Archive for April 29th, 2009
Apr
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A newly updated Windows Live Profile has been rolled out to all users now! that includes 30 web activities and more partners for importing contacts. An easy way to check to see if you’ve got the latest release is to go to http://profile.live.com/WebActivities/. If you see about a dozen web
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Apr
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Furthering an ongoing commitment to help businesses thrive in today’s economy, Microsoft introduced three major incentive offerings: The first is Business Ready Flexible Pay (Microsoft’s Business Ready Customer Care), which gives new Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM customers in the U.S. the option to purchase the solutions today but pay for them in equal payments
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Apr
29
The video below compares Microsoft Virtualization to VMware and outlines the additional cost for VMware because they require four layers - hardware, virtualization, operating system and applications and Microsoft only requires three - hardware, operating system with virtualization, and applications.
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Apr
29
Microsoft released the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Service Pack 2 (SP2) represents the latest step in Microsoft’s commitment to continuous improvement. It includes all of the updates that have been delivered since SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards. And since it comes with
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Apr
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Tellme released its smartphone voice search application for BlackBerry, instead of for Windows Mobile. Tellme announced the application's features and its shipping plan. “Tellme for Windows Mobile phones will be available beginning Wednesday to manufacturers that want to load it onto Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. Come autumn, the general public will be able to find it
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Apr
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A Cutting Costs with Windows Essential Business Server 2008 session will be featured at Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2009, May 11-15 in Los Angeles. Eric Watson, Group Program Manager on the EBS team, will be presenting. You’ll hear updated details on how EBS 2008 can assist you in cutting costs by maximizing user productivity,
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Apr
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A new service update is now available for Live Mesh Mac, Mobile, and Live Mesh Desktop with a consolidated version number 0.9.4104.3. This release continues to tune performance and brings a few tweaks to the user experience, see details below. If you’re on the Mobile beta, you will be presented with a pop-up, just click the button and Live Mesh will update.
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Apr
29
Google inform us that all of its services run faster with Google Chrome. This time, Gmail shows a green bar that says: "Gmail runs faster in Google Chrome". It’s not clear, if Google's promotional video is convincing enough, but users who think that Gmail is slow or not fast enough will be curious to try Chrome.
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Apr
29
Google made some AdSense program policies updates; The first is program policies page is revamped with reorganized content and updated layout to make it easier to read and navigate. Here’s content updates:
Misusing Google logos, trademarks, or other brand features in the page content or URL is prohibited.
ads may not be formatted in a way that makes them indistinguishable from
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Apr
29
Stephen Wolfram, a well-known mathematician, scientist and entrepreneur, gave a demonstration at Harvard Law School of his soon-to-be released web service called “Wolfram Alpha”, which promises to answer all sorts of questions, and had technology bloggers abuzz that a rival to Google was about to hit the Web.
Wolfram Alpha answers questions, often by doing
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Apr
29
We thought we'd provide some insight into what we mean when we say cloud computing, and how its advantages in cost and innovation continue to attract hundreds of thousands of companies of all sizes -- from 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment to Genentech. We created our cloud by building an optimized system from the ground up: starting
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Apr
29
Implementing Google Analytics can be easy - just copy and paste the script produced during the account or profile creation process. Here's a shortlist of the tools for quickly identifying the root causes of Google Analytics anomalies:
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Apr
29
Google added a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data. So for example, when comparing Santa Clara county data to the national unemployment rate, it becomes clear not only that Santa Clara's peak during 2002-2003 was really dramatic, but also
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Apr
29
Gomez, Inc. and dotMobi published their benchmarking study to rate mobile sites across several verticals. It tested and rated mobile search services across five “critical dimensions of success,” including discoverability, readiness, availability, response time, and consistency. And, Yahoo! was ranked as the overall top mobile search provider,
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Apr
29
The Wall Street Journal claims that Microsoft and Verizon are in talks to launch an iPhone rival in early 2010. MarketWatch summarizes the report: “The Microsoft phone, code-named "Pink," is expected to appear by 2010 and would extend the tech giant's Windows Mobile cellphone operating system, according to the Journal.” Similar to Google's Android platform,
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