Archive for July 12th, 2011


Jul 12

Meet ‘Persona’ Your New Email Client Reinventing e-Mail Experience

Marco Triverio, an interaction designer at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, teamed up with Ali Se
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Jul 12

WPC11: Andy Lees On Windows Phone 7: Over 42K Registered Marketplace Developers, Developer Toolkits Download Hits 1.5M, Over 22K Apps and Games in Marketplace with Over 100 New Titles Each Day – Announced New Partner Benefits In Growing Windows Phone Ecosystem and “Mango”

At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, day two in Los Angeles, Andy Lees, president of Microsoft's Windows Phone Division, announced a number of new Windows Phone benefits for Microsoft partners, including exclusive discounts on Windows Phone devices and accompanying rate plans from mobile operators, new ways for Windows Phone partners to attain the Mobility Competency partner
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Jul 12

July 2011 MSRT Targeting Web Redirector Malwares ‘Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg’

July 2011 release of the Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two prevalent families: Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg. "Both families share common functionality that monitors user web search queries and redirects to a malicious URL to display advertisements or download more malware. It affects users of web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Chrome,"
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Jul 12

Yahoo!’s Amanda Reierson On How Search and Display Work Together [Video]

Yahoo!'s Amanda Reierson on how Yahoo! powers performance with search and display. In this Yahoo! Experts Q&A Video, Senior Director of Marketing Amanda Reierson explains the value of blending search and display into a single campaign through new Yahoo! advertising products like Rich Ads in Search, Smart Ads, Personalized Retargeting and Yahoo! Network Plus (which reaches
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Jul 12

New Android Market for Android 2.2+ Devices With ‘Videos App, Rent Movies, and Buy Books’ Launched

A completely redesigned Android Market client is now available on Android 2.2+, and will be rolling out in the coming weeks around the world. "The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing your products. For developers,
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Jul 12

Play for iOS Devices Music App By AOL Released to App Store

PLAY, a music app has been available on Android for a couple of months, now AOL has launched "PLAY" for iOS devices including: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.PLAY is a new social experience for music that taps right into your music hosted on the iPhone, accesses radio stations, shares music with friends and followers, and much
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Jul 12

Listing Apps In Facebook Search Become Faster

Facebook launched two updates today to decouple the search submission from the directory to make it easier for developers to get their app faster into the Facebook search index:"We are removing the App Directory (in its current form) since it does not drive a significant amount of traffic to your apps.We are creating a new, simplified
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Jul 12

WPC11: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Finished App Selling Capabilities In US Markets

At the 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference, day two, Micosoft announced announced that they've expanded the capability of the marketplace to sell finished applications built on Windows Azure in US markets. As of today, the company has 578 offerings in the Marketplace and will expand to additional geographies in the coming months."Windows Azure Marketplace will now enable
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Jul 12

‘Tablet Targeting’ New AdWords Campaign Option Now Available To All Advertisers

The tablet targeting announced in May this year, is now available to all advertisers."Tablet targeting is a new AdWords campaign targeting option that allows advertisers more precise control to target tablets and effectively reach the growing number of users of these devices.""You can find the new "Tablets with full browsers" targeting option under the "Networks
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Jul 12

Games for Windows Marketplace Now Live On Xbox.com

Microsoft has now launched its Games For Windows Marketplace PC game download service on its Xbox.com web site.Since the move was first announced last June Microsoft has sent a statement to PC Gamer stating, "The decision was made to create a single destination for LIVE gaming experiences across Windows
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Jul 12

“Takabisha” World’s Steepest Roller Coaster Comes to Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park

Japan's Fuji-Q Highland, an amusement park just added a very special new attraction: the world's steepest roller coaster -- called "Takabisha" accelerates to 100 mph, has a 43m drop and a 121-degree freefall.The Japanese roller coaster beat the former record holder, the Le Timber Drop in France, which measures "113.1"
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Jul 12

Google’s Friend Suggesting Algorithm, Research Paper

A Google research paper offers a lot of information about an algorithm used by Gmail to suggest friends and to create contact groups."Analyzing the outgoing and incoming messages, Gmail creates a social graph for each user. "We call the hypergraph composed of all of the edges leading into or out of a single user node that
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Jul 12

Microsoft Surface SDK and Related Resources Now Available for Download

Last week, diTii.com reported that Microsoft would be releasing Microsoft Surface SDK at WPC11 on July 12. It's here, The Surface team has announced the release of the Microsoft Surface SDK and related resources.Below are the links to the development resources we promised.Microsoft Surface 2 Development Whitepaper, Microsoft Surface 2 Design and Interaction Guide and
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Jul 12

Xbox 360 References Found in Windows 8 Kernel

Earlier a rumor surfaced that Windows 8 would have some sort of integration with the Xbox 360. This was largely dismissed because the power needed to emulate the Xbox 360 could possibly be greater than what is available to the consumer at this time.But, not wanting to let a rumor die off,
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Jul 12

Official: “What Do You Love (WDYL)” Web Search Service by Google Launches

Last month on June 28th, we at diTii reported that Google have launhced a new What Do You Love? (wdyl) web site to let users search for the Google product they want.It's official, Google just announced the launch of the tool,"A while back, a few of us wanted to make a little tool that we could
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