Archive for November 5th, 2009


Nov 5

Steve Jobs named as ‘CEO of the Decade’ by Fortune magazine

"It's often noted that he's a showman, a born salesman, a magician who creates a famed reality-distortion field, a tyrannical perfectionist." "It's totally accurate, of course, and descriptions contribute to his legend." For his role in turning Apple into a groundbreaking technology leader and most valuable company in Silicon Valley,
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Nov 5

Microsoft whitepaper outlining privacy concerns of “cloud” computing

Microsoft released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into computing "cloud" in conjunction with an International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy in Madrid. "Cloud computing does raise a number of important policy questions concerning how people, organizations, and governments handle information and interactions in this environment," Microsoft said. "Privacy protections’re
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Nov 5

Exchange Server 2010 Developers Webcasts

Microsoft published 6 part series of webcasts on six key topics that developers need to know about ‘planning for moving’ their applications to Exchange Server 2010. If you like a bit more than visit TechEd, Germany or Exchange Connections in Las Vegas next week; or Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), LA Nov 17-19th.Webcasts: Exchange
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Nov 5

MSNBot 2.0b enters full-scale production – MSNBot 1.1 retires by end of this week

Microsoft announced that MSNBot 2.0b enters full-scale production, that’ll enable Bing to do a better job at gathering information needed from myriad of websites Bing index worldwide. As MSNBot 2.0b is now fully operational, Bing is retireing MSNBot 1.1. by end of first week in Nov, you’ll no longer see following user agent in
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Nov 5

Yahoo’s new video search music refiner helps you easily search music albums & songs

Yahoo! now lets you easily dive into music albums and songs by your favorite music artist using Yahoo! Video Search’s new video search music refiner called “Web of Things” that intelligently extract most popular albums and songs for artist or band queries. This feature lets you explore music artists intuitively and easily. Once you
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Nov 5

Microsoft announced SharePoint Online access to Live@edu at Educause 2009

At Educause 2009 in Denver, Colorado; Microsoft announced that the new SharePoint Online-based collaboration and productivity services will be added to Live@edu suite for free next year. So what does that mean? Well, lets look at some possibilities:
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Nov 5

Mozilla, Opera and Google challenge Microsoft’s browser settlement

Microsoft rivals Google, Mozilla, and Opera are seeking last-minute changes to its proposed settlement with European regulators that would give buyers of computers loaded with Windows 7 ability to choose a default browser other than company’s Internet Explorer — aim to ensure that Microsoft doesn’t unfairly influence decision, said Hakon Wium Lie. “We hope commission is
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Nov 5

Heatwave for Windows 7 Media Center Released

Heatwave is a plugin that delivers live weather forecasts straight to your Windows Media Center PC, and shows current temperature, wind, humidity, pressure, visibility, and more as well as highs and lows for that day and following week. It’s nearly as much information as your local news provides! The plugin has now been updated
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Nov 5

Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox – Overview

There’re various ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally OutTwit) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in hands of Twitters as explained Office Casuals Doug Thomas:
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Nov 5

Citrix Essentials 5.5 supports Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 spanning both server and desktop virtualization with flexible solutions contains Microsoft's most powerful virtualization portfolio ever. But no single solution is right for everyone, Citrix released a new version of Citrix Essentials 5.5 that supports all latest features available in Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V in R2 and
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Nov 5

Server Core Remote Management whitepaper

This whitepaper titled “Server Core Remote Management – How to be effective in remotely managing Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008” contains everything you need to know to remotely manage your Core-box. No more fumbling around in that CMD-window if you don’t want to. When Server Core installation option of Windows Server was introduced in
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Nov 5

Debugging crash dumps of ASP.NET with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010

In this video ASP.NET Debugger and Escalation Engineer, Tess Ferrandez shows ‘how to debug a dump of an ASP.NET Web Site with a pile of awesome and totally new features in Visual Studio 2010’:
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Nov 5

Offline Gmail offers messages selection to download

Until now, Offline Gmail heuristically picked which messages get downloaded for offline use; From now on, once you enable Offline Gmail from Labs tab under Settings, you can choose which messages get downloaded. On Offline tab under Settings, you'll see your current settings and be able to set how much mail you want to
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Nov 5

AdSense Interface limted beta announced at Content Revenue Strategies conference

At Content Revenue Strategies conference in New York City, Google announced of testing a new AdSense interface beta, rolling out to a small group of publishers. The new interface includes features:Provide insights to help you make more informed decisions about your sites with detailed
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Nov 5

YouTube adds Video blocking features

Google is adding two new buttons in partners interface on YouTube that’ll give its partners more control over blocking of video content they upload. First button reads ‘Block by Country’ and provides content partners an ability to geo-block a single video rather than an entire account. Second button reads ‘Enable Auto Block outside Ownership’
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