Archive for February 23rd, 2010
Feb
23
1. Post by emailat buzz@gmail.com — a super handy for posting photos you take on your phone, and attached to your email will appear along with subject line of your message.2. Prevent your boring chat status messages from being posted to Buzz. Don't want a boring message like
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Feb
23
Starting February 22, 2010, Windows Azure developers have the option of deploying their applications in two more regions. These two new sub-regions should provide developers with additional resources and flexibility in addressing customer needs. With the two new locations, ‘West Europe' and ‘East Asia", a total of six available deployment options are now available: Europe:
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Feb
23
Analysis of Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) reveals that in 2009 social networks such as Twitter and Facebook were at the greatest risk, malware and defacement remained the most common outcome of Web attacks, and SQL injection was the most common attack vector. “One in five incidents (19%) between Jan and Jun 2009 targeted
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Feb
23
Google launched “Google Earth for Android” with a smooth framerate and a beautiful 800 x 480 screen, alongwith the “Roads layer,” for you to get a better sense of where you’re with road labels drawn on top of satellite imagery. Google has used ‘integrated voice recognition’ capabilities of Android to provide a “pocket globe” that responds
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Feb
23
Google and See3 Communications launched the “DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards”One winner will be selected in each of following categories: Best Small Organization Video, Best Medium Organization Video, Best Large Organization Video and Best Innovation in Video. Winners will be recognized at Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta and on YouTube, and
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Feb
23
For RDS users out there its an easy process to get your hands on the binaries. App-V 4.6 for RDS (formerly App-V for Terminal Services) can be downloaded here. Once at the site click Continue. Certain Registration details will be required to allow the download to take place. Once you’ve completed the registration process
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Feb
23
In this webcast, Kevin Remde and David Tesar, delve deeper into the top five reasons to deploy Internet Explorer 8. Tune in to learn about productivity, security, management, ease of migration and deployment aspects of IE8:
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Feb
23
This post looks at how Windows Azure Platform billing works; You can contact Microsoft Online Services customer support. You can also review Windows Azure Platform Offers Comparison Table to help you decide which of current Azure Platform Offers best suits your needs. Microsoft Online Customer Service Portal limits one Account
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Feb
23
Apple is removing most of sexy apps such as “Asian Boobs, upskirt apps, Bikini Blast” from its App Store, but they’re not removing all of them. Big publishers like Sports Illustrated, FHM and Playboy are to stay. Apples’ Phil Schiller spoke with the New York Times “So why did Apple
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Feb
23
Microsoft launched a public-relations campaign for replacing state Route 520 bridge -- the frequently clogged regional artery used every day by thousands of its employees to make the trip across Lake Washington, from Seattle to Redmond and back. The company's campaign, which includes a website and
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Feb
23
Over the weekend, a widespread phishing scam hit Twitter where users were lured in through bad links via Direct Messages that ultimately let spammers take over their Twitter account. These types of phishing scams on popular social networking sites like Twitter highlights that the threat landscape continues to evolve – and at a rapid
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Feb
23
In additon to the release of App-V 4.6 via MDOP 2010! Microsoft released an update to the App-V Resource Kit, alongwith two new tools:Application Virtualization SFT View Tool provide scanners and automated tools with read-only access to .sft files. For e..g., you can install SFT View on App-V Management Servers to allow vulnerability
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Feb
23
A great infographic from The Guardian that makes rising sea levels much more real for people. “A "1 metre sea level rise" is in the same domain as "1 ton of carbon" or "£1 billion". That is, it's meaningless without context or some link to our everyday lives. So, in this diagram, I've tried to sum
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Feb
23
In Exchange Server 2010, there’s no more single instance storage (SIS). During development of Exchange 4.0, we had two primary goals in mind, and SIS was borne out of these goals: Ensure that messages were delivered as fast and as efficient as possible; Reduce the amount of disk space required to store messages, as disk
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Feb
23
Microsoft completed the first technology preview for SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse! “new, massively scalable data warehousing solution is unique because it offers hardware flexibility with configurations from the major hardware vendors - Bull, Dell, EMC, HP and IBM. Parallel Data Warehouse also offers customers very high scalability through a MPP (Massively Parallel Processing)
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