Archive for July 13th, 2011
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Microsoft will be opening 75 Microsoft Stores in the next two to three years, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told attendees of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference on July 13. (In 2009, Turner announced Microsoft's retail store plan for the first time to partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference, noting that the goal was to open
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comScore's June 2011 qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace reports said that Google led the explicit core search market in June with 65.5% market share, followed by Yahoo! 15.9% and Bing 14.4% (up 0.3 percentage points). The combined share of MSFT-Yhoo jumps to 30.3%.Ask Network accounted 2.9%, followed by AOL 1.4%.
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Andy Lees, Microsoft Windows Phone President’s restatement of Microsoft’s tablet positioning has kicked off again the debate as to whether tablets and PCs are one and the same.In past, Microsoft has tried and failed in the tablet marketplace, often using the "PC in a tablet" method. Apple's iPad revolutionized the
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On June 21, Google got hold on the trademark on the word Photovine and registered the domain through MarkMonitor.Now, a page on the site revealed that it is a photo sharing app running on an iPhone."The privacy policy page on the site mentions that it's a project by Slide,
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At the MobileBeat 2011 Conference this morning, PayPal Mobile's senior director Laura Chambers debuted the company's first Android NFC endeavor: phone-to-phone PayPal transactions."At this morning’s session, I had the privilege of demoing our new NFC-enabled Android widget that lets people pay and get paid in a matter of seconds by simply tapping together two Samsung
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At 2011 WPC, Day 2 in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced CTP 3 of SQL Server Codename "Denali", which includes a key new feature called "Data Quality Services," that enables customers to cleanse their existing data stored in SQL databases, such as customer data stored in CRM systems that may contain inaccuracies created due to human
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Take your SharePoint business applications on the go with Windows Phone. Windows Phone has great integration with SharePoint via the Microsoft Office hub. While the Office hub is interesting and has a lot of capabilities out of the box, in this episode, learn how to setup your Windows Phone 7 for SharePoint developer environment.
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Jul
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Apple now officially own iPhone4.com and and WhiteiPhone.com domain names. Both domain names have already been forwarded to the iPhone 4 product page, which apparently a lot of people mistake for a 4G phone.The fourth generation iPhone was released in 2010, and has been one of Apple's more controversial devices to date.The Whois record for iPhone4.com
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Jul
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WhitePages.com has launched a couple of new local search products this morning. Both are focused on neighborhoods and "hyper-local" information.One is effectively a neighborhood-based social network called "WhtePages Neighbors," is prepopulated with WhitePages "people search" data, which covers most of the US. So when you search or look around your neighborhood you'll already see extensive contact
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Day 3, at the Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles, Temenos, the global provider of banking software, launched a complementary go-to-market model using Microsoft technologies to address affordable access to finance in emerging markets."TEMENOS T24 (T24) on the Windows Azure platform and is marked by the successful implementation of this software offering in a network
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Microsoft today unveiled updates to the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN), to better help partners grow their businesses and meet evolving technology needs of customers around the globe through "tools, training and incentives totaling $5.8 billion for fiscal year 2012.""Winning together with our partners today, and long into the future, means delivering incredible world-class technologies to meet
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Just in time for summer travel, Google Maps added live traffic coverage for 13 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. The new traffic information will automatically be available in Google Maps for Android, iOS, and mobile browsers."With the addition of live traffic data, users in
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Jul
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Apple iTunes and Mac App Stores were in the scheduled maitenance mode around the world this evening. Now, the Cupertion company rolled out new international App Store pricing in line with current exchange rates. The price adjustments have resulted in both price increases and decreases depending on the geographic location you live.The UK, Mexico and Norway
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Now that SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 has been released, if you are looking to create slipstream pack, then read this post, the SQL Server Setup compiled the list of steps to create a slipstream drop."Once you've created this slipstream drop, you can install the original release of SQL Server 2008 R1 and SP1 at
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DoubleClick now brought the ability to plan for an audience buy into Ad Planner, according to today's blog post at DoubleClick Advertisers blog by Roshan Khan, Product Manager."You can now select from over 1,000 interest categories across the more than 500 million daily users of the Google Display Network (GDN). Advertisers like ShoeDazzle have used audience
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