Archive for January 31st, 2012
Jan
31
Microsoft reached an important development milestone with the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program. "Office 15 is the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients and plans on delivering updates simultaneously.""With Office 15, for
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Jan
31
In this video below, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist, John Baker previews the "Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring" Virtual lab.You will learn how you can use System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager to ensure that infrastructure SLAs are met which
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Jan
31
Microsoft Exchange PST Capture tool released today helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment - all from a straightforward admin-driven tool.PST Capture is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange
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Jan
31
Microsoft BizSpark Plus announced today is offering startups $60,000 worth of Windows Azure cloud-computing and storage services under a program working with startup accelerator TechStars."BizSpark Plus is an
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Jan
31
System Center Cloud Services Management Pack Release Candidate now available for download offers a self-service experience to facilitate private cloud capacity requests from your business unit IT application owners and end users, including the flexibility to request additional capacity as business demands increase."The System Center Service Manager Authoring Tool
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Jan
31
On January 27, Microsoft Research released its second Facebook game "Doubloon Dash: A Quest for Understanding," aimed at helping to understand users' behavior in social-networking situations.The goal of the Research Games project is to "test the behavior of real people in game-theoretic interactions, particularly those
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Jan
31
Microsoft under open-source license has released the beta of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone."This SDK provides developers with a speed dial that lets them quickly connect and integrate Windows Phone applications with AWS (S3, SimpleDB, and SQS Cloud Services),"
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Jan
31
In order to bridge the Dart and JavaScript worlds, Google Chrominum team made available the "JavaScript to Dart Synonym app" that maps between JavaScript and Dart eases your introduction to Dart and gives you a sense of where the project is going."We started with the basics that
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Jan
31
Google's RE<C renewable energy research project recently open sourced a new tool and a significant amount of data to support future CSP (concentrating solar power) heliostat development, announced Ross Koningstein, Engineer, Google RE<C team in a January 30 blog post."Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative was launched in 2007 through Google.org as an effort to
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Jan
31
Yahoo's "OurWorld IMVironment for Yahoo! Messenger!" introduced today lets you create your own styled avatar and chat with your friends in a safe, virtual space designed to reflect your personal style. IMVironment suite currently includes Emoticats, Dilbert and Flickr.Here is what the OurWorld IMVironment offers:Create a
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Jan
31
In the latest installement of Windows 8 posts, Ilana Smith, lead program manager on the Engineering System team, posted about the changes the team is preparing for the beta released.identifying duplicate files during conflict resolution: Windows 8 now have a new experience for selecting the right file when file name collisions are encountered during a copy
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Jan
31
Twitter posted a video on its YouTue channel, which is the product of company's last week's "Hack Week." The video has everything amateurish effects, cheesy music, and sayings like: "Man this is a sweet job. But working at Twitter isn't just a sweet job, it's a way of life - a way of life that's like
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Jan
31
SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.2 released today simplifies database migration process from Oracle/Sybase/MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Server and SQL Azure. The v5.3 of SSMA provides the following major enhancements:Support conversion of Oracle %ROWTYPE parameters with NULL defaultSupport conversion
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Jan
31
Google Scholar makes it easier to keep up with colleagues' work with the availability of "Find and Follow Public Author Profiles.""Public author profiles already appear in Google Scholar search results when someone searches for an author's name, e.g., [hal varian]. Now,
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Jan
31
Research in Motion (RIM) launched "BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365," a new service for business and government organizations to extend Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones and self-manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud.The service ensures people have industry-leading business collaboration
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