Archive for June 11th, 2009
Jun
11
Google rolled out Webmaster Tools’new user interface with a new feature “Change of Address” that lets you notify Google when you are moving from one domain to another, enabling us to update our index faster and hopefully creating a smoother transition for your users.
Now you can forward messages from Webmaster Tools Message
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Jun
11
The screenshot below, from the T-Mobile NL website, revealed that the iPhone 3GS will be carrying 256MB RAM, a 600 MHz processor. Previous versions of the iPhones included 128MB RAM and a 412MHz processor. The added RAM alone probably makes a huge difference, and that processor neatly leapfrogs the second-gen iPod Touch’s 532MHz. The iPhone 3G S was announced at WWDC, and will be
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Jun
11
In a previous post, we looked at LUN Resync as a new fast recovery scenario supported with windows Server 2008. This post walk us through some samples and in-box tools that can be used to exercise the scenario. Following illustrations use VSS Sample Provider (vsssampleprovider.dll), Virtual Storage (VirtualStorage.sys) and the inbox requester 'DiskShadow'; both, the sample
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Jun
11
We at Bing believe that search security is one of our top priorities. Our search offering to warn users of Drive-By-Download URLs in their search results has received excellent customer feedback. We detect over 1M Drive-By-Download URLs on an average every month. We have been closely monitoring and analyzing the data after we shipped the feature
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Jun
11
Microsoft Russia CEO Nikolai Pryanishnikov said in response to Russian government filing against Microsoft, that they’ve received documents containing the issues and believes they can be addressed "without any problems." "Further, if there is dialogue and some solutions are required, we will cooperate and meet all demands, and continue to work in Russia for
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Jun
11
Microsoft plans to stop selling Microsoft Money, its venerable, but not market-leading personal finance program, CNET News has learned. The software maker has been notifying financial institutions and plans to announce the move to customers over the next 24 hours via a posting on its Web site and a notification in the software. Although Microsoft will
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Jun
11
In Bing, certain navigational queries will provide a ‘Best match’ result at the top. This result also provides several deep links and various contact information associated with the site. Currently, we are working to develop a better support experience for this feature. We hope to have it online within the next few weeks and we will
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Jun
11
Google offers two versions of Custome Search Engine, one is simple HTML-based, and the other one is Ajax-powerd that display inline search results. Now, you don’t need to register, or sign up for anything, with just three clicks, you can add a Ajax-powered CSE to your site. All you’ve to do is – just visit
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Jun
11
Size seems to matter at Amazon, while Kindle 2 has a 6-inch e-ink screen — roughly the area of a mass-market paperback book — the Kindle DX's 9.7-inch screen resembles a page from a typical hardback. Put another way, the DX flaunts 2.5 times more display space. More text on a page means
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Jun
11
Microsoft Dynamics AX has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Inc. Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier-2 Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies, a research report that evaluates global enterprise resource planning (ERP) products and that is specifically tailored for product-centric, midmarket companies with 100 to 1,000 employees. “Our placement in this Magic Quadrant
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Jun
11
The overall market for enterprise spending may be weak, but Novell and Microsoft insist they’ve signed more than 100 joint customers in the past six months. That's twice the rate at which they had been signing folks as part of an 2006 accord, the two companies said. In total, the two companies say they have sold
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Jun
11
Built using Google Sites, the Google Apps Deployment for Enterprise site, is designed to help large Businesses and complex IT environments to move to Google Apps faster and easier. The site's resources are grouped into two categories: deployment planning and user adoption. The planning resources help IT administrators, project planners, and others become familiar with all the
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Jun
11
WordPress dev team released, WordPress 2.8 “Baker” that comes with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:
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Jun
11
Google released two new features “Faster address auto-completion and keyboard shortcuts” for Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices: faster address auto-completion quickly display possible contacts, as soon as you begin typing first few letters of your friend or colleague's name or email address. Now you can use all Gmail
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Jun
11
Apache Hadoop was invented by Doug Cutting (now a Yahoo! employee), is an open source Java software framework for running data-intensive applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. It relies on an active community of contributors from all over the world for its success. Hadoop implements two important elements. The first is a computational paradigm called Map/Reduce, which takes
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