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Archive for August 1st, 2008

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WordPress 2.7 is a next upcoming major WordPress release. This under development version has some cool new features in the works to make WordPress even more enjoyable blogging experience. If you’re interested, you can track new features and bug fixes in Wordpress 2.7 on Wordpress Trac. Before it appear, dev team is preparing WordPress 2.6.1 for release. If you’ve not

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The latest Shiretoko (Firefox 3.1 development codename) nightly comes with an expected and very welcomed feature: support for the HTML5 Embed data- attribute specification <audio> and <video> tags that will allow web developers to easily (<video src=”myfile.ogg”></video>) add rich content without the need of proprietary plugins. While the support for the <video> tag is pretty

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Google has been given the approval to begin their Street View project in the UK, despite strong apprehension from EU legislators toward Google's Street View mapping technique, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has reportedly found Google's privacy safeguards acceptable and will allow the company's roving 360 degree cameras to record British streets for its mapping

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The anticipated 60GB version of the Xbox 360 is now on sale at Amazon.com, ahead of its earlier promised August 4 ship date. While reports were coming in from various stores already having the higher capacity console in stock, Amazon will ship the gaming system anywhere

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Microsoft is in the planning stage of the next-generation Plug-and-Play (PnP) architecture. In this regard, a job is available for a technical Product Manager, who will take the lead of the project and put together a comprehensive plan which will span throughout multiple releases of Windows. The new PnP architecture is merely an aspect of the efforts that

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During the Financial Analyst Meeting 2008 the past week, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President, Online Services & Windows Business Group, indicated that the renewal rates for Software Assurance customers exceeded 80%. In this context, Microsoft's continued commitment to the corporate environment and Software Assurance customers with Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 8 Enterprise SKUs

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Aaron Wall reports that Google is currently beta testing “related search queries that’re shown below snippets on search result pages”. In the screenshot the suggestion “Related: link building software” was showing. Below a result from seobook.com, the queries “get more links”, “link building 101”, and “link building

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Google Maps team put up a YouTube video to give an overview of the most common tasks for getting directions through Google Maps. The video shows walking directions, redesign of the printed directions page, the redesigned Google Maps interface, and the recent Avoid Tolls feature. Video

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A new whitepaper that Microsoft researchers are set to present at a conference next month sheds more light on Microsoft's back-end cloud infrastructure. The paper, entitled, “SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets,” details a new declarative scripting language that is optimized for storing and analyzing massive data sets (like search logs

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WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site's tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page.

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Microsoft is boldly reshaping the Windows PC purchase experience with unprecedented focus, resources and investments. We are transforming how we reward our channel, re-inventing the assets we are making available to land in the channel and revisiting how we assort our products,” a member of the Windows Channel and Partner Marketing team explained. Microsoft will focus

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Maile Ohye posted a video titled “A day in the life of webmaster support”, which takes you through a typical day at Googleplex for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts.

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WLM dev team released the Windows Live Messenger Library 2.0 (WLML 2.0).  WLML 2.0 is backward compatible with WLML 1.0. In addition, the V1.0 API continues to be available with no changes. The library is available at the following URL:http://www.wlmessenger.net/api/2.0/messenger.js and an updated documentation, with increased coverage and samples in many topics, including new

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The Windows Home Server marketing team in Germany recently kicked off an awareness campaign for journalists. “Sun protection and data protection, before you go on vacation, buy a Windows Home Server system to backup your data and save all your vacation pictures!” The press

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Microsoft's hosted Exchange offering is easy to configure, maintain and use, but it's tied too tightly into Windows. In one of the most substantial incarnations of its software-plus-services model to date, Microsoft is preparing to throw its hat into an already-crowded ring of hosted Exchange providers. In fact, Microsoft's Web site lists more than 30

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