Archive for October 14th, 2009


Oct 14

Google Wave: Tips to run on iPhone

If you got an iPhone or Android-powered devices and want to test Google Wave on it, there’re two ways to get Wave to work on your iPhone: First’s to go to wave.google.com using mobile Safari. Click through the warning, as it works well, as the site is optimized for Webkit-based browsers. You can select different
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Oct 14

App Engine SDK features ‘incoming email, app deletion, datastore stats’

App Engine SDK version 1.2.6 is released for both runtimes, Python and Java, and contains plenty of improvements and bugfixes, along with some exciting new features: Incoming Email - After enabling mail as an inbound service (just like XMPP), users can email your application at whatever@yourappid.appspotmail.com. Inbound messages’re converted to HTTP requests which you can receive via
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Oct 14

Windows 7 PCs debuts ‘HP dm3, Toshiba Satellite T135′ and more

Here’re some slick, quite a few powerful, reasonably priced Windows 7 PCs that you can start test-driving now, and a few that you can even pre-order.
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Oct 14

Microsoft, FOX One collaborate on upcoming Windows 7 television ads

Microsoft and FOX One announced a marketing collaboration to showcase the best of Windows 7. The cornerstone of effort’s exclusive Windows 7 sponsorship of an upcoming television event devoted to comedy of Seth MacFarlane, creator of "Family Guy," "American Dad" and "The Cleveland Show." The variety show featuring MacFarlane and Family Guy co-star Alex Borstein will be presented commercial free by
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Oct 14

‘Got the wrong Bob’ & ‘Don’t forget Bob’ Gmail features

"Got the wrong Bob?" is a new Gmail Labs feature aimed to identify when you've accidentally included the wrong person. Based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to identify wrong person; for e.g. if you normally email Bob Smith together with Tim and Angela, but this time you added
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Oct 14

Using host guest communication channel in Windows Virtual PC (WVPC) and Windows 7

In Windows Virtual PC (WVPC), virtual machine (guest) and Windows 7 host need to communicate with each other for sharing data, devices and functionality, such as clipboard sharing, printer sharing, file system and drive sharing, Start menu integration and file association with virtual apps. Such communication’s also necessary for displaying video of VM on Windows 7 desktop. This post discuss how such
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Oct 14

Google Voice rolls out invitations program

Google Voice is beginning to give out invitations to current user of Google Voice, over the next few weeks, you'll see an "Invite a friend" link appear on the left-hand side of your inbox. “We're initially giving out three invites to each account, but we're planning to provide more invitations in the future. If you don't have an account yet,
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Oct 14

Visio 2010 ‘Data Graphics’ feature

Visio 2010 given the data graphics feature a makeover to integrate it into ribbon, also added a legend feature. As in Visio 2007, before you can display data using a data graphic, you first need to have some data in your shapes. You can add data manually in Shape Data Window for each shape, or you can import data into diagram from an
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Oct 14

Caritas Christi Health Care Partners with Microsoft Amalga UIS & HealthVault

Caritas Christi Health Care, New England, entered into a agreement to use Microsoft’s health solutions, including Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and Microsoft HealthVault, as the underpinning of an extensive system-wide data and patient relationship strategy designed to improve the health and quality of care for its 1 million patients while reducing overall healthcare costs. Caritas selected Amalga UIS to
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Oct 14

‘VPlay’ Microsoft Surface app

Stuart Taylor, researcher at MSR Cambridge created an application called “VPlay” that allows him to mix video on a Surface like you would records on a DJ turntable. In the video, he show us how VPlay works.
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Oct 14

Bing grew to 5.3% in paid clicks and spending share

Bing's share of spending grew to 5.3% in the third quarter, up from 4.3% in the second quarter. Bing, which boasted gains in travel, finance, auto and retail search, saw click share rise to 4.8% from 4.1%. Moreover, those gains appear to be coming at the expense of Google, which saw its share of search spending
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Oct 14

Windows 7 ‘ringtone editor’ integrated in to Device Stage

In Windows 7, working with printers, cameras, phones, music players and other devices has never been easier thanks to two new features: Device Stage and the Devices and Printers folder. With new Ringtone Editor, part of Device Stage, you can make ringtones from songs and sound files already on your PC—or get creative with your own recordings.
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Oct 14

Omitting ‘dot’ made Sweden’s .se TLD inaccessible

A single omitted period caused Web sites with Sweden's .se TLD to be inaccessible for at least one hour, with some perhaps remaining inaccessible until the downstream routers refresh their caches. A security bulletin advises administrators noticing difficulties with accessing .se sites to use BIND 9.2.0's rndc flush command to clear memory of cached
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Oct 14

RemoteApp and Desktop Connection in Windows 7, Server 2008 R2

RemoteApp was introduced in Server 2008 to deploy RDS apps. Those capabilities’ve been expanded in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 into a new framework for deploying RemoteApps, session-based desktops, and virtual machine-based desktops to users called “RemoteApp and Desktop Connection. With RemoteApp and Desktop Connection, administrators can create an aggregated and customized view of RemoteApps
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Oct 14

Promoted Videos integrated in to AdWords

Google started rolling out promoted videos in to AdWords in Canada, U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Netherlands, you can buy Promoted Videos directly in AdWords. If you have a video about your business, Promoted Videos allow you to drive viewership of your videos by targeting the hundreds of millions of searches that happen on YouTube every day. This
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