Archive for October 19th, 2009


Oct 19

Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player

Western Digital debuts “WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN”  a small footprint, high definition digital media receiver which outputs video to 1080p via HDMI. WD TV Live supports a wide variety of file formats, and play videos, music and photos from Internet on your big screen
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Oct 19

Visual Studio 2010 launching on March 22, 2010 – 2nd beta of VS2010, .NET Framework 4 released

Microsoft announced the release of second Visual Studio 2010 beta and .NET Framework 4 beta to MSDN subscribers with everyone else getting code on October 21. Also, announced Visual Studio 2010 will officially launch on March 22, 2010. New features include Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010 tools, drag-and-drop bindings with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation, the inclusion of the Dynamic
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Oct 19

Bangalore International Airport Limited goes Windows 7

Bangalore, the IT capital of India now has an international airport on par with global standards. BIAL has approximately 500 PCs (desktops & laptops), which run Windows XP operating system, was looking to simplifying its computer environment, along with stronger operating system security features to keep its computers safe. The company wanted a mechanism to control application usage among
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Oct 19

Dell demos mini data center fitted in a suitcase

Dell’s Jimmy Pike has crammed two servers running dual-core, 2.5 GHz Intel processors (Harpertown), 32 GB of memory, 4 TB of disk space for storage, a power supply, a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch and even some solid-state drives into a metal box. The box consumes about 325 watts, is relatively portable and provides enough performance to act
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Oct 19

Hotfix for R2 differencing disk to Windows Server 2008

In Windows Server 2008 R2 there was a minor change to the format of differencing virtual hard disks. As a result you’ll need to apply an update to Windows Server 2008 if you want to move differencing disks from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2008. Note that this applies to Windows Server 2008 and
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Oct 19

Silverlight streaming service replaced with Windows Azure service

In a surprise move, a Windows Live beta service “Silverlight Streaming” for hosting Silverlight audio and video content, is being discontinued to make way for a new Windows Azure-based service. You can access, retrieve and if desired remove your content that’s currently hosted on Silverlight Streaming by following instructions. Key dates and information about availability of new Windows
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Oct 19

PowerShell v2 RTM for Windows 7, R2 – Virtual Launch Party!

Both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 contain version 2 of PowerShell. Microsoft will hold a Virtual Launch Party on October 22nd, 9:30 PM EDT (GMT-4), designed to celebrate the official release of PowerShell 2.0. “Windows isn’t just about the GUI. Starting with Windows 7, you have built-in access to PowerShell version 2, an object-oriented scripting language
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Oct 19

Web Protection Library (WPL) – Evolution of Anti-XSS Library

Microsoft is actively developing the next iteration of Anti-XSS library and Security Runtime Engine (SRE) with added new mitigations that go way beyond the original Cross Site Scripting (XSS) protections of the Anti-XSS Library hence the change in name to the Web Protection Library or WPL. WPL now includes encoding methods to provide mitigations around LDAP Injection and
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Oct 19

Waveboard brings Google Wave to Mac desktop & iPhone

If you’ve already received a Google Wave invite, you might probably be exploring the new communication tool. Here’s a nice tool called “Waveboard,” which’s a Mac OS X desktop client that practically mimics the Google Wave environment on the web minus the use of the Safari, Firefox or Chromium browser. In addition, to Waveboard for Mac OS X 10.5+ , the software
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Oct 19

Sync Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK)

Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services, and devices. Using Microsoft Sync Framework, developers can build applications that synchronize data from any source using any protocol over any network. Sync Framework 2.0 expands on the capabilities: Adds features that cater to new scenarios or scenarios that
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Oct 19

Windows Ribbon: Samples for Windows 7

Downloadable code sample(s) that demonstrate the Windows Ribbon API, markup, and features. The following link contains separate files: ContextPopup.zip, DropDownColorPicker.zip, FontControl.zip, Gallery.zip, HTMLEditRibbon.zip, SimpleRibbon.zip.
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Oct 19

Dungeons & Dragons on Microsoft Surface – Video

The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University is showing a sneak peek at a Dungeons and Dragons proof-of-concept game they are working on using Microsoft Surface.
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Oct 19

“Gone Google” initiative expanded to U.K., France, Canada, Japan, Australia and Singapore

Each day, thousands of companies around the world choose to “go Google” i.e. switch to Google Apps. And companies such as Konica Minolta, Rentokil Initial and TOTO have just decided to go Google for hassles free of managing email servers, rolling out software updates, to the convenience of shared documents and calendars, Gmail and more. Google have now
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Oct 19

Microsoft System Center Online Desktop Manager beta registration open

Microsoft System Center Online Desktop Manager is a hosted IT management solution based on Microsoft System Center management technologies that provides the capability to secure, update, monitor, configure, troubleshoot and collect inventory from a single, Web-based console. This new IT management service is designed for customers who want an integrated desktop management solution without the overhead
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Oct 19

Zoho Projects for Google Apps Launched

Zoho Projects is a team collaboration and project management application that allows you to plan, track and collaborate on everyday activities and big projects with external customers. Now, the company has announced the integration of Zoho Projects with Google Apps. Zoho Projects for Google Apps creates a rich, integrated experience for Google Apps users that includes single sign-on,
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