Archive for June 19th, 2009
Jun
19
Yahoo! rolled out two updates to make it easier for site owners and developers to share and use structured data within Yahoo! Search: First is New Enhanced Results gives site owners the power to display enhanced results for product pages, local information, events, news, and discussions to give users the information they need. Just add a few lines of
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Jun
19
Comcast is making a move to IPv6, making IPv6 transit services available to its wholesale customers. This a significant development because in less than two years, the IPv4 (define) address space will be exhausted, but it doesn't mean there won't be any more Internet addresses. IPv4 has a 32-bit address size, allowing for only 4.3 billion
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Jun
19
In a surprise decision, the jury imposed damages against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, found guilty of willful copyright infringement in a Minneapolis federal court and must pay the recording industry $1.92 million. In 2007, the Recording Industry Association of America claimed in a lawsuit that Thomas-Rasset pilfered 1,700 songs, at a whopping $80,000 for each of the 24
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Jun
19
The TCP Analyzer will expand Network Monitor and allow for an insight into TCP connections, the Redmond-based company explained. In order to install TCP Analyzer, users will first need to download and deploy a compatible version of Network Monitor. This tool analyzes network traces of TCP connections. Given a Microsoft Network Monitor trace, the analyzer provides
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Jun
19
Picasa Web Albums Uploader on Mac now allows you to download all photos in your account. To download, sign in your account with Picasa Web Albums Uploader application and select the Existing Album tab. Holding down Mac's Option key will change the title of the Download Album button to Download All. Then one click
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Jun
19
Microsoft announced the availability of the Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2. This new release is an upgrade to the existing 2008 version. It includes the new DSS Log Analyzer tool and enhancements to the Visual Simulation Environment as well as bug fixes and additions to the documentation. The DSS Log Analyzer originally appeared in a
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Jun
19
Microsoft is finally pouring in information about Office 2010 via some presentations. Look at the screen shots to glean any information you may not already be aware of at this point regarding Office 2010, such as Office Online, milestones through the development phase including planned Beta and RTM time frames, Office Professional Plus 2010 information, and what the SharePoint
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Jun
19
Google is enhancing the usability of its News Site using “Flipper,” which’s currently in Google Labs is a new visual way of viewing items in Google News, and presumably “flip” through the pages. There’s no information available about Google Flipper, the subdomain flipper.googlelabs.com is already active but won’t bring anthing. According to TC, Google Flipper would display news
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Jun
19
The Group Policy Preference Migration Tool (GPPMIG) is a console application designed to migrate PolicyMaker items to Group Policy preference items in the same or a different Group Policy object (GPO). For users of PolicyMaker Standard Edition 2.x and PolicyMaker Share Manager, the Group Policy Preference Migration Tool (GPPMIG) is a console application designed to migrate
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Jun
19
The Content Classifier in the File Classification Infrastructure extracts text from files using the IFilter mechanism that enables the Search Indexer. Here is a list of file types that have a corresponding IFilter installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (download) install without any other software installed on it. Other free and commercial IFilters
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Jun
19
Steve Ballmer spoke at The Executive’s Club of Chicago, discussing “the role of innovation in changing economic times.” During his speech he addressed many economic issues, and touched on the importance of innovation. However, it was his Xbox announcement which has our publication excited. Rumors can be confirmed, as Ballmer stated openly during a speech
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Jun
19
Over the past couple of weeks about 5,000 Googlers took a break from their regular jobs to participate in annual GoogleServe volunteer opportunities to give back to their local communities through service projects. Take a look at the photo album below to see Googlers in action. And if you're looking to give back to
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Jun
19
The New Tab page in Google's Chrome is designed to help you get to where you're going, faster. The following video show you an overview of how it works and the newly added ability to remove items from the page.
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Jun
19
This post talks about how EBS 2008 can help IT administrators with their email security and malicious software or malware protection. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 ships with Microsoft Forefront Server Security for Exchange Server 2007 that scans incoming emails and purges malware before the email is stored. FSE’s file filters will block attachments that
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Jun
19
Charles Torre and Erik Meijer talked to Bing Maps infrastructure architect and Partner Development Manager Gur Kimchi for an Expert to Expert conversation about the design and architecture of Bing Maps on Channel 9. According to Kimchi, the Bing Maps for Enterprise, what up until a few weeks ago was known as Virtual Earth, is
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