Archive for July 1st, 2011
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The much-missed official Foursquare app has now checked into Windows Phone Marketplace.Sporting a snazzy new look and some great new features in its 2.0 incarnation like recommended places, most explored, and check in history."The new version really speaks to the distinctive capabilities (and slick design!) of Windows Phone, while maintaining
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According to the latest data released by the Net Application as on July 1st -- the "iPad has now exceeds 1% of all browsing on the internet, and over 2.1% in the United States."
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A consortium that include Apple, Microsoft, EMC Corp, Sony, Ericsson, and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion snatch Nortel Networks' portfolio of 6000 patents for $4.5 billion, from under the noses of Google and Intel, stealing a march on their rivals in a litigious market, in an auction that began early this week.The Canadian based communications company
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Google has just launched a new game called "Nexus Contraptions". It's fun game, full of slick graphics, physics, and gadgetry.The game is similar to a handful of games you'll find on Android and iOS or on The Incredible Machine."You're tasked with getting a ball to a special funnel by constructing a Rube Goldberg-esque machine filled with
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You can now get an insight into SQL Azure performance and elasticity by just downloading a free resources "Microsoft SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide" offered by Microsoft Cloud services through the software giant's Download Center to all customers."This guide focuses on optimizing performance of SQL Azure applications. The guide includes a SQL Azure performance checklist
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Digitimes citing unnamed sources reports that Taiwan supply companies "have begun to prepare materials for the production" of both the iPad 3 and the fifth version of Apple's iPhone a.k.a iPhone 5.The article adds that both products are "likely to make their debuts in September and to hit the market in October", and in volume the
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Windows Thin PC is now generally available to Software Assurance customers for download from the Microsoft Volume Licensing site as of July 1, announced Karri Alexion-Tiernan on Windows for business blog.Based on Windows 7, Windows Thin PC allows users to repurpose older PCs as thin clients. The Thin PC was released to manufacturing (RTM) on
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Are you using these easy to use building blocks called Phidgets?So, what are Phidgets? “Phidgets are a set of "plug and play" building blocks for low cost USB sensing and control from your PC. All the USB complexity is taken care of by our robust API. Applications can be developed quickly
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Jul
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Perry Clarke is well back with another blog post and Geek Out with Perry episode where he chat about availability for Exchange Online in the Office 365 service.Perry shares some insights on the framework that the team uses when designing reliability and availability as well as discusses with me how the team evolved their thinking as
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Jul
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What happens if you combine 2 of the hottest technologies for your applications? Find out in this very session! If we combine the capabilities of Windows Azure with the rich UX of Silverlight, we are capable of building great...: exceptional web applications. We look at building an app in Silverlight running from Azure and we also
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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo -- have been talking with Hulu about a possible acquisition.Hulu has begun meeting with and is making "presentations" to the potential buyers including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to drum up interest in a sale, the LA Time said. The presentations to the potential suitors are a first step as Hulu's owners weigh
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Jul
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So, you own a Windows Phone--here's a nifty tips that help you find a record of all the apps, games or music etc. you've ever downloaded for your phone--handy of you ever need to reinstall somethingJust signed into zune onto a pc, have a look at the account settings. Lo & behold, there is a "Purchase
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Jul
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Microsoft Media Platform Content Manager pulls together an end-to-end video workflow that allows you to create live streaming events, transcode on-demand content, manage and publish video, edit video, and insert mid-roll advertisements."This open-source release can be used by enterprises, educational institutions, and broadcasting companies to manage their video assets using a lightweight and highly-customizable solution built
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Jul
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been making no bones about Facebook's plan to launch "something super awesome" next week. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than "Please join us for an event at Facebook" on July 6.A source with knowledge of the partnership, indicates
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Jul
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Wondering, where're Google+ company "Pages" for brands, something similar to Facebook's "Fan Pages?" Jeff Huber, Google VP of Local and Commerce, has indicated that Google+, at some point in the near future will include the option for business profile page:And pre-emptively answering a question -- yes, we will have (smb) business profile pages on
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Random From The Google+ Pages For Businesses Coming Soon!
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Have you ever lost your website, due to one or another reason? Or have you ever recovered someone else's lost - Apr03Cruiser Behaviors Library
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Earlier this month, the rumor mill suggested Nvidia's upcoming G92 graphics processor would arrive on a card dubbed the GeForce 8700 GTS. Now,