Archive for the December, 2010


Dec 29

Samsung Unveiling Slimmest (23mm) 3D Blu-ray Player at CES 2011

Samsung Electronics, will reveal its thinnest (23mm) 3D Blu-ray player at the CES in Las Vegas, US, which's scheduled to take place early next month.Its' sleek and stylish design and measuring at less than an inch thick, not much is known (officially) about the metallic device besides the fact that it sports 2D to 3D conversion
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Dec 16

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Cumulative Update Enables Exchange 2010 Archive Access for Outlook 2007 [KB2458611]

Microsoft has released a cumulative update for Outlook 2007 that provides access to Exchange 2010's Archive mailbox. A long awaited feature, Outlook 2007 users previously had to rely on Outlook Web Access to access their archive.Hotfix 2458611 is now available for the download for the x86 platform. Among the features that will become available to Outlook
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Dec 17

Windows 7 Tablets ‘Acer,ViewSonic ViewPad, Inpiron Duo,ExoPC Slate,Novatech nTablet’ [Photos]

Tablets are hot property at the moment, as hardware manufacturers vie to produce a challenger to Apple's iPad, which has captured mindshare if not sold in quite the numbers analysts were expecting. Samsung's 7inch Galaxy Tab, which runs Android 2.2, appears to be the main challenger, with sales heading towards the million mark since its launch
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Dec 8

Troubleshooting: A System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 P2V Conversion Fails with Errors ’2910, 458 and 3142′ [KB2470343]

Microsoft informs that "A physical to virtual (P2V) conversion in SCVMM 2008 fails during 'Scan System' with error 2910. Job details show three separate errors under the Summary tab. Following this error, the P2V Agent isn't successfully uninstalled. Manual uninstallation of P2V Agent from the source system will also fail."
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Dec 3

Orleans: Microsoft Research’s Framework for Scalable Client+Cloud Computing [Video + Research Paper]

Orleans is a Microsoft Research project and managed (.NET) software framework for building client + cloud applications. As outlined in the recently released paper on the topic:Orleans defines an actor-like model of isolated grains that communicate through asynchronous messages and manage asynchronous computations with promises. The isolated state and constrained execution model of
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Dec 3

comScore ‘Samsung Top Mobile OEM, RIM Top Smartphone Platform’ October 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

comScore reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending Oct'10. The report ranked the leading mobile OEMs and smartphone mobile operating system platforms in the U.S.234 million Americans ages 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 24.2% of U.S. mobile
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Dec 22

Picnik Now Availble inside orkut to Help You Edit Photos

Orkut now allow editing photos in orkut albums with Picnik. Just open any photo in your orkut photo albums and click on the "Edit in Picnik" button above it. Picnik will load right inside of orkut. You can do basic fixes with easy but powerful editing tools, tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with
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Dec 29

Video: The Future of Productivity Including Office365 and Microsoft’s Approach to Cloud

In this video, Mark Alexief and Alex Payne discuss what the future of productivity looks like and how Microsoft sees the world evolving. Including Office365 and Microsoft's approach to cloud.This video was captured on their recent trip to the UK as part of the Future of Productivity tour.
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Dec 19

Revision3 Plugin for Windows Media Center Released

Revision3 has released a plugin for Windows Media Center making all their shows available to watch directly within WMC. Revision3 can be described as a television network for the Internet, and produce all-original episodic shows available online via streaming. Some of their most popular shows are Diggnation with Kevin Rose and Tekzilla which offers reviews of
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Dec 28

Webcast: State Machine Driven WPF UI

In this episode, Ron Jacob show you the new WF4 State Machine Driven WPF UI sample. This application uses a state machine to drive the UI enabling and disabling commands as the states change.[tags]wf4[/tags]
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Dec 15

Project Momentum 2010 EMEA in Barcelona, Spain – Eric Zenz’s Demonstration Video

Project team hosted Project Momentum 2010 EMEA in Barcelona, Spain -- a 2-day event focused on our Europe, Middle East and Africa customers and partners. With over 240+ partners and customers from 28+ different countries, we had a very diverse audience! In the video below watch the keynote demos at around the 43:10 mark. Eric Zenz,
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Dec 8

#newTwitter Now Playing ‘Embedded Music, TV Shows, Slides’ and More!

One of the most popular features of #newTwitter is the ability to check out photos, videos, and music directly in the details pane. Click on a Tweet with a link to media, and the details pane on the right lets you view embedded media from partners like YouTube, Flickr and USTREAM.You can also hear iTunes song
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Dec 13

Top 2010 Trends on Twitter: Twitter 2010: Year in Review

Twitter Trends are a window into what the world is talking about. In this edition of #Hindsight2010, Twitter offer a list of the biggest Trends of the year."An astounding 25 billion Tweets were sent in 2010. We analyzed all those Tweets to identify the year's Top 10 Trends, as well as the leading Trends in eight
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Dec 20

Nokia and Microsoft In Talks Over Windows Phone Devices

According to report, written by Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin, the new devices would carry the Nokia brand and be sold through the company's retail partners. "Nokia has started talks with Microsoft to expand their cooperation. The talks were initiated by the new Nokia management. And they're talking not about the technology exchange, or more Microsoft apps
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Dec 1

MDCC TechTalk Webcast: Advanced .NET Debugging

What do you do, when your .NET application crashes on the production servers and you can't reproduce the bug in-house? How do you detect memory leaks in a .NET app, when you can't inspect the memory usage from Visual Studio?In this demo-intensive presentation we take a look at how WinDbg and SOS can be used to
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