Archive for September 30th, 2011
Sep
30
So, have you got the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" -- now, if you want to create your own ringtones, so you can match your jingle to your mood, or match just the right tune to your contacts.To make any file that fits these criteria into a ringtone, all you've to do is assign it the
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Sep
30
This summer, the Russian government adopted a new law to cancel daylight saving time (DST) in the country -- meaning that Russia will not "fall back" to the previous Russian Standard Time zones this fall. People in the country will leave their clocks on "Summer Time" (as it's known in the region) and no longer have
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Sep
30
The decision to "end-of-life" a product is never an easy one -- but it happens -- Yahoo! jus announced that the Yahoo! Web Messenger, will be discontinuing support after November 1, 2011.Yahoo suggests to download the desktop client, which has some enhanced features like chat with Facebook friends. For those who don't want desktop Messenger,
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Sep
30
Microsoft recently announced the availability of the Microsoft Lync 2010 Awareness Materials, which are customizable resources that help you market your Microsoft Lync 2010 rollout.The new Lync awareness and end-user education materials, including posters, table tents, stickers, and multiple quick reference cards. These kinds of materials are typically leveraged in readiness & adoption engagements at customers
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Sep
30
Gears of War 3: Action-packed Xbox 360 Sci-fi Warfare Trilogy goes on sale on September 20 has sold more than 3 Million copies in its first week, revealed Jeff Meisner, on the Official Microsoft Blog."Following more than 22,000 midnight madness launch events, Microsoft and Epic Games today announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive sold more than
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Sep
30
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager released to Download Center provides entralized security baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate your organization's ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies."MSCM is the next evolution of the Microsoft Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series.
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Sep
30
The video below is a recording from the //BUILD C++ sessions -- in the video, Tarek Madkour, a leader on the VC++ team shares some very wise perspectives on modern C++ for Windows 8 Metro style apps. Hint: most of your time will be spent writing ISO C++, not C++/CX, which is the language extension you
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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
30
An XDA Developers Forum user shared a step-by-step guide for brute-forcing his way into the internet sharing feature of Windows Phone Mango. The guide helps you enable the internet sharing feature with carefully tuned registry keys on legacy Windows Phone Mango devices like the Samsung Omnia 7.This hack proves at least two such devices, the Samsung
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Sep
30
King of Pop, Michael Jackson is irrefutably one of the most iconic entertainers of this generation.On Saturday, October 8 at 10am PT, "Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert" will broadcast live worldwide to Facebook's hundreds of millions of fans from the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.Powered by Milyoni, the concert will be hosted by Jamie Foxx and
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Sep
30
Microsoft Dynamics Operations team notifies Dynamics CRM partners to act on in the next month if you haven't done so already -- "Renew your Microsoft Dynamics Software Advisor Agreement by November 1, 2011."As communicated in November 2010, "all CSA partners who wish to continue participating in the Microsoft Dynamics Software Advisor program are required to sign
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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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Sep
30
An international study conducted by Experian into the use of social networks, reveals just how much time people living in different countries spend on Facebook.According to Experian, "Singaporeans emerge from the study as those who spend the longest on the social network site, with an average of 38 minutes and 46 seconds per session, while people
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Sep
30
YouTube today launched a series of posts and videos around what it's like working at YouTube. "The goal is to show you what happens behind your screen, and will talk about things we think you might want to know about like job opportunities, interesting folks working and visiting here, projects we're testing out, our gnome overlords
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Sep
30
Microsoft Research engineers are working on to deliver faster and more relevant search results for users, announced Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research and strategy officer, on Sept. 27 to mark the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Research.The project dubbed "Tiger," is the new index-serving technology which uses advances in Solid State Disk technology to improve the
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Random From The Tiger: The Next Gen Index Serving Platform for Microsoft’s Decision Engine Bing
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