Archive for July 11th, 2008
Jul
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One way to improve the protection of desktops and the network is by cleaning up Temporary Internet files. By cleaning up these files, you can protect the desktop and network from being invaded by malicious files.
When Internet Explorer launches for the first time, it starts to immediately store files that it puts into the browser interface
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Jul
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Check out the Migration demo and interview of Chris Almida. Chris is a program manager for Microsoft and owns the migration solution for SBS 2008.
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Do you run your home server 24/7? If you do, you are probably wasting a whole bunch of CPU cycles and energy. There’re plenty of technology available to reduce carbon, for e.g. on AMD powered WHS, you can enable AMD’s Cool‘n’Quiet technology in the BIOS to reduce energy footprint, but that would still left wasting a bunch of CPU cycles.
So
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Jul
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Apple has released 2.0 version of the iPhone firmware, while both the AppleTV and and iTunes see updates to support new functionality.
The file, marked version 2.0.5A347, is slightly higher than the one of the latest iPhone Firmware Beta (5A345) which was also spotted on shipping iPhone 3Gs. Despite the filename appearing in the XML file, the actual firmware has not
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Jul
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Google Trends’s “Hot Trends” that features aggregated overview of recently popular search queries, shows a “Swastika” in one of the top spots. A swastika ( 1 Comment » - Posted by DG
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Adobe’s recently announced Acrobat Pro 9 has some unmentioned special benefits for search engine marketers. Michael Folkers, Group Product Manager for Adobe Acrobat discusses more of Acrobat 9's video features and the new advantages for SEOs with the latest software release in an inteview, with following topics covered:
Video SEO benefit - simpler production
SEO benefit - social media
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Jul
11
With the launch of SQL Server 2008, a new SQL Server 2008 Web Edition SKU is being launched in SPLA and other Volume Licensing programs (Open/Select/EA)Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Web Edition is specifically designed for highly available Internet facing web serving environments for the next generation Windows Server 2008. With more robust capabilities than
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Jul
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Ionut noted Google News is experimenting with a new visually-rich design that not only shows images, videos, quotes, but also interesting and popular stories. On the front page, there's a “featured photo” section that uses images from AFP, The Associated Press, Reuters, marking the first time when
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Jul
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Webmail in the educational market appears to be a three horse race between “Yahoo! Zimbra, Google Gmail and Outlook/Microsoft Exchange”. And Yahoo’s Zimbra won out against the other two in a bid to provide for Stanford University.This is the latest in a series of victories for Zimbra, which includes Georgia Tech,
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Jul
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Imagine managing a million lines of code to send over seven hundred pounds of equipment millions of miles through space to land safely on Mars and perform dozens of experiments. You have C, 128 MB of RAM, and very few opportunities to retry if you get it wrong. O'Reilly News interviewed Peter Gluck, project software
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Jul
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PlanetEye launched into beta on July 9, 2008, is a new website focused on delivering travelers with the right set of online planning tools designed to enable the searching, exploring and sharing of a plethora of destinations worldwide. PlanetEye makes use of Microsoft technology in order to permit users to plan their travels around the globe in
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Jul
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Ian Dixon noted that Microsoft plans Media Center at Custom Installers for CEDIA Expo 2008. Microsoft plans on holding six presentations spread over the four days of the conference training CE professionals on setting up Windows Media Center and other related topics like Windows Home Server, Extenders and Zune. You can find the details on
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Jul
11
Some 4.5 million Windows Mobile shipped during the year's first quarter, up 1.8 million year-over-year, according to IDG figures cited by Microsoft's top Windows Mobile executive, Andy Lees. Apple, meanwhile, sold only 1.8 million iPhones according to IDG's figures for the same quarter, Lees claimed.
Citing IDC figures, Lees said Microsoft sold 4.5 million Windows Mobile devices
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Jul
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Acer America announced Acer Aspire X1200, a truly dynamic and compact desktop entertainment center in a small box with prices beginning at just $450. The Acer Aspire X1200 desktop enables users to enjoy high-definition movies, games and theater-like sound while maximizing space in the home. Featuring AMD dual-core processors,
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Jul
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Seagate Technologies on July 10 unveiled the industry's first 1.5TB desktop drive along with a 500-megabyte (half-terabyte) notebook hard drive.The Barracuda 7200.11 for desktops and Barracuda ES.2 enterprise PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) hard drives deliver 1TB of capacity on a four-disk platform, 7,200-rpm spin speeds, and caches up to 32MB, Willis Whittington, Seagate product
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