Archive for September 22nd, 2009
Sep
22
Google updated Ocean Expeditions layer in Ocean folder in Google Earth. Each ship icon represents most recent post from either a live expedition or one within last 6 months (look for yellow-filled ship icon) or post from beginning of a historical expedition (look for blue-filled ship icon). Open this kml in Google Earth and
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Sep
22
Yahoo branding on a TV screen at a Tasti D-Lite soft serve store in New York.
Yahoo! is planning a massive global marketing campaign with company’s new tagline “It’s You!”. The Y in the “You” is the Y from “Yahoo,” with famous
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Sep
22
How Google uses or more accurately, doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in ranking web search results? At least for Google's web search results as on Sep 2009, the answer is no. Google doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in our web search ranking, explain Matt Cutts. More in video below, or see the Q&A here.
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Sep
22
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit for IBM is based on the MAP Toolkit platform, developed by IBM at the IBM Center for Microsoft Technologies to help IT organizations deploy server virtualization hardware including IBM System x and BladeCenter and Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization more quickly. The MAP Toolkit is an integrated planning toolkit that makes it easier
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Sep
22
Microsoft scheduled a web cast on Oct 8, 2009 at 10AM PDT to provide an overview of how you can benefit from Bing Maps geographic data visualizations from within your SharePoint portals. “Viewing your business data in an efficient, intuitive way is key to your organization's success. When you use Bing Maps with
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Sep
22
If you're curious about where Microsoft stands on employees' use of Twitter, take a look at Microsoft's "Tweeting Guidelines" (PDF). Few specific restrictions’re given; employees’re reminded instead to "use their judgment" and "to post sensibly and responsibly." The 10 questions on Microsoft's Twitter/microblogging FAQ mostly concern whether and when employees can announce their company
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Sep
22
u-blox announced support for Windows 7’s Sensor and Location Platform. PCs with u-blox’s AMY-5M chip or their PCI-5S/PCM-5S receiver cards with Windows 7 can now be “location-aware” with u-blox’s new Windows 7 driver available here. There’s a u-blox GPS chip inside the
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Sep
22
Microsoft released Windows 7 technologies to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of specialized devices through the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the next-generation platforms for Windows Embedded Enterprise and Windows Embedded Server.
Windows 7 Professional for Embedded Systems and Windows 7 Ultimate for Embedded Systems are the next-generation platforms in the Windows Embedded Enterprise portfolio for OEMs seeking
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Sep
22
When trying to add a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 host in a remote domain configured with an external trust, you receive error, because WinRM requires Kerberos authentication. When WinRM tries to authenticate against servers in an external trust it defaults to use NTLM authentication and WinRM authentication fails, generating the error 2917 / 0x80070035.
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Sep
22
Zoho launched a new service “Zoho Dicussions” that let you create online communities forum hosted on Zoho.com. Once created, you can customize your forum with subtopics, logo, favicon, and other minor tweaks. The basic service is free and lets you create up to 2 forums and 2 sub forums. You also get 100MB for file attachments. You can also pay
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Sep
22
Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows president has been working as a co-author on a book with Harvard Business School's Marco Iansiti. The book is expected to draw in part on Sinofsky's experience, coming in to lead a complex organization and focus it on a unified vision. Barnes & Noble refers to the book under the working title, "One
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Sep
22
Microsoft isn’t commenting on the Project Pink or new Microsoft Tablet. This info is purely collected from sources: “Pink is a Microsoft-branded but not Microsoft-manufactured phone. And’ll feature premium mobile services like Zune video store and music subscription/purchasing. Microsoft already chose an ad agency to handle the Pink campaign. Stephen combed a employees profile on LinkedIn: “Peo Orvendal,
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Sep
22
Microsoft Bing search engine continued to grab U.S. Internet search market, in August it was up to 9.3 percent from 8.9 percent in July, according to a research note from JPMorgan. Microsoft launched Bing in early June, is No. 3 in the market. Google, although still far and away the search leader, saw its share in the United States decline
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Sep
22
In honor of the International Day of Peace, a UN-recognized global day of nonviolence and ceasefire, YouTube is running full "The Day After Peace," an award-winning documentary that shows how Peace Day was created.
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Sep
22
This video walks through configuring the Server Side Configuration! in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services!
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