Archive for August 1st, 2009
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Steve Ballmer's keynote at Microsoft Financial Analyst in Seattle, Mike Ybarra publicly demonstrated Netflix smoothly integrated in the Windows Media Center menu. The app’ll be completely touch-enabled, which means it takes advantage of Windows Presentation Foundation, the new way programs are written for Windows to take advantage of the power of the GPU. No word on when it’ll be made
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Adobe released an out-of-cycle security update to Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat that fixes several critical cross-platform vulnerabilities, one of which’s related to Microsoft's Active Template Library (ATL) vulnerability. Adobe recommends all users of Flash Player 10.0.22.87 and earlier upgrade to 10.0.32.18 or by auto-updating when prompted. If 10.0.32.18 cannot be installed, Adobe has
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Microsoft is planning a large-scale worldwide advertising campaign starting October 1 to promote the new “Windows Phones” brand. Microsoft is looking for innovative ways to promote “Windows phones,” in this regard, Microsoft has teamed up with Zooppa.com, a website that allows companies to publish advertising briefs and crowdsource freelance graphics designers, directors, animators and writers to develop innovative
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This post talks about Stack, is a way of storing information – a data structure. When a new object is placed on the stack it’s placed on the top of the stack. Similar to a stack of plates, papers or anything else that you can stack and manipulate in the real world, the first thing removed from
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Apple released iPhone 3.0.1 software update in response to a well-known vulnerability which could let a remote user hijack any iPhone with a simple series of SMS text messages. Charlie Miller demostrated “how text messaging could be used to send binary code to the iPhone and allow remote code execution without alerting the user.” All unpatched
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Aug
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BrightRoll launching Performance Pricing models for online video advertisements. "Performance Pricing demonstrates that there’s no one right way to buy online video advertising. By letting customers pay on the metrics that most benefit their individual campaigns, we're continuing to remove inefficiencies in the video inventory buying process," said Tod Sacerdoti. They’re: Cost Per Engagement (CPE): cost
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Aug
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Do you have limited resources to deploy Windows 7 in your organization? Learn how Microsoft IT (MSIT) optimized its enterprise Windows 7 image to maximize end user productivity and provide a seamless client experience. The Windows 7 installation image was configured to meet corporate hardware and software standards. If the installation encountered non-standard hardware
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Aug
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Now when you search Google, on some search results, Google is showing a “plus icon” reading to “Show more results from www...”. Clicking it expands further results from the same domain dynamically, right on the page.
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Microsoft said that it won't ship Windows 7 "E" in Europe after PC makers complained that having to use the browserless version of Windows 7 for a short period of time would be a pain. "In the wake of last week's developments, as well as continuing feedback on Windows 7 E that we’ve received from computer manufacturers and other business
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Microsoft published a new technical article on MSDN titled Porting the Amplitude Application from the iPhone to a Windows Mobile Device – a Case Study which outlines the real-world experiences of a developer who ported the popular Amplitude application. Amplitude is well suited for a porting project because it
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Aug
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Windows Anytime Upgrade (or WAU) make it convenient for customers who’s PC needs may change over time to need a higher edition of Windows 7. There’re a couple of specific situations where WAU will prove useful:
Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Home
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Aug
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The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) in collaboration with Googlers created a map that visualizes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by a number of industrialized countries, aimed to give scientists, decision-makers, media and the general public a new way to navigate data collected since 1990, for understanding climate change leading into the upcoming negotiation of a
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