Archive for September, 2009

Sep 30
Of the estimated 80 million people that make up the “millennial generation,” only half report they’re currently planning to invest in the stock market, savings accounts or 401(k)s, according to Microsoft’s “Millennials in Financial Services” survey, conducted by KRC, found that millennials born between 1981 and 2000 have less trust in banking and investment firms since the bailouts
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Sep 30
Sarah Pickard from Microsoft Information Security demos on how the business uses the Risk Tracker application, built using CISF (Connected Information Security Framework). This application captures and tracks high level security risks to effectively reduce risk at Microsoft:
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Sep 30
Google AdSense for Feeds (FeedBurner) announced that going forward all links’ll be "301 Permanent Redirect." Some users selected to use a 302 redirected link, as opposed to a 301 redirected link, to obtain better tracking. Google has made this change for the URLs to become “more compatible with search engines that crawl feeds,” and will consider these to
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Sep 30
With global availability (GA) day for Windows 7 is near, major software retailers’ve heavily discounted pre-orders for the OEM full-installation editions (minimal packaging), with Newegg offering the Home Premium SKU at $99.99:
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Sep 30
With mobile web surfing on the rise, Yahoo! have tweaked & launched Yahoo! Sponsored Search system to serve your ads to iPhones, iTouch and Android mobile phones. With this tweak, standard Sponsored Search ads (40-character header, 70-character description, the host URL—you know the drill) will appear on these mobile devices, giving your ads wider appeal and more
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Sep 30
Hasbro announced a competition that gives Monopoly-lovers the chance to design a building that’ll be included in the new interactive game Monopoly City Streets. To enter the competition, you need to design a 3D building using Google SketchUp and upload it to the Google
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Sep 30
Google’ve completed third Google Summer of Code; Here's a quick list of 2009 projects: -Growl Notifications, and Next Generation Sparkle Updates: is a implementation of a native popup notification for MacOS X version of SIP Communicator, that make use of Growl notification daemon through a new implementation of Java bindings of the Growl API.-Hush-hush Chats with Off The Record (OTR) Messaging: extended
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