Archive for March 24th, 2010


Mar 24

Update for Google Apps customers in China

Google posted additional information on how ‘stopped censoring’ in China, may affect your employees that use Google Apps within mainland China. “it’s important to know that there’re several networking configurations and associated technologies available to help ensure ongoing access to your critical business services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. These network
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Mar 24

Google Voice for Android added “Inbox synchronization” feature

Google Voice for Android received a new feature called “Inbox synchronization,” which notify Android-powered device of new text messages or voicemails within seconds (previously 15 minutes) of receiving new messages in Google Voice inbox. To activate Inbox synchronization, open Google Voice settings on your phone and touch Refresh and notification. Once you selected Synchronize Inbox option,
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Mar 24

Microsoft’s ITPAC Data Center more like ‘trailer park’

Microsoft’s data centre evolution previously called “Generation 4 vision” heading towards pre-manufacturing every part of data centre: the IT, mechanical and electrical components as part of Pre-Assembled Components that we call an “ITPAC.” We placed one of these outside the University of Washington recently during Steve Ballmer’s cloud talk. This pre
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Mar 24

Sergey Brin urges US to take stand against China’s internet censorship – Disappointed with Microsofts’ China stance

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he’s disappointed with Microsoft for speaking out "against freedom of speech and human rights simply in order to contradict Google." The comments came during an interview with The Guardian “Brin has called on Washington to take a stand against China's censorship of the internet, urging the US to make the issue
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Mar 24

Microsoft Courier Tablets’ existence confirmed via job posting

A job posting on Microsoft confirmed ‘Courier’ – According to All Things D, as well as a few tipsters, Microsoft has all but confirmed the existence of the Courier tablet. In a post on The JobsBloggers, hard to say) touting Microsoft innovation, this passage was originally posted: “Do you already know everything about Project Natal and
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Mar 24

Hotmail Tools for The New Busy – Microsoft marketing campaign

A new Microsoft marketing campaign is promoting Windows Live Hotmail under the tagline “The New Busy.” Hotmail – tools for the new busy is the site associated with the new campaign, which although hosted on Windows Live, places all of its emphasis on Hotmail, rather than “Windows Live Hotmail”. “The new busy aren’t like the old
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Mar 24

Synology DX510 expansion unit for Synology DS1010+ and DS710+ NAS device

Synology DX510 is an expansion unit to increase the capacity of Synology DS1010+ and DS710+ on the fly. When Synology DS1010+ or DS710+ is running out of capacity, Synology DX510 scales up its capacity by an additional 5 hard drives immediately. RAID volume on Synology DiskStation can be expanded directly without having to reformat existing hard
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Mar 24

Windows Live SkyDrive: High quality photo sharing and accessing Office 2010 files

In addition to saving files to a private location, “one of the exciting Backstage features in Office 2010 is the ability to save your files to Windows Live SkyDrive from within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote desktop applications. Saving to a shared folder makes it easy for you to collaborate with others when working with Microsoft
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Mar 24

Windows Home Server “Genie in the Box” commercials on Hulu

Microsoft’s two, 30-second Windows Home Server commercials will run for 3 months throughout 25 different shows on Hulu. Videos were created to be metaphors of WHS, and convey 2 of the key features – Backup and Recovery, and using it as a Media Server. In the 30-second clips, WHS is described as a “Genie in the
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Mar 24

Verify and Claim website URL in Google Merchant Center

Google intorduces a change to Google Merchant Center “to help ensure that you’re the only one submitting product listings for your site. You’ll now need to verify yourself as the owner of the site and then claim the URL in order to submit product listings for that site. This requires two separate steps:
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Mar 24

Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search and Yahoo! Search applicatios for iPhone and iPod Touch devices

At CTIA 2010, Las Vegas, Yahoo! announced two new location-aware apps for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch in 22 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and can be downloaded for free from iTunes: First is, Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search makes searching for restaurants on the go incredibly easy. You don’t have to type keywords or
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Mar 24

Fix for Silverlight Design Time in Windows Azure Cloud Service issue

This’s a workaround for following configuration: Visual Studio 2008 (works fine on VS 2010); Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio February 2010 Release; Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008; Building a Silverlight application in a Windows Azure Cloud Service. Fixing the issue: 1. Close Visual Studio 2. Save attached file
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Mar 24

Bing t-shirt for XBOX Live Avatar

You can now dress your XBOX Live Avatar in a Bing t-shirt. Hopefully a sign of more collaboration in simple but subtle ways across our products and services. “Next time when you open your browser, swing over to Bing and and when you enter the magic search term, you’ll end
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Mar 24

Yahoos’ Yield Manager top ad malware distributor, says Avast

Malware that exploits holes in popular applications is being delivered by big ad delivery platforms including those run by Yahoo, Fox, and Google, according to Prague-based antivirus firm Avast ‘some large ad delivery platforms including Yahoo's Yield Manager and Fox Audience Network's Fimserve.com, together cover more than 50% of online ads, and to a much smaller
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Mar 24

AdWords Search Funnels beta – Insight into AdWords ads

Google released a new set of reports for AdWords ‘AdWords Search Funnels’ beta, that describe the ad click and impression behavior on Google.com that leads up to a conversion. In addition to a Top Conversions report, Search Funnels consist of 7 reports including Assisted Conversions, First and Last Click Analysis, Time Lag, and Path
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