Archive for March 27th, 2010


Mar 27

Facebook tests a universal “like button” to take over entire internet

Preparing for the upcoming product announcements at F8 Developer Conference in April, Facebook already started testing out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers. One of the new features that allow other websites to integrate with Facebook is the extension of Facebook Connect and the Facebook API. They're starting to allow publishers to
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Mar 27

Microsoft CodePlex adds ‘Windows Live ID, Download Page Ads,’ and more features

Microsoft users will now be able to log in to CodePlex using their Windows Live ID accounts. Hawley indicated:“Next time you visit the login screen, you’ll see a “Sign In” button at top. Once that button is clicked, you’ll be redirected to Windows Live ID to authenticate. Upon successfully authenticating, you’ll be redirected back to CodePlex.
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Mar 27

Umbraco Microsoft ASP.NET CMS – Webcast

umbraco is an open source project CMS based on Microsoft ASP.NET, and was released in 2004. Today it has grown to be among the top fifteen most popular open source .NET applications and in May 2008 it hit a milestone at 50.000 installed and active websites (double up from 25.000 in April 2007). This screencast discusses
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Mar 27

Windows 7 Deployment Options Webcast

In this screencast John Baker talks about why you should deploy Windows 7, walks you through Microsoft’s Deployment options, and addresses your various deployment concerns:
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Mar 27

Microsoft RemoteFX and ‘Promise of VDI, Client-Centric Remoting, Host-Centric Remoting’

Microsoft is delivering RemoteFX, a set of technologies that’ll change the way that the industry thinks about Windows desktop centralization, remote graphics, and thin client computing scenarios. This post explains goals for remoting:Promise of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is that end-user desktops can be centralized in such a way as to move complexity and
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Mar 27

Google experimental fiber network greeted with ‘over 1100 community & 194k individuals responses’

Google says the response from communities and individuals has been tremendous and creative for their ‘plans to build experimental, ultra high-speed broadband networks.’ “We’ve ‘received more than 1,100 community and 194k responses from individuals. We're thrilled to see this kind of excitement, and we want to humbly thank
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Mar 27

HP MediaSmart Server and Data Vault update 3.3 released available via Windows Home Server Console

HP released another update for their MediaSmart Server and Data Vault models. Version 3.3 includes a fix to improve the quality of transcoded audio files, an issue seemingly introduced in the last update. Incidentally, a lot of issues hanging around Twonky on MediaSmart Server, even though some users uninstalled TwonkyMedia Server from their home server, it’s
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Mar 27

Add images to your scraps to orkut

Google launched an ability to add photos to your scraps to new orkut. To add images to your scraps, first click the text box to write and edit a message. You'll then see customization options, such as font color and emoticons. Click the image icon to add an image to your your scrap. You can upload
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Mar 27

Google Apps Marketplace YouTube channel – Showcasing vendor videos

Google launched a new YouTube channel for Google Apps Marketplace, showcasing videos from Marketplace vendors. Ranging from funny to informative, from cartoons to screencasts, these videos are meant to convey the benefits of extending Google Apps with integrated apps that work seamlessly with Gmail, Calendar, Docs and more. “We're happy to already have more
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Mar 27

Google Suggest available in 50 languages across 170 domains

Google Suggest help you formulate queries, reduce spelling errors and save keystrokes. Google made a number of visual changes to Suggest for English-speaking users of google.com, including: Boldface search suggestions to make it faster to scan list of suggestions and find what you're looking for; Adding "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons to the
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Mar 27

Exchange Server ‘Where are Mailbox Import Export / support diagnostics cmdlets?’

When you’re a member of "Exchange Organization Administrators" or Organization Management role groups, it’s perceived that you’ve all rights that can be granted in an Exchange Organization and that you should be able to perform all tasks and run every cmdlet out there. That’s until you try to run cmdlets specified in Mailbox Import
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Mar 27

Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 protect users with ‘defense in depth’ features

Protecting Windows customers is an absolute priority for the Internet Explorer engineering team. “We've spent a lot of time talking about some of the more visible safety and privacy features like SmartScreen Filter, but there’re a number of other features that aren't as visible and help prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited, though some are
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Mar 27

Earth Hour on March 27th by World Wildlife Fund

On March 27th from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time, World Wildlife Fund invites you to join people from 3,100 cities in 121 countries on all 7 continents in participating in Earth Hour, where people across the world can demonstrate their concern about global climate change with the simplest of gestures: turning off all non-essential
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Mar 27

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt spotted together at a cafe in Palo Alto

Two men were spotted talking business at Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center in Palo Alto. The men were the CEOs of two most important and powerful companies of Silicon Valley, Apples’ CEO Steve Jobs and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. “Our tipster saw em and snapped these shots, and noted that the cafe is
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Mar 27

Googles’ Bradley Horowitz at Startup2Startup talks Buzzs’ future, Gmail innovation, and more – Video interview

Startup2Startup is a program founded by Dave McClure and Leonard Speiser, and is meant to help new entrepreneurs connect with their peers, and meet some potential investors. Each month, Startup2Startup invites a seasoned entrepreneur or tech executive to speak to attendees, This month’s guest was Google’s Bradley Horowitz, who’s charged with managing of Google’s
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