Archive for August 24th, 2010
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Bing Entertainment in partnership with Alpha Broadcasting in Portland, OR, on their new live performance venue called "The Bing Lounge," which'll bring Rose City residents a line-up of performances to enable community to come together and experience great music, sports and culture. In case you're not able to make it to The Bing Lounge, all performances
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Aug
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TiVo launched the full QWERTY TiVo Slide Remote control. The TiVo Slide Remote isn't an infrared device like the traditional TiVo remote, but connects instead via Bluetooth to a USB dongle that attaches to TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL units, TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL DVRs.It's available right
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Aug
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Jesse Liberty has started a series of tutorials for iPhone developers that focus on the minimum you need to know to add Windows Phone 7 development to your skill set. The series begins with iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – #0. In the first tutorial, Jesse addresses: Phone performance, Games on Silverlight, MVC & MVVM,
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Aug
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Microsoft Education team shared the graphic below. As students head back to school, they're going to face a job climate that'll increasingly require tech skills – 77% of jobs will require some tech within next ten years. And high school dropouts from the Class of 2006-7 will cost the US economy $329 billion in lost wages
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Aug
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A recent Mozilla Test Pilot study entitled "Understanding Private Browsing," the findings are remarkably clear; there are four very well-defined peaks in our Private Browsing habits, and most of our Private Browsing "sessions" are around 10 minutes long. Those four peaks are "lunch break, after work/school, after dinner, and late at night". Though what happens in
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Aug
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The installation of Outlook Social Connector is different from most downloads. Besides downloading OCS (for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003; included in Outlook 2010), you must download provider files for each social network you want to connect to. Note: To use Facebook in OCS, you must allow a 3rd-party app (which's default setting). If
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Aug
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adCenter announced that "they'll be temporarily increasing the standard crawl rate they use for detecting ad relevance on adCenter ads:Along with our consistent efforts to increase relevance for your adCenter campaigns, we'll be temporarily increasing the rate at which your sites will be crawled to 20 to 30qps. This's within the accepted standards
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Aug
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Apple announced that users have downloaded over 300 million iTunes U audio and video recordings. "In just over 3 years, iTunes U downloads have topped 300 million and it has become one of the world's most popular online educational catalogs. Over 800 universities throughout the world have active iTunes U sites, and nearly half of these
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Aug
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Yahoo! Search completed the work of transitioning certain back-end functions for Yahoo! Search over to Microsoft platform. So if ranking well in organic search results is important to your business, here're three tips:Review your organic search rankings on Yahoo! Search for keywords that work best for you and note any differences in your rank, now that
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Aug
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Google launches new Android/iPhone edition of Google Finance for mobile! The new design gives you a unified experience across desktop and Android or iPhone phones, offering nearly all the same features and functionality on both. You can easily access the new site when you do a Google search for stock tickers or company names on your
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Aug
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Google added a new sorting algorithm called "weighted sort" to Google Analytics. "Now when you sort on a computed metric, you can weight that sort by the number of data points, bringing you the most interesting and actionable rows first. Weighted sort is also available on other popular computed metrics, including goal conversion rate, % new
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Aug
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When first starting a business, everything is new and different. So what're the first things you need to do to turn your vision into reality? Here're some tools to help you on your journey to success!Google Apps helps smbs get up and running with email, calendaring, instant messaging, document, spreadsheets and presentations, site creation and
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Aug
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Many users complained about the links to the contacts manager and to Google Tasks, which are now displayed at the top of the page, above the Compose button in the latest Gmail interface. If you're one of those who rarely using contact manager and don't need a task management app, the two links can be
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Aug
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Did you know that women will control $28 trillion in annual spending globally by 2014? Yahoo!'s Women Connectonomics study key findings include: » top needs for women revolve around personal growth and their interdependencies on others » Women's lifestyle sites like Yahoo! Shine and special interest sites fulfill the most needs for women » Women are
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Aug
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Until AMD released its Atom-killing Bobcat and Xeon-ending Bulldozer cores, here're presentation slides & details:First up, Bobcat core is AMD's long overdue play for netbook/ultrathin market. Pitched as having 90% of performance of current-gen, K8-based mainstream chips, AMD's new mobility core will require "less than half area and fraction of power" of its predecessors. The Bobcat's
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Random From The AMD Bobcat and Bulldozer CPU Cores ‘Presentation & Detailed’
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