Archive for February 12th, 2008
Feb
12
Encamped along the aisles of the massive Zhongguancun Kemao Electronics Market in Beijing are many people like Li Zhongxin, of the Beijing Xinyu Lianhe Telecom Equipment Co. Li sits atop a plastic stool in front of his open-air stall on the third floor, scanning the throngs of shoppers for would-be customers. There's no sign of
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Feb
12
Last week, Microsoft released a manual to accompany the previously released Windows Home Server Toolkit which hit the webback in October.
The WHS Toolkit is a collection of tools that help you troubleshoot issues with Windows Home Server. The toolkit has the following components:
Error Reporting: The Error Reporting tool collects log
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Feb
12
Windows Vista team blog announced — a non-security update for Windows Vista SP1 is scheduled for distribution via Windows Update that you may find of some interest. The non-security update KB947172, a Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista, addresses an issue introduced by KB941229 where, when watching live digital TV on an Xbox
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Feb
12
The VisualCalc AdWords Dashboard aims to help you sort through the data generated by Google AdWords ad campaigns. The makers say their service “turns your raw AdWords/PPC data into graphical performance indicators, such as clicks vs. impressions, conversions by ad group, click through rate by keyword,
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Feb
12
Microsoft responded this afternoon to the Yahoo board's rejection of its acquisition offer, calling the decision "unfortunate" and reiterating that it "reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps" to ensure that Yahoo's shareholders can consider the proposal. The Redmond company's statement said Yahoo's response "does not change our belief in
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Feb
12
Phil Holden over his blog written on Mobile World Congress 2008 update. First he updates us on the expansion of Windows Live Mobile services in Latin America:
The first thing we have is a nice endorsement of our Windows Live mobile services in Latam where Telefonica Latin America has announced that they are
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Feb
12
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has snapped up online video platform provider Maven Networks, in a $160 million deal.What makes the transaction particularly interesting is that it comes as Yahoo is butting heads with Microsoft, which
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Feb
12
Mac Funamizu imagines a more intuitive way to search by just pointing at objects or selecting text. An Internet-enabled mobile device that incorporates a camera, scanner, GPS could make use of services like Google Maps or an improved image search to
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Feb
12
Wired has posted an article on early Google logo design iterations. Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous logo, shows the iterations that led to the instantly recognizable primary colors and Catull typeface that define the Google brand. Kedar met Google co-founders Sergey Brin
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Feb
12
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, my post on the Vista SP1 activation hack has generated a lot of feedback (especially in the form of questions) from both individuals and other media outlets. I’ve put together this post in order to answer some of these questions.
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Feb
12
QTTabBar is Windows Explorer add-on that allows you to navigate files and folders in a tabbed browser, just like you do in IE7. The program, written in C#, works on any Windows XP or Vista (32-bit) machine with .NET 2.0+ installed. To get started, download the latest version
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Feb
12
Microsoft has officially confirmed that the wait for the first taste of Internet Explorer 8 is nearly over. Despite the fact that IE8 was under development throughout 2007, with the Redmond company dogfooding the browser, details on the successor of Internet Explorer 7 were scarce, to say the least. And since even at this
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Feb
12
The Windows Home Server UA team is pleased to announce that the Windows Home Server Toolkit User Manual is now available in the Download Center: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108364
This document shows you how to install and use the Toolkit to help you troubleshoot Windows Home Server Connector issues and how to use the Windows Home Server Toolkit Add-In
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Feb
12
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Feb
12
The Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition is now live! to show off your 3D modeling skills. At this time students around the world can compete. You can team up with other students, or take the project on yourself. Just model your school's campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in
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