Archive for May 17th, 2010
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2, formerly known as SQL Server Code-Named “Kilimanjaro”, is the next release of SQL Server. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server. “Important Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online upgrades your existing SQL Server 2008 version of Books Online. If you upgrade, be aware that content &
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Winter Olympics, Vancouver, Canada, online video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming set the bar for the industry:Unprecedented Online Viewing Times: Host nation Canada’s CTV saw 4 million visitors consume over 6 PetaBytes, or 7 million hours of video, peaking at over 130,000 concurrent viewers. [Read More]Effective Ad Monetization: In US, NBC built on
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MAP 5.0 beta 2 software is coming soon!! Software Usage Tracking is a unique feature of MAP 5.0 beta that helps you determine ‘license compliance & simplifies Software Asset Management process’. Software Usage tracking feature of MAP toolkit provides consistent software usage reports for Microsoft servers in core CAL suite and SQL servers in your
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Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment provides an end to end trial experience across all of the BRS solutions. The environment provides an opportunity to evaluate protection, access, management and identity technologies as a pre-configured set of VHDs. BRS Trial Environment (3.0b) was put together in order to simplify the demoing & analysis of: Forefront Unified
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RepliWeb helps manage staging-to-production release cycles and replicate distributed SharePoint sites with RepliWeb Operations Suite for SharePoint. The product assists your team so they can review SharePoint assets before they are deployed. And it provides various deployment options. ROSS provides selective or comprehensive replication of functional elements and content throughout multi-stage (Development, Staging, Production) and multi-site
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Last week Brad guest speak at the annual Citrix conference ‘Synergy’ in San Francisco. Here’s an interview Brad did while there with Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix:
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May
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Google’s Blogger in Draft now supports “a new, improved preview feature that allows you to see how your post will actually look to your readers before making them for public viewing”. On the New Post page, click on the Preview button (this is a new button that we’ve just added), and you’ll see a new window
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QuarkPromote incorporates Windows 7 light up features for its Rich Internet Application (RIA). Users customize promotional material, business cards, and fliers using the QuarkPromote. You get Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client from QuarkPromote.com website. The thick clients allows users to view and customize templates and then print the materials with printer quality at nearby print
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May
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It's always been possible to run webOS on a PC using the emulator built into Palm's SDK, but “it turns out that the operating system image used for the emulator can actually be installed on an IDE hard drive and booted from. This’s exactly what a member of the PreCentral forums did with his Dell
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May
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Now, when you visit Chrome Extensions Gallery, you will find it less cluttered, Google is finally taking steps toward making things less messed up. Beneath the Featured link, “there are now six sub-categories ‘web development, blogging, shopping, sports, fun, and by Google’. They're not all inclusive, but instead are curated lists -- which I'm guessing include
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May
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Google has seemingly updated the Android Market website. The interface is more straightforward than it used to be. Now sporting tabs ‘Featured, Top Free, Top Paid’ with category underneath. Good thing there’re sites like Cyrket and AndroLib (update: and AppBrain) to do what Google apparently can’t or won’t: make a decent website for people who’d like
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May
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Microsoft begin selling a Dell XPS 16 loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium plus Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student (with a free upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student) for $1,049. Dell XPS16 is a great graduation gift for students heading back to school next fall because it’s powerful enough to handle work and
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May
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The FPE 2010 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server running FPE 2010 and checks the server’s system configuration as well as the FPE 2010 product configuration. Any settings or combination of settings that do not conform to FPE 2010 best practices are summarized and displayed in a consolidated report, so that administrators can easily identify and
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May
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“Happy 5th Birthday YouTube!” “Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world. Today, thanks to you, our site has crossed another milestone: YouTube
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May
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Google have “add five more alpha languages Azerbaijani, Armenian, Basque, Urdu and Georgian — bringing the total number of languages on Google Translate to 57. Collectively these languages have roughly 100 million speakers,” writes Google….These languages are available while still in alpha status. You can expect translations to be less fluent than our other languages,
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- May17Skype Introduces Free Calls to Traditional Landlines and Mobile Phones in the US and Canada
San Jose, CA, May 15, 2006 – Skype®, the global Internet communications company, today announced that all US and Canadian-based - Jan12Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks – Online safety video by Google
Google released a new “online safety video” as part of Digital Literacy campaign. This video ‘Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks, shares some tips - Dec22Google Cache Mapper – Virtual Scrollbar for Google Cache
Google Cache Mapper is a Greasemonkey script that enhances Google's cached pages by adding a virtual scrollbar along the left border of the window that - Jan09Mono .NET framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii
Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii. According to Novell's lead Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza, several applications in Apple's App Store are powered by Mono. - May20Download Update roll-up 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Microsoft released an update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 to the download center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on May 26. The release comes with a mix of product improvements (aka Critical Design Change Requests) and bug fixes.