Archive for June 12th, 2008
Jun
12
Microsoft has completed the migration to Windows Server 2008 from the Windows Server 2003 box that was powering Microsoft.com.
“Well, it’s been a crazy few months since the Windows Server 2008 RTM. I kept wondering why they were letting me hang around - what business does one Windows Server 2003 have in a farm of WS08s? It
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Jun
12
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a US space tourism company and hopes to go into orbit himself within three years, according to a report today.
The 34-year-old president of the web search giant has put £2.5m into Space Adventures, which has already sent five space tourists into orbit, the New York Times said. The investment
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Jun
12
User experience is the most important aspect of having a compelling mobile product. Every bit of interaction and pixel of presentation counts when typing is laborious and screen sizes are minuscule. Many of the standard interaction models, like menus, always-present chrome, and having a cursor, don’t necessarily make sense on mobile. It’s a wickedly exciting opportunity
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Jun
12
ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, announced it has secured a record 50th VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, a widely-respected independent comparative testing group. ESET is the first company to reach the 50-award milestone.
“With excellent detection and no false positive issues, ESET has stormed its way to a record 50th VB100 award,” said
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Jun
12
Apple mention of a curious new technology it said would help accelerate the development of CPU-to-GPU process sharing, calling it OpenCL. But the lack of information about what it is makes us all the more curious.
In its press materials released Monday, Apple made mention of a technology it called OpenCL, whose purpose was reportedly to enable so-called
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Jun
12
Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack. The Bluetooth stack flaw, detailed in Microsoft bulletin CVE-2008-1453 and rated 'critical', could allow an attacker to take complete control of
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Jun
12
It's getting more difficult to keep track of the various stages and permutations of malware, whose definition has expanded to mean "anything you didn't ask for and don't want running." But since when did Yahoo IM become malware?It's no secret that a lot of our Windows-based production systems, and even some of our virtual
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Jun
12
The webinar will start by looking at the trends within Professional services today, and the pressures that places on service delivery and the way that professional services organisations need to work, internally and with customers and partners in order to deliver exceptional service. It will then go on to look at specific collaboration challenges, focusing on
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Jun
12
Google mobile homepage lets you add gadgets from iGoogle viz. feeds, weather, stocks, Gmail and few other. Now you can customize the mobile homepage from iGoogle's settings: rearrange the gadgets, delete the ones you don't use or add other mobile-compatible gadgets from your iGoogle page. A better mobile version of iGoogle, optimized for iPhone, can be found at http://www.google.com/ig/i. This version includes all the gadgets from your iGoogle page and preserves many features from the desktop iGoogle.
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Jun
12
James works in the Solutions Partners team in Microsoft UK, currently specialising in training and readiness for partners selling and supporting Small Business Server has an article on IT Management decision for Small Business. The will help you save a lot of money e.g. leveraging Windows Mobile, whilst maximising your investment e.g. Active Directory and Group Policy.
Why
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Jun
12
Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software.
But everything the company is saying here in Orlando at TechEd 2008 is consistent with the idea that IT has to support the linchpins of complex, agile, multivariate organizations. And
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Jun
12
Microsoft pointed to gains in the high-performance computing (HPC) market as it readies the release of its HPC Server 2008 for later this year. On Wednesday, Microsoft released details of nine HPC projects in higher education that are using Microsoft's current Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS 2003) product. The projects all launched within the last
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Jun
12
Launching help within a virtualized (sequenced) version of Microsoft Office 2007 returns Windows Installer error 1305.
Cause: This is a known issue with MS Office and any other product built using Visual Studio 2005. The Visual Studio 2005 build process results in products that hard code the help file path in a binary file. Because of this,
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Jun
12
This event will take you through our latest management and Virtualisation technologies. We’ll start the day with a thought provoking keynote explaining how to use System Center to reduce the impact your business has on the environment. In common with other TechNet UK events we’re going to demonstrate the interesting parts of the technology as much
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Jun
12
Microsoft stepped up the pressure on competing virtualisation vendors at its North American 2008 Tech Ed. Conference, where the software giant disclosed several updates it said would help customers prepare to deploy virtualised infrastructure. Microsoft said its server virtualisation validation programme would now allow any software vendor to test and validate its virtualisation software
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