Archive for March 24th, 2009
Mar
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Google launched some new additional features for Google Insights for Search, that allow you to see what the world is searching for beyond Google Web Search, by adding: new data sources including Google News, Image Search, and Product Search, now suggests category breakdowns for your terms, and lets you break down search data
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Mar
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Microsoft plans to take on Google’s Street View with its own application dubbed “GeoSynth,” which essentially is going to function as a mashup between Microsoft's Virtual Earth maps system and its PhotoSynth technology. GeoSynth is a virtualized, crowd-sourced, image-driven world map. "The system would take the best images from a location to create a single image of
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Mar
24
As the battle between YouTube and publishers such as Warner Music Group heats up, increasing numbers of video content publishers are finding that their videos have been stripped of their background music--or they've been removed entirely from the site. According to The New York Times, Warner Music is searching YouTube for songs it holds the copyright
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Mar
24
Earlier this month, Microsoft detailed the pricing plans of Windows Marketplace for Mobile, now Microsoft reports that “application updates will count as new application submissions, and therefore will count towards the first 5 free submissions, or will cost $99 each after the that”. That is, every new binary is treated as a new
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Mar
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Now you can explore this thousand year old “Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia” glacier, located at 17,200 ft; has all but disappeared in the past 68 years, or visit Colombia Glacier in Alaska, which has lost the amount of ice equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building. Watch time-lapse photography of many glaciers' movements around the globe,
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Mar
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David Elliott has an interesting video that demonstrates just how lossy the JPEG format really is. He chose an image and saved it repeatedly 600 times to be exact ratcheting up the compression each time.
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Mar
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Live Search Active Answers is a new method of retrieving up-to-the-minute data from the Web. The first release in this series is “Active Answer for flight status”. Just type in a specific flight number into the Live search box, and you’ll be provided with detailed status information, including terminal and gate information.
You can also
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Mar
24
VMware is set to release in the beginning of April a technology preview of a new feature that will let vCenter Mobile Access VMware users manage their infrastructure from mobile phones, it said in a blog post. Using vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) IT administrators will, for example, be able to search for virtual machines in the datacenter
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Mar
24
You can look at the Funnel Visualization report in Google Analytics to see how many of your prospects move from one step to the next, where they drop out of the conversion process and where they go instead. Once you have this information, you can start fixing the pages that lose would-be customers.
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Mar
24
This version of the Windows 7/Direct3D 11 Technical Preview ships as part of the DirectX SDK and contains the following new features, tools, and documentation: Technical Preview of Direct2D; Technical Preview of DirectWrite; Technical Preview of DXGI 1.1. On top of the March 2009 release of the DirectX Software Development Kit, the Redmond company is also
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Mar
24
We often rely on domain specific search (in music players, mail clients, photo clients) but with Windows Vista and Windows 7 we make it possible to search within a namespace and across namespaces. Federated Search enables you to search a remote web service from Windows explorer and get results back
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Mar
24
Steve Ballmer has made a rather radical prediction: sales of Apple computers were about to drop since the biggest thing Macintosh systems provide is the Apple logotype on them. “Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction. The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a
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Mar
24
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo. Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking
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Mar
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Cisco Media Hub are designed to simplify access to and interaction with digital content, the Media Hub gathers, organizes, and presents all the digital video, photos and music that users have spread amongst various devices in the
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Mar
24
In a recently published white paper, “The Surprising Risks of Counterfeit Software in Business,” Microsoft revealed that 37 percent of the 30 midsize companies in the study had unknowingly purchased counterfeit software. All of the counterfeit software was professionally packaged and looked deceptively genuine, down to the detail of imitating embedded holograms, says Cori Hartje. “The best way
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