Archive for December 21st, 2010
Dec
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The FCC has passed the Net Neutrality rules. "While the Open Internet Order does prevent fixed broadband providers from blocking access to sites and applications, the rules are different for wireless providers and not as clear as advocates would like," Mashable stated.That wireless wasn't held to the same standards was one of the major objections opponents
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Dec
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Google SketchUp team announced the Supermodeler title winner of the November vote, is "Huang Chung-Tang (a.k.a. Tang)," with 140 top-notch models currently in Google Earth's 3D Buildings layer, he's certainly deserving of the honor. Here're a few of his creations:Arrow Building Zhengyangmen[Source] No Comments » - Posted by DG
Dec
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Google Retail team has posted four simple to Prepare Your Account for the Holidays:Aggressive Bidding: Many retailers raise their bids around November/December in attempt to capture the increased holiday traffic.Action: Monitor your average position changes and increase bids as needed.Monitoring Budgets: Watch your budgets carefully this month in order to allow your ads to compete for
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Dec
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These hands-on labs online (HOLOs) are provided at no charge to Microsoft partners, and provide IT Professionals with the essential information they need to setup, deploy, and configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This 300 level hands-on labs online course (including seven hands-on labs) will prepare learners with the knowledge to engage with customers to help them
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Dec
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Over the past two years, Google's mobile search traffic has grown fivefold, as a result of the online audience shifts from desktop to mobile web. And this year alone Google mobile search query volumes have doubled in Latin America and South East Asia.To help advertisers connect with users in fast developing mobile markets, Google extended WAP
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Dec
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Bing Maps REST Services has added a transit travel mode so you can get transit routes and even display a transit route on a static map in your application. All you need to know is where you want to go and what time of day and then the REST Services will return a transit route based
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Dec
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Achim Berg, Microsoft's vp of business and marketing for Windows Phones, discusses the momentum, strengths and challenges of the company's newly launched Windows Phone 7.Achim said that "its phone partners have sold "over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks" they were available.Windows Phone 7 devices went on sale in Europe on October 21 and
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Dec
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tap tap tap's Camera+ has returned to App Store. The app has several new filters and enhancments in addition to the usual bug fixes. Here's the full list of the features:1. removed "SLR" screen for a simpler user interface2. reworked much
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Dec
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Google DataWiki is a wiki for structured data, extending the idea of a normal wiki to make it easy to create, edit, share and visualize structured data, and to interlink data formats to make them more understandable and useful.Othere features includes:create simple mashup applications in a few minutesdefine formats in terms
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Dec
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Facebook and TripAdvisor now help you tap your friends' travel experiences and plan the perfect trip. "Starting today, when you visit TripAdvisor while logged into Facebook, the site will become your personalized travel planner, complete with friends' reviews, a map showing places friends have visited, and a list of their most popular destinations.TripAdvisor is a new
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Dec
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In the video, Mathijs talks about what's hot in Windows Phone 7, including the user-experience, developing for WP7 and the WinP7 marketplace. Mathijs is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft and has been using Windows Phone 7 for over 6 months now. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Dec
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Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. The business applications course includes 8 modules with extensive hands on labs as well as 25 accompanying videos that walk you through key
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Dec
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Patrick Altoft of blogstorm reports that Google's testing a new form of search refinements named "top references." He explains the refinement filters you to search through all the existing search results for a specific keyword that show any pages referencing or sourcing that image."The interesting part of this feature is that unlike other filters the original
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Dec
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Twitter has acquired Fluther, as announced today, "we're adding four engineers and one designer through our acquisition of the team at Fluther, Inc. During our conversations with Fluther's team, we were continually impressed by their technical talent, entrepreneurial spirit, and much of the thinking behind the question-and-answer product they've spent the last couple of years building.When
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Dec
21
If you plan to enroll in the Windows Azure Extra Small Instance beta program, please note that the Extra Small compute instance will be billed separately from other compute instance sizes. Compute hours included in the Introductory Special, MSDN Premium or Development Accelerator offers don't apply to Extra Small Instance hours.The Extra Small Windows Azure
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