Archive for July 16th, 2008
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Japanese scientists have developed a new form of Flash memory that could alleviate all our fears about just how long our Flash memory will last. These new memory chips, called ferroelectric Nand Flash (FNF), can be written up to 100 million times, compared to today’s Flash memory that is thought to be limited to around 500,000
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Jul
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Microsoft has announced an 60GB Xbox 360 console, priced at $299.99, fans of Sony immediately began to speculate on a sympathetic price drop for PS3.
At the E3 conference in Los Angeles, Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO Jack Tretton hosted the company's press conference where he announced that in September, an 80 GB Playstation3
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Jul
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Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on XenServer and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Oh, and yes, add VMWare ESX to that list
The hypervisor independent tools, being developed as part of
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Jul
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This guide will be available for download in doc, pdf, and .chm formats July 21st, 2008. Please check back for availability.Guidance for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008
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Jul
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Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express,
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Jul
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Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist Microsoft, revealed that an update to the desktop products MapPoint 2009 (Desktop Business Intelligence Mapping and Analysis Tool) and Streets & Trips 2009 (Desktop Consumer Trip Planning) will be made available in the coming months.
Contrary to the release of MapPoint 2006, there are quite a few more features
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Jul
16
LiveSino reports that Live Mesh seems to be available for US Live IDs. However, there’s no official announcement from the Live Mesh team yet.
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Jul
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If your host supports SSL, WordPress 2.6 includes better support for visiting the admin over SSL. Part of this support involves making sure authorization cookies are delivered only over SSL-encrypted HTTPS sessions. To accommodate this while still allowing the option of visiting the admin over plain http, 2.6 moves from a single cookie setup
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Jul
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After unlocking and jailbreaking iPhone OS 2.0, the iPhone Dev Team has now liberated the new iPhone 3G, only five days after launch. This means a Pwnage tool that will allow you to install the unofficial applications that Apple doesn't want you to have in your iPhone, along with the
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Jul
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The Vacationeers released sequel of some new futuristic videos to what they call The Googling, dealing with existing Google services gone “different”. After the creepy video about Google Street View, the comedy group explored some other Google services.
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Jul
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Sony has launched four new Intel Centrino 2-based Vaio laptop PCs, including an entry-level model, the Vaio SR, and the Vaio Z, the first notebook PC from Sony to be configurable with a Blu-ray disc drive.
Sony is now taking orders for the new Vaio Series Z, FW, BZ, and
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Jul
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Apple's list of grievances against Mac clone maker Psystar spans 16 pages, but, in the end, its argument boils down to the one expected. Psystar, Apple says, had no right to do what it did, and should be stopped and forced to pay.
In its lawsuit, a copy of which was seen by CNET News,
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Jul
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This post discusses and provide a quick overview of symbol files. Whenever an application or DLL is built, part of the compilation process is the creation of additional files – the symbol files. The symbol files themselves are not needed when running an application. However, if you encounter a situation where you
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Jul
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Pingdom, a company that measures internet service reliability, has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating system update services. Microsoft's Windows Update was available 100 per cent of the second quarter of 2008, Pingdom said in a blog posting on Friday. Apple's service was down two hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 per
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Jul
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The Gears on Rails project by Google Gears enables Ruby on Rails developers to take their applications offline, as some sharp developers put Gears to new and different uses. Developers are putting Google Gears to some interesting uses, including offline support for Ruby on Rails and building client-side search engines.
Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, two recent
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Random From The Google’ s “Gears on Rails” project
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Microsoft’s Core Operating System Division (COSD) is somewhat of a black hole to many outside (and even inside) the Redmond software maker. Charged with the