Archive for May 21st, 2010
May
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World Cup countdown is on and BBC has “World Cup fixtures calendar available for download to your calendar if you use Outlook, Google Calendar or iCal - in just three easy steps: 1. Download here 2. Save .ics file to your desktop - "Save" (Internet Explorer) or "Save to
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May
21
Quick and easy to loading AdventureWorks (Lightweight version) into SQL Azure to start developing and building POCS. This video shows quick and easy loading AdventureWorks (Lightweight version) into SQL Azure:Download: AdventureWorks community sample[Source] No Comments » - Posted by DG
May
21
Google I/O 2010, San Francisco, features over 5,000 developers, more than 90 sessions, over 180 companies in the Sandbox and a steady stream of major announcements. Vic Gundotra kicked off Day 1 keynote, featured the future of the web with HTML5, WebM, Chrome Web Store, Google App Engine for Business and more:Day 1
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May
21
In Exchange 2007, Microsoft introduced “five server roles that performed distinct functions within Exchange organization. One role in particular - Client Access server role - introduced a variety of new Web services, including Availability service, Autodiscover service and Calendar Concierge services. Exchange 2010 has same server roles. However, there’re some significant architectural changes and some shift
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May
21
Google introduced a new Ad Extensions tab within AdWords account. “From Ad Extensions tab, you can see statistics of your campaign ad extensions. You can choose to see "All" or "All but deleted" extensions, and you can also choose type of ad extensions to view, such as location or product extensions. For e.g., if you select
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May
21
The Federal Trade Commission cleared Google’s acquisition of AdMob. FTC said “[…]the agency’s concerns ultimately were overshadowed by recent developments in the market, most notably a move by Apple Computer Inc. – the maker of the iPhone – to launch its own, competing mobile ad network[…]”. “This’s a great news for mobile advertising ecosystem as a
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May
21
Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate announced at Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event. The final availability will follow in June. Windows Server AppFabric provides improved speed, elastic scale and high availability for Web applications through new, distributed caching capabilities. It also provides tools to simplify the development and management of composite applications built using Windows Communication
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May
21
For past five years Corporate Counsel magazine has conducted an annual review to identify country’s top in-house legal teams. This week, Corporate Counsel has “named Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs the Best Legal Department of 2010. Corporate Counsel has published a lengthy story that includes video interview with Brad Smith, as well as commentary from
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May
21
The Guardian made available their “Open Platform” beta to "Open for Business". Open for developers to take and co-monetize our content with us, building new apps for distributing and consuming news. It’s also open for partners to build new experiences which blend content from The Guardian and their own functionality and in some cases brands
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May
21
AMD’s quite absence from Home and Small Office Media Server market over the years, as OEMs generally preferring Intel Atom, Celeron and Pentium chips to power their systems, soon set to change by this summer. As the company discuss their forthcoming products designed to address Home Media Servers (HMS) segment, based around AMD’s ASB2 (BGA) and
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May
21
Adobe released an extension pack that brings extensive HTML5 and CSS3 functionality to Dreamweaver CS5, and helps you easily create HTML5 pages and CSS3 styles. It also includes updates and WebKit improvements for Design View and Live View rendering. While HTML5 and CSS3 willn’t be finalized for some time, extension provides support for a set of
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May
21
Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files from Internet in a more reliable and faster way than using a browser alone. Using DM makes it easier to download large files such as an app or multimedia files. DM has been specifically designed to manage file downloads from supporting Microsoft Web sites in a secure &
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May
21
Dan Oughton from IndustryBuilt, discusses the use of MultiTouch capabilities of Windows 7 in their justfoodERP product: No Comments » - Posted by DG
May
21
At the first Google I/O keynote, Google flashed a chart that shows the “growth of Google Chrome from 30 million users in July 2009 to 70 million users as on today. It's worth pointing out that this’s the number of active users, not the number of Google Chrome downloads. So, how does this compare to Firefox
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May
21
At Google I/O keynote, VP of engineering Vic Gundotra repeatedly “ripped into Apple, and he did it right off the bat. The video embedded below shows the first ten minutes of his keynote where he discusses why the world needs Android, and praise the virtues of an open platform
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