Archive for the May, 2011
May
4
Google posted a modified version of SunSpider and the latest version of Kraken to make it easy to run the benchmarks in your own browser and compare results."To make the benchmark more meaningful, we've experimented by making the race longer by running each of the tests in SunSpider 50 times consecutively. While repeating a trivial test
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May
27
The Commerce Server team are pleased to announce that a Release Candidate is now available for download from the download center. "This is obviously an important milestone as we move towards the final release later in 2011," said the Commerce team.Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2 provides an improved shopper and business management experience, a streamlined development
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May
6
Microsoft Windows Phone team today made some important changes to help the developer community more easily publish applications and games to Windows Phone Marketplace. “During the past month, we’ve focused on streamlining the overall app submission process and adding clarity to our certification requirements,” stated WP team.Here’s what’s changed:“First, the WP team have updated and clarified
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May
30
According to latest survey results released on Monday by Nielsen, "Smartphones now represent 37% of all U.S. mobile phones -- and smartphones running Google's Android operating system are the most popular of all.""After having raced to the No. 1 spot in less than a year -- climbing from a 15% share in June 2010 to 37%
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May
31
In a speech at Computex, Acer Chairman and CEO, JT Wang, said that with the next version of Windows, Microsoft is "really controlling the whole thing, the whole process", adding that component suppliers and OEMs "all feel it's very troublesome".Microsoft will unveil a Windows operating system with a touch-screen interface for tablet computers this week, three
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May
18
Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless unveiled the "Motorola Droid X2" Android smartphone.The Droid X and the Droid X2 are in most respect identical (pic above): their size, weight, RAM and onboard memory, camera, and launch price are exactly the same.However, the Droid X2 has received a moderate
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May
2
Microsoft has acknowledged that after you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) using integrated media, you may see the flowing WMI error is logged in the application log after every reboot.Here're the details of the WMI error:Log Name - ApplicationSource - WMI
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May
9
Endomondo is a sports community focused on making exercising more fun, more social and more motivating. Android includes great APIs to support adding a social community to an existing application.Their Endomondo Sports Tracker Android app, uses the device's GPS to measure distance and speed while you are doing your favorite distance-based sport. The result can be
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May
3
The BolderBOULDER is one of the United States' biggest 10K road races. Last year, more than 54,000 people participated, including several members of the SketchUp team and plenty of other Googlers from the Boulder office--to put together a couple of nifty 3D maps that should help everyone (runners and spectators) get their bearings ahead of
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May
11
In this video, Peli de Halleux, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, gives a basic tutorial using the TouchStudio editor. Learn how to write 'Hello World' in TouchStudio (and how to use its editor).
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May
4
According to a April 11, 2011 Google's SEC filing that discloses a job-title change for Alan Eustace, Google's Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research. He has become Google's Senior Vice President, Knowledge.Google has seven major product groups. Advertising, Commerce & Local, Mobile (Android), Social, Chrome, YouTube and Search. Search is, of course, Google's first and
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May
5
Security Architect with Microsoft Services, Nick Torkington, in the screencast below answers the most common security concerns CxOs and other business decision-makers have when evaluating the Microsoft platform to build a private Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud.This video covers:Building a secure private cloud on Microsoft technologies, including how the Microsoft product stack implements IaaS cloud,
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May
10
Oftentimes, when you want to use a web font on your website or application, you know in advance which letters you'll need. This often occurs when you're using a web font in a logo or heading.Google recently introduced a new beta feature to the Google Web Fonts API, callled "text=", that allows you to specify which
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May
26
Earlier this week, Amazon offered Lady Gaga's new music album, "Born This Way", for a mere $0.99 in an effort to get people to discover its recently launched Cloud Drive / Player service.That gets you 14 songs and a digital booklet. The same album goes for $11.99 at Apple's iTunes, which seems more interested in
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May
15
Apple's next iPhone will be called "iPhone 4S," not the iPhone 5, and, it will "include minor cosmetic changes, better cameras, A5 dual-core processor, and HSPA+ support," according to "industry checks" by Jefferies analyst Peter Misek.Business Insider reporting that;Apple was prepared to work on the iPhone 5 which is expected to include 4G
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Immediately after integrating Virtual Earth and Photosynth, Microsoft released some new capabilities and support for commercial customers which make Photosynth enterprise ready and scaled out - Oct19Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update with Windows Live Gallery
J.J. Allaire on Windows Live Writer team blog —”The release of Windows Live Writer and the Windows Live Writer SDK was a very exciting moment for - Oct10Crysis hardware specs revealed
Crysis? Gorgeous! Crysis hardware requirements? Intimidating. No one was expecting Crysis to run on their 6-year old Gateway POS9001, but the game's final specs are,