Archive for November 12th, 2010
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According to repports, Microsoft's short-lived Kin One and Kin Two are coming back for an encore performance on Verizon, possibly as soon as this quarter, -- will be called the KIN ONEm and KIN TWOm.The revised phones will be totally, completely debundled from data services.
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AT&T and Amazon Wireless essentially giving away any smartphone when purchased with a new contract from November 11 through November 15 -- for the incredibly low price of $0.01. The deal will vary for users already on AT&T as for most phones it's required to be added as a new activation.
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In this devnugget, Andrew demonstrates some of the new features in WebMatrix Beta 3, including rendering unencoded output with Html.Raw, new Package Management support, new publishing features, and a new options dialog.
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Last week's, Google Maps goof-up that resuted in invasion of the Costa Rica by Nicaragua, and a day later Google informed of a data error regarding the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua in Google Maps -- and that they would update data for this region.Google announced that they've now updated the border data
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Google's correcting how it displays a small island in the Strait of Gibraltar, according to Associated Press, Google said its mapping service goofed twice by attributing a disputed islet off North Africa first to Morocco, and then to Spain.Google's geopolitical team
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Here's a Good news! for all Candian Apple iPhone users, actually they're two: First, SkyFire is finally available on the Canadian App Store (iTune link).Next, wished to get Pandora on your iPhone, here's how to enable Pandora on Rogers:Make sure that Wi-Fi is marked "OFF" in Settings -> Wi-FiThen
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Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto trilogy is finally making its way to the Mac. The trilogy includes San Andreas (personal favorite), GTA III, and Vice City."The Grand Theft Auto series has been one of the most highly demanded titles by the Mac community. The availability of this incredible franchise
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Windows Summit is a website designed for people who want to build solutions with Internet Explorer 9 or who engineer and test Windows 7 PCs, devices, and software.Microsot have posted new IE9 sessions that highlight the latest web platform capabilities in IE9. The eight presentations cover many aspects of building solutions in HTML5 using same
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Have you ever been stuck in an airport, hotel room, coffee shop, or on the road with no Internet? Tether is an application that until now was available to BlackBerry smartphones, and now just hit Android phones -- allows your PC to take advantage of your Android smartphone's data plan, allowing you to access the Internet
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Nov
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Gartner have published a research note for their clients who're stuck on Internet Explorer 6, offering guidance around "Solving the IE 6 Dilemma." But none of options included are very palatable -- at least not according to Gartner.Gartner notes that a number of organizations still are supporting and/or standardizing on IE 6 -- 9 years after
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BusinessWeek published an article on Chinese search engine "Baidu," how it "won" China and its global aspirations."Baidu holds a 73% market share in China. The company is worth $38 billion and is 57% larger than Yahoo!. Its shares have doubled in value since Google "withdrew" from China to Hong Kong earlier this year."The post contains a
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Nov
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Apple has released iTunes 10.1 which is required to update your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to iOS 4.2. The update includes support for video AirPlay, the feature that will let you instantly, wirelessly stream videos from iTunes to the Apple TV. As usual, stability and performance improvements are included too.
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"Daily newspapers around the country are finding new ways to connect online, real-time news content with their physical newspapers through the use of a new type of barcode called Microsoft Tag," informs Microsoft."Tags allow readers to access dynamic content through the printed newspaper while offering editors the ability to augment editorial and advertising content with the
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Nov
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The Google Analytics APIs are an important part of this ecosystem and platform. In fact, over 80 new applications have been added to Google Apps Gallery since we announced it 6 months ago.Google have announced an important development tool -- "Google Code," the documentation on which developers depend to create these apps -- available in five
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Microsoft is inviting to a very special event on December 2nd, 2010. Learn about the future of Silverlight from Corporate Vice President, Scott Guthrie and other experts, direct from Microsoft's HQ.Hear about our plans for the next version of Silverlight, the latest developments as well as in-depth sessions on building applications with Silverlight.
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Random From The Silverlight Firestarter Even on December 2nd, 2010
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