Archive for October 20th, 2009


Oct 20

Bing Travel “TwavelTwivia” Twitter sweepstakes launched

Bing Travel launched a new “TwavelTwivia” Twitter sweepstakes; Beginning Oct. 26, @fareologist will be giving away some amazing prizes including $500 gift cards to Alaska Airlines, US Airways, JetBlue Airways, Marriott Hotels, Ritz-Carlton Hotels & Resorts and Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts. And’ll be tweeting two travel-focused trivia questions each day at random times
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Yahoo! Site Explorer adds SearchMonkey object statistics

Yahoo! Site Explorer now offers much more detailed page-level and site-level dashboard information for verified site owners. At page level, you can see SearchMonkey object statistics, if you’ve marked up your pages or provided a feed that matches one of existing SearchMonkey templates. Also included Yahoo! Search keyterms and Delicious bookmark information, and now provide a site-level dashboard that displays additional information, including number
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer updates

Microsoft released an updated version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer. For those of you not familiar with this site, its a Web-based tool that helps you troubleshoot connectivity issues. The tool simulates several client logon and mail flow scenarios. When a test fails, many of the errors have troubleshooting tips to assist you
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Live Mesh for Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 released

One month after the advent of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), Live Mesh team have released a new Live Mesh Mac software version 0.9.4501.0 that provides support for both Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 and Snow Leopard 10.6. Leopard users’re not required to install this release. To upgrade to this new release, you’ll need to reinstall Live
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal endorsed by American Association of Advertising Agencies

An advertising industry association--backed by four of the world's largest ad agencies--sent a letter to the DoJ endorsing the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, saying it "enhances competition," and has the potential to serve as a powerful check on Google's dominance of that market. American Association of Advertising Agencies President and CEO Nancy Hill posted the open
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

DFS Replication Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

The DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors the health of the DFS Replication service on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008 computers. This management pack monitors events generated by the DFS Replication service. These events provide an insight into the health of the service and folders replicated on monitored
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Project “Gemini” announced as Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel

At Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas, Steven Ballmer revealed the official name of Project “Gemini,” now Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel. PowerPivot for Excel helps drive timely and informed business decisions by empowering end users to access, integrate and analyze massive amounts of data on the desktop and share information
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Visual Studio 2010: Introducing Concurrency Visualizer Profiling Tool

Hazim Shafi, Dev Lead Sasha Dadiomov and PM Bill Colburn tell us all about the Concurrency Visualizer Profiling Tool, included in Visual Studio 2010. You should profile an already-existing application that employs concurrency and, perhaps for the first time, get to see what your concurrent code’s actually doing at run time.
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

U2 Rose Bowl, L.A. concert live on YouTube

Irish rock band U2 is streaming their upcoming performance from the Rose Bowl in L.A. on their YouTube channel. User in “Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, U.K., U.S.” can join U2 live on Oct 25 at 8:30 p.m. (PT). Also, you'll be able to join
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

BitLocker To Go Reader for Windows 7 – protection for removable drives

BitLocker protection on removable drives is known as BitLocker To Go. When a BitLocker-protected removable drive is unlocked on a computer running Windows 7, the drive is automatically recognized and the user is either prompted for credentials to unlock the drive or the drive is unlocked automatically if configured to do so. Computers running Windows XP
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Campaign Insights: Measure impact of display ad campaign

Google launched a new tool “Campaign Insights” to measure the impact of display ads campaigns across the Google Content Network in the US and UK. Campaign Insights is a unique measurement tool that can give reliable data about how a campaign has raised brand awareness, or active user interest, in a particular product or service. It looks
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Webfarms with IIS7 and Virtualization with SCVMM 2008 R2

Sven Knockaert and Roel Van Steenberghe of Kaho Sint-Lieven, an IT university in Ghent, Belgium talks about their implementation of virtualization with Hyper-V 2008 R2 and SCVMM. Hundreds of students each’ve at least 4 virtual machines running on Hyper-V. Students can manage their virtual environment with self-service portal in SCVMM. Roel discusses implementation and use of IIS7. He explains how
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Microsoft Store opening in Scottsdale & Mission Viejo

Microsoft has confirmed that its first retail store “Microsoft Store,” located in Scottsdale, Ariz., will open on Thursday Oct 22nd – GA day of Windows 7 launch. Thursday's opening’ll feature a free concert by pop singer Ashley Tisdale. The first 1,000 customers’ll receive gift bags and concert tickets, and the first 100 customers’ll get chance to
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

KMS update on Windows Server 2003 to support Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

You’ve a Key Management Service (KMS) hosted on Windows Server 2003 activating your Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 systems. Now you’re ready to start piloting and deploying Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Some of your first questions are likely: ·Can I use the same KMS to do that? ·Do I need to do anything
No Comments » - Posted by
Oct 20

Microsoft Access 2010 Demo

Access Services is a new functionality as part of SharePoint 2010 that allows users to create new databases with forms and reports that run in browser. Ryan quick tour’s of the new Access design tools to create a donor tracking app and publishes it to Access Services and SharePoint.
No Comments » - Posted by

Find us on Facebook