Archive for July 12th, 2008
Jul
12
Microsoft’s been noticeably and characteristically mum about Apple’s iPhone 2.0 unveiled yesterday. But on July 11, the Redmondians did make sure to note that iPhones now include ActiveSync support for Exchange Server.
On the Microsoft Team Blog, Adam Glick, a Technical Product Manager with Microsoft’s Unified Communications group, highlighted the iPhones’ ActiveSync support.
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Jul
12
Live Mesh team released a new build 0.9.3103.2, which includes bux fixes, new features and tuned performance. Be default your Live Mesh client will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but you can always right click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose to force an immediate update.
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Jul
12
One of the optional fields lets you geotag your videos, when you upload to YouTube, but doesn’t easily search for video by location. Now you can restrict YouTube's search results to videos from a certain location. Just click on the “advanced” link next to the search box, type your query, enter the location and click on “show map” to adjust your location.
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Jul
12
If you want to add notes to Google Notebook; you can visit google.com/notebook or click on “My notebooks” from any Google search results page. To add excerpts from web pages, you need an extension “Google Toolbar 5 for IE or Google Notebook for Firefox”.
But If your browser does not support any of the
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Jul
12
Live Mesh is built around a relationship directory to let the machines in your mesh communicate with one another on your behalf. Any two devices can use the directory and the mesh communication services to set up an encrypted channel for sharing data or synchronizing.
In this interview, we’ll whiteboard out exactly how a Live Mesh
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Jul
12
The Automattic team released a first look at their WordPress For iPhone App that works on both WordPress.com as well as WordPress.org blogs. The application is Open Source, available from the iPhone App store and will be available for free. The screen real estate problem with the large on screen keyboard looks to be largely solved
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Jul
12
Ambroise Fensterbank, Search Quality Evaluator at Google discusses “how to optimize your site for Google search”. Ranking in Google search is based on many different algorithms, and optimization for search is a long, continuous process. He recommend avoiding any techniques that claim to optimize your ranking very quickly or radically, against guidelines. If you have concerns
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Jul
12
Researchers at IBM have developed software called “Highlight”, that lets mobile users create slimmed-down Web pages that can be viewed more easily on a small device such as a mobile phone.
IBM Web Highlights, is an software extension to the Firefox browser and was built by researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Highlight lets users record the steps required
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Jul
12
VDIworks announced it has integrated its solution with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, which provides management of physical and virtual deployments throughout the data center, desktops and devices. With a new VDIworks plug-in, called VDIvision for System Center, joint Microsoft/VDIworks customers can use System Center to manage a variety of VDIworks-driven features, including
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Jul
12
Software piracy not only costs channel partners money in lost sales, it also leads to higher costs for their business, according to a study sponsored by Microsoft and the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners. The study found that for every $1 reduction in software piracy, the Microsoft ecosystem, including channel partners, gained $4.37 in new
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Jul
12
If you’re selling or buying links, that’re contextually non-relevant on your site, Google will find you out and probably penalize you. Such is the case of NewsDay.com, which was slapped with a Google Penalty (down from PageRank 8 to a PageRank 5) for openly selling spam links throughout their high profile site.
Barry Schwartz points to a Google Groups
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Jul
12
Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 and this update provides the final release. Now, it's available to TechNet Plus Subscribers.
Server virtualization, also known as hardware virtualization, is a
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Jul
12
Windows Vista SP1 includes an evaluation expiration date and a limited license that both expire on a pre-arranged schedule. This schedule is stated in the Microsoft Software License Terms of the Windows Vista SP1 update package. The evaluation period is for three months, and then the limited license expires. When the limited license expires, you receive
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Jul
12
IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip.
The IBM documents have the eight-core Power7 being arranged in dual-chip modules. So, that's 16-cores per module. As IBM
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Jul
12
We had reported that customers loosing Internet connectivity after installing MS08-037 (KB951748 and KB951746). This issue can occur on both the server and the clients. This issue may occur when customers are running ZoneAlarm or Check Point Endpoint Security (previously named Check Point Integrity). Our investigation so far has shown that no
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Random From The Resources for loss of Internet with Microsoft KB951748 and KB951746
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