Archive for February 12th, 2010


Feb 12

Windows Phone 7 confirmation revealed on Microsoft’s Engergize IT Event site

On Jan 29, 2010, a reference of “Windows Phone 7” on Microsoft’s events website for Energize IT 2010 in Canada on March 30, 2010 was found. There’s a session titled “From the Client to the Cloud V 2.0” that earlier contained a Windows Phone 7 reference which has since then been replaced with “Windows
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Feb 12

Security Bulletins for Regular IT Guy – Feb 2010 Podcast

Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus put together a concise and timely podcast for “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care:
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Feb 12

Nokia Booklet 3G and Nokia Smartbook

Nokia have announced the official price of the Nokia Booklet to be €575 which works out at $816 USD pre subsidized, and is expected to go on sale early 2010. Nokia Booklet 3G specification include: 1250 g, 264 x 185 x 19.9 mm, Intel Atom Z530, 1.6 GHz, Intel Poulsbo US15W,
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Feb 12

Pushbot worm added to Malicious Software Removal Tool February 2010 Update

Microsoft added Win32/Pushbot to the February 2010 of Malicious Software Removal Tool. “Pushbot is, in many ways, an “old school” bot. It’s controlled through IRC, it can distribute itself through several different channels and its source code is more or less open (for those who mix in certain circles). Like Win32/Rbot, Pushbot isn’t one piece of
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Feb 12

Synology DiskStation DS710+ – High-performance NAS Server for SMB

Synology launched “DiskStation DS710+,” a 2-bay NAS server delivering high-performance, scalability, and business applications for small and medium businesses. The Synology DS710+ retains a high throughput when handling requests from multiple Windows clients simultaneously. The web server responsiveness rate, takes only 58.28 seconds to handle 1,000 simultaneous requests. With the Synology DX510 that will be launched
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Feb 12

F#, February 2010 Community Technology Preview Released

F# February 2010 CTP provides all the tools and resources needed to develop applications with the F# programming language. F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET. F# is well suited to a
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Feb 12

Windows Azure RoleEntryPoint methods and call order

Jim posted about the RoleEntryPoint methods and call order in Windows Azure. In the case of a Worker Role, the RoleEntryPoint class is the class you derive to write your code. When you create a new Worker Role project in Visual Studio, you’ll see that the project contains one code file and in that code file
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Feb 12

Russia lucrative market for unlicensed software, Microsoft

Russia is a notoriously lucrative market for unlicensed software, movies and music - a persistent issue in Moscow's stalled accession to the World Trade Organisation. Microsoft checked 2,500 retailers in 53 Russian cities over the last few months and found 25% offered illegally copied software, while 11 per cent of stores offered to install the unlicensed
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Feb 12

AdSense Product Ideas page suggestions

Google AdSense team posted a few ideas on the Product Ideas page that relate to existing features in AdSense:Suggested: Show a list of sites displaying ads from a specific publisher ID to prevent malicious activity. Recommend: Try Allowed Sites feature to protect your account. To get started with this feature, visit the
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Feb 12

Aardvark acqired by Google for $50 million

Google has acquired Aardvark, a help engine, for $50 million. “Aardvark lets you quickly and easily tap into the knowledge and experience of your friends and extended network of contacts. Aardvark analyzes questions to determine what they're about and then matches each question to people with relevant knowledge and interests to give you an
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Feb 12

Microsoft Surface commercially available in Australia

Microsoft Australia announced the commercial availability of Microsoft Surface. Microsoft Surface now provides Australian institutions and businesses such as Curtin University and ANZ new ways to connect with their students and customers. “Microsoft Surface represents an innovative new way for people to interface with technology,” said Peter Nikoletatos, of Curtin University of Technology. “We’re pleased to
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Feb 12

‘Halo: Reach, Alan Wake, FINAL FANTASY XIII’ and more games coming to Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE

At X10, Microsoft showcased a barrage of exclusive games that defy traditional genres and create new experiences filled with emotion, adrenaline and suspense, “Halo: Reach,” blasting off May 3, and the chilling and immersive mystery of “Alan Wake” coming May 18 — both only available on the Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment system, starting at just
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Feb 12

Windows Mobile 7 to be unveiled at MWC, resembles Zune HD

On Monday morning, Pacific time, Steve Ballmer will speak at Mobile World Congress, and it looks like Microsoft will be bringing the goods, unveiling the next version of its Windows Mobile operating system, according to a report by Wall Street Journal “At a wireless industry conference in Barcelona on Monday, the company plans to
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Feb 12

Google Search for Mobile on Android-powered device or iPhone get new look

Customer of Android-powered device or iPhone, using Google Search with a web browser will see some changes to the look of the buttons and toolbars to a style you’re familiar with on Mobile Gmail, Latitude, Calendar and Tasks. As with these Google apps, color contrast of the style now adds more focus to search results of
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Feb 12

Office for iPad ‘Microsoft Mac unit studies iPad’ – Office for Mac 2011 announced at MacWorld

Microsoft at MacWorld expo, announced “Office 2011 for Mac,” first of its Apple-based suites to serve up Microsoft Outlook and web-based co-authoring. Built into the new software will be .PTS support, allowing users to back up and open their emails outisde of the client. It also supports Information Rights Management, which allow to access documents with
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