Archive for the February, 2011
Feb
15
Google U.K. today celebrated the birth aniversary of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, who was born on 15 February 1874 and died on 5 January 1922. He was famous for his exploration of the Antartic and at one time had gone the furthest into the South Pole region.His first
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Feb
11
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address on Friday that the president was "waiving" his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.Suleiman's short statement was received with a roar of approval
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Feb
26
Microsoft Office Binary File Format Validator Beta tool validates .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary file format conformance to the binary file format open specifications. This command-line tool runs without requiring an installation of Word, Excel or PowerPoint on the computer.Microsoft Office Binary File Format Validator Beta validates implementations of the following binary file formats:.doc files for
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Feb
10
Today, Opera has announced that their popular "Opera Mini Browser" will be making its way soon on Android, iPhone, J2ME, BlackBerry, Symbian and even the iPad will appear, with a formal announcement at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain.105 million people might use Opera's browsers today, but Opera Software cares
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Feb
1
A panel on search engine spam in San Francisco this morning got extremely heated, when Matt Cutts, principal engineer at Google, in charge of the company's anti-spam efforts, kicked off the discussion with openly accusing Microsoft's Bing of copying its search results.Microsoft claimed that the Bing toolbar tracks users click data, providing the information back
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Feb
28
Mass Relevance and TweetReach, a Twitter analytics service with commercial access to the Twitter API, have teamed up to make a data map of the 83rd Annual Oscars conversation.Over 20 Oscar-related terms like "Oscars," "#Oscars," "Academy" (but no specific names of celebrities or movies) were tracked between the hours of 5:30 and 8:45 PST during the
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Feb
21
Here's another leaks related to BlacBerry, this time it's of the BlackBerry Bold Touch Dakota/Montana. The model in the photos has around 6.5GB of storage, shows off the digital compass. The touchscreen experience is said to feel much better than the Torch.The current expected spec-sheet reads:2.8 inch capacitive
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Feb
15
Microsoft today published the third unit in the SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (a.k.a. SQLInsights) on MSDN designed to help developers learn how to develop an ETL process (extract, transform, load) with SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services.Developers use SSIS packages to populate data models that are optimized for easy, high performance reporting
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Feb
28
At the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Valve today disclosed its plans for a new "big picture" mode of Steam which'll offer "controller support and navigation designed for television interaction." Big picture mode will enable gamers to enjoy Steam and their library of Steam games on more screens throughout the house."Our partners and customers have
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Feb
13
GreenPois0n release candidate 6 now includes support for the second generation Apple TV is released. GreenPosi0n will give your Apple TV an untethered jailbreak and will also install the popular NitoTV software on it.Here is apple tv jailbroken with pwnage tool 4.1.1 and Nito TV installed.More Inf: Download[tags]jailbreak,hackers,hacking,greenpois0n,appletv2g,nitotv,apple tv 2g,pwnage[/tags] No Comments » - Posted by DG
Feb
7
Motorola counters Apple's iPad with their new Superbowl commercial for the Xoom. The commercial takes a page from Apple's own 1984 Superbowl commercial, showing mindless drones wearing the ubiquitous white ear buds. The star of the commercial is reading Orwell's 1984 and is going against the crowd while using his Xoom tablet. He has a bouquet
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Feb
24
As the web has developed--with users anywhere able to post a blog, share photos with friends and family or "broadcast" events they witness online--the issue of identity has become increasingly important. "We've been thinking about the different ways people choose to identify themselves (or not) when they're using Google--in particular how identification can be helpful or
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Feb
10
Yahoo!'s latest marketing campaign is a celebration of those moments and a celebration of Yahoo! Mail helping people stay connected to the people who really matter. Yahoo! used some delightful animation to help tell its story and highlight a few of their product features.[tags]tv commercials,tv advets,tv
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Feb
21
Given the very few (and occasionally confusing) leaks around Windows 8, an update as to how things are progressing is always welcome. On February 21, there were reports that Microsoft was just about done with Win 8 Milestone 2. On the roadmap shown below, final M2 build candidate is slated to arrive on February 23. And
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Feb
15
LinkdeIn today launched a simplified LinkedIn Account and Settings dashboard to help you navigate and find the right settings faster.Here's a walkthrough of some of the key features:What's new?Top section highlighting important info about you and your LinkedIn accountBottom section organizing settings into 4 tabs to reduce vertical scrolling and updated content to help you understand
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Many users that have been trying the latest version of Opera can now use the GMail Chat features that everyone loves. It is actually a simple process to do this: - Jul14Blogger Introduces Trendy Search And Other Widgets
If you liked the way Google implemented search in most of their official blogs, now you can get something similar without writing complicated code. Blogger