Archive for July 7th, 2009
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Microsoft unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7. Japanese users, on top of being among the very first worldwide to be able to pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional at special discounted prices, have the “I Run Windows 7” — designed as an effort to let end users voice their opinion on
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Jul
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The true value in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is its use as a standard for applications to interact with AD. The actions of Add, Modify, Move and Delete I mentioned above are exposed in code that a developer can use write into their applications in order to store and retrieve data
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Jul
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Symantec made available Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus 2010 beta, deemed as the fastest and lightest security suite. It guards your PC, network, online activities and your identity with innovative, intelligent detection technologies optimized to combat today's aggressive, rapid-fire attacks using three-pronged approach to virus protection: application reputation, behavioral malware detection, and increased user education. Improved Norton Safe Web
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In June at #e2conf (tag name for Enterprise 2.0 Conference), Microsoft unveiled a new Microsoft mini-site dedicated to enterprise social computing, powered by Office SharePoint 2007. It’s running on the sharepoint.microsoft.com environment that hosts the primary SharePoint marketing site. On this social site, you will find content about using the social power of SharePoint to
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Since its debut at Mobile World Congress, Bitstream's Bolt mobile browser has been installed more than a million times. Bolt is compatible with any mobile handset that supports the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0, the Java spec for embedded devices. Page rendering takes place outside of the phone on Bolt's servers, and content is heavily compressed for
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Jul
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Microsoft Online Services launched a Mobility Solutions page on the Microsoft Online Services Web site. This site contains information about various mobile devices, including: ·Mobility Solutions Description, providing background on all supported mobile devices; ·Windows Mobile devices; ·RIM BlackBerry devices; ·Exchange ActiveSynch devices, such as Nokia and
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Jul
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What can you expect when you get your new Windows 7 install working with those crisp new solid state hard drives? SSD drives are not what they used to be already. And just how is that Intel ICH10R chipset serving you? For today's article we are going to
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Jul
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A Google AdWords Help thread has several advertisers complaining they have been banned from AdWords. “It's come to our attention that you have submitted ads that promote Google Money Tree or ads that promote a misrepresented affiliation with Google. Due to multiple complaints from our users and publishers, we've made the decision not to accept
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Jul
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Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control that could allow an attacker to to run code as the logged-on user if they browse to a malicious site. There’ve been limited attacks exploiting the hole, which affects Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In the meantime, our
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Jul
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This table lists Security samples, including Authorization, CryptoApi, Local Security Authority (LSA), Windows Firewall, and x509SecurityToken, updated in the Windows 7 SDK. Over 1,200 samples were changed since the release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC release. Many “new to Win 7” samples were added, simplified, or extended, and many older samples were updated
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Jul
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Yahoo! released the “Search Pad” to the public in: U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, so you can see for yourself how it can help you organize research on the Web. “Search Pad helps you track sites and make notes by intelligently
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Jul
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Microsoft removed a seeming licensing hurdle for Mono by putting the licensing of the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) and the C# programming language under its “Community Promise.” Via that promise, Microsoft agrees not to “assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under
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Jul
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Microsoft will allow Tegra platform, which’s capable of 1080p playback, and the Zune HD has already been outed as being built on the Tegra platform. Now, with this in mind, there are still a few things holding Microsoft back from enabling 1080p video playback on Tegra: The Zune HD likely won’t have the hard drive space to store
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Jul
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Windows Internals, 5th Edition is now available, and covers Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) and besides revisions and enhancements to existing content, adds an additional 250 pages, bringing the total page count to over 1200 (25% longer than the
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Jul
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Website Optimizer adds a new feature “auto-disabling” which automatically prune poor performing variations. This keeps overall conversion rate high while testing. Additionally, by removing poor variations automatically, your traffic is focused on only the variations that have a chance at winning, which means experiments should complete faster. Auto-disabling is available for any Website Optimizer experiment
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