Archive for November 14th, 2008
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Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. With the new Google iPhone application, that’ll be available for free download at Apple iTunes store from Friday onwards, users can place the phone to their ear and speak their search query into the phone, rather than having to type it out.
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Microsoft is offering “Total Solution Financing from Microsoft Financing” that covers the cost of your entire business management system, including the following: “all Microsoft Dynamics software and services (Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions)” — is now available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S.
This
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YouTube is expanding in-video ads to YouTube partner videos embedded on other websites. “To date, YouTube has only run ads against partner videos on YouTube itself, and with people viewing millions of embedded YouTube videos every day, this meant that partners were not generating revenue from their views outside YouTube.com. But now, YouTube partners will be able to
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“Is there a way I can configure the Windows Time settings via Group Policy and have it only apply to the domain controller that holds the PDC FSMO role?” This is a wonderful question to pose and there are very good reasons why this should be done:
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Nov
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The virtual launch event was a great success, and SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 are finally out in the market. Just in case you didn’t get enough of SBS and EBS, check out the below videos from the TechNet Edge team.
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Nov
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If you’ve tried doing any iPhone development with Virtual Earth you’ve probably been swearing up a storm, beating down your computer, and lost hours of sleep wondering how Loopt, Weather Central and now NMobile got their iPhone apps working. Well, it would be treacherous but:
Consonance Software has created the
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Nov
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Here comes Microsoft Store – the first online store where you can purchase largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware in one place. Microsoft Store is currently lauched in US, UK, Germany and Korea. Japan, France, Spain and the Netherlands are coming soon. More countries will be coming onboard throughout the year.
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Nov
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German OEM Fujitsu-Siemens announced a minor revision to the Scaleo Home Server. The two new models come equipped with larger hard drives than their predecessors, and lower power consumption thanks to the inclusion of Western Digital Green Power drives.
The Scaleo Home Server 2105 is fitted with 1Tb (2 x 500Gb)
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Nov
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After scaling infrastructure and preparing IntenseDebate to deliver super-charged performance to additional traffic that is likely to come when WordPress starts, Intense Debate is back to public with a new WordPress plugin with following features:
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Nov
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Apple released just four patches that affect the Mac OS X edition, but eleven for Windows Vista and XP of Safari browser.
Now, a patch for a vulnerability with a very similar, if not altogether identical, profile appears in the latest version 3.2 of Safari for Windows (this particular patch does not apply to Mac OS X
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Nov
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Want a way to boot up your Windows Vista PC from a full shut down in a matter of seconds? The solution is: ASRock “Instant Boot” that leverages the S3 and S4 ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) features which normally enable the Sleep/Standby and Hibernation modes in Windows to cut boot times down to something like 4 seconds.
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Nov
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Microsoft is adding a fourth pillar to its search-business strategy that involves opening up its search interfaces and infrastructure to third-party developers to get them to incorporate Microsoft’s search engine in their sites and services with the release of new Live Search API for publishers and web developers called Project “Silk Road”, the new version offers new interfaces through
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A free tool called “App-V Ping tool” is available and can be used to check if an Microsoft Application Virtualization Management and/or Streaming server is available from a Client-Side perspective. For example, with use of a startup script, which runs on the client device, you can use this tool to check if the nearest by and configured App-V Streaming
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One of the core features of Windows Home Server is the image-based backup software solution that automatically backs up your home PCs every day. The cool thing about the home server solution is the single-instance storage technology that we developed for the storage of multiple home computer backups across time and across multiple PCs.
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Nov
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Google enhances its hosted Site Search service for businesses (formerly Google Custom Search Business Edition) by rolling out “On-Demand Indexing” that gives site owners full control to incorporate new pages and updates into search results on their website.
On-Demand indexing allows anyone with a Google Custom Search Engine or Google Site Search
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Random From The Google adds ‘on demand indexing’ to Site Search
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