Archive for July 11th, 2011
Jul
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The popular microblogging service Twitter on Monday, July 11th revealed that the company has just crossed one million registered applications, built by more than 750,000 developers around the world."This is up from 150,000 apps just a year ago. A new app is registered every 1.5 seconds, fueling a spike in
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Microsoft have previously stated that one of the 500 features coming to the "Mango" Windows 7 Phone platform is "visual voicemail," that allows the user to visually see messages that people have recorded and has numerous options available that previously could only be done by telephoning a specific service.As it turns out, when you have voicemail
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Below is a assorted list of today July 11th's top news about Google+ as, as reported on various places across the web:Issue & Upcoming ChangesChanges are Coming to Google+, ComputerWorld reports that the many Google+ criticisms are making their way to top Google execs, and that changes will be rolled out this week. Google VP Vic
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Last week, Apple filed a new patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office. The patent app reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's iBooks -- designed to make reading books, especially children's books, more interactive.For children's books, Apple has devised a number of new gesture options to
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If You had a PC up to15 hours of battery life, What would you do? Just answer to this question, and you may win a Sony VAIO S series PC and a sheet battery. This prize package is worth over $1100, revealed Kristina Libby over at Windows Experience blog.
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Registration for the first set of Google Developer Day (GDD) events in Latin America will begin in two weeks, with the remaining six events following shortly thereafter, announced Phoebe Peronto over at Google Code today."This year's Open Call challenges will focus on the Android ADK and HTML5 platforms, while giving you a chance to show us
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The Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1 (VMMSSP) is a fully supported, partner-extensible solution that customers can use to pool, allocate, and manage their computing, network, and storage resources to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform in their datacenter," revealed Microsoft."VMMSSP is a fully supported, partner-extensible solution built on Windows Server 2008
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After the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated the coastal communities of Eastern Japan, Google started utilizing their technologies in support of relief activities -- started with Person Finder to help locate displaced individuals, and then launching "YouTube Business Support Channel," to enable local businesses to promote their products and establishments to a nationwide audience. The
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On June 30, Microsoft held an online presentation on Office 365. The slides from the presentation and the video recording of the presentation session are now available.You can view the video recording here. If you're prompted for a recording ID after you've allowed Windows Media Player to run, it's 82MTSC.We've embedded presentation below for
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Apple has started allowing developers to submit OS X Lion applications for inclusion on the Mac App Store, starting today, July 11th."These applications should be tested against the Golden Master seeds of both OS X Lion and Xcode 4.1. Mac OS X Lion is expected to ship later this week alongside
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Google has marked the 450th anniversary of the Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow with a commemorative doodle.
The Cathedral popularly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555-61. Built on the order of Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible)
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Jul
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Kicking off Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), a four-day event that celebrates the accomplishments of the company's 640,000 global partners, CEO Steve Ballmer thanked partners for helping make Windows 7 the fastest-selling operating system in history and indicated that with future versions in development, partners can be confident in their bets on Windows for phones,
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Bing Maps today received some enhancement to its interface. The most apparent changes are to task and navigation controls, --we've made it easier to find the most common actions to complete your task at hand," announced Dan Polivy over at Bing Maps blog."We've consolidated actions that were previously scattered throughout the
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Starting, Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com."The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform, through which you can buy and read Google eBooks over Wi-Fi," revealed Google."The iriver Story
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Microsoft is offering all employees of partner companies that attend the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) are eligible to get a discounted 3, 5, 8 or 20 Competency Exam Packs with a second shot on each exam.Exam Packs can be purchased in the following denominations:3 Pack - 30% discount + Second Shot5
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Random From The WPC 2011: Microsoft Offers Competency Exam Certification to Conference Attendees
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