Archive for September 15th, 2009
Sep
15
Google products run on multiple servers, multiple cells, and even multiple datacenters simultaneously, so that they keep running even if any one (or more) redundant underlying parts go down. The technology is called as “Multihoming,” a straightforward for read-only products like web search, but it's more difficult for products that allow users to read and write data in real
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Sep
15
Google announced a new product “Google Fast Flip” for computers, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android-powered devices. Google Fast Flip combines some of the best features of reading articles in print and on the web. With this webapp you can literally flip through stories
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Sep
15
Microsoft introduced Bing Visual Search at the TechCrunch 50, as part of "Bing Wave 2," other elements of which’ll be released later this year. Visual Search will let people browse through categories of images as a way of finding information online without typing in a keyword. In a post introducing the feature, the Bing team used examples including an
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Sep
15
Microsoft has been haunted for years by the ghost of Windows XP; now Microsoft is releasing a big batch of case studies and research aimed at persuading its largest customers to move to the new Windows 7 operating system, with a message “Get over it! There's something better out there for you!”. Last
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Sep
15
This week 23 new third-party feed partners are rolling out, including Blingee, BuddyTV, Goodreads, Hulu, Judy’s Book, MySpace, Newsvine, OleOle, Qik and SlideShare are rolling out in Windows Live (full list available here). Adding feeds to your Windows Live Profile is easy. Click “Add Web activities” on the left side of your
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Sep
15
Microsoft Bing Translator added five new languages, with it the total number of supported launguages counts to 20. You’ll be able to translate between these languages in all Microsoft Translator powered services including Bing Translator, Internet Explorer Accelerator, Office, Translator Widget as well as in APIs. Here’s the complete list: ARA –
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Sep
15
Microsoft and BNY Mellon collaborated to put together a new solution designed to streamline the management process associated with US stimulus funds as per the requirements of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The institutions’ll be able to leverage both BNY Mellon Corporate Trust, and Microsoft Stimulus360. The two companies have bundled together project fund administration capabilities with
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Sep
15
Visio is a diagramming program for Microsoft Windows that uses vector graphics to create diagrams. Doug Thomas from Office Casual gives those of us who aren't familiar with Visio a brief tour using the example of “How to move your office with Visio”.
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Sep
15
Paul Royal published a report that indicates that Windows 7 will be the most secure Windows operating system to date. Windows 7's security is thanks in part to OS patching routes to inject malicious code into the memory. In previous Windows OS's, such as Vista, memory protections such as DEP and ASLR offered a degree of safety. However,
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Sep
15
To improve video indexing, Google Webmaster added support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa markup format to let you specify information such as video's title and description, within the HTML of a video page. Note: you should make sure it appears in the HTML without the execution of JavaScript or Flash.
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Sep
15
Google's Data Liberation Front, a team of Google Chicago engineers are working to build some simple import and export functions that aims to make it easy for users to transfer their personal data in and out of Google's services. “Our goal is to "liberate" data so that consumers and businesses using Google products always have a choice when it
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Sep
15
Microsoft announced that Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 will be released in late Oct 2009 through Microsoft Volume Licensing Site (MVLS), and’ll add Windows 7 support for all components except for MED-V. Server and management components’ll also support Windows Server 2008 R2.
“With its virtualization technologies and manageability components, MDOP
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Sep
15
Microsoft and Citi’s Global Transaction Services (GTS) signed a multiyear initiative to support CitiDirect BE, Citi’s newly launched next-generation e-banking platform, serving its corporate, financial institution and public sector clients and also optimized for the white-label business model. By leveraging Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, CitiDirect BE will raise the competitive bar beyond transactions to include sophisticated analytic capabilities,
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Sep
15
Novell begins shipping the 1.0 edition of MonoTouch, its commercial software development platform that extends the .NET Framework and the C# language...to Apple's iPhone. Although this effort is itself an extension of Mono, the open source .NET extension for Linux and Mac that's funded by Novell, MonoTouch is somewhat different: First, it includes an exclusive, Mac-based
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Sep
15
According to Microsoft, the first development milestone of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was introduced on August 31st, 2009. Here’s a list of changes:
Auto Refresh of Inbox: If a user is logged into WebIM, their inbox’ll automatically refresh every 60 seconds.
Auto save Drafts will automatically save email, every 3 minutes to the drafts folder while a
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Random From The Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 Milestone 1 (M1) Features
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