Archive for April 18th, 2009
Apr
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The registratin for Beta Exam 71-680: TS: Windows 7, Configuring begins April 27, and the beta exam will take place on between May 5 to May 18, 2009. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. You must
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Apr
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YouTube is experimenting a new user channel layout on their opt-in page. In the new channel layout, the latest video will be showing to the left, and new editor is simple to use; lets you preview changes. Just below top bar, you'll see some extra buttons, "Settings", "Themes", "Modules". Also, in the upper-right corner, you
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Apr
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"Suggest more recipients" is a new Gmail Labs feature that once enabled, shows you suggested recipients while composing messages. Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. Enter at least two recipients and any suggestions will show up. Click on a suggested name, and they'll get added to your email,
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Apr
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Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security suite that delivers comprehensive protection across endpoint, servers and the edge that is easier to manage and control. This download comes as pre-configured VHDs and enables you to evaluate Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling". It includes Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for Sharepoint Server, The Central
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Apr
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In the aerospace and defense industries, multi-enterprise collaboration has allowed competitive companies to work together securely on highly complex projects.
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Apr
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AT&T launched a new service dubbed “FamilyMap” allows parents to track their child’s whereabouts anytime via AT&T’s location framework. Parents will give their children an AT&T device, then login to the FamilyMap web site for viewing where their children are on a Microsoft Virtual Earth map. The portal has a number of features such as schedules, history
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Apr
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A new version 0.9 of the OpenSocial Specification is available with packed full of new features to make writing, testing, and maintaining apps much easier. Many of the prototypes for these new features were implemented in Apache Shindig, so they'll be coming to a container near you in short order.
Using streamlined approach,
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Apr
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Jim's just posted about Service Packages including how to crack open the single file version of them (diagnostic and debugging purposes only). What is the Service Package? It is what contains the Service Definition for your Cloud Service along with the content and binaries for each of the roles. It comes in 2 flavors. The first being a folder structure with the extension csx.
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Apr
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A computer security researcher has released an upgraded tool called “.Net-Sploit 1.0”, allows for modification of .Net, a piece of software installed on most Windows machines that allows the computers to execute certain types of applications. .Net-Sploit allows a hacker to modify the .Net framework on targeted machines, inserting rootkit-style malicious software in a place untouched
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Apr
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The Internet needs to be more trustworthy if it wants to grow. He described how anonymity on the Internet is increasingly being exploited by cyber criminals. "We need to push back on anonymity and lack of traceability." "Because the Internet can be anonymous and untraceable, criminals flock to the Internet." "Today too many people do not know what software
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Apr
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Watcher version 1.1.0 is released and is a plug-in for Eric Lawrence’s Fiddler proxy aimed at helping developers and testers find security issues in their web-apps fast and effortlessly. Because it works passively at runtime, you have to drive it by opening a browser and cruising through your web-app as an end user. For the developer,
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Apr
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With aim to deliver by May 5, HTC Magic is now available for pre-order from Vodafone. Google Maps and Google Search work brilliantly. On Magic you can create shortcuts to your favourite sites and download fun games, news feeds and widgets. Then decide where everything goes - so you can
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Apr
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Microsoft has made available new security solutions to customers. The Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange and the Microsoft Forefront codename “Stirling” Beta 2 are already available for evaluation straight from the Redmond company. In addition, Microsoft also provides codename Geneva, a solution designed to deliver secure access both to software products and hosted services.
Download:
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Apr
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Microsoft has released an update to Deep Zoom Composer that support publishing to DeepZoomPix Deep Zoom Composer is a tool meant to allow digital images to be transformed for use with the Deep Zoom feature introduced in Silverlight 2. Microsoft explained that the workflow and the UI are largely the same, with the functionality having
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Apr
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The last survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills. The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England. It is the second auction in less than a
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