Archive for the March, 2009
Mar
29
Samsung confirmed that the SWD-M100 Mondi device demoed at Mobile World Congress '09 is coming to the Clear WiMAX network in the US. The tablet runs Windows Mobile 6.1, the 4.3” touchscreen is resistive (i.e., it requires a stylus). It slides up to reveal a QWERTY keypad and
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Mar
12
Microsoft announced new details about how developers can build and sell applications for Windows phones through Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the recently announced application marketplace available with the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. In its commitment to helping developers create new and exciting applications, Microsoft will provide developers with 70 percent of the sales revenue of their
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Mar
4
Facebook first introduced the Marketplace application on Facebook Platform in May 2007 as a way for people to sell household goods via the social network. Now a new “Oodle powered Facebook Marketplace” is launched with functionality to easily create, share and respond to listings. Also, included “Sell for a Cause”, which allows you to
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Mar
19
Windows Live Calendar got an bug fix update on the following issues:
Syncing Calendar: You’ll no longer see errors resulting from a high CPU usage for the couple of minutes after the calendar sync. Also, you'll also see fewer error messages in general - we fixed some issues with checking for new calendar updates and meeting requests.
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Mar
12
Apple has released iTunes 8.1 update that clocks in at 63.4MB, and is now faster and more responsive. You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing. Now the convenience of Autofill works with any iPod. Let iTunes choose what songs fill
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Mar
7
Based on the feedback from customers, asking for customizable “Windows Live ID sign-in and registration,” so that customers that use Live ID on their website can experiences the look & feel consistent with their website. The Live team has launched the ability to customize the sign-in & registration experience in the following way:
Thematically, by changing the fonts, colors, and images that appear on
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Mar
30
Skype's native VoIP client for iPhone, the Skype for iPhone app will finally be available as free download from the iTunes App Store, begining Tuesday. It includes chatting as well, though Skype's VoIP calling is free to other Skype users and an inexpensive per-minute fee to landlines.
Skype's screens are well organized and use iPhone's ability to
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Mar
28
Google AdSense video units feature, which show YouTube content and ads, is ending at the end of April. Once video units are retired, any remaining Leaderboard or Skyscraper video units on your pages will direct users to YouTube.com, while other video unit sizes will automatically be changed to standard embedded YouTube players. These standard video players will display
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Mar
27
It looks like someone flipped the switch a little early. The Windows 7 Release Candidate download page on TechNet has made a premature appearance, much like the beta download page did before the beta was released to the public. The public RC will apparently be coming in May
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Mar
26
Until now, Google Maps only pointed to items from custom maps and geo-feeds, but now you can find the maps in the list of results. For example, a search for [president birth places] returns a map that shows where each president of the US was born. You can restrict your search to custom maps
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Mar
5
According to Firefox meeting notes, the next release of Firefox codenamed “Shiretoko” will be labeled 3.5 instead of 3.1. The version bump aims to reflect more accurately the many changes introduced since the release of Firefox 3.0, the latest major release, last summer. These includes several changes to tabbed browsing, significant improvements to web standards compatibility, a
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Mar
28
Microsoft released a huge addition to the digitization of planet – 21TB - all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps and other Live Search properties. Now, this one isn’t huge in terms of terabytes, but is huge in terms of square kilometers of the world. There’re a few new countries on the list – Seychelles, Comoros and more.
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Mar
26
Microsoft will start hunting down pirated copies of Windows XP Professional, with newly cooked and soon to be release update to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications designed to sniff out and flag as non-genuine unlicensed or otherwise hacked copies of XP Pro. Alex Kochis, revealed that the latest update to the anti-piracy
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Mar
22
Here’s Windows Live Mythbusters Part II, Orion over at LiveSide captured the moment.
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Mar
16
Advertising and the web, you know why its there, you hate it being there, but really what’s it all about. I wondered what out offering was, I know we do it and this again creative video explains it.
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Random From The Introduction to Microsoft Advertising
- Sep14Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications, 2007
And the winner is... Microsoft! Once again the giant from Redmond is placed on the leaders quadrant for Unified Communications, according to Gartner. - Feb28SBS 2008: What username, password needed for DSRM?
The method in which the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is set during an install of SBS 2008 is different than that of Windows - Jan03SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Hotfix Rollup Package 1
This cumulative update for SoftGrid v4.1 SP1 provides the latest updates to SoftGrid v4.1 SP1. In addition to stability improvements, this update contains the following - Sep10Bing ‘porn ads’ spotted on Google Search
Bing, Microsoft’s new search enigne is spotted advertising for “pornography” ads on Google. The ad reads “Free video – Access Thousands of videos with Bing—Videos & More, www.Bing.com” - Oct26Microsoft Tag With More Than 2 Billion Tags Printed Grow Exponentially
Microsoft announced that "Microsoft Tag" secures lead as the preferred 2-D barcode solution for publishers."Based on our research, Tag is currently the publishing industry's preferred
