Archive for March 23rd, 2010


Mar 23

Google hasn’t infringed trade mark law by allowing ‘bid for trademaked-keywords,’ European Court of Justice rules

An European Court of Justice confirmed that Google ‘hasn’t infringed trade mark law by allowing advertisers to bid for keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks.’ Google was facing a inquiry for a question‘whether advertisers should be allowed to choose keywords freely when reaching out to users on the Internet. In other words, if advertisers are
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Mar 23

Visio co-founder Ted Johnson back at Microsofts’ IE team

Ted Johnson is back at Microsoft and is working on the IE team. Johnson quietly rejoined Microsoft in August 2008 and had been keeping a low public profile in the ensuing months. Johnson said he was looking for a new job and called Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky, who put him in touch with the IE
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Mar 23

Partial Response and Partial Update added to Google APIs

In order to make APIs faster, Google introduced two experimental features in Google Data Protocol, partial response and partial update. “Say, you’re writing a Android calendar widget, and you want to display time & title of recently changed events on Google Calendar. With old Calendar Data API, you would request calendar’s events feed and receive a
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Mar 23

“Gift This App” Apple iTune allows gift iPhone apps

A new feature on Apple iTunes let you ‘gift specific iPhone apps’ to other users. On the drop-down box on each application’s page (next to “Buy” button) there’s now an option that says “Gift This App.” You then just enter details like name, e-mail address and message that you want to include. Please note, you can
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Mar 23

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Laptops & Worldwide Ad Campaign Launched

Lenovo introduces the “ThinkPad Edge” 14 and 15–inch laptops, designed for style and sophistication, select models offer an elegant backlit keyboard for SMBs. Starting at $599, ThinkPad Edge come equipped with: choices of Intel Core i5 / i3 Series /Celeron processors; VoIP features including high resolution cameras, HD LED
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Mar 23

Web Analytics capabilities of SharePoint 2010

In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft improved the set of Web Analytics reports available out-of-the-box. There’re three categories of reports: Traffic reports; Search reports; Inventory reports. You can access WA reports by going to Site Actions -> Site Settings. Under Site Actions heading you’ll see two links, Site Web Analytics Reports and Site Collection Web Analytics Reports. When
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Mar 23

‘User based targeting of applications’ error in App-V, Configuration Manager 2007

As you can see in the whitepaper for App-V Integration in SCCM, it’s not possible to configure SCCM 2007 for user based targeting on Terminal Servers (RDS). As a workaround to this, some customers have written logon scripts or used third party apps like Citrix or AppSense that run multiple SFTMIME instances at user
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Mar 23

Google Search supports Haitian Krey

Google added Haitian Krey
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Mar 23

Workarounds to use Windows Identity Foundation SDK with Visual Studio 2010 RC

There’re some known issues with using Windows Identity Foundation SDK on Visual Studio 2010 RC that don’t exist with VS 2008. When VS 2010 is released, we expect to refresh SDK to resolve these problems, in the meantime, we’ve some simple guidance for using SDK with VS 2010. “Request Validation: difference in behavior stems from changes
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Mar 23

Real World Windows Azure Cloud computing business scenarios – Webcast

Joey and Brian Prince sketching out how to identify applications which can move to cloud. Joey considers the buzz from business owners and senior IT Pros: “I’m seriously drowning in costs and not helping the business move forward. IT is a strategic asset to the business. Can I use the cloud to help me?” Brian ties
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Mar 23

IE9 User Agent String and IE Security (Video)

“An important change for site developers to know is that IE9 will send the short UA string by default. This change improves overall performance, interoperability and compatibility. IE9 will no longer send additions to the UA string made by other software installed on the machine such as .NET and many others.
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Mar 23

.co.uk domain address FREE by Google, BT and PayPal [UK only]

A campaign under the slogan "Getting British business online", launched, in partnership that includes the backing of Google, BT, Enterprise UK, e-skills UK and PayPal. And aims of giving away 100,000 free .co.uk web addresses to small business in the UK. Google will be providing registration services and hosting via
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Mar 23

SQL Server Tables in AD RMS Logging Database – Webcast

Peter Gilson describes the different SQL Server tables within the AD RMS Logging Database and their relationship to each other.
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Mar 23

AdMob updates Android, iPhone, Flash Lite platforms SDKs, launches enhanced publisher tools

AdMob mobile advertising unit bought by Google is launching updated ‘Android SDK, that brings a number of rich media ad units, and allows expandable canvas and multi-panel banner advertisements on Android devices, iPhone SDK unit featuring performance enhancements and additional server side flexibility, and an industry first Flash Lite SDK , which's in beta, enables monetization
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Mar 23

Sierra Wireless deliver Windows 7 Device Stage support for mobile broadband AirCard Products

Sierra’s Wireless AirCard product line now provides Windows 7 Device Stage experience across multiple devices. In addition, Device Stage provides network operators selling Sierra Wireless AirCard devices with an opportunity to connect directly with customers through Device Stage in Windows 7. A lot of laptops today come with built-in 3G mobile broadband capabilities. However, if your
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