Archive for the October, 2010
Oct
22
Yahoo! Mobile Web Messenger now offers SMS capabilities, so whether you have a smartphone or a feature phone, you can send text messages to your friends' mobile phones -- for free. Whether you have a smartphone, or standard feature phone, if you have a data plan, Mobile Web Messenger can run on your phone. No setup
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Oct
26
Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones through BlackBerry Beta Zone is now avilable. Here're a few examples of what's new in Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones v1.9:First off, there's now a dedicated inbox for Facebook messages. This inbox syncs with the Web-based Facebook inbox in real-time, including read states. And if you want to,
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Oct
4
In this episode of The Office Show, Jennifer Egan ("A Visit From the Goon Squad") filled us in on how she created a chapter of her new book with PowerPoint. It's an amazing chapter, as are her insights on using PowerPoint's features for compelling storytelling.
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Oct
18
Mobile is the new battlefield, and Google has a huge lead. Yahoo! currently drives the market share of Microsoft/Yahoo! alliance, and it'll be interesting to see what effect Windows Phone 7 has on mobile search.Coming out of the mobile search panel at SMX East, Chitika's Dan Ruby presented data showing that "Based on traffic coming through
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Oct
13
Zynga, behind the hit social games such as "FarmVille and Mafia Wars," is expanding its operation to Seattle. The company on its job board says that it's "building a world-class team of web engineers in Seattle," and "hiring at all levels from associate engineers to architects." "We're building something that needs your skills. Your goal is
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Oct
5
Microsoft adCenter will begin to power the search ads on Yahoo Search and partners. October 11th is the day Yahoo announced as the big transition of ad serving. The transition will begin Monday and take about two weeks to roll out completely. Again, this is only impacting U.S. and Canadian searchers.Yahoo said:"While many advertisers have initiated
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Oct
2
Love your iPad! Wish you could run your favorite 'nix apps on it, StarNet released "iLIVE," which turns the iPad into an X terminal that runs Linux and Unix apps hosted on remote servers. iLIVEx will give users LAN-like performance, and security when accessing remote apps, even over 3G connections, because it relies on speedy X11
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Oct
22
The Internet in 2020- Predictions: In 2010, there're 1.8 billion Internet users and a world population of 6.7 billion. In 2020, it's estimated 5 billion Internet users. Today, Internet has 575 million host computers. Expect billions of sensors on buildings and bridges to be connected to Internet by 2020. Internet traffic will grow to 44 exabytes
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Oct
20
Starbucks and Yahoo! launched "Starbucks Digital Network" in the U.S. company-operated stores to provide customers free instant access to a collection of hand-picked premium news, entertainment and lifestyle content along with free downloads, local insights and events from nearly 20 different content providers including iTunes, Nick Jr. Boost, Rodale, WSJ.com and Yahoo!.
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Oct
27
Bing has set out to help reduce the stress and wasted time caused by inefficient driving routes with the launch of the "RouteSavvy" app in Bing Maps."With this route optimization map app from OnTerra, people can enter up to 100 addresses into Bing Maps and receive the optimal route between their destinations. Whether you are going
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Oct
13
Jennifer Egan, the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a film starring Cameron Diaz. She's a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship,a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. In her latest novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad
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Oct
8
In the video, Ryan and Steve cover the Microsoft cloud: talk about how to manually package your services using CSPack.exe and when you would do it; Show how to deploy WebMatrix projects to Windows Azure; Talk about diferences in deploying .NET 4.0 projects as compared to .NET 3.5:
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Oct
25
ActionScript 3 Player APIs, both in the chromeless and embedded variety, have been available for use since Oct'09. During the launch, Google the deprecation of ActionScript 2 equivalents. As per deprecation policy, Google'll keep ActionScript 2 Player APIs running through Oct'2012.However, there's a change; "As of Jan'11, some videos that YouTube and our content partners
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Oct
15
Apple on Oct'20th will unveil its latest bid to cater to consumers in the market for a true sub-notebook with the introduction of a smaller, 11.6-inch MacBook Air redesigned from the ground up, AppleInsider reports.According to this person, the new models will do away with existing options for a conventional hard-disk
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Oct
15
Google is reported testing scrollable images on the Google India home page. The images shown on the home page "features an image gallery of popular search phrases."Though, I personally do not see it, but here is a picture and video:
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- Oct28Visual Studio 2010 ‘Debugger enhancements and improvements’ – Video
In this video, Jason Olson joined by Andrew Hall and Brad Sullivan to take a look at some new enhancements and improvements made to the debugger and debugging experience in Visual Studio 2010. - Sep16Voice Actions for Android Devices Now In the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain
Voice Actions, a series of spoken commands that let you control your Android phone or tablet with your voice was introduced in the US - Mar24Digg ‘Smart Digg buttons and Widget generator’ for publishers
Digg launched new and improved smart Digg buttons and a widget generator for publishers. “Digg This” button - Nov16Automate VM Provisioning Using Service Manager and Opalis [Video]
This is a live demo by Travis Wright and Jim Pitts recorded in Berlin at TechEd EMEA.In this demo we show how you can automate - Mar03The Year in iPad Apple – iPad: Year One [Video]
Apple posted the video that showed at the March special iPad launch event in San Francisco."There's never been anything like iPad. It changes the