Archive for March 9th, 2010
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Last week, Google added ‘Edit places’ to its Maps program to let you edit listing through the Place Page. But sometimes you may find a place in Google Maps isn't quite positioned. So Google added a map marker edit to Street View images to make editing much easier. Here’s how editing feature works: “When
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Mar
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Mainsoft is launching “Harmony” plug-in to make document sharing easy for Microsoft Outlook users. Harmony will bring Google Docs documents and Microsoft SharePoint document libraries directly in to Microsoft Outlook sidebar, that enables people to share a single, centralized copy of the document, eliminating steps associated with sending e-mail attachments back & forth. Plug-in allows users
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Mar
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Microsoft announced the Planning and Design Guide for Dynamic Data Center beta. The design process in the free Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Dynamic Data Center allows your organization to strategically plan a Dynamic Data Center infrastructure that is designed for ease of manageability. Key benefits include: The infrastructure is designed using best practices
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Google Summer of Code program, fund students worldwide to work with mentors from the FLOSS community on a three month coding project. “Google begin accepting applications from open source projects who wish to act as mentoring organizations. We'll be taking mentoring organization applications until Friday, March 12th at 23:00 UTC.
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In this screencast, learn how your organization can improve agility using Microsoft integrated virtualization solutions: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
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Valve announced that it’ll bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April. "Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we’ve added a new
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Mar
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In 1985, almost all PCs sat on desktops, the Internet was a Defense Department research project, and the cell phone revolution had barely gotten underway. It was also the year that Microsoft launched a DOS front-end called Windows 1.0. Over the past quarter century, Windows has evolved many times, and it’ll change again in light of
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Mar
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Dell introduced the Vostro 3000 series of Windows PCs for Small Business customer. Vostro 3000 series consists: a 17” Vostro 3700, 5” Vostro 3500, a 14” Vostro 3400, and a 13” Vostro 3300. 3000 series will come with latest Intel Core processors, including, optional quad-core Intel Core i7 processor available on Vostro 3700. 3300 is one
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Mar
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Last week in Manila, “Telecentre.org Foundation” was officially launched as an independent organization. “Celebrating with our hosts in the Philippines and colleagues from around the world, I reflected on this culmination of nearly six years of effort to help bring the benefits of technology to people in underserved communities around the world. We were joined in
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Mar
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This post is to clear the misunderstanding “doesn’t qualify for Volume Licensing because they don’t have 5 computers.” Microsoft, Volume Licensing programs, such as Open License and Open Value, are designed to be available to clients with as few as 2 computers “Both OL and OV require a minimum order of 5 Licenses (for Open License)
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Mar
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Avanade virtualized its databases and consolidate them on fewer servers connected to a 50TB storage solution from NetApp. Overall, they reduced servers by 85% and improved performance by 50%. NetApp, released a whitepaper that discusses their testing with consolidation of multiple workloads: Exchange Server 2007 (2000 heavy users; 250 MB Mailbox), SharePoint 2007 (3000
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Mar
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Google Geocoding Web Service is intended to enable precaching of geocoder results that you know your application will need in future. “For e.g., if your application displays property listings, you can geocode the address of each property, cache the results on your server, and serve these locations to your API application. This ensures that your application
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Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, offers a great SSL VPN feature set, especially when integrated into an existing Microsoft Windows network and when used to provide staff access to enterprise applications. Forefront UAG distinguishes itself from most other SSL VPN products in three ways. First, it’s a software-only solution licensed on a per-user basis. Although underlying
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Mar
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NCCE Seattle announced the next Bing homepage photo contest, kickoff on March 29, and is asking students in the US to submit photos to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and the winning photo will be displayed on the Bing homepage on April 22, Earth Day itself! Prices include: · 1st place
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Mar
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Earlier this month, Google added ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ to Webmaster Tools; Now, Google allows webmasters to create a special entry, called “Create your Sidewiki page owner entry,” that appears above all entries written by users “Sidewiki allows users to contribute helpful information to any webpage using a sidebar in Google Toolbar or a Chrome
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