Archive for October 31st, 2007
Oct
31
Microsoft may have released a beta of Vista's Service Pack 1 - but according to the company's official support site, the operating system is absolutely flawless.When Word crashed on a disgruntled PC Pro reader, he dutifully agreed to fill in the online form to report the crash.However, when he went to select
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Oct
31
The Windows Live Calendar public beta is just around the corner. In fact the team seems so keen to release into beta that the support and feedback pages are already up. Of course we're excited too, Windows Live was announced two years ago and this was starting to become their
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Oct
31
YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. It also has extra features such as rss news and podcast support, remove duplicates, easy notes editor (with multipage support), songs synchronization, playlists export and much more. It has been translated in 12 languages.
YamiPod
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Oct
31
Microsoft Corp. today announced that AccessVia, an industry leader over the past two decades in development of in-store signage, labels and e-commerce applications for retailers, has selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 to integrate all its internal data and processes. AccessVia is adopting the Microsoft customer relationship management (CRM) technology to replace its previous system,
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Oct
31
Yesterday, we reported that Crytek's upcoming first-person shooter Crysis had gone gold and was on track for its November 16 launch date in North America and Europe. Shacknews now has word that another highly anticipated first-person shooter, Unreal Tournament 3, has reached gold status.As Shacknews says, Epic's upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter is now
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Oct
31
Canon RAW Codec is a software plug-in that enables the import and display of RAW images (with the extension .CR2) taken with Canon cameras.
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Oct
31
Internet startup Meebo is urging developers to create applications around its Web-based IM (instant-messaging) site, an attempt to create Facebook-like momentum.
Using the Meebo site, people can send instant messages using accounts from companies such as Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. The site lets people use their IM account when they may not be
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Oct
31
Intel announced on Wednesday its line of Itanium products for high-end computing servers.
Code-named Montvale, the chip is an update to Montecito, the dual-core Itanium 2 chip that was launched in July last year, Eddie Toh, regional platform marketing manager of the Server Platforms Group for Asia-Pacific at Intel, said in an interview on Monday.
Originally due in
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Oct
31
Borrowing a page from Sun's Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.
Google's version of this "write once run anywhere" concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers to create applications for social
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Oct
31
JumpBox is a virtual appliance platform that simplifies the deployment of server software on local machines. By utilizing virtual machines and cleverly packaging an operating system, web server, database, application, and any necessary additional libraries or components into a single appliance, JumpBox has made the process of deploying server software exceptionally simple. Instead of
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Oct
31
One of the common causes for customer dissatisfaction is lack of understanding about Microsoft's licensing. We've put together some frequently asked questions pages on our website which helps to answer some of those hot topics that we often hear about.
These are going to be updated every month with the latest and burning questions to it will
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Oct
31
There has been a series of articles on numerous sites about mysterious changes to user Automatic Update settings, many of which are shown below as references. The most likely explanation to the changes in the AU settings is explained by Scott Dunn as attributable to Windows OneCare.
Well, instead of beating the drums, Bill Pytlovany took action.
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Oct
31
Data Protection Manager (DPM) team has released the DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator to the web. You can download here.
This iteration of the calculator only focuses on storage planning for Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2007, but in the future can be updated to include other technologies like SQL and Sharepoint. For Exchange 2007 planning,
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Oct
31
There are currently a number of "highly critical" unpatched security flaws in Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange versions 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x, according to Secunia.
In an advisory published on Monday, Secunia warned that companies could suffer remote systems access and denial of service due to unpatched parsing vulnerabilities in Symantec Mail
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Oct
31
Orbit downloader is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is based on P2P technology. It has advanced robust multithread download algorithm implemented with high quality. It integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer to automatically handle your downloads. You can easily download files from any remote server via HTTP, FTP, RTSP or MMS. It has a
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