Archive for February 25th, 2008
Feb
25
This Microsoft job posting for a “user experience designer” was published on the 23rd of February 2008.
The focus of the job description refers to a startup project inside Microsoft called Tangram. What they aim to achieve with the technology is intriguing
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Feb
25
Bryan Burkholder released a software for Windows Mobile called “Google2Go”. Google2GO! is a mobile application for Google services, similar to Yahoo!Go. This application is not related to Google in any way.
Bryan:
“the reason I wrote this app was I really like the Yahoo! Go application, and wanted somthing similar
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Feb
25
YouTube has been blocked by Pakistan's government because it contained “blasphemous content, videos and documents”*. Shortly after, Pakistan shutdown YouTube globally by (possibly accidentally) hijacking their IP space via BGP!
The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they
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Feb
25
Yahoo executives speaking at an online ad conference on Monday were mum on Microsoft's takeover attempt, but were quick to tease a new feature on their home page due out this week that could be their rumored competitor to social news aggregator Digg.In his first public appearance since Yahoo's board
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Feb
25
Windows Vista SP1 x86 (FULL) is now on the TechNet Subscriber download center. It's the 32bit fully integrated version of the OS. I just downloaded it, burned a DVD and have the install running in a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine. Finally!!!
My download took minutes. Being first helps. It flew down the fiber pipe to my
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Feb
25
Ok, so I just spend a few whistful hours trying to work out how to modify the "All Users" profile on a Windows Server 2008 system. I wanted to add a program to run at login (e.g. in the Start Menu|Programs|Startup directory) for all users that login, but things are now a bit different with Vista
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Feb
25
InfoWorld's Vista deployment guide
Learn from early adopters and InfoWorld experts what it takes to make the move to Vista.Vista deployment secretsVista adoption may be slow, but numerous IT shops have taken the plunge. Find out why they did and how they've made the shiftHow to
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Feb
25
Has the fallout already begun from Microsoft’s serious snafu of releasing Vista SP1 early to users of 64-bit Vista? We’ve just received a report that shows two new problems we haven’t heard of before, as we unofficially rename SP1 to ‘Snafu Pack 1’.
Watch out, Microsoft – you’re in serious danger of sending people over the edge.
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Feb
25
Bear Stearns analyst Bob Peck doesn't quite stick his neck out and say that mid-$30s is the right price for Microsoft to pay for Yahoo, but he does suggest that the original bid is way too low:
Yahoo! was at a 52-week low when Microsoft announced its intentions, having recently touched $34
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Feb
25
SideSlide is an advanced, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, keyboard accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on steroids. SideSlide will help you to finally clean desktop clutter and will make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before. Dock SideSlide to any screen edge; browse through your favorite RSS news feeds, keep shortcuts to files, folders and URLs you
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Feb
25
The Windows Mobile Developer Center gets updations. First of all you'll notice there are 4 big boxes delivering the latest articles per category:
Beside those boxes, on the top right, you'll find “Getting Started with Windows Mobile”. There you will find everything you need to get started
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Feb
25
In preparation for this article, we set out to find a simple definition of application virtualization. All we wanted was a simple and concise introductory sentence to give our readers a good idea of what application virtualization is all about, independent of the meanings given by the existing software vendors that tout the advantages of application
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Feb
25
Microsoft Corp. announced Engagement Mapping, a new approach to managing and measuring the effectiveness of online campaigns that goes beyond the current “last ad clicked” standard. For the last decade, virtually all ad campaign reporting methodologies associate sales, leads and Web traffic simply to the last click or ad exposure. Engagement Mapping takes into account
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Feb
25
While writing software over a period of weeks or months, various components of the software get completed at various times. You’ve tested and you’re satisfied they work, and you move on to develop another feature. Or you might check in the source code and somebody else on your team might break your code accidentally with another
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Feb
25
DivX, Inc., a digital media company, today announced that the Company will cease operation of its Stage6.com video service on February 28, 2008.
Following an exploration of strategic options that began in July 2007, the Company has decided to cease operation of the site and focus its resources on the Company’s core DivX
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