Archive for December 10th, 2010
Dec
10
Nimbuzz, one of the best-known cross-platform multi-IM and VOIP clients, has updated its Android application to version 2.0.2. Now, you can make HD quality calls to your Nimbuzz friends who're using an Android mobile phone and have new Nimbuzz."This's possible due to new peer to peer calling system, which doesn't route the call through our servers,
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Dec
10
Microsoft made available the PHP Manager 1.1 for IIS 7, an incremental release that contains all the functionality available in PHP Manager 1.0 for IIS 7 plus additional features listed below:Improved detection logic for existing PHP installations. Now PHP Manager detects the location to php.ini file in accordance to the PHP specifications.Configuring date.timezone. PHP Manager can
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Dec
10
Apple has released an updated version 3.1.1. of Aperture, its professional photo editing and management software. This is an incremental update, but if you're an Aperture user you'll be happy to find:Better reliability when upgrading Aperture libraries created with older versionsLess buggy photo publishing to MobileMe, Facebook and FlickrImproved compatibility with iLife Media Browser.This update improves
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Dec
10
After Chinese search rival, Baidu, it looks Google may have given up ground to another Chinese internet giant: Alibaba Group. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that part-Yahoo-owned online marketplace Alibaba now occupies the number two position in the country in terms of advertising revenue share:In a breakdown of Chinese online advertising market
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Dec
10
The reporting services of the AdWords API are designed to allow you to download large amounts of data, but it can often be useful to filter out certain rows from the start to cut down on processing and transfer time. DefinedReportJobs created using v13 ReportService supported a limited set of filtering options, primarily on
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Dec
10
webOS Developer Geoff Gauchet has brought plenty of goodness with his FourSquare app and Neato! for shooting data to and from webOS devices and computers. Gauchet's planning a new app called "Incredible!" that'll serve as an aggregated social media reading tool. "Incredible!
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Dec
10
Auto-Start is one of the hidden gems of Windows Server AppFabric. With it you can significantly speed up that first call to your WCF service and you can also do service initialization if you know how to do it.This video show us how to add service initialization:
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Dec
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Google Chrome published a full year stats of the Chrome extensions gallery:Gallery has grown to over 8,500 extensions and 1,500 themes.A third of Chrome users have at least one extension installed.Over 70 million extensions and themes have been installed.On the client side:New APIs like context menus, history, and cookies addedIntegration between extensions and
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Dec
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Session 1 - Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2010 Development:
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Dec
10
WordPress.com released a new theme "Toolbox," that provides all the markup you need to build your very own theme with CSS alone--with one difference. Toolbox uses some really exciting new HTML5 elements--like <article>, <header>, and <nav>-- that better describe what your content is all about.What can you do with it? Anything you want.
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Dec
10
This 15-minute video provides a high-level tour through some of the functionality available in the new TPL Dataflow library (System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll), an early preview of which was released as part of the Visual Studio Async CTP. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Dec
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ASP.NET MVC With Community Tools Part 1: NuGet: In this video, Brandon Satrom introduces the new screencast series "Using ASP.NET MVC With Community Tools" and kicks off the first episode with an in-depth exploration of NuGet, a new package management system for .NET.ASP.NET MVC With Community
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Dec
10
Eric Schmidt, "With hindsight, why has this been so hard? After all, we had all the IT stuff. And then the web was invented. But the web isn't really cloud computing--it's an enormously important source of information, probably the most important ever invented. One major web innovation cycle happened in 1995--remember the Netscape IPO, Java and
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Dec
10
G4 a one stop destination for cutting edge tech gadget and video game news and information, considers mobile an extremely important extension of the G4 brand."In order to quickly grow Android app adoption at launch, G4 used a variety of marketing activities to drive installs. To reach new customers, G4 used mobile display advertising on the
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Dec
10
First there was the Google-Yelp dispute over reviews in Places. Now TripAdvisor appears to be preventing Google from showing its reviews on Place Pages. According, TripAdvisor who has confirmed that it's blocking reviews from appearing in Google Places results, said in a statement:
"Google
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Random From The TripAdvisor Confirms Blocking Google from ‘Streaming Places Pages Reviews from TripAdvisor’
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