Archive for the September, 2008


Sep 9

Add you Business to Live Search Maps using Live Search Local Listings Center

Chris Pendleton announced improvements to the Live Search Local Listings Center that now allows you to add your listings to Live Search Maps via the Live Search Local Listings Center (US only). Live Search Local (and Live Search Maps) lets users find businesses near them, or near where
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Sep 3

Ra-ajax: New Ajax Library

Thomas Hansen the creator of Gaia Ajax Widgets have recently announced that he is no longer with Gaiaware and already started a new ASP.NET Ajax library Ra-Ajax and a new company Ra Software AS. Ra-Ajax his new Ajax library is under LGPL 3 license is an ultra lightweight, slick and small Ajax library for ASP.NET and
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Sep 15

The social web and Google

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. What's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this
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Sep 23

Google Book Search: New partnerships and tools – Embeddable Google Books

Google announced a new set of partnerships and tools to bring even more books to the people who are looking for them. They've partnered with booksellers like Books-a-Million, Buy.com, and Borders.com to allow their customers to browse previews of books right on the retailer's website. When you see a book that looks
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Sep 23

McAfee to acquire Secure Computing for $465 million

McAfee the world's No. 2 security software maker, said on Monday it plans to buy Internet security company Secure Computing Corp (SCUR.O) for $465 million in cash. The move gives McAfee a suite of software, services and hardware products to protect hackers from getting past the perimeters of computer networks. McAfee Chief Executive Dave DeWalt said the
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Sep 10

Zune 3.0 Sneak Peak

The Zune Team announced that Zune 3.0 release is coming on September 16th. The Zune 3.0 release consists of updates across the entire Zune ecosystem including new firmware updates for all Zune devices, new Zune software update, and updates to the Zune Social. The Zune 3.0 release focuses on music discovery and taking it to the next level. Terry Farrell,
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Sep 17

Apple: Wei-han Lien’s LinkedIn profile points to new iPhone ARM processor

Wei-han Lien an Apple staff’s LinkedIn profile confirm that in-house development on a custom ARM processor for the iPhone is now under way at Apple, in a move that could eventually save it millions. In a recent update to his profile on Linked-In, Wei-han Lien, previously an engineer at PA Semiconductor, noted that
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Sep 1

WinPwn: Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool

WinPwn is a Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool. IT supports both v1.14 and v2.0. It has custom image support, custom payload support and 3g iPhone support.
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Sep 11

Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 and Wireless Media Desktop 1000

Microsoft Hardware focused on delivering new productivity features along with a sleek style and a fresh design, aimed to increase comfort. “With the Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 and Wireless Media Desktop 1000, we give consumers high-end features and design without a high-end price. Our customers are choosing to use full-size mice and keyboards with both desktop
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Sep 9

HP trimmed EliteBook 6930p

HP heated up competition against Dell by announcing a special trim level of the EliteBook 6930p that it believes sets a new record in battery life. Through new firmware and graphics drivers, an Ultra Capacity battery pack, an LED-backlit display and Intel's just-launched 80GB SSD, the 14-inch notebook can last for as much as 24
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Sep 4

Microsoft Fiji Media Center TV Pack start rolling out

As Microsoft watchers may recall, Microsoft's gag order on “Fiji” (Windows Media Center TV Pack) was slated to officially end this week, concurrent with the CEDIA Expo show. Announcements regarding the first PCs preloaded with Fiji are expected from: Fluid DigitalS1DigitalLifewareCannon PC Full Article
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Sep 2

Windows Vista SP1 Guest OS issues related to multiple processor computers – KB956246

According to Microsoft, virtualized copies of the latest versions of its Windows client and server operating systems can cause the virtual machine to restart and to display the following Stop error code: 0x000000BE. The Redmond company informed that the issue is associated with machines running multiple processors and did not provide any additional data. The problem
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Sep 13

SBS Monitoring “The page cannot be displayed”

The Monitoring and Reporting link in the SBS console reports the following error message after 5 minutes. Cause: This issue occurs if the WSUS API query exceeds the allotted time during report generation.
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Sep 3

Microsoft hotfix KB articles – August 27 – September 2 – Message Queue Server, Commerce Server and more

Last week, 11 Developer products related hot-fix KB articles were released, including 4 for Windows CE Consumer Embedded, 1 for Windows CE ETK, 1 for BizTalk Server 2006 R2, 1 for BizTalk Server 2004, 1 for VC++ 2005, 1 for Commerce Server 2006, 1 for MSMQ 3.0, 1 for MSMQ 2.0. Below are the details: Windows CE
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Sep 1

Microsoft to drop Xbox 360 price by 30% in Japan

Microsoft will cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console in Japan by about 30 percent, aiming to gain market share from leader Nintendo Co, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday. Microsoft, locked in a three-way game console battle with Nintendo's popular Wii and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3, has been struggling to stir up demand for
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