Archive for August 7th, 2008
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Market research firm Gartner said this week that Apple's iPhone Firmware 2.0 update meets its criteria for 'appliance-level support status' for big businesses, but warned enterprises to approach expanded use of the handset slowly and with close examination.Prior to Apple's iPhone 2.0 announcement in March of this year, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney had characterized
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Microsoft released Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 beta, that you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free! In this regard, the Outlook Live Connector Beta 12.1 will synchronize not only
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Microsoft announced the RTMing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services. SQL Server 2008 provides the trusted, productive and intelligent
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This post discusses “Exchange 2007 memory consumption and why Exchange uses so much of the paging file?”. Well, there are some valid reasons why and some misconceptions that need to be corrected.
Comparing memory usage between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003: First, let's start with why Store.exe uses so much RAM. If we take a step back
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This feature is part of the Shadow Copy feature in Windows Vista. This is a really helpful feature that has saved me numerous times! It essentially makes incremental back-ups of your work - so if you accidentally delete content, you can find it again and recover it with a single click. Anyone who has
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The worm discovered and dubbed “Koobface.a and Koobface.b” by security firm Kaspersky, spread themselves through leaving comments and messages on social network sites like Facebook and MySpace, which are sent to friends of an infected user. In order to trick the recipients into clicking on the links, the comments use names of celebrities or references
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The Virtualization RDP (Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program) has over 100 customers running Hyper-V & SCVMM 2008 in production. Some of these are very large enterprises. The evidence produced from these deployments will be available at the Virtualization Launch event. https://www.getvirtualnow.com/main.aspx .
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Microsoft Live Search is set to roll out Olympics related features, which’ll go live at the end of Friday, reported Eileen Chang from Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, representing Microsoft Live Search. The features will be sepcifically available in the US only, while Athlete Instant Answer and Medal Count Instant Answer will be available in some selected countries and regions.
Olympics 2008 news
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Aug
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It appears that the Microsoft Surface train is ready to leave the station. Besides posting new “Marketing Guidelines” to the Microsoft Download Center, the Redmond behemoth has also posted the “Microsoft Surface Order Form”, and it appears that there are no limitations on who can buy one. So for a
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Do you ever have trouble finding that exact piece of information you're looking for on Microsoft.com? Did you know there are over 50 million pages on our site? I didn't either to be honest, but even the best of us can be overwhelmed with the sheer volume of information that's out there. Well if you're like
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Ben Drawbaugh got the leaked copy of the RTM build of Windows Media Center TV Pack and posted his hands on installation experience over at EngadgetHD.
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The first issue is how to send the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination to the VM. Surely it's the same as it was in Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC 2007 - right-Alt-Del? Ah, but that would be logical! Nope, this time around the combination is Ctrl-Alt-End. (You can also use the Virtual Machine Connection window's toolbar or Action
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The Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. It includes the latest versions of:
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U.S. scientists have built an eye-shaped camera using standard sensor materials and say it could improve the performance of digital cameras and enhance imaging of the human body. According to the scientists, the device might even lead to the development of prosthetic devices including a bionic eye. “This is the first time we've demonstrated a camera
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What do you get when you combine images from Google Earth and the brainpower from researchers at Oak Ridge National Labs? Well in this case you get a tool that enables real-time status of the national electric grid that federal state and local agencies can use to coordinate and respond to major
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Random From The VERDE: Mashup of Google Earth with electrical data to predict national grid problems
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