Archive for March 11th, 2010
Mar
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Microsoft reports of settlement (pdf) with Funmobile, in which “Funmobile will refrain from “spimming” customers or contacts of Windows Live Messenger and will make a cash payment to Microsoft.” Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit last July filed a lawsuit alleging that Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company had improperly sent instant messaging spam –
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Mar
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Microsoft scheduled following Forefront Identity Manager 2010 webcast:TechNet Webcast: Forefront Identity Manager 2010: Monitoring and Troubleshooting FIM in Production (Level 300) – 3/18/2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 3/18/2010 11:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes: Troubleshooting FIM requires broad domain knowledge of technologies such as Active Directory, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL, Wi ....
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Mar
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If you prefer “Posterous” blogging platform over Moveable Type, WordPress and the like, do you know that you can use Windows Live Writer to post to Posterous, if you want to send the same post to both your traditional blog or website and your Posterous blog at the same time. In order to support
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Mar
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Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder is no longer the world's richest man; he was knocked out of the top slot in Forbes annual ranking of the top billionaires by Carlos Slim, the 70-year-old Mexican telecommunications mogul who showed an impressive net worth of $53.5 billion - - just above Gates' net worth of $53 billion. Microsoft co-founder
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Mar
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Millions of college basketball fans, now on-the-go will stay on top of their bracket selections. “Yahoo! has created a mobile College Basketball site where fans can play the Yahoo! Sports Tourney Pick’em game right on their mobile device at m.yahoo.com/tourneypickem. In addition, they’ll be able to get live scoring, game stats, updated schedules, news, and
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Mar
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Microsoft announced the availablility of “MySpace for Outlook,” add-on that enables you to view activity updates for friends and colleagues in the People Pane every time you open a friend's email or the MySpace Contacts List, synchronize your MySpace contact list to your Outlook contacts, get one-click access to your friends' MySpace profiles, utilize new Outlook
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Mar
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Microsoft begins the registration for UK TechDays events from 12th to 16th April, and announced a new session: “After Hours @ UK Tech Days 2010 – Wednesday 14th April, 7pm – 9pm. Vue Cinema, Fulham Broadway – Reviving the critically acclaimed series of mad cap hobbyist technology demonstrations – After Hours reappears at Tech
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Mar
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At GDC 2010, OnLive Chief Operating Officer Mike McGarvey revealed that “games streaming service OnLive will launch in the US on June 17th backed by Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment,” report MCV. Subscriptions for the cloud-based service will cost $14.95 per month. Some of the titles include Assassin’s
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Mar
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Google Reader Play is a new way to browse interesting stuff on the web, easy to use and personalized to the things you like. “In Google Reader Play, items are presented one at a time, and each item is big and full-screen. After you've read an item, just click next arrow to move to next one,
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Mar
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Microsoft the city of New York and Selfhelp Community Services unveiled their “Virtual Senior Center,” an innovative project that shows how cities can use technology to revitalize senior centers and enhance the lives of homebound seniors. “Virtual Senior Center links six homebound seniors (ranging
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Mar
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Windows Live Solution Center (WLSC) was originally intended to focus on problems and solutions for Hotmail. Now, it seems Microsoft updated Solution Center to support all Windows Live services. Not only this, but Microsoft is making WLSC the “evolution of consumer support for all Windows Live products”. What this means is that Microsoft no longer offers
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Mar
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Microsoft introduced a new website called “Develop for Windows,” to hear feedback and to provide developers a single place to find all the resources and tools they can use to build great applications for Windows. “The Develop for Windows website is our direct connection to the developer community, and vice versa. Developers who visit the site
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Mar
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At RSA Conference, a report by Kelly Jackson Higgins, Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina revealed ‘they created a smartphone application called “WeatherFist” which grabbed information from 8000 smartphone users, including their GPS co-ordinates and telephone numbers, before displaying local weather information. Tijerina and Brown chose not to distribute their app via the official iPhone
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Mar
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Russell Heimlich developed “Dynamic Dummy Image Generator” in PHP under a MIT License, is a great time saver for web developers laying out a quick page. It receives arguments in the following URL format, and returns an image of the exact size, colors (background & foreground), specified file format (png, jpg, gif), and text:
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Mar
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Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal have created a fun site listing of various CSS tweaks that you can make, and see the results instantly. CSS3, Please! lets you play with fancy new rules such as: border-radius; box shadow; gradients; rgba support in backgrounds; transforms; font-face.More info: CSS3 Rule
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Random From The CSS3 ‘Cross-Browser Rule Generator’
- Mar29Android Market In-app Billing Launched for Developers and Users
The In-app Billing on Android Market to developers and users is now launched. In-app Billing gives you more ways to monetize your apps with try-and-buy, - Mar18IE8 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 available on ECE site
The latest version of the Microsoft web browser “Internet Explorer 8” is now available on the ECE site for installing on a Windows Embedded Standard - Feb14System Restore Point using two-clicks in Windows 7
System Restore has been part of Windows for ages now, but some people have trouble in remembering the steps. Normally, to create a system restore - Aug19YouTube Products Store Launched
Google launched a new online store for you to get YouTube swag!, and it's stocked with - Jul27GoingNative Episode 0: Fly this Plane, Some Modern C++ and More!
GoingNative is a new, monthly show on C9 dedicated to native development and native developers, with an emphasis on modern C++.The main goal of this