed VS2008 on your own OS partition, you're fine.)
Jeff Beehler has a detailed post on the
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India’s Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a company built from scratch by his late father Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani, has becomed the world’s richest man. Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett, to become the world’s richest
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While the news that Microsoft is developing a version of Windows for the so-called "$100 laptop" has caused some consternation, One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte has said the project could not promote openness if it blocked Windows.
Will Poole, Microsoft corporate vice president, told Reuters last week that the software giant is working
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When Didier Stevens recently took a closer look at some Internet Explorer malware that he had found, something surprised him somewhat.
He discovered that the IE-targeted malware had been obfuscated with null-bytes (0x00) and when run against VirusTotal, he found that fewer than half of the products identified the sample as malware (15
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Mass Downloader allows you to download files from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum available speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases the time necessary to download files. It also allows you to browse Zip archives before loading them and to choose only the desired files to download. It has an excellent Internet Explorer-like
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Amnesty Generator is an application that will convert Google Gadgets, millions of web widgets from various galleries, YouTube videos, or other HTML into a custom gadget that you can use in Vista's Sidebar.
Using the app couldn't be more simple, just paste in the HTML that you would normally drop into your web page, pick the picture
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A new article in the Windows Vista Developer Story has been published. Learn about Group Policy's new and enhanced features, which extend its capabilities, make it easier to use, and make its application more reliable and efficient.Visit the Windows Vista Developer Story page or go directly to the article.
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Donncha, has announced the release of WordPress Mu 1.3. WordPress MU is a multi-blog version of WordPress which runs on millions of blogs all over the world. The major blogging site, WordPress.com uses it as do many others.
This is release is a sync of WordPress 2.3.1, which includes native tagging support as
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Microsoft Corp. today announced the retail availability of new accessories for its innovative digital media player, Zune. The new first- and third-party accessories will usher in the next generation of Zune digital media players, which will be on shelves Nov. 13."Zune is committed to providing customers with choice," said Scott Erickson, senior director of
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This poster provides a detailed illustration of the modules and components that make up the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 runtime architecture. It shows typical message flow and data flow that occurs between these components at run time.
The BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture poster is designed to provide a high-level view of the BizTalk Server modules
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As antispam tools and e-mail users become more sophisticated, spammers are turning to new mediums to get their unwelcome messages through filters and into inboxes. One of the more recent developments is spam with attached MP3 files. One security software vendor, MXSweep, is reporting that MP3 spam now accounts for between 7 and 10
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