Archive for March 7th, 2008
Mar
7
Yahoo! Maps has announced an update that delivers a number of improvements including; new neighborhood data, expanded worldwide coverage, and stylistic improvements.
Some of the improvements you might notice as you test-drive our updated Yahoo! Maps include:
New Neighborhood Data at lower zoom levels with:
300 cities with new neighborhood data added throughout North America, from
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Mar
7
On one score, Yahoo has been extremely receptive to an offer from Microsoft. With its Yahoo Messenger for Vista, the Internet company has been one of the few consumer software companies to come out with a Windows Vista-specific product. The instant messenger program doesn't have a lot of extra features
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Mar
7
Jason Upton, Test Manager, Internet Explorer: Since I joined the IE team at the beginning of 2007, it has become clear to me how important it is for web developers to predict how a given browser will work. I’ve certainly heard and read how very important it is to web developers to minimize the cost of
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Mar
7
Princeton Theological Seminary and Microsoft Corp. have entered into an agreement to digitize a large number of materials in the public domain from the collection of the Seminary library. This initiative will enable the library to contribute religion content to Microsoft’s Live Search Books service and thus increase worldwide access to its
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Mar
7
While there is the Deep Zoom Composer for those who want to make their own image collage on their PC, Microsoft has gone a step further by providing this functionality in a web-based service: Windows Live PhotoZoom.
PhotoZoom allows users to create albums, either by uploading
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Mar
7
As part of the announcement made by the Google Analytics blog “Google Analytics: Gets Benchmarking and Data Sharing feautes” a day back. They’ve launched the integration of the Google Analytics to Google Audio ads. Google Audio Ads advertisers can now see how their campaign metrics
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Mar
7
Patch Tuesday is coming again next week.. This month there will be 4 critical updates, none affect Windows Vista.
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Mar
7
After 13 years on top, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That honor now belongs to his friend and sometimes bridge partner Warren Buffett. Riding the surging price of Berkshire Hathaway stock, Buffett has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a
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Mar
7
The Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Configuration Program (FCCP) is designed to deliver tested and validated hardware configurations for your high availability needs. The program is based on Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering and partner hardware configurations that have been strenuously tested and validated to work. If your planning on purchasing hardware for a
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Mar
7
The Google AdWords team blog announced, updation of the Site Exclusion tool, now referred as Site and Category Exclusion tool, to give more control over where ads appear on the Google content network. It allows to exclude certain categories of webpages from content network campaigns in addition to excluding individual sites. If you find that
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Mar
7
Search Engine Roundtable reporting that Google has updated their advanced search page. Google's advanced search page contrasts with the simplicity of the homepage and the search results pages. Google's Daniel Russell said that 50% of the people who open the advanced search page leave it without completing the search. This is
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Mar
7
The Novell-sponsored project porting the Silverlight cross-browser plug to Linux is getting patent protection from Microsoft, indemnifying users from aggressive patent holders and litigators such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).Microsoft will provide codecs worth $1m to every user downloading Moonlight from Novell under a special
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Mar
7
MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.
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Mar
7
On March 3 at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will offer Microsoft Online Services to businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Online Services include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Exchange Hosted Filtering. These are enterprise-class software delivered as a subscription service, hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners.
For
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Mar
7
At a panel at the MIX conference here March 6, Sam Ramji, director of open source and strategy at Microsoft, said that in addition to many recent overtures the company has made toward greater interoperability and support for open-source projects, Microsoft also is working with the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation.
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