Archive for February 17th, 2010
Feb
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Windows PowerShell Team revealed 'some customers had been reporting installation issues related to Windows Management Framework and down-level operating systems. Li indicates that vast majority of deployment features are reported to produce following error message: “The update does not apply to your system.” “It’s a blocking issue for some customers since they cannot get WMF successfully
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Feb
17
Google on their mobile search interface no longer display the number of search results. Google's mobile interface is optimized for smartphones includes a "more" option at the bottom of the page. Click on "more", select "search within results" and you'll see a new page that shows the number of search results. If you don't want to
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Feb
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Industry specialist published the “2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors” – a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. The list’s the result of collaboration between SANS Institute, MITRE, and top software security experts in US and Europe. It leverages experiences in development of
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Feb
17
Looking at Desktop Virtualization including VDI? Thinking about Windows 7 migration; wants savings, but wondering about ROI? Join Microsoft, industry experts and IT leaders: Desltop Virtualization Hour, on March 18th, 9am PST.More info: Desktop Virtualization Hour No Comments » - Posted by DG
Feb
17
By now you may have seen Yahoo’s global ad campaign that shows how Yahoo! is focused on YOU like never before. Yagoo! launched a new national ad campaign covering radio and the Web. The new campaign looks directly at the Yahoo! Search experience, where the company continue to bring you all the information you
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Feb
17
Microsoft is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, with the "beta" version of “Outlook Social Connector,” an add-on for Outlook. When a user clicks to read an e-mail message, a
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Feb
17
TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) announced that the annual Pwn2Own contest 2010 will held at CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC on Mar 24th 2010. If you successfully exploit a target you get to keep it along with a ZDI cash prize and related benefits. This year comes with an increased total cash prize amount to
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Feb
17
Active Directory celebrates its 10th anniversary as a released product “According to Brian Puhl, on April 9, 1999 the Domain Controllers for the redmond.corp.microsoft.com Windows NT4-based domain were upgraded to a pre-release version of Windows 2000 Servers and thus became an Active Directory domain. Of course, today this domain is serviced by Windows Server 2008 R2
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Feb
17
Google quietly implemented MySpace Real-Time Search API, which would push publicly available updates from MySpace users to Google in real-time. Now, “when you search for anything on Google, as part of your search results you’ll see live updates from MySpace users, including news, photos, and blog posts that they’ve chosen to publically publish. Further, all of
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Feb
17
Yahoo! now let you log into the Huffington Post using your Yahoo! ID. This’s just one of the new features Huffington Post has enabled by tapping into our Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) platform, other two features include: “First’s Yahoo! Updates: Once you’ve logged into Huffington Post with Yahoo! ID, you’ll also be
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Feb
17
Hear Charlie Kindel, who has worked at Microsoft for over 20 years on projects like the Windows SDK and DDK, COM, ActiveX, IIS, the original Active Server Pages, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and now Windows Phone 7 Series. Hear about Charlie’s upcoming session at MIX10, his perspective on multi-screen applications that are connected via
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Feb
17
iGoogle Gadget Dashboard, is a tool to give gadget developers more insight into how their gadget is used in the wild. Google rolled out the newest additions of the dashboard over last week. “Developers can now subscribe to their gadget's directory comments with their favorite RSS reader, so it's easy to stay current with your user's
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Feb
17
Some of the most successful mobile browsers are based on the open source WebKit project. Default browsers for the iPhone and Google Android are WebKit-based. Now RIM demonstrated a new WebKit-based browser for BlackBerry phones at Mobile World Congress. There's no word on a launch date, or which phones will be compatible with the new browser.
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Feb
17
DPM has consistently aimed at making your backups more reliable. The transition from tape to disk as a medium for storing backups provided the first impetus to improved reliability of backups, and was delivered with DPM 2006. DPM 2010 continues on this path of improving reliability and makes substantial improvements towards reducing the burden on the
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Feb
17
To learn more about cloud computing and Windows Azure! you can join local MSDN and TechNet teams at an upcoming sessions: “MSDN-hosted session, "Take Your Applications Sky High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform", provides a developer-focused overview of Azure Platform and cloud computing services that can be used either together or independently to
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Random From The MSDN and TechNet sessions for ‘Windows 7, Virtualization and Windows Azure’
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"We put together a great document called the Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008, which I’d encourage developers to take a look - Dec20Internet Explorer 9 Code Named Triton?
In the Channel9 video today about IE 8 succeeding in passing the Acid2 test the interviewer accidentally drops what could be the codename for - Mar22Google AdWords Demographic Bidding
The Official Google AdWords blog has released “Demographic Bidding” for all AdWords advertisers. Google started beta testing demographic bidding in January’ 08, helps you target your