Archive for April 2nd, 2008
Apr
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Office 2007's excellent adoption rate seems to be the complete opposite of Vista in the enterprise: "Around a quarter of enterprises plan to upgrade to Vista in 2008 although Forrester said companies may change plans and wait for the release of Windows 7 - pencilled in for the
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Apr
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Google AdWords team blog announced FrankRank(TM) as the new Google AdWords Mascot, and a new ad ranking technology and algorithm inspired by our new mascot.
I see you're sporting a new look.Frank: Oh? What? Oh yes, the bow tie. Well, I'm a big corporate mascot now. I need to look the part. Plus, I
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Apr
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Google Finance’s “stock screener” lets you find the perfect stocks for your portfolio. You can use search criteria like: market capitalization, the P/E ratio, the most recently reported trade price, gross margin and select the values interactively.
Brain Lint notes that Google uses sparklines,
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Apr
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Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.
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Windows XP, SP3, XP SP3, Overview, Documentation, Guide,
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Apr
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ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be found in the ImgBurn context menus.
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Apr
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Google Official blog made an announcement that it tied up with British billionaire Richard Branson for a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google called “Virgle”.
Virgle's goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin
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Apr
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Imagine a world where computers can predict the effects of brain injury to help with rehabilitation, conduct genetic research on plants to develop new biofuels, control stem cells to help with medical treatment and gain a better understanding of plate tectonics and its implications for future life. These projects are among the ten winners that Microsoft
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Apr
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Firefox 3 Beta 5, Gran Paradiso's milestone #13 is here and the list of features and improvement it brings along is pretty long so let’s get started.For Beta 5, the colors and font sizes have been reviewed and the number of suggestions reduced to six making the menu less obtrusive.
I believe this
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Apr
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The old idea where Microsoft bases an operating system on central pillars? It's back, and with a complete refocus of priorities. Looking back, the original pillars of Longhorn were Avalon (WPF), Indigo (WCF), and WinFS, as well as the pseudo-pillar which was referred to as "Fundamentals."
No longer does Microsoft’s basis for an operating system
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Apr
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Google “Onebox” is a special Google search result shows results from its code search engine when you perform programming related search like, function names, classes, objects, methods so you can see real-life examples of use. For some reason, the snippets are
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Apr
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Microsoft is addressing error reports of failed installations of Windows XP SP3 due to copies of the XP operating system with altered kernels.
"When you try to install a Windows XP service pack on a computer, you may receive an error message that resembles the following: 'Windows has detected that one
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Apr
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In Las Vegas Sprint has announced a new mobile called the Instinct made by Samsung. It weighs in and is about the same size as the iPhone, and seems to use similar interface ideas. One of the most touted features of the Instinct over the iPhone is the ability to run on EVDO Rev. A, which
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Apr
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One more small note: the XP SP3 Overview that Microsoft posted yesterday is also not for the final version as can be seen on the second page of the doc: "This is a preliminary document and may be changed substantially prior to final commercial release of the software described
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Apr
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Microsoft has picked up a powerful new online-privacy technology that it says it wants to share ... eventually.
In a move that could extend its already substantial presence in the realm of identity access and management, the software giant recently announced it had acquired the patents to the U-Prove technology developed by cryptographer Stefan Brands
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Apr
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People shouldn't read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week's "PWN to OWN" hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux, said the security expert who oversaw the contest.
"There was just no interest in Ubuntu," said Terri Forslof, manager of security response at 3Com Corp.'s TippingPoint subsidiary,
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Random From The Security Expert: Linux ignored, not immune!
- Apr26Microsoft Releasing Second Edition of April MSRT that Includes Variants of Afcore Botnet
"In continuation of our support for the takedown activities on the Win32/Afcore botnet, we are releasing a second edition of MSRT in April," - Apr20Chrome OS CR-48 Notebooks Confirmed June/July 2011 Release
Google Chrome Laptops are now expected to be on sale to retail customers in Summer 2011.Accroding to reports "Google product manager Sundar Pichai said, Google - Sep08Google’s Seoul Office Raided by Korean FTC Probing Unfair Practices Regarding Android Search
The Korean Fair Trade Commission, raided Google's offices in Seoul on September 6. According to CNet report the regulators were apparently interested in information about - Nov20Paglo World’s first search engine for IT. Think Google for IT
Paglo, which launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google™ for IT. Paglo is a free and on-demand, the - Jun22Certified for Windows Vista Software Demo Video
The talks has been going on about the Certified for Windows Vista Logo Program specifically related to devices. That’s only half the story. Today’s demo video