Archive for July 29th, 2009
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Microsoft said it’s planning to open its first two retail stores in Arizona and California this fall. In this regard, Microsoft signed leases at shopping centers in Mission Viejo, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz. The Shops at Mission Viejo is already home to an Apple store. The other location, Scottsdale Fashion Square, does not have a competing Apple Inc.
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According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who’ve recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 on their PCs, while 31% have Flash Player 9. The total exceeds 100% because some users’ve installed both. The most-current versions of Flash Player -- 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) -- are vulnerable to
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The Barack Obama administration has taken a fresh new approach, in the form of the Twitter hashtag #hc09, to lobbying federal legislators about health insurance laws. The new “Tweet your Senator” page is built using jQuery, flash, with integrated Google Maps, that display real-time tweets. Once you enter your ZIP code, and
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) 4.0 offers “User-Defined Assessment Threshold” feature that allows IT departments to customize varying degree of hardware requirements for different Windows 7 users. If you want to change the memory or disk space requirements, as long as it’s above the “Microsoft-defined” minimum, you can bump
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Microsoft made test code available for what it’s calling the “Microsoft Office 2010 Click-To-Run Technical Preview Program for Home, Student and Small Business Consumers” to hand-picked testers. According to Microsoft-supplied Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) documentation, the Click-To-RUn program is designed to stream the Office bits to users’ PCs and install them once. Afer the bits are
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Jul
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Carol Bartz, announced Yahoo! signed a major search deal with Microsoft. Under the terms, Microsoft will become the search engine behind Yahoo! and we will become the worldwide exclusive relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. In short, everything’s just going to get a
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Understanding the autoload feature’s important for those users either new to App-V in general or are in the process of planning an upgrade to 4.5 from a previous version of Softgrid. Administrators need to understand the various characteristics of the autoload feature and its options for configuration. It’s also important to understand some potential ramifications of
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Jul
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This post talks about Semaphore Objects – a kernel-mode synchronization object that maintains a count between zero and a maximum specified value. Semaphores’re similar to mutexes in that they allow exclusive access to a resource. What’s unique about semaphores’s that they use a resource counting mechanism. This allows a certain number of threads to access the resource.
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Jul
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Google is teaming up with Visible World Inc., New York, that uses software to create multiple versions of a given ad, in its push to offer TV advertisers more targeting options. Google’ll combine the technology with its Google TV Ads, an automated auction-based system for buying TV ads by choosing which shows best fit the advertised product
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Jul
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Jeff Omelchuk, founder and executive director of the Green Electronics Council (GEC) talks about the work that he, Microsoft, and the PC industry are doing to make sure that customers have easy access to green PC hardware. Jeff gave a lot of insight into GEC and their efforts to educate consumers, enterprises, government agencies
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Jul
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People generally associate editing to Office Web Apps, which otherwise provide “browser-based viewing and editing” of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files. That’s understandable: browser-based editing is new for Office, and editing is what makes “information workers” feel productive. Once Office Web Apps got deployed to a SharePoint site, opening a desktop app for viewing
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Jul
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Twitter released newly redesigned homepage, with an integrated search box on the top row section. Next section is dedicated to “Popular Topics,” divided into three categories showed in tag cloud style — the first row serve with biggest font display current hot topics. The second row with slightly smaller font features hot topics from the past day and the third row features past week. Finally, Twitter started
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A research study by Sanderson Studios for Tellme Networks Inc., a Microsoft subsidiary, reveals that smartphone users’re more inclined to buy a device that offers them the ability to push one button, say what they want and get it, making them more efficient on the go. The study shows that 75 percent of people would choose a smartphone
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PowerPoint 2010 multimedia experience allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content, with completely revamped media playback technology: insertion, editing, presenting and distribution. Now, the effects that you put on a shape or picture, work on video during playback, not just the first frame. Respecting the z-order of video is another example of this deep integration. Also added playback
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Jul
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In this post, we’ll explore how you can leverage the cool Taskbar functionality of dynamic overlay icons and multi-state progress bars. A central Windows 7 tenet’s that the "User Is in Control"; Windows 7 “removed” the System Tray Icon area. By default, almost all the tray icons’re concealed. Consequently, it’s safe to assume that large number of the
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Random From The Windows 7: Understanding Taskbar Dynamic Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
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Since the launch of Windows 7, there has been a very little discussion from Microsoft regarding future plans for Windows Media Center until this week, - Apr15“Words that Shook the World” NYC competition with James Cameron, Richard Greene and Bing
Microsoft’s Bing is working with Richard Greene and Avatar director James Cameron to host “Words that Shook the World competition, New York City on - Sep09Apple iPod 32GB for $279
Apple’s at its annual Music Event, in San Francisco, announced the adjustment in their iPod line and an update - Jan29Using Robots.txt To Prevent Search Indexing
Sometimes there are parts of your website you don't want accessed by the search engines - for any number of reasons, like sensitive private data, - Mar31MinWin: Is really the new Windows 7 kernel?
In my post about Windows 7 back in January (“Windows 7 = Vista Release 2&Prime), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up: