Archive for March 12th, 2010
Mar
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Samsung unveiled a swathe of 3D TV models in various sizes across their 7000, 8000 and 9000 LED Series, the LCD 750 Series and 7000/8000 Series Plasmas. Also 3D capable 46” and 55” LED C7000 with additional models rolling out in coming weeks. New Samsung 3D TV, Home Cinema and Blu-ray models in the US will
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Mar
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Pete LePage give us some Internet Explorer 8 security tips as surfers as well as a few tips for developers on some of the things that can help prevent security threats. Pete goes through three security topics that every developer should know about, include: ‘tips for cross-site scripting defenses, HTML sanitization, and JSON sanitization’:
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Mar
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In video demo, Trey Brumley shows how you can use InfoPath to customize the form for an external list on SharePoint that connects to a SQL Employee database through Business Connectivity Services:
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Mar
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On March 11, Google Voice celebrated its first-birthday. “One of the best things about this past year has been receiving tons of helpful feedback and ideas from our users. We wanted to thank you for letting us know what you think, and we hope you like the improvements we've made since then. Some of the most
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Mar
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At SXSW, “I’ll join my peers in the community support space to discuss what customer support looks like in a “140 character world.” Supporting customers through social media isn’t about amassing followers. It’s about creating dialogue, and if you communicate successfully with customers instead of simply talking at them, you’ll actually provide greater value in the
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Mar
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FCC launched a "beta" consumer broadband test on broadband.gov. The site provides access to two third-party measurement tools: “First is Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) -- an open source tool developed by Internet2 -- and see their estimated download and upload speeds. They can also see the estimated latency and jitter of the connection test
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Mar
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This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on March 9th, 2010. March 2010 Security Release ISO Image contains just multiple language versions of MS10-016, a security update that was offered to Windows users through Windows Update on March 9, 2010, set up to plug a hole in Windows
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This screencast shows why it isn’t a good idea to have a completely and exclusively virtualized infrastructure: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
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Google added Hong Kong and Macau to its Google Maps Street View. “You can also view new World Heritage sites, as well as locations from your own personal heritage. Our trike recently visited beautiful historic city of Kyoto, where you can view two of Japan’s UNESCO World Heritage locations, Nijo Castle and Nishi Hongwanji Temple. You
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Mar
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For all entertainment junkies, Yahoo! launched a new “TV shortcut” to display the latest video clips, bonus videos or even entire episodes, episodes list, ratings, show times from Yahoo! TV, and photos – all with just one click from the Search results page. On the left side of the page, Yahoo! show suggestions of related
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Mar
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A permanent injunction against Microsoft selling versions of Word that contain XML editing ability effectively remains in place today, after a shot-in-Dec 2009, Microsoft lost its second appeal to overrule the $240 million dollar fine imposed by a US court for copyright infringement on Wednesday. The initial ruling dictated that Microsoft pay up, as
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Mar
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Sputnik JavaScript conformance test suite, is a collection of over 5,000 tests designed to assess the level of conformance with the 3rd edition of the ECMA-262 specification. “Test Runner for Sputnik, lets you run tests from a single URL and quickly see results in your browser. This makes it easier both for
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Mar
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Only 8% of utilities around the world have completed their smart grid technology implementations while 37% have projects underway and more than half haven’t yet started, according to Microsoft Worldwide Utility Industry Survey 2010, released at CERAWeek 2010 in Houston. Microsoft surveyed almost 200 professionals within electric, gas and water utilities and related companies around the
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Mar
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At MIX10, Las Vegas, Tim Heuer will let out a sneak peek at some new application XAML themes developed by Microsoft for Silverlight 4, including one inspired by the Zune desktop software appropriately called “Metro”. Also includes ‘Grayscale, and Windows Theme – inspired by Windows 7 system design.” Although themes support was introduced with Silverlight 3,
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Mar
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Microsoft announced that ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. Final release of VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 will have ASP.NET MVC 2 built-in – so you won’t need an additional install in order to use MVC 2 with them. MVC 2 can be installed
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