Archive for December 10th, 2008
Dec
10
The first public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is a feature complete release, and we encourage our customers and partners to begin testing and exploring today. We’ll also continue to tune the code base, focused on performance, reliability, etc. Final release is on track for the first half of 2009, and as we stated earlier this year,
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Dec
10
Google Street View doubled the amount of coverage in the United States. This will bring Street View to some new cities, like Memphis, Birmingham, and Charleston (SC), and also to a few states for the first time, like Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
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Dec
10
The Windows Server 2008 R2 timeframe will also bring the next version of the Hyper-V technology. This new version can either be seen as Hyper-V R2 or Hyper-V v2.0 (depending on your opinion on Hyper-V) and comes with a load of new features and hardware support.
Live Migration: Quick Migration was a good feature to make virtual
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Dec
10
Google announced of crawling Git and Mercurial repositories. For Git, we now crawl repositories hosted by several public git hosting sites including GitHub and repo.or.cz. In addition to that, we also crawl: Github.com: ruby package:github.com; Android: AbsListView package:android ; Linux: FD_CLR package:/git.kernel.org; Chromium:
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Dec
10
LG unveiled its Long Term Evolution (LTE) chipset, which it claimed is the first designed to provide mobile handsets with 4G connectivity, that could provide downlink speeds of 60 Mbps and 20 Mbps and higher. Last month, Sandbridge Technologies announced its baseband processor supporting LTE (PDF); and earlier this year, Ericsson showed what it claimed
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Dec
10
With the release of the updated Live Mesh for Mobile version 0.9.3424.9, we are expanding the CTP to more users. We are also lifting the country restrictions on access to the CTP – it is now open to all countries. [Access through a 3G network is recommended for a great experience.]
Since there
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Dec
10
DIRECTV has suspended the development of the HDPC-20 tuner project that was designed to integrate DIRECTV service into Windows Media Center after assessing the impact of missing the August 2008 release of Windows Media Center update and considering timing of the next release.
Both DIRECTV and Microsoft understand the desirability of offering consumers an all encompassing DIRECTV
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Dec
10
This post explains OWA Change Password functionality and questions about the features with Windows Server 2008. The following is a quick synopsis of what you need to know to get this working the way you need it to. Previous versions of Exchange Server utilized the Change Password functionality for IIS 5 and 6 using the IISADMPWD
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Dec
10
Google adds “magazines” to the Google Book Search index, so that when you search on Google Book Search, you'll be searching across the full text of both books and an ever-growing number of magazines, which will appear tagged with the keyword "Magazine" in search results. Try queries like [obama keynote convention], [
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Dec
10
Hulu Online video site rolled out two new features: First feature -- a buffer progress bar allows you to see how much of a video has been stored, and when the bars reach "full," about five minutes of the video have been loaded. Second, — full-screen mode allows you to watch embedded Hulu video in full-screen mode. When the video begins,
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Dec
10
With a little work and the help of an undocumented feature "MPTVOutWindow class" in Apple's iPhone Software Developers Kit, one iPhone developer was able to turn its game into a version suited for playback on big-screen TVs. Moto Chaser, the TV version of the iPhone game was born (video below). The game uses the iPhone's accelerometer for
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Dec
10
The January 2009 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. Learn about Identity Lifecycle Manager 2, delve into Group Policy Preferences, get an overview of advanced SQL Server troubleshooting with Extended Events, discover a handy free utility for managing USB flash drives, and more. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Dec
10
What if there are Linux applications you want to run on Microsoft Windows? Say, for example, you want to use Dolphin for your file manager instead of Windows Explorer. Thanks to a group of KDE developers, it’s possible.
Now don’t get overworked thinking you’re going to have the entire KDE workspace. You’re not. What you
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Dec
10
Build applications on a solid foundation; enable richer application experiences; and integrate the best of Windows and web services. The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system enable you to build the next generation of software applications. Download this guide to read descriptions of those features and see vivid screen shots from the pre-Beta
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Dec
10
Free, open-source utility Winsize2 sets up a single keyboard combination to remember, and change, the preferred size and positioning of your Windows applications. In other words, if you hate how your browser opens up to seemingly random sizes, or full-screen instead of windowed, have Winsize2 running and hit Ctrl+Alt+Z (or, on some systems, with Y as
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Random From The Winsize2: Open Source utility remembers preferred Window Sizes
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The passion and innovation of Microsoft Corp. partners took center stage today as the company announced the first round of winners in the Ingenuity Point - Mar23Media Giants complaints to top Google Search Results
Major media companies, members include: “BusinessWeek, ESPN, Hearst, Meredith, The New York Times, Time Inc. and The Wall Street Journal,” are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate - Mar01Microsoft releases Windows Vista anti-hacker patch
An 'Important Update' arrived last night via Windows Update on my Vista PC. I'm running the RC1 of Vista Service Pack 1, and since installing - Jun08AnyDVD 6.0.0.4
AnyDVD allows you to decrypt CSS encrypted DVDs on the fly. Insert your CSS- (Content Scrambling System) and RPC (Region Code Protected)