Archive for November 15th, 2010
Nov
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Apple's long-going brawl with iPhone copycat, Meizu has taken an interesting turn, with a Shanghai-based company suing the Patent Bureau and Apple, claiming Apple's design patents are "invalid." According to MeizuMe:Apple filed a patent covering three products. When the Patent Bureau saw that Apple didn't specify what product the patent was for,
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In the video, David Gristwood talks with Mydeo at the end of an intense 2 week Windows Azure "Proof of Concept" activity at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in the UK. They talk about their motivation for looking at Windows Azure, the architecture thy came up with, and what they achieved in the 2 weeks working
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In this session, we'll cover the design philosophy of Rx, rooted on the deep duality between the interactive IEnumerable interface and the new reactive IObservable interface in .NET 4.
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comScore, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 175 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in Oct for an average of 15.1 hours per viewer. Google Sites had the highest number of viewing sessions, crossing the 2.0 billion mark in Oct, and average time spent per viewer at 272 minutes,
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Google Website Optimizer can help you decide which design increases your website's effectiveness among its visitors. You can test out different experiments and build your site based on actual data rather than guesswork."Prissilia Kho, a Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer Specialist based in Singapore, will hold a series of webinars on Dec'1,2010, 2:00PM - 3:00PM
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Nov
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Today, Apple has replaced its entire home page of Apple.com with a giant teaser announcement flogging something that will happen tomorrow at 10AM Eastern, 7AM Pacific:
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Facebbok today launched a feature that "lets decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages. They'll receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time. You shouldn't have to remember who prefers IM over email or
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Nov
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Keith Rivers produced and directed this 2:30min spot featuring the entire family of Microsoft's consumer offerings -- Windows 7, Windows Live Essentials 2011, Skydrive, Office Web Apps and Windows Phone 7.According to Keith, who was a fan of this up and coming musician Andrew Belle, this commercial documentary/music video for the song was very much
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Nov
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Microsoft has provided an automated Fix IT solution for the issue described in the KB 2396571, "Some icons in the following locations are randomly changed to other icons on a computer running XP, Vista, or Windows 7: My Computer, Windows Explorer, Desktop and Quick Launch bar."Users affected by this particular problem need to navigate to run
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Nov
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Reallusion, makers of iClone have launched "Bring Your Architecture to Life SketchUp & iClone Rendering Contest." With a combination of realistic materials, detailed landscape entourage objects, spiffy lighting effects and full-fledges animation, iClone is a really nice way to present your models.If you use SketchUp on a Windows computer, you should definitely give iClone a whirl.
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Nov
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Microsoft announced that North Carolina is the first state in the nation to launch and implement the Microsoft IT Academy Program at all public high schools statewide. Microsoft IT Academy provides students with real-world technology skills they need to be successful in college and their careers.Under the agreement by the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction June
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Nov
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Do you want to play an important role in the content and topics that'll be included at Convergence 2011? You now've the opportunity to help guide and direct content development for breakout sessions at Convergence 2011. For a limited time, complete the CALL FOR TOPICS survey online to submit your ideas, suggestions and concepts for concurrent
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Nov
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Microsoft announced that starting today, people will be able to view and share Office docs on Facebook. So now, whether you're in Hotmail, Office 365, or Facebook, you've got access to all your Office docs.Facebook's new messaging platform integrates the Office Web Apps to enable Facebook users to view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
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In addition, Google Apps Security Whitepaper, Google is hosting a webcast to provide further visibility into how Google protect the data in Google Apps."In the webcast, Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security for Apps, will describe some of the challenges of securing traditional on-premise IT infrastructure and explain how Google's cloud computing architecture can offer an
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Nov
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Jason Weber is suing Google over how the Google Toolbar in the past sent data to Google even while the toolbar was "turned off." The suit was filed on Nov'5th by Webner and his attorneys, KamberLaw, based in New York. Weber is suing for the profits Google made from this issue, $100 per day per violation,
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