Archive for September 5th, 2008
Sep
5
Life|ware makers of whole home automation and entertainment solutions, have done just that, unveiling a new “High Density Television initiative that brings in more high definition entertainment and distributes it around the home more effectively than ever before.
“High Density TV reinvents how we will move and/or view high definition entertainment around the home,” said
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Sep
5
Virtualization: An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008
The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today’s virtualization
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Sep
5
F-Secure announced the release of F-Secure Home Server Security 2009. The security suite provides standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for Windows Home Server, with automatic updates and all controls integrated into the Windows Home Server Console. F-Secure Home Server Security 2009 is priced at £39.95/$65.25/45 Euros meaning that the UK is paying the most for protecting their
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Sep
5
In Windows Live Photo Gallery, notice on the left-hand pane it now shows two tagging sections, one for the new “People tags” and another for “Descriptive tags” which already exists in the current version. Expanding the "people tags" section will show a list of people you have
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Sep
5
Microsoft employees are using the latest Milestone 2 daily builds, whereas the majority of user are on leaked Wave 3 Milestone 1 build. Here’s what’s showing up for the first time in these pictures.
Personalisation
Simplified header
Improved Personal Status Message (PSM) – First introduced in Messenger v7 along with the music PSM, showing your contacts
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Sep
5
Many companies and users consider mobile access to Exchange data an essential feature. Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is very popular as it allows this access and many devices have licensed and implemented EAS (including Windows Mobile). Some companies use remote servers to access Exchange data and push it out to their mobile clients that aren't EAS enabled.
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Sep
5
The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning.
"I think that the next 18 months we're going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going
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Sep
5
AMD is planning to launch two low-power desktop CPUs – Athlon 2650e and Athlon X2 3250e – under its UVC (Ultra-Value Client) product line targeting OEMs in November, according to sources at motherboard makers.
The Athlon 2650e will have a core frequency of 1.6GHz and TDP f 15W, while the Athlon X2 3250e will have a core
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Sep
5
The second rack-mounted home server to be announced at CEDIA this week is S1Digital’s WHS500. The WHS500 is a one-rack Windows Home Server, designed specifically for the custom installation channel. The device has a 4-terabyte capacity for storing movies, music, photos, home videos and other media, providing centralized access
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Sep
5
At CEDIA EXPO 2008, Microsoft announced expansive growth of the Windows Media Center ecosystem, the formation of an exciting new industry alliance composed of some of the custom channel’s top brands, the winner of the 2008 Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest, and numerous partner innovations supporting the Windows Media Center in the custom installation channel. CEDIA
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Sep
5
Google has started rolling out Gmail's new code base to IE6 users. If you use IE6 and have the latest IE6 updates from Microsoft installed, you'll start seeing the new Gmail features such as colored labels, group chat and rich emoticons, invisible mode, AIM integration,
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Sep
5
Microsoft's Apple “Get a Mac” killer is live as of September 4, 2008. The new $300 million Windows campaign put together by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, has debuted with the first video ad featuring none other than Microsoft part-time Chairman Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
In the
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Sep
5
When trying to upgrade the Virtual Application Server (VAS) from 4.1.2.20 to 4.1.3.16 fails with error message “The installation program was unable to read the SQL. upgrade files for the configuration database”, it is because I have seen this on other builds. The error message was;
“The installation program was unable to read the SQL. upgrade files for
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Sep
5
Live Mesh team had issued an urgent warning earlier this week, the team have released an update that fixes the issue:
Fixed issue where deleting a Live Mesh folder on one device, or stopping the folder from synchronizing on that device, would cause the folder to stop synchronizing on all devices.
They also note about if you
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Sep
5
You may have heard of Microsoft’s Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created innovations to market: Startup Labs.Startup Labs falls under Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s organization. Like the other aforementioned Microsoft Labs, Startup
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Random From The Ray Ozzie to head new Microsoft lab
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