Archive for May 20th, 2010
May
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The Fraunhofer Institute, reports that they’ve found, “Yahoo! Mail users saw the least amount of spam out of the five providers tested, with nearly 40% less spam than Hotmail and 55% less spam than Gmail – meaning Gmail users in the study saw more than twice as much spam as Yahoo! Mail users”. “Spammers use every
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May
20
Google bought Simplify Media, a startup that offers software that lets you share your photos and music using programs like iTunes, iPhoto and Windows Media player. According to the startup’s site Simplify Media “connects people directly with their content, without the hassles of synching or uploading all their files. Simplify users can also share their personal
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May
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Google announced “‘Google App Engine for Business,’ that lets organizations build, maintain, and run their business apps on Google’s infrastructure, with added management & support features tailored specifically for enterprise. New features include: » Centralized administration: A new, company-focused administration console lets you manage all apps in your domain » Reliability and support:
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May
20
Windows 7 Deployment Plan can be used as a broad checklist or as the overall reference document for each part of deployment process. For each segment of the process, Deployment Plan presents the steps as identified in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a list of interim and final milestones, and pointers to some of useful documentation pertinent
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May
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Google announced two features to help display highly targeted ads: ; Both of these AdSense features can be easily added to most sites by copying & pasting few lines of JavaScript code:AdSense for Search Ads Only allows publishers to include AdSense for search ads on their Custom Search element pages and pair them with their own,
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May
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“Starting on May 23, head over to Best Buy or BestBuy.com (U.S. only) and pick up either a 14” Toshiba E205 or 15.6” Dell s15z notebook along with an Xbox 360 Arcade and get a $200 discount. Both PCs come with Windows 7 Home Premium, which is perfect for taking full advantage of all the
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May
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At Google I/O, Google launched “WebM,” an open web media format project and open-sourced VP8, a high-quality, web-optimized video codec, contributing the project under a royalty-free license. WebM includes: VP8; Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec; a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container. A developer preview
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May
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Netflix has enabled streaming of HD content via the Web, which Microsoft's Windows Media Center software will also bring home to consumers. Netflix previously streamed HD content, but it required a dedicated device, such as a Roku player, TiVo, or a game console like a Microsoft Xbox 360. Now, as of May 18, more than 1,800
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May
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Google TV combines television with Internet, and opens up your TV from few hundred to millions of channels across TV and the web. “With Google Chrome built in, you can access your favorite websites and easily move between television & web, and your TV can be a video, photo slideshow viewer, gaming console, music player and
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May
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Google now allows “enabling “query autocompletions” for Custom Search search engine. To enable autocompletions, select Enable autocompletions in Basics tab of control panel. After you’ve saved your settings, replace the “search box” code in your website with code from the Get code tab. Please note that it can take a few hours for to start generating
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May
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Rights policy templates in Active Directory Rights Management Services allow administrators to craft standard levels of protection to protect sensitive content across organization. Templates also offer additional security options that aren’t available in normal protection. These allow administrators to craft more appropriate protection policies. This video show you how to create & consume content protected with
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May
20
Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 Deployment Guide is a great resource to organizations that are not buying the OEM version of the platform pre-installed on a server. “This document explains how to deploy and configure your MultiPoint Server system. MultiPoint Server Deployment Task List is provided for you to use as a checklist of the tasks that
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May
20
Google released the videos of Google Analytics Master Classes in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur event. Each session was kept deliberately short - no speaker goes on longer than 20 minutes - in order to maintain audience’s interest and to keep topics flowing at a good pace, and lets you learn about Google Analytics in convenient bite-sized
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May
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Microsoft announced that the “Registration is now open for the SharePoint 2010 beta exams. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. The 71-xxx identifier is used for registering for beta versions of MCP exams. When
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May
20
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 brings to the table all the functionality associated with the previous Standard Edition of the platform, but of course, at no cost, reveals Microsoft. “New features in Microsoft RDS 2008 R3 include added support for Visual Studio 2010 and two additional simulation environments (Multi-level House and Factory). Additional samples have
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Random From The Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) 2008 R3 available for FREE
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