Archive for the August, 2011
Aug
1
The Visual Studio LightSwitch RTM Training Kit Update for RTM is now live! and is available for free download through Microsoft Download Center."The LightSwitch Training Kit contains demos and labs to help you learn to use and extend LightSwitch. The introductory materials walk you through the Visual Studio LightSwitch product. By
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Aug
9
Facebook Messenger, a new mobile app launched today as of August 9, simplifies how messaging works, and gives you a faster way to message "friends and small groups." This app allows for messaging to both Facebook friends and phone contacts, something Google+'s Huddles doesn't do.Messenger will be available for both iPhone and Android starting today.
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Aug
1
The internet revolution brought information online; the mobile internet revolution makes information accessible immediately anywhere. By the end of 2011, over half of Americans will own a smartphone. Demand is high. Mobile users are driving this change: more smartphones are being shipped than PCs. As adoption grows, so does the use of the mobile web. Over
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Aug
25
The U.S. Justice Department officials announced that Google has agreed to pay $500 million to settle federal charges that the online search giant improperly helped online Canadian pharmacies target U.S. consumers. The forfeiture, one of the largest ever in the United States, represents the
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Aug
23
Microsoft and China's leading domestic Linux operating system provider, China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), in an event in Beijing, signed an agreement as of August 22, to jointly develop, market and sell solutions for the booming cloud-computing market in China."The primary goal of this agreement is to provide public and private cloud solutions to a
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Aug
25
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business. Windows Azure is available through BizSpark, and Cloud Computing provides significant advantages for start-up companies.Who is a start-up
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Aug
17
Google just published its research report of the analysis of four years of data that explores the evasive techniques that malware distributors employ. The company compiled the results in a technical report, entitled "Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection" (embedded below).The analysis covers approximately 160 million web pages hosted on approximately 8 million sites. "Our report analyzed
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Aug
2
For marketers, the rise of social media has helped crystallize the importance of word-of-mouth. But lately, "social" has become synonymous with a platform, when in reality it's a fundamental human behavior. In fact, 90% of consumer conversations happen offline, far away from what we currently think of when we say "social media."Every day, people talk to
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Aug
31
As a developer, are you continuously looking for technical support resources? The new MSDN Forum Assistant reduces your efforts of logging in and directs you to the MSDN forum with instant updates, forum FAQs, MSDN priority support queues, and much more! It is like having an expert right on your desktop, announced a member of Microsoft
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Aug
28
Steve Jobs said during a MacWorld keynote in 2007 said, "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything …"Decked in his trademark jeans and a turtleneck, Jobs introduced the "iPhone" to the World.Just three days back, Jobs said iQuit.Here are the original iPhone launch videos:
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Aug
28
When you purchase Software Assurance along with your software purchases from Microsoft, you get Deployment Planning Services" credits. These credits can be spent on deployment planning training/consulting on all manner of Microsoft software. This is nothing new. What's new is that Microsoft now have some developer tools offerings that you can spend your credits on.
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Aug
15
Internet Explorer is designed with your security and privacy in mind. Innovative features such as SmartScreen and Application Reputation are examples of technologies that help protect you as you browse from an increasingly prevalent threat - socially engineered malware.According to Bruce Hughes from AVG Technologies, "Users are 4 times more likely to come into contact with
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Aug
19
A number of people have asked questions about how the remote task feature in Windows Intune works. This video embedded below walk you through an example of how you might use a remote task to remediate a malware protection alert, and describe how some of the other tasks work from an end-user perspective.
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Aug
22
Titanic fame, Kate Winslet, the British beauty has formed an informal "British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League," which aims to fight Hollywood pressures for actresses to go under the knife with Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz."I will never give in," Winslet told the British paper. "It goes against my morals, the way
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Aug
31
WMPU just posted a leaked image of a carrier presentation flyer showing a device said to be named Nokia 703. This device looks just like the Nokia Sea Ray revealed by Stephen Elop back on June 23 this year.In fact, the existence of the Nokia 703 was recently revealed
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Random From The Rumor: Nokia Sea Ray To Be Branded As Nokia 703!
- Dec16banned.h Code Sanitization Tool From Microsoft
The banned.h header file is a sanitizing resource which supports the SDL requirement to remove banned functions from code. It lists all banned APIs and - May26Carol Bartz “these days if you’re not coming out with some device, you’re not innovating” at fireside chat
Michael Arrington interviewed Carol Bartz at theTechCrunch Disrupt event in New York City. Carol took the opportunity to share some background on global deal - Apr30Google Chrome: ‘Financial Times, NPR, cricket, Formula 1, or rugby’ extensions
If your using Google Chrome browser, using following extensions will help keep track of all the lates news: “Financial Times extension let you browse - May18Adventure with Bing: New York Travel Planning Tips from Bing
Watch the Bing ad:[Source] - Sep05Microsoft Threat Modeling System “STRIDE”
STRIDE is a Microsoft threat modeling system. Essentially, STRIDE is a collection of acronyms designed to assess and classify threats including Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information