Archive for the Year 2010
Jun
21
"Oh man! It turns out that Star Wars Kid was doing nothing less than predicting the future. The awesome future. Microsoft has demonstrated its Project Natal, which has been renamed Kinect and transformed into a motion-controller for the Xbox 360,"
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Sep
12
Archos launced "Archos 32 Internet Tablet," featuring 3.2-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity (USB in a pinch), VGA video camera, composite video output, and Android 2.2 Froyo—all a price tag under $150, designed to take on the likes of the iPod touch.Archos 32 Internet Tablet strains the definition of "tablet" with
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Sep
14
Parallels updates its mobile app to extend that capability to iPad -- promising to let access Windows programs on iPads by connecting over a network to latest version of Parallels Desktop virtualization software on Macs. In addition to running Windows on iPad, the company says the app allow for networked printing from iPad and ability to
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Sep
17
Microsoft released a September bulleting that addresses three IIS vulnerabilites. Two of these were responsibly discolsed, while one was publicly disclosed. The knowledge base articles for each of the three vulnerabilities are linked below and contain affected platform information.
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Oct
26
Microsoft plans to impose royalty fees on Taiwan-based OEM vendors of Android handsets for using its patents in e-mail, multimedia and other functions, with Acer and Asustek Computer being targets in an actual attempt to prevent the two vendors from adopting Android and Chrome OS for their netbook and tablet PCs, according to Taiwan-based makers.
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Dec
30
comScore reporting that holiday season online retail e-commerce spending for the first 56 days of the Nov-Dec'2010 holiday season has reached $30.81 billion, marking a 13% increase versus the corresponding days last year. The week ending Dec. 26 witnessed $2.45 billion in spending, an increase of 17% vs. the corresponding week last year.
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Nov
14
Zoho the popular Web-based office suite has added a new component to its customer support offerings. In addition to Zoho Assist, their Java-based remote assistance app, the company is now offering Zoho Support, a full-featured help desk app."Support packs tons of essential features, from managing customer requests and contracts to maintaining tasks and contacts. There's also
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Nov
1
The New York City, today announced that it's moving to "Google Apps for Education," providing cloud-based email and collaboration tools to the entire university community. This announcement comes just weeks after New York State created an initiative to bring Google Apps for Education to their K-12 schools. With students and faculty across New York now
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Oct
2
Here's a nice video that show the rich mapping and photosynth integration in Bing maps. This screencast was recorded in realtime while connected to the Internet from my home ADSL connection. Watch it after the jump:
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Aug
28
Microsoft's FUSE Labs team snuck out another project this week with Team Crossword, developed by 3 members of the team during their semi-annual creative week. The interactive, team based crossword puzzle uses ASP.net MVC 2, jQuery, SQL Azure, Visual Studio 2010, and it's hosted on Windows Azure. The actual crossword puzzle data is provided by
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Nov
9
Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. is now using innovation from Microsoft Surface to showcase some amazing exhibits. Surface strategic partner InfoStrat, along with the museum staff, created a series of seven apps featured at the museum.Opening today, "The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!" exhibit is located in the center of the Castle's historic Great Hall.
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Jun
18
This post explore timely connections between World Cup player search queries. Below, a thick line connects Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi because a lot of people followed a search for one of them followed by a search for the other. A thin line connects Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona because fewer people searched for them together:
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Dec
14
Microsoft announced the release of new Inbound Links feature to its Bing Webmaster Tools, which now provides registered site owners the ability to easily & intuitively retrieve data about links to their sites. "We received plenty of feedback from site owners and SEOs that expressed the importance of this data to better understand how their sites
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Jul
8
Google Grants is holding a workshop at Mountain View, California campus in early September. This two-day event is designed for existing Google Grantee organizations interested in strategies to maximize their AdWords account and free Google products to help reach more donors, improve operations, and raise awareness.If you're interested in attending, sign-up for the invitation
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May
12
Stratus and Microsoft announced that “it’s offering Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with its newest ftServer fault-tolerant platform. “Microsoft SQL Server users who need the highest degree of hardware availability for mid-scale databases will find the new ftServer family offers true fault tolerance in a price/performance package competitive with other solutions in the market,” said Claude Lorenson
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Random From The Stratus ftServer fault-tolerant platform for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- Oct25Purchase movies online and burn them to a DVD with Qflix from Roxio
Roxio has developed the Qflix ecosystem which’s made up of manufacturers, distributors, software developers, systems integrators, retailers, and other digital media related companies - Aug12GooReader snazzy app to “search & read” Google Books
GooReader is a desktop application that allows you to search, download and read books and magazines available on Google Books and works on Windows XP/Vista/7, - Apr08SwitchRight 0.1.3 Beta
SwitchRight is a simple command-line file permission replacement utility. Large network filesystems will often have an extensive and complex set of file permissions. Major structural - Feb28PayPal India ‘bank withdrawal’ restoration from March 3rd
Begining Feb 2010, PayPal suddenly started blocking ‘personal payments’ serives of Indian customers, as well as blocked ‘bank withdrawal’ funtionality. That - Jul01June 2010 Cumulative Update (CU) for Project Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, WSS and Project 2007
Latest Cumulative Update (CU) for Office and Office Servers 2007 has been released. This include a number of fixes, so Microsoft strongly recommends that you