Archive for November 18th, 2009
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AT PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated a new technology called “Pivot,” that makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that’re powerful, informative, and fun. The application highlights a new way of searching using a series of linked data. The app is a .NET client which uses Seadragon and Deep Zoom collections. Microsoft's
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When a Google Voice user send a text message to another Google Voice number from one of forwarding phones on your account, you probably want Google Voice to display SMS as from your Google Voice number rather than from a (406) number. This way, Google Voice user to whom you sent SMS’ll see your Google Voice
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If you’re having trouble when you open up device manager in a VM and see that some devices are listed as “unknown device.” From Troubleshooting Hyper-V topic on TechNet. Cause: Device Manager doesn’t recognize devices that’re optimized for use in vm and run using Hyper-V until integration services’re installed. The unknown devices that’re identified
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Saks Fifth Avenue and Windows 7 are working together to bring magic of season to life. For first time, Saks Fifth Avenue’s holiday windows'll be powered by Windows 7. Additionally, Saks customers will’ve opportunity to interact with newly launched Windows 7 in store through PC lounges. Just as Saks Fifth Avenue enables customers to find their
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Steven Sinofsky showcased how developers can take advantage of the unique software and hardware innovations fueled by Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 to build compelling computing experiences for customers. “The tremendous support behind Windows 7 equates to tangible opportunity for developers on the Windows platform,” Sinofsky said. “We’re looking forward to the new ways that
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At PDC09, Steve Sinofsky gave some details on the development of next version of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 9. IE9 will support Acid3, DirectX Direct2D and other standards, including CSS3 and HTML5. “in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards, we showed how IE and Windows will make the power
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Google released a new Gmail Labs feature that show you a "robot icon" next to people who’re currently using Android phones in Gmail chat mode. In the pic, Shirley is online with Android, Nicolle R. is using regular Gmail chat, and Chris I. is currently away but also
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Microsoft announced a new feature of Office 2010 Beta that’ll integrate information from social networks into Outlook email program. Professional network LinkedIn will be the first site to provide a connector for Outlook Social Connector early next year. The feature’ll let people track activities of their LinkedIn connections, email them, and send invitations to
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At PDC09, Microsoft Office Vice President Kurt Delbene confirmed the news that the company will unveil its plans for Windows Mobile 7 at the MIX 2010 conference in March next year. Microsoft also posted screenshots of a Windows Mobile interface on its Office 2010 beta site that looks identical to rumoured Windows Mobile 7 screenshots:
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AMD’s new Radeon HD 5970 is a dual-GPU card. It is 2 Cypress dice mounted on a single, dual-slot video card. AMD clocks it at 725MHz core and 1GHz (4GHz effective) for GDDR5 memory. The card comes equipped with 2GB of GDDR5, which’s split between two GPUs, giving it an
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One of the features added to November 2009 Windows Azure Tools are tools to configure Service Definition and Service Configuration files – yes, no more XML editing! To access “Service Model Configuration Pages”, right click on role under Cloud Service “Roles” node in Solution Explorer and select “Properties”. (you can also double
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Google added a couple of image upload improvements and UI changes to the editor on Blogger In Draft. You'll notice that the Insert Image and Insert Video buttons look a bit different in the new editor's toolbar. In addition, the Insert Image dialog now lets you
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Smaller notebook manufacturers are usually more reliable than their larger rivals. Of the top nine, ASUS has lowest tracked breakdown rate with fewer than 10% of its notebooks failing in past two years. Toshiba, Sony and Apple also have better-than-average performance and are either just over or under same figure. The higher volume companies largely see
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Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. Business customers licensed for Microsoft Office 2010 Beta through a Volume Licensing program can run Office Web Apps on-premises on a server running Microsoft
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Microsoft announced that the SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot downloads for Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 are now available! PowerPivot for Excel provides non-expert BI users an ability to create powerful BI solutions using Excel. PowerPivot for SharePoint facilitates online hosting, sharing and collaboration of these BI solutions in SharePoint while
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Random From The PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Available
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