Archive for the September, 2011
Sep
2
Google's Bradley Horowitz tweeted that Google is about to add a Twitter-like "suggested user" list to its social networking platform Google+. Per Horowitz's tweet: "We're about to pilot a 'suggested user'-like mechanism on Google+. If you've got more than 100k followers on Twitter, DM me - lets talk!"He didn't details
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Sep
30
While snooping around developer Matt Mastracci uncovered a number of potential features from the Google+ source code. He discovered these features when scanning the source code to get an early access to the new circle sharing feature.Here are some of the features found:Google+ WallThe first feature is pretty small and looks akin to Facebook's wall,
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Sep
28
Microsoft released the Developer Preview of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference earlier this month. Now, Mashwork has created a infographic revealing the reactions to Windows 8 by collecting about 65,968 tweets between June 15 to September 22.According to the report, "15 percent of the tweets were on the user's first reactions to Windows 8.
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Sep
18
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta is now released and has extensive support for the Kinect sensor hardware through the Kinect for Windows SDK allowing developers to create Kinect-enabled robots in the Visual Simulation Environment and in real life."You'll be able to use the CCR/DSS programming model to access all of the Kinect for Windows SDK
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Sep
7
Microsoft' Bing and Twitter have signed a deal -- that will allow "real-time search results from Twitter will be displayed via Bing."The companies announced the deal via a series of tweets between the @Bing and @Twitter accounts on Twitter, a somewhat unconventional way to announce a deal whose value is likely measured in the millions.A
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Sep
23
Bing Rewards is celebrating its first birthday today (9/22) with a special reward of 25 point bonus to existing members. Bing Reward, successor to Bing Cashback was launched a year ago, as a part of the Bing Bar, and then in April added a link from within the home page, bringing cross browser capabilities to Bing
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Sep
20
Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 - September 2011 released during the BUILD is now available for free download through Microsoft Download Center. "Windows Azure AppFabric is a key component of the Windows Azure Platform. It includes three services: AppFabric Access Control, AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Caching Service.""This SDK includes API libraries for building connected applications
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Sep
16
Nokia N900 can now perform real-time brain scans right in the comfort of your home. For the first time, a scanner powered by a smartphone will let you monitor your neural signals on the go.By hooking up a commercially available wireless 14-channel EEG headset to a Nokia N900 smartphone, Jakob Eg Larsen and colleagues at the
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Sep
9
At the "State of the Union" Twitter announced that they have their 100 millionth 'active' user.Of the active users, 55% use Twitter on their mobile devices. Each month over 400 million unique visitors use Twitter.com alone. Today Twitter is posting a billion tweets every five days, about 8,900 per second.Twitter was launched five years
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Sep
13
Curtis Sawin over at Office Resource blog today published a new 'how to' to help user migrating from Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003 environments to Office 2010 -- and to get them rid off the 'ribbon' UI to imitate previous user interface. "One strategy to help users ease into this transition is to hide,
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Sep
9
The Windows Phone Marketing Kit for Marketplace App Publishers is now available on App Hub."The Windows Phone Marketing Kit is designed to help you quickly start promoting your Windows Phone app on your website and in all of your marketing communications," stated Microsoft."The kit includes easy to follow guidance, examples of how to use the Windows
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Sep
12
In the latest Windows Phone Dev Podcast, Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk mentioned that the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update will be made available to existing Windows Phone users as soon as next week.Here is a transcript of the podcast embedded below, at around the 34:24s mark:Next week is going
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Sep
28
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has signed a definitive agreement with Microsoft to cross-license the patent portfolios of both companies, providing broad coverage for each company's products, Microsoft announced today."Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will receive royalties for Samsung's mobile phones and tablets running the Android mobile platform. In addition, the companies agreed to cooperate
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Sep
15
On August 12, Google applied its search ranking algorithm update a.k.a “Panda Update” to non-English sites, which impacts about 8% of searche queries, according to information from Google.
Attach Media has published a infographic – redefining the weight of the factors that Google takes into account the positioning.
Here is the inforgraphic: (click to blast)
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Sep
30
A video popped up showing an iPhone 5 -- fake or real, but the video is really cool. The game demoed on the video is ECA Games' Rock(s) Rider.
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