Archive for March 17th, 2010
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Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for SharePoint 2007 & 2010 – Presenter by Arno Mihm - Friday March 19th @ 17:00 GMT. Register hereExtending and Customizing System Center Service Manager 2010 – Presented by Travis Wright and Corina Feurstein - Wednesday March 31st @ 7pm GMT. Register hereImplementation, Architecture and Administration
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Since its launch Google Analytics extended to track Flash/Flex and Android and iPhone Devices. Google Analytics is now “integrated into Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework, which’s open source and enables non-technical designers to quickly track how users interact with their Silverlight content. Using Google Analytics component, designers can simply drag & drop icons
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Hackers have protected the newest version of Zeus, a do-it-yourself crimeware kit responsible for stealing millions of pounds from consumers and businesses, with anti-piracy provisions similar to those used by Microsoft's Windows. According to Kevin Stevens, like Windows, Zeus 1.3 ties itself to a specific computer using a key code based in part on machine's hardware
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App-DNA, the application compatibility specialist, has produced a free checklist for enterprises planning their Windows 7 migrations. The ‘Windows 7 Application Migration Checklist’ contains useful tips and insights into App-DNA’s experience with the previous six Microsoft OS and Service Pack migrations. A quick and easy read, it offers significant value by helping enterprises to save time
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Google-certified ad networks is now available to all publishers. “Allowing these ad networks to compete for your display ad space means that more ads will be eligible to appear on your pages, leading to potentially higher earnings in long run. Our system will show ads that generate you most profit, whether they're from Google-certified
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Michael Kleef has an interesting new blog post explaining why Remote Desktop Session Host can be better in the exact same scenarios than pooled VDI. “Its important to note that the Microsoft VDI solution is based on two core platforms: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Remote Desktop Services was updated to support both the
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Over past two weeks, I have followed with interest the coverage of Apple’s suit against HTC. “Reactions to the suit run the gamut from those who defend Apple’s taking steps to protect its IP to those who claim that Apple’s suit will impede further development in smartphone market. I don’t agree with latter viewpoint. There’s a
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On March 17, 2005, Google Code was launched; “Since then it has grown from a simple site for hosting a couple of APIs into a destination for developers to prototype their ideas in a Code Playground, host all kinds of open source projects and find out about our growing family
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Microsoft at MIX 2010 re-emphasized that Windows Phone 7 Series devices wouldn’t be backwards-compatible with current Windows Mobile applications. "We do recognize there’re a lot of folks who’ve been writing apps for Windows Mobile for some time," Larry Lieberman told eWEEK. "But we recognize that the landscape has changed, and as we’ve been looking at stuff,
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Core Security Technologies issued a security advisory for Microsoft Virtual PC software – calls out a proof of concept where virtual machine monitor allows memory pages above 2GB level to be read from or written to by user-space programs running within a guest operating system. Advisory explicitly calls into question the effectiveness of many of the
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Microsoft's "For Safety's Sake" research, found that while two thirds of Australian parents surveyed are concerned about the safety of their kids online, more than 60% allow their children to surf the net unsupervised and unrestricted at home. One fifth Australian parents surveyed have caught their children looking at unsavoury material online, almost one third have
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Dean Hachamovitch and Rob Mauceri discuss how they're taking IE to a new level with all graphic rendering taking place on GPU via the DirectX technology D2D and a new JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript to machine code and can do this in a way that takes advantage of multi-core architectures.Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview:
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When you need to work offline, SBS 2008 working with Windows 7 Professional Offline Files provides a great way to continue to work with documents and files stored on your corporate network. Offline files are quickly synched with work server when you reconnect to corporate network. By working with offline files, you can: Protect yourself from
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Microsoft’s Bing image search offer filter search based type and sizes. “Go to Bing and type in [Seattle], click on images, then mouse over an image you like and you will see a link that says “Find more sizes”. Click on it. You’ll get a page listing where all of the “same” images appear online (with
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Facebook rolled out a new feature for its search box “search suggestion,” – aimed at helping Facebook users to quickly find and connect with people, pages, groups, events at applications on Facebook based on user’s preferences. You’ll see results not only of people, events, groups and Pages you're connected but also friends connections. You'll see a
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