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Archive for August 14th, 2008

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Aug 14

Google has added eight more languages to their Google Calendar, bringing the total number of supported languages to 38 and closing in on Gmail's 50. The new languages are Latvian, Romanian, Filipino/Tagalog, Serbian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hindi and Indonesian. To use Google Calendar in your preferred language, just sign in, click Settings

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Microsoft released “Faceted Search 2.5 for Office SharePoint Server,” which brings a collection of improvements on top of the inherent bug fixes associated with the introduction of a new build. Starting Faceted Search 2.5, the solution relies on Microsoft Enterprise Library to address common software requirements in caching, logging, exception handling, policy injection etc., etc. More importantly, the 2.5 is

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The technology behind animated movies such as The Incredibles, Toy Story, Ratatouille, and Monsters Inc. is fully compatible with 64-bit Windows. SIGGRAPH 2008 acted as the stage where Pixar celebrated none other than the 20-year anniversary of RenderMan, and introduced RenderMan Pro Server 14.0. Planned for availability in the fall of 2008,

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Microsoft issued “kill bit” updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it's disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months. One security researcher linked the release to a new program Microsoft announced last week that's designed to help other vendors find and fix bugs in their own software. Microsoft disabled ActiveX

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PRO stands for Performance & Resource Optimization. Here’s a a simulated scenario to describe the system behaviours and the user experience of “how PRO works?” From the slide below, you can see how VMM PRO reacts to the event that is monitored and reported by OpsMgr:

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Live Search Webmaster announced the updates and enhancements to its “backlinks tool” to give you access to more data about referring links. Once you know who is linking to you and what pages on your site they are linking to, you can further research those sites to determine the worth of those links, as well as opportunities for promotion.

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Intel is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet. The new component Intel is announcing Thursday will let computers automatically return to a normal, full-powered state when a call comes in. The computer can activate its microphone and loudspeaker to alert

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There’s been a bit of a conflict of “how Google Maps has handled mapping in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan?”. Google LatLong blog says they’ve never launched coverage in those countries because they never had any good information on the country’s:

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Google Finance added a new feature to let you “plot items from a feed on a stock chart”. For e.g. if you want to find more information about Google's stock and see how it correlates with the latest news about Google, there's a new tab with blog posts and another one that lets you view the posts from a feed.

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Dell has previewed a new instant on technology called “Dell Latitude ON” that allows users to carry out basic tasks on their notebooks without having to boot up into Windows. Is this the future for notebooks? Dell Latitude ON will feature on the Latitude E4200 and E4300 in the next few months. It will allow users to

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Starting Sep 7th, Best Buy will start selling the iPhone 3G, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and AT&T Inc.'s own stores. Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. It's also a coup for the Minneapolis-based chain, which has been

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The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft demonstrated of what can be achieved with “Photosynth” intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web. Th two had only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and now at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world some even better

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Dell has announced a new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops built for the consumer on the go. The new laptops have an increased battery life, can be customized in a wide range of colors and options and are equipped to meet the demands of the digital nomad.

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The University of Toronto and IBM are building Canada's most powerful supercomputer, a mammoth machine that will need its own building for storage and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second. It's expected the system will be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world and the largest outside the

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A monthly newsletter from the Technet team in the Netherlands was sent out to thousands of Dutch IT Pros. Every month Microsoft-vet Tony Krijnen writes this letter and sends it out. However this month, something different is being noticed:  Tony wrote in his letter “Zo hebben Dani

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