Archive for July 1st, 2009
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Now Hotmail users in the US, Canada, and Brazil can add other POP-enabled e-mail accounts (including Yahoo! Mail (Plus), AOL Mail, and Gmail) to Windows Live Hotmail account. You can put all of your messages together in your inbox or each e-mail account in its own folder, your choice. You can set this up in Hotmail in three
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The new Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer comes with improved translatation feature that automatically detects if the language of a webpage you’re on is different from your default language setting and allows you to translate it. Language detection happens only on your computer, so no information is sent to Google until you
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Some 75 Googlers, family members and friends marched with several hundred members of New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. Hundreds of Googlers also joined other U.S. celebrations in Tel Aviv, New York, Z No Comments » - Posted by DG
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Microsoft is cooking up version 3.0 of Threat Analysis and Modeling, a Beta of which is planned for availability at the start of July, 2009. TAM is set up to enable developers to build secure apps from day one. The tool increases the focus on security by helping developers identify potential problems as
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As part of goal to make the web faster, Google uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:
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Microsoft insists on pushing ahead Internet Explorer 8, in this regard, Microsoft now optimized IE8 for Live Nation with Nikelback. End users who download the Live nation custom IE8 RTW get a tad more than just the bits for the successor of IE7. “Get an exclusive unreleased track from Nikelback when you install this special edition of Windows Internet Explorer
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In a statement, Bill Veghte, denied reports that European users will pay more for Windows 7 because of the company's wrangling with antitrust regulators, he said "nothing about this [case] will mean higher prices for Windows 7 in Europe." Microsoft has said it will price the full editions of Windows 7E -- the "E" stands for
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Patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume 1 (Beta 2) is now available. The working definition that the team is using for acceptance testing is the planned evaluation of a system by customers and customer proxies to assess to what degree it satisfies their expectations. According to Microsoft, the guide is addressed at
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Windows live Planet is a social network from Microsoft India to help you find people with similar interests as you. You can also “Populate Your Planet” as they call it by importing contacts from the social networks that are connected to Windows Live (Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Hi5 and Tagged), just as you can on your Windows Live
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Jul
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Internet Explorer 8 offers a feature that saves you time and clicks and lets you get things done more quickly: Accelerators optimize the browser experience by removing repetitive, time consuming actions and give people easy access to the online services they use most. You can discover new Accelerators at the Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery. Here is
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Google Sydney hosted the first hackfest for OpenAustralia.org, that takes the data from Australia's record of Federal Parliament speeches, the Australian Hansard, and makes it easy for people to follow topics they're interested in. Some cool outcomes of the event include a tool for crowd sourcing transcription of the "register of member's interests",
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Jul
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The rebroadcast for the Virtual Roundtable on Application Compatibility promo is live; now hear Aaron Margosis, Paul Schnell; Darren Baker, Greg Lambert Michael Sciacqua, Gov Maharaj, Celine Allee and Mark Russinovich discuss the issues in getting your Windows XP and Windows Vista applications to work with Windows 7 quickly and effectively. From ACT 5.5 and Shims
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Jul
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Tranquil PC unveiled yet another Intel Atom N270 powered PCs based on new, small footprint, multi-purpose chassis “T3N”. At just 13W power consumption and 17dB noise output (and that’s just the hard drive – the PC itself is completely silent), the new model can serve as a great single-drive home server, media center, even a low-power desktop
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Flickr launched a new feature called “Flickr2Twitter” that allow you to post uploaded photos directly from your Flickr to Twitter account. Flickr2Twitter will create a shortened URL for your photo and post this as Tweet to your Twitter account. Once you authorize Flickr to access your Twitter account, a new option in Twitter’s “Blog This” option will now include your Twitter
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On July 7, 2009, Microsoft will make available a new release of .NET Services Community Technology Preview, which’ll cut off access to resources associated with the .NET Services including the .NET Services portal. According to Philippe Destoop the update will be introduced between 9am and 3pm PST on July 7. Maintenance work involves more details than the
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Random From The New .NET Services CTP drops on July 7/09; Windows Azure .NET Workflow Service will offline until .NET Framework 4 delivery
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