Archive for May 7th, 2010
May
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“As part of our efforts to help developers get started with building their applications and games on the Windows Phone 7 platform we’re planning a couple of events in Redmond (May 18-19) and Silicon Valley (May 25-26). If you’re interested, be sure to register using the links below. Get a jump-start on building apps for Windows
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May
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Dave Wolf of Cynergy talk about the “eBay Simple Lister application,” one of the first publicly available Silverlight 4 out of browser applications. Dave discusses the process of how designing & developing the Silverlight 4 app was simplified using SketchFlow, Blend, and Visual Studio tools:
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May
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Google rolled out a new Google Buzz feature for you to try out: “comment via email”. “Now, you can comment on the post simply by replying to the email message. Plus, last week we made it possible to view entire photo albums in Buzz (rather than the handful of photos from a given Flickr or
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May
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Google responded to “a letter that a group of data protection commissioners recently sent us about privacy at Google, relating to the launch of Buzz in particular. In the letter, Google outlined the work they do every day to protect user privacy. “To help our users understand privacy practices, and to be transparent, we’ve developed
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May
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK 4.0.12 is now available, and “contains some very exciting additions: Advanced Developer Extensions for Dynamics CRM, also referred to as Microsoft xRM, is a new set of tools included in CRM SDK that simplifies development of Internet-enabled apps that interact with CRM 4.0. It uses well known ADO.NET technologies. This new toolkit
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May
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In Office 2007 or Office 2010 you can place your favorite commands in the aptly named Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) to always have them at the ready regardless what tab or Ribbon you are working in. Doug Thomas shows you the how in this short video:
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May
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Microsoft wrapped up Microsoft Management Summit 2010, Las Vegas. “MMS 2010 was a huge success from a number of standpoints. Starting with sold out attendance, compelling keynotes from Bob Muglia and Brad Anderson to release of new products including: System Center Essentials 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, System Center Service Manager 2010....there was
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May
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Hauppauge’s Media MVP-HD Digital Media Receiver, look like a Mac Mini/Apple TV, but doesn’t quite pull off the aesthetics. MediaMVP-HD is installed at your TV set and plays digital media (digital music, digital videos and digital pictures) from a PC or USB thumb drive onto a TV set. When digital content is on PC, MediaMVP-HD connects
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May
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To support the release of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP), Microsoft have updated all of FPSP product documentation on TechNet. In addition to the general updates to the content, also added several new documentation topics. These include: FPSP product documentation TechNetUpgrade guidanceBest Practicesand FPSP Management Pack for Microsoft System
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May
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Morten Just, product manager in Vodafone, Copenhagen, Denmark, spent most of his career as an interaction designer churning out wireframes & diagrams, and also co-founded Imity, a Bluetooth-enabled social network for mobile phones in 2006. He shares how to wireframe in Google Docs: “To begin working on a wireframe: Open template you want to use;
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May
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Paul Thurrott has done a nice job of separating hype from reality. He references IDC’s forecast that 45.6 million mininotebooks (netbooks) will be sold in 2011 and 60.3 million units in 2013. “Apple releases a successful product the iPad but it suddenly becomes The Second Coming (tm). So much so that Fortune's web-based Mac blog, Apple
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May
7
Learn the latest updates on Microsoft Dynamics CRM “5”, Accelerators, Integration Adaptors, SDK, CRM Online, Globalization, and Azure AppFabric. You can download the Statement-of-Direction (pdf) (requires access to PartnerSource). No Comments » - Posted by DG
May
7
Google “reached another milestone — 8 million students, faculty and staff around the world have gone Google Apps. Google says that the US has about 16 million college students total. This new milestone has been keeping us especially busy since it comes less than 60 days after we announced 7 million active users. In
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May
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Charlie Kaufman, gives us details on how the network communications work and are secure within Windows Azure. Topics: » Why don’t we use IPSec between Compute node and store? » Breakdown of virtualization security in Azure » How do we protect against malicious users doing things like Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?
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May
7
Bing Maps “released 194,000 square kilometers of new and refreshed imagery. This includes high resolution 20cm aerial for Wellington, New Zealand and 60cm satellite updates for Australia, Mexico, Namibia, Russian Federation and South Africa. Also, released and enhanced Bird’s eye worldwide with more urban models and the ability to view locations from a re-projected perspective, from
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