Archive for October 28th, 2008
Oct
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Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, is the latest high-profile technology luminary to plead the industry's case in Washington for opening the white spaces spectrum -- as lobbying on both sides of the contentious issue reaches a fever pitch ahead of a key Federal Communication Commission meeting next week.
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Oct
28
Google added three new built-in contact groups to Gmail: “Friends, Family, and Co-workers” to help you organize your contacts. You can move contacts in and out of these groups at any time. In addition, you can create a Google profile to help people in these groups keep in touch with you. They
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Oct
28
GPhotospace is a free Firefox extension that leverages Gmail for online photo storage. Within minutes, any user is able to store their photos online for free. The process is quick, easy, and you don’t require any technical knowledge. Once you've installed the addon, you can open it by clicking the status bar icon. If you're like
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Oct
28
With only a couple of examples shown Monday of programs running on Windows Azure, I started to wonder just how far along things are with the cloud OS. In an interview, corporate VP Amitabh Srivastava tried to set me straight.
“Windows Azure is at an early stage,” he said, “It is real, but it is
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Oct
28
This report looks at all of the vulnerabilities fixed by Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat and Ubuntu during the first half of 2008. At the vendor level, the report examines all vulnerabilities as well as Days of Risk (DoR) associated with those vulnerabilities. The report further drills down to examine just those issues affecting the commonly installed
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Oct
28
MTV's MTVmusic.com, a very clean, very simple, good looking site full of music videos and only music videos. Lots of older, classic stuff, too, like Dire Straits' “Money For Nothing.” The site looks good and, in our limited testing, works great. And like Hulu, MTV also (smartly) lets you embed their videos on your blog,
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Oct
28
Gmail Labs now let you add gadgets to the left-nav, next to Chat and Labels: “a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google
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Oct
28
Dublin: The current codename for the Windows Applications Server extension project which is the company's platform for distributing .NET applications in the cloud.
How it works? Microsoft's objective is to leverage its existing investment in the .NET Framework so that businesses can readily deploy applications, using the tools and resources they already own (including Visual Studio),
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Oct
28
Quake 2 — One of the bets PC games has been converted into Microsoft Silverlight by the wizards over at http://www.innoveware.com/ amazing! Watch the video after the jump.
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Oct
28
This post discuss a interoperability issue I encountered. An admin had set up an Apache web server with the OpenSSL mod for SSL/TLS support. Users were able to connect to the secure web site using Firefox, but when they tried to use Internet Explorer the connection failed with the following error: The page cannot be displayed. We were
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Oct
28
This week at IFRA Expo 2008, Microsoft will demonstrate how publishers can use technology to stay competitive in the world of online and digital media and evolve their publications into content service offerings by creating compelling user experiences and adapting their business models. In the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Stand 9003, Hall 9, Microsoft will show
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Oct
28
The first day keynote was all about Windows Azure, a Services Platform for the cloud. But how does Live Mesh relate to Azure? The Live Mesh blog explains:
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Oct
28
If you couldn’t remember exactly what was said at PDC 2008 keynote, but would like to know the gist of what Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson said, then this Wordle Windows Azura word-cloud should help.
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Oct
28
Microsoft denied it had neglected to register “Windows Azure,” the name of its new cloud computing platform, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
According to the spokeswoman, Microsoft submitted a trademark application for "Azure" last Friday.
Earlier Monday, Ray Ozzie, the company's chief software architect, unveiled Windows Azure, a cloud computing version of its operating
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Oct
28
Description of the update for Communicator 2007: October 24, 2008, this update fixes the following issues:
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Random From The Office Communicator 2007 Oct ’08 update
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The Windows Vista Product Guide provides a comprehensive overview of the innovative features and functions that make Microsoft® Windows Vista™ the next-generation Windows client operating system and successor to Windows XP. This guide also provides information the benefits Windows Vista offers diverse users as well as information about the different editions (SKUs) available. It’s about 300 pages, and contains a lot of really great information about Windows Vista. - Mar24Sunbelt Software warns of new malware spreading through most popular IM clients
Sunbelt Software pointed to the discovery of a new piece of malware spreading through the most popular IM clients on the market including Windows Live - Apr08Office 2010 Deployment Options Overview Resources from Microsoft
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Google has a powerful translation tool that lets you translate a web page or a text, but - Jan29Microsoft Windows 7 = Windows Vista Release 2
All the kerfuffle over Windows 7 - leaked memos, shaky handheld video clips of leaked builds, equally shaky tentative release schedules -