Archive for November 23rd, 2010
Nov
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On the weekend of Dec. 4 and 5, Google, Microsoft, The World Bank and Yahoo! are inviting software developers, independent hackers and students to participate in RHoK #2."RHoK brings together volunteer programmers and experts in disaster response for a two-day hackathon to create software solutions that focus on problems related to disaster risk and response. It
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Nov
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Microsoft announced of upcoming update to Bing Movies, which introduces a redesigned interface that streamlines how you search and select the movies you're looking to watch.Bing Movies organizes the top movie information within the new interface letting you go a step deeper based on your needs:Showtimes makes
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Nov
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Opera released the beta of Opera 11 with a new feature called "tab stacking," that allows you to organize your browsing, optimize the space on your tab bar, and keep yet even more tabs handy for use.How do you stack your tabs? Dragging and dropping tabs on top of one another creates stacks. Hovering a stack
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Nov
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Most places have Black Friday deals that last for one-day only. Microsoft decided to offer almost a full week to get in on these savings. These prices are available for BOTH Xbox LIVE Gold and Free members. In addition, on Friday Nov'26th, will have another "special one-day sales" with savings of up to 80% off.
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Nov
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Deutsche Welle reports that on Saturday, several homes in the Bergerhausen area of Essen that opted to be blurred were hit with eggs. "Google's Cool" notes were also taped to their mailboxes. Der Westen reports similarly. Neither gives the exact number of homes involved nor are pictures of the eggings posted.
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Nov
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that';re designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.This release provides updated content as related to the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010) and Windows Azure platform
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Nov
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Microsoft released the Tag Reader for iOS 4 devices on the Apple App Store.Q: What's new with this update of the Reader?A: The update ensures that the Tag Reader works optimally on any iOS4 device. We also made some general stability and usability improvements.Q: What devices are supported with this release?A: Any iOS4-capable device
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Nov
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This BPOS support video, explain how to resolve common issues with Entourage 2004 and Entourage 2008.Microsoft Entourage is an email client developed by Microsoft for use on Macintosh computers. Microsoft Online Services users can utilize Microsoft Entourage on their Macintosh.This BPOS support video covers the following basic troubleshooting issues with Entourage:Calendar Time Zone ErrorsAttachment ErrorsWinMail.dat Attachments
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Nov
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Last week, Google Apps made dozens of exciting Google services available to Apps users for the first time. Blogger is now integrated with Apps accounts."Blogger offers a powerful rich-editor that lets you create a great looking site with simple and intuitive tools that require no web design experience to use. And for those that want to
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Nov
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Microsoft has hired CloudeMade and OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast as "Principal Architect for Bing Mobile," as well as a kind of liason to the OpenStreetMap and other open source and open data projects.According to anouncement, there are "more than 320,000 people" the OpenStreetMap community, who have built high quality maps for every country on earth.
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Nov
23
A new Internet Explorer 9 beta build version 9.0.8027.6000 has leaked to the web, originally reserved for close partners and TAP testers.The leaked version includes bug fixes, stability improvements and the latest rendering engine seen in the recent developer Platform Preview. It appears, from the digital signature, that the build was compiled as recently as Nov'19.
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Nov
23
Microsoft released a "recommended update" for all Internet Explorer 9 Beta customers via Windows Update. The KB2448827 includes stability fixes for the beta build.Another update shipped today KB2452648 resolves issues between the IE9 send feedback feature on 64-bit machines with Windows-Live-Essentials 11.Customers who have automatic updating enabled willn't need to take any action because this
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Nov
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Microsoft scheduled a webcast for all ISVs interested in leveraging DataMarket to build the next greatest app in the world.Date: December 1, 8 am-9am PSTSession Abstract:This webcast will provide an overview of DataMarket and the tools and resources available in DataMarket to help ISVs build new and innovative apps, reduce time to market and cost. DataMarket
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Nov
23
In the spirit to holidays, Microsoft introduced "Bing Holiday Shopping Facebook App," which lets you create a digital shopping squad with the people you know and trust--your friends and family.Here's how it works: Search for the gift items you might want to buy. Then share on Facebook with
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Nov
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In the Nov'10 issue of MSDN Magazine, Joseph Fultz wrote an article etitled "SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table Storage". Joseph contends that often there is a point of confusion understanding the differences between Windows Azure Table Storage and SQL Azure.In this article he provide some guidelines for making the decision when evaluating the needs of
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