Archive for November 19th, 2008
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Based on feedback received on the transition from the IE7 Beta to final release – the IE Team wants to be clear about the plan for Internet Explorer 8. Dean Hachamovitch highlights what’s next for IE8:
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Google AdSense team has released the final video installment of three-part series [Part 2, Part 1] on Optimisation Essentials for AdSense for content. However, even if you have large, well-designed ad units, they won't perform for you unless your users can see them! So what can you do to ensure your ad units get noticed? Place your ads where users are likely to look.
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Microsoft plans to offer a new consumer security offering focused on core anti-malware protection, code-named “Morro,” this streamlined solution will be available in the second half of 2009 and will provide comprehensive protection from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. This new solution, to be offered at no charge to consumers, will be architected for a
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Pitney Bowes Advanced Concepts and Technologies Group in collaboration with PB’s MapInfo Group has built an free application dubbed “The Fire Locator” with multiple dimensions of data to overlay atop a Microsoft Virtual Earth map with a Silverlight user experience. The app is released in beta at FireLocator.net, this free,
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At the Supercomputing 2008 conference, Microsoft debuted in the top 10 of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Shanghai Supercomputer Center and Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd., which ranked at No. 10 with 180.6 teraflops, the parallel computing speed, and 77.5 percent efficiency. A truly incredible achievement considering that 12 months ago in Reno, Nevada, Microsoft was
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The Oct. 13, 2005, installment of Walt Mossberg's Personal Technology column in the Wall Street Journal was a detailed guide for people planning to buy personal computers in advance of Windows Vista's launch. One paragraph in particular got Microsoft's attention. "You also won’t have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer’s
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Google with Life magazine has released images from the LIFE photo archive on Google Image Search — collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back
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Mobile phone chip designer Arm has announced an alliance with the makers of the Ubuntu open source software. The deal will produce a version of the operating system for small net-browsing computers known as netbooks. It marks a departure for Arm, which before now has been best known for designing the chips inside smartphones and feature
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HP is now selling its EX470 entry-level Windows Home Server box for $399, which is $150 below what it cost just last week. As Alex Kuretz notes at MediaSmartServer.net: “Deals like this tend to appear to either be holiday sales, or perhaps stock clearance in preparation for Encore?”
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If you haven't found The Photosynth Photography Guide (1Mbyte pdf), it's a nicely organized and useful overview of tips and tricks for shooting photos that make great synths as well as some tips for how to better navigate the synths on the Photosynth site.
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At WinHEC 2008,the Windows Home Server team presented a session entitled Design Considerations for Building a Windows Home Server. The session outlines design requirements for WHS along with a brief update on current ecosystem support for the platform. You can now download the Powerpoint deck for the session which covers:
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Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. This year's conference invited Apple's Jordan Hubbard to speak about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to
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Adobe at its Adobe Max 2008 heralded a slew of new technologies, including links between its Flex application development platform and Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform. Also paraded at the conference was Flash Catalyst, an interactive design tool for building interfaces and interactive content without coding. The planned Bolt release of the ColdFusion IDE, featuring
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Gizmox,the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, announced a contest, sponsored by the Company, which will pay $10,000 to anyone who can hack into its Visual WebGui Platform. The Contest will take the shape of an investigation into the identity of a secret agent. The goal of the contest is to uncover the true
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Microsoft's decision to drop the price of its antivirus software to zero puts rivals such as McAfee and Symantec in a tough position. To be sure, those two--and other rivals--will be able to tout products that offer a broader range of features than Microsoft plans to deliver with "Morro" next year. At
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