Archive for November 11th, 2010
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IE on Windows Phone 7 supports a variety of font faces (13) that you can use in your Web pages, ranging from the usual suspects like Arial to fonts like Segoe WP, which Windows Phone uses itself for various User Interface text. The full set of default fonts available are listed in the following table. Each
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Microsoft this week won a patent titled "Foot-based interface for interacting with a computer." The basic idea is for users to move their feet and step on the floor to execute various commands, such as deleting email or scrolling down the screen."In addition to causing
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Here're a few useful tips for marketing managers and business owners to better understand their mobile traffic and improve returns. First, the number of visits to your site mightn't be the most attractive key performance indicator (KPI). Yes, that's exactly meaning - more traffic does NOT always translate to more sales!So
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Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. MSDN subscribers can take advantage of this platform to build and deploy their apps.Estimated savings: $2,518 (USD)Activate your Azure benefits:Sign-in to your MSDN benefits pageClick Windows Azure Platform link from MyAccount and
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YuMe, video advertising company, released its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch SDK to help advertisers, web publishers, and app developers extend their reach to iOS devices. Advertisers can access innovative new ad formats that extend mobile video campaigns directly into the apps, while web and app publishers can now fully manage campaigns on iOS devices and
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On Nov'9th, Microsoft began pushing out a "beta refresh" of Microsoft Security Essentials build 2.0.522.0 via Windows Update. It's said to be the Release Candidate build, but Microsoft officials aren't calling it that publicly.Microsoft delivered the beta 2 of MSE in July 2010, and at that time, it was said the new version include "Windows
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Best Buy published a section on their mobile site saying that the "Pure Google" Nexus S is available only at Best Buy this holiday season. A link to pre-order it doesn't work, and there's a bad image with the alternate text field showing "Nexus S for T-Mobile."Besides the name
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Yesterday, Apple released Mac OS X v10.6.5 which was supposed to bring AirPrint to any printer connected to your Mac. But, due to last minute patent trolling issues it was pulled back. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith posted a method to get AirPrint working on all Macs running Mac OS 10.6.5:The files you need are:/usr/libexec/cups/filter/urftopdf /usr/share/cups/mime/apple.convs
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YouTube introduces a prototype feature "YouTube Topics on Search" on TestTube, that simply try to identify topics on YouTube using sources: "frequently used uploader keywords, common search queries, playlist names, and even sources outside of YouTube such as Wikipedia articles" and associate videos with them."When you search -- say for "obama" -- we suggest other
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Apple started hiring the dudes and dudettes for app review process for the Mac."Apple Worldwide Developer Relations is seeking a software application specialist; someone who is meticulous, analytical, able to exercise objective analysis, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and has strong customer service skills.Candidate needs to be able to organize and prioritize a
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Latest from the "rumor" mill, the upcoming Facebook announcement on Nov'15th -- a invite-only event will have the launch of Facebook's e-mail offering Project "Titan". Titan, according to the buzz, will be a new full-featured Web mail product like Gmail, Hotmail, etc.A source close to Microsoft said "the Facebook's Nov'15 event will, indeed, be focused on
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Here're a few handful new Google Chrome extensions:Google Calendar lets you easily check your Google Calendar for upcoming events and add new events from the websites you visit. If you see an icon with a green plus sign on sites like Facebook or Evite, you can add the event to your Google Calendar. It'll also
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Microsoft warns that when using SCVMM 2008, a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows Server 2003 system fails due to Volume Shadow Copy Service on the P2V source machine. You'll receive an error similar to following (pic)."This can occur because a corrupted subscription is detected by the COM+ system causing it to stop processing
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Less than an hour after it hit the Amazon Bestsellers list and the controversial topic of its existence made the link to buy "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure" now results in the 404 error and the book is no longer #96 on the Amazon Bestseller list replaced by Ken Follett's A Dangerous Fortune.
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If you click on Gmail's "Help" link at the top of the page, you'll be sent to an appropriate section from the Gmail Help Center. Instead of always linking to the help center's homepage, Gmail links to the priority inbox section if you're using Gmail's smarter inbox, it shows the articles about filters if you're trying
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- Sep23Secure Booting Windows 8 With UEFI
In September 22 blog post, Steven Sinofsky explains how the company is protecting pre-OS environment in Windows 8 with UEFI. "The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware - Nov21Forecasting system in Google Ad Manager updates – ten times faster!
If you're a publisher who sells advertising space directly to advertisers, Google Ad Manager can help you learn what you have available to sell - Mar09Windows ITPro Business Critical Virtualization online conference; Avanade Case Study, NetApp whitepaper
Avanade virtualized its databases and consolidate them on fewer servers connected to a 50TB storage solution from NetApp. Overall, they reduced servers by 85% and - Oct01The ONE News YouTube Election Debate in New Zealand between Helen Clark and John Key
Google launched the ONE News YouTube Election Debate channel between Helen Clark and John Key, a history-making initiative with New Zealand's public - Nov06Microsoft seeks more Web-hosting inroads with “Windows Server 2008″
Microsoft is positioning its upcoming Windows Server 2008 operating system as a bonanza that, for Web hosting companies, stacks up well against the rival Linux
