Archive for June 4th, 2009
Jun
4
Bing, Microsoft’s new “Decision Engine” which went live last week, also introduced “Bing Travel” where people who are looking to travel can compare location, price and amenities of multiple hotels. Here’re few more Bing ads:
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Jun
4
The Hyper-V (download) Snapshot feature(Checkpoint in SCVMM) is a very useful feature for Support Engineers. This allows us to revert the VM to a previous state irrespective of the local* changes you’ve made after the snapshot was taken. Working with customers on a daily basis necessitates having a system on which you
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Jun
4
At a display conference in San Antonio, Texas, N-trig is showing off a variety of third-party software programs that take advantage of the multitouch features of Windows 7 (download). Among the applications N-trig is showing is a photo browser from FingerTapps and a multitouch 3D design program from SpaceClaim. Corel also said it
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Jun
4
wzor.info has reported that the infamous, "Sukonka," aka, "Zukona" has leaked build 6.1.7201.0.winmain_win7ids_sp.090601-2255, and is available in both x86 and x64 versions on torrents.
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Jun
4
WordPress dev team has confirmed, that June 10th, is the target date for the release of WordPress 2.8. And the tickets against the 2.8 milestone that’re not blockers will be postponed to WordPress 2.9 release, that’ll require MySQL 4.1.2 or greater. For this, checks will be added to the automatic upgrader that’ll prevent upgrading to 2.9 if MySQL < 4.1.2
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Jun
4
LaCie’s range of Neil Poulton’s hardware designs, got two new additions, a HD digital media player, and recorder named the LaCinema Black Play and LaCinema Black Record. LaCinema Black Play, adds DVR capabilities allowing the recording, pausing and playback of Live TV, with the support of a set-top box, available starting at 500GB. A
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Jun
4
Yahoo! Mail added a new feature that lets users filter the contents of their in-box to see only the messages from their contacts. In shot a simpler ways to cut out any in-box clutter from people you don't know. To enable the feature, users must first
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Jun
4
Oracle is eyeing Netbook market, with plans to use its Sun acquisition as the entry point. "I don't see why some of those devices shouldn't come from Sun-Oracle," said Larry Ellison at Sun's JavaOne conference, referring to netbooks. It looks like it just wants to make sure Sun is a part of netbook software. He
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Jun
4
The Hyper-V (download) snapshot feature allows you to capture the configuration and state of a virtual machine (VM) at any point in time, and return a VM to that state without noticeable interruption. When you take a snapshot of a running VM, Hyper-V briefly pauses the VM to create a new automatic
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Jun
4
The translation buddy for Windows Live Messenger ‘Tbot,’going through some remaking as the Live Agents Platform is retiring support for the bots, and TBot is based on the same platform. TBot v2 will’ve some of new features announced last week: language auto detect and any-to-any translations. Also, some of the dialogs will change as the
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Jun
4
Trend Micro opened the public beta of web-based malware scanner ‘Housecall 7.0,’ that offers a different UI from the current stable version (6.6), and does no longer requires a Java or ActiveX plugin, but instead uses a standalone client that taps into the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, the company's cloud-based reputability and threat database which
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Jun
4
Google systems found more than 4,000 sites set up for distributing malware by massively compromising popular web sites. Of these, more than 1,400 were hosted in the .cn TLDs. Several contained plays on the name of Google such as goooogleadsence.biz, etc. The graph shows the top-10 malware sites, and also contains arrows indicating
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Jun
4
Microsoft released three Bing-branded ringtones for your mobile device; the BingTones are in MP3 format, so they should be usable on most phones.
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Jun
4
The part 3 of High Availability in Exchange Server 2010 (download), show you how to add a mailbox database copy, and I demonstrate Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus and Test-ReplicationHealth.
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Jun
4
Microsoft launched some major visual updates to Photosynth website to help improve user experience, along with a lot of little bug fixes, tweaks and general improvements. Here’s quick list of updates:
-Comments count & Geotags icon on tradecards added to to help you see what synths have been located on the map and what synths are being actively
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Random From The Photosynth gets visual updates and some improvements
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Google published a FAQ about Google TV Ads, here's your crash course."Google TV Ads is an online marketing place that allows anyone to launch national