Archive for June 17th, 2009
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The software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is already being tested by Microsoft employees and a trial version will be made available "soon". Microsoft has stated that Morro would be available by the end of 2009 at the latest. Neowin received following three screenshots from an anonymous tipster:
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Jun
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Google plans to change its back-end servers so that some users will automatically use an encrypted HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connection when they use Gmail. Gmail users can already read their messages via HTTPS, but to do this they need to click a “browser connection” box at the bottom of the settings page. Under the
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Jun
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Microsoft is holding a Windows 7 "Deep Dive" Development Lab at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington on 6-8 July 2009. A Deep Dive lab enables you to work on scenarios of your choice with experts from the Windows 7 product team. The agenda includes a few presentations and some lab time, but our goal is for
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Jun
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Yahoo! enabled additional nine countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, access to Yahoo! mobile, that’s totals to 17 supported countries. Additionally, 100 mobile devices are now enabled to access Yahoo! Mobile. That means there are over 400 devices now able to access the mobile experience.
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Jun
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The Media Hub makes it easy to organize, access, and share your digital video, photos, and music -- around your home and around the world. With intelligent aggregation, and media optimized file-serving capabilities, it’s an ideal way to manage your material, enjoy your entertainment
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Jun
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Digg is an online destination that enables people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. The new Digg Accelerator enables you to quickly Digg, Submit, and find related content from anywhere on the Web. A great tool! Also, coming soon, is a Silverlight version of the accelerator providing a really rich experience for Digg stories,
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Jun
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Audio is especially sensitive. In order for you to hear music from your speakers, data needs to be delivered to your audio hardware approximately every 10 milliseconds, or 30 times in the blink of an eye! The challenge is that your PC is usually doing a lot of other things at the same time you’re listening
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Jun
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Apparently, if you install the Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer (MSIA), you lose print preview functionality on the Windows XP operating system. This issue is specific to IE7 and IE8 and have only reproduced the issue with service pack 3 installed, thus far, but certainly aren't ruling out other platforms that can install and run either of these revisions
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Jun
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Layar a new app is making the rounds on the web as an example of what can be done with Augmented Reality. Layer is described as the world's first mobile augmented reailty browser. The app accomplishes this through the use of the Compass, camera and GPS embedded within the phone. The app is first available for the Android
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Jun
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Red Hats’ standalone Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor based on KVM called Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is moved into beta alonwith the tools to manage it for servers and desktops. The RHEV hypervisor is being designed to span up to 96 cores and 1 TB of main memory, which is the largest "Dunnington" Xeon 7400 box that Intel and
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Jun
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The new features added to Digg API allows developers to create some useful and interesting applications using: “search endpoint” feature utilizes Digg’s new search engine; you’ll be able to use the advanced shortcuts, common search tricks, as well as search by source (domain). “related stories endpoints” lets you find related information for any story on Digg. And the “endpoint for favorites on Digg,” indicates the stories that
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Jun
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The installation of the Google Apps Sync plugin disables Outlook’s ability to search any and all of your Outlook data,” stated Dev Balasubramanian. “When a Google Apps user installs the sync plugin for Outlook, the plugin modifies a registry key which disables Windows Desktop Search from indexing and providing search functionality for
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Jun
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Microsoft Australia is heating up the browser wars with first ever browser-exclusive treasure hunting competition on the internet the “Ten Grand is Buried Here” competition ($10,000 Australian dollars or roughly $8000 USD) involves finding a particular Australian website which only if viewed under Internet Explorer 8 reveals a special “claim” button for the cash prize. Hints will be
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Jun
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With the launch of Exchange 2010 Beta (download), Microsoft also launched the Exchange 2010 Beta TechCenter. In conjunction with the Exchange Server 2010 Release To the Web (RTW), we'll integrate the Exchange 2010 beta website with the current (non-Exchange 2010 focused) TechCenter. However, we are currently designing this integrated TechCenter, and we are looking
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Jun
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Microsoft seeks to trademark the word "Hohm" for "providing information to consumers over computer networks, wireless networks and the Internet." Long Zheng spotted the application and tweeted about it. Microsoft doesn't own the domain hohm.com, which’s currently registered to Ho Hung Ming Enterprises Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of eyeleting and riveting machines. When asked Microsoft about its plans
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