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Archive for September 5th, 2009

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Sep 5

Yahoo! Local launched “Neighbors,” with a number of smart features. It has all the basics such as categories: “business recommendations, environment, and kids and schools, and a topic search engine”. Topics can be filtered by location and sorted by either Most Recent or Most Active. Users can sign up for email updates of all activity in their area, even without participating.

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The Windows Outreach Team kicked off 7 weeks of Windows 7 by sending 7 piping-hot pizzas to 7 lucky Twitter followers. Throughout the next 7 weeks, @mswindows will be giving away prizes all based on the number 7 (for Windows 7). Winners must take part in the challenges and are encouraged to invite friends to join

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Microsoft is holding Academy Live Sessions webcasts for Partners: Licensing Centralised Desktops: Microsoft VDI and WS08 R2 Remote Desktop Services – Presented by Max Herrmann, Alex Balcanquall, Sean Suydam, Michael Cooper, and Balagopalan Nikhil – Monday, September 21st 2009 – 18:00-19:00 GMTWill provide key infromation about licensing aspects of Microsoft’s: Microsoft VDI Suites, Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Client

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Windows Upgrade team have tracked Windows 7 upgrade performance using Vista as baseline comparison, designed to measure total upgrade time simulating different user profiles (with different data set sizes, number of programs installed and settings) against different hardware profiles. The goal was to determine whether an upgrade from Vista SP1 -> Windows 7 was within a 5%

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Kindle users affected by Amazon's unannounced deletions of 1984 titles are now receiving e-mails from Amazon, offering customers the opportunity to the company to deliver legitimate copies of their books free of charge, or alternately to receive $30 gift certificates or refund checks from Amazon. Part of email quoted: “As you were one of

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“Picture the Impossible,” is a reality game created by Rochester Institute of Technology and Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper, with technical development funded by Bing. Contestants’ll compete for prizes they can win for themselves from Kodak while at the same time helping charities including Foodlink, Unity Health and the Wilson Commencement Park.  The culmination of the game is

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Laplink Software comes to resuce of user who want to migrate Windows XP to Windows 7 operating system. According to Laplink, PCmover is capable of allowing end users to perform special "in-place" upgrades from XP to Windows 7. Of the 66 Windows 7 upgrade scenarios outlined by Microsoft, only 14 are supported by Windows 7

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This video demonstrate a new ability of Windows Server 2008 and is improved in Windows Server 2008 R2; the ability to set password policy settings at a more granular level than just one set of policies at the domain level.

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Excel 2010 has several improvements in the data visualization area; First off, added a visualization “Sparklines ‘intense, simple, word-sized graphics’” help bring meaning and context to numbers being reported and, unlike a chart, are meant to be embedded into what they are describing. -Data bars and icon sets have been enhanced. “In Excel 2010, we have introduced negative value data bars which can

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Google App Engine Launcher is written in Python, uses wxPython for its GUI environment, and help you creating, running, and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows & Linux. Google’ve now open sourced the Windows launcher so that developers can use it on other platforms. Also, also started the process of open sourcing

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For those looking to either implement a PKI or potentially upgrade a PKI to Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition now supports Version 2 and 3 templates. Prior to Windows Server 2008 R2 the Certification Authority role had to be installed on Enterprise or Datacenter edition of the OS to support the use of Version 2

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Xtreamer is a small networked media player which plugs into TV via HDMI (or composite video if you really must!) and can play back a huge variety of music, video and photo file formats, and stream HD (MKV H.264) movies on your TV. It’s similar concept to digital media receivers such as Western

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SquareTrade analyzed failure rates for over 16,000 new game consoles covered by SquareTrade Care Plans and found that the Wii experienced one-fourth of the common failures that the other systems have, reports. “Game Console Failure Rates: Wii 9 times more reliable than Xbox 360, 4 times more than PS3” Looking at the

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Google China announced that Dr. Kai- Fu Lee, President of Google Greater China and VP of Engineering, will leave Google in mid-September. Dr. Boon-Lock Yeo, currently Director of Google's Shanghai engineering office, will take over engineering responsibilities for Google China and Dr. John Liu, who heads up Google's sales team in Greater China, will become Vice President

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