Archive for July 3rd, 2010
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Yahoo! said that "it has enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist algorithm to provide near real-time suggestions as you type your query, which'll be especially useful when there're recent top news or events related to your search topic.""For e.g., to find out which team Netherlands would be matched currently in World Cup, type
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Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2008 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web apps and services on Azure. Installation includes Windows Azure SDK.The tool is now available in German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Korean. On the download page
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Google's "appeals process" is designed to make it easier for you to contest a takedown and a strike against your YouTube account for a Community Guidelines and flag content that violates the rules. So, if you think your video was removed mistakenly, you can appeal the strike within your own account. Here's how: When you sign
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A blog post "PowerPivot Interest By Industry" noted that healthcare was the top industry. One of the key reasons is that while healthcare systems have a lot of patient transactional data, it's often left to analyst using Excel to understand the meaning behind all of this information."A common question in hospitals is, once a patient discharged,
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BoomTown's Kara Swisher recently interviewed Yahoo!'s Mark Morrissey and Greg Nelson. Mark talked about what the coming search alliance will provide to advertisers, here's a quote from Mark"[Search is] a critical part of our business today, and a critical part of our consumer experience, and it always will be. What the market deserves is…a true alternative
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At a press event in New York City, DirecTV and Panasonic announced new DirecTV channels, which offer movies, documentaries, sports and other 3D content around the clock, unspoiled by conventional 2D TV fare. DirecTV had already launched ESPN on channel 106 of its satellite-based TV service on June 11.You can view 3D content regardless of whether
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Dell finally admitted of "shipping out millions of OptiPlex desktops computers with faulty capacitors". At the same time, while, Lionel Menchaca outlined the issue on company's blog, he stopped saying that "they were deceiving customers who were plagued with faulty part".According to NYT, Dell may have shipped as many as 11.8 million computers with affected parts
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Microsoft have published two Wiki articles on TechNet to support Windows Home Server and Small Business Server users configuring their router. Whilst both platforms have the ability to automatically configure UPnP routers, the wide variety of routers out there with differing implementations of the standard leads to inconsistent results. Each guide provides step by step walkthroughs
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Facebook is rolling out a new way to help out newcomers to find interesting Pages. Now, "when new people join, they'll see a list of "commonly like pages" that other people in similar demographic likes. The list of Pages is strictly determined by an algorithm, so none of the suggestions is sponsored and Page administrators can't
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Icy Dock MB668U3-1SB USB 3.0 Mobile Enclosure device handles most standard 2.5" SATA HDD and SSD and allows the user to connect it to their system using SuperSpeed USB3.0 for transfer rates up to 5 Gb/s! For systems which've not yet upgraded to USB 3.0, and is backwards compatible to use with any USB 2.0 port
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Google rolled out few more features for YouTubers:When you upload videos, there's a short period of time between uploading and before it being visible on site. The new processing percentage under video preview lets you know when your video is ready to see:In addition to "AutoSharing" to Facebook, Twitter,
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If your plnning a conference, class or virtual get together, this post walks you throught the steps to set up a Ustream channel, a backchannel discussion wave to broadcast the event live. "Both, Ustream video player and Google Wave are embeddable, and can be combined on same page. Best thing of using "embedded wave" is
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Shakira's fans from over 40 countries -- from Egypt to Venezuela, Netherlands to South Africa -- submitted 2,500 questions, put forth several impressive Waka Waka dance renditions, and cast 40,000 votes on questions should be asked her interview, featured on YouTube. Shakira fills you in on whom she's rooting for World Cup, which of her
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Google funding a program "Computer Science for High School (CS4HS)" — a workshop for high and middle school computer science teachers that introduces new concepts in computing and how to teach them. The ultimate goals are to "train the trainer," develop a thriving community of high school CS teachers, and spread the word about the awe
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WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed "3 million downloads," and the plugin directory followed the suit with a milestone of "100 million downloads"."We want to provide developers the tools they need to build best possible plugins. We're going to provide better integration with forums. We'll make more statistics available to analyze your user base, and over time
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