Archive for September 11th, 2009
Sep
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Facebook’s tagging feature gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes. In addition to Facebook Lite in US & India, the company also added a new way to tag people and other things you're connected to on Facebook in status updates and other posts from the Publisher. Now, when you’re writing a status update
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Sep
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Microsoft released the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Release Candidate versions of PowerShell. You can download on Microsoft Connect. In the video, Bruce Payette join Windows PowerShell Program Manager, Osama Sajid, in an interview discussing the new Windows PowerShell Modules feature:
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Sep
11
Microsoft's private company meeting at Seattle's Safeco Field was a hit, with a preview of a "Bing 2.0" overhaul or here, demonstration of Project Natal, unveiling Windows 7 television ad. And then Steve Ballmer spotted someone at field level, allegedly a member of the Windows group, using an iPhone to take his
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Sep
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Yahoo! added to their PPC reports a new “Ad Delivery Report” that let you view information about the URLs where your ads’re being displayed. You can then use this information to help inform your decisions regarding which domains to block using the "Blocked Domains" feature. ADR allows you to view: • list of domains and specific
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Sep
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Google is developing a micropayment platform, an extension of Google Checkout, that’ll be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America. Google outlines its “vision of a premium content ecosystem” that includes subscriptions across multiple news sites, syndication on
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Sep
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At CEDIA, VidaBox announced the WHS-based 1U rack mounted FireServer, packing a Blu-ray drive and delivering on board “Drop-n-rip” archiving from blu-ray, CD and DVD as well as multiroom DVD streaming. VidaBox’s “Drop-n-rip” service archives your discs, whilst finding online cover art, plot synopsis and actor/actress information for movies as well as track information for music. It’s powered by
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Sep
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Microsoft launched a new “Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP)” Facebook Group Page, for you to share your ideas with other MAP users on how to use the MAP Toolkit for your IT planning and deployment projects for a variety of products such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, App-V, SQL Server 2008, Forefront Client
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Sep
11
Motorola debutes the Cliq a T-Mobile Android with an HVGA touchscreen QWERTY slider with quad-band GSM, WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS and HSPA 7.2, A-GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. It offers up to 32GB of storage via microSD. Central to Cliq is Motorola's new Android UI known as Motoblur, an interface which pulls content
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Sep
11
Diagnostic Logging Management is back in Exchange Server 2010. A new wizard based UI now enables administrators to quickly Exchange server-related logging and logging levels. This will assist in easy instrumenting of your Exchange servers for diagnostics. The following screenshot shows the new wizard. The new wizard also makes it
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Sep
11
The U.S. Department of Justice is expanding the agency’s review of the Microsoft and Yahoo! Internet-search partnership agreement. The request means regulators’ll do a more extensive examination, rather than approve the deal immediately. Over the course of the review, the companies expect to be asked about their search-engine investments, ad pricing and product plans, a person familiar with the matter
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Sep
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Microsoft is continue trying a variety of marketing strategies from special offerings, to serving free copies of Windows 7 RTM before the operating system becomes available to the public on Oct 22nd. The Redmond company now launched “Windows 7 Loadfest” events for Microsoft Partners, where participants will’ve an opportunity to install Windows 7 on own PC (registered attendees
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Sep
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One of the more interesting new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is Managed Service Accounts. MSA’s allow you to create an account in Active Directory that is tied to a specific computer. That account has its own complex password and is maintained automatically. This means that an MSA can run services on
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Sep
11
Ning Apps, or third-party applications based on OpenSocial 0.8 is released and serve as new, rich features for 1.5 million+ Ning Networks and 33 million users. Ning Network Creator can now add Ning Apps to expand the functionality of their Ning Network and increase engagement by their members. Most social platforms rely exclusively on members adding
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Sep
11
YouTube released three new features for analytics tool that give more sophisticated, useful ways of using Insight so you can better serve and understand your audience.
Discovery over time comibines “track a video's view count and popularity over time” & “discovery section” into a nifty graph that illustrates how people discovered your video over time.
Views from mobile devices show you views of
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Sep
11
The August 2009 DirectX SDK contains the first official release of the DirectX developer resources for Direct3D 11, DXGI 1.1, Direct2D, and DirectWrite. Developers can now publish and distribute Direct3D 11 applications and games that leverage all of the software and hardware features of DirectX 11 in Windows 7 and Windows Vista,” Microsoft noted. “ll headers,
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Random From The DirectX 11 Resources ‘SDK, Runtime, Direct3D 11 RTM’ for Windows 7
- May11Small Talk contest on YouTube ‘capture hilarious and heartwarming clips of your kids’
Google launched a new “Small Talk contest,” for the kids with New Toyota Sienna. “Small Talk is hosted by Ryan Seacrest, who invites you to - Oct23Dell and XenSource Inks OEM Agreement
Dell is bundling XenSource's open-source virtualization technology across its line of PowerEdge servers, which will give the systems maker's customers an alternative to VMware's ESX - Dec16Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V with StorageLink Site Recovery tool
Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V now include Citrix StorageLink Site Recovery, a powerful set of tools that make end-to-end business continuity accessible, - Jan27Microsoft Positioned As A Leader in the Enterprise IT PPM and ALM, IDC’s Recent MarketScape
IDC's most recent MarketScape positions Microsoft as a leader in the Enterprise IT PPM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) views. - Feb28The Zune Phone For Just $9!
The video here is someone’s concept of a Zune Phone with a giant receiver and running various different things like Windows Paint, DOS (or at least the command prompt) and Reversi on what looks like WM5. Yikes. While I might agree that the concept of a Zune phone is a little absurd in the first place, I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it's quite that absurd. Video after the jump.