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No less than Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has argued that the app store model is fracturing the Internet and that developers should write programs for browsers instead. But USENIX panelists said it’s all about cash. For better or worse, the app store model is favored by developers because it lets […]
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Asked if they had to choose a public-cloud UC provider, one-third said they would choose Microsoft Office 365. Azaleos Corporation, a managed messaging, collaboration and unified communications services company, released the findings of an independent survey on the cloud adoption plans of mid-to-large enterprises for unified communications (UC) services. The […]
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Astronomy fans in the U.S. won’t be able to catch a glimpse of Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse, but Google just put up a homepage doodle that will allow people to follow along. “Starting now, see the latest state of the lunar eclipse on our homepage – thanks @slooh for the […]
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Think you know Twitter? These little tidbits may redefine the way you regard the micro-blogging service. Twitter Doesn’t Want to Kill All Third-Party Services This is one bit of news I’ll take with a grain of salt, but according to Twitter’s CEO, Twitter would prefer that all those services accessing […]
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Google leaves IPv6 on for YouTube; Facebook adds IPv6 to developers’ site; Yahoo sees ‘minimal risk’ to IPv6 One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet’s main […]
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Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) will remove a “little-used feature” from copies of Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 after a U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals denied Microsoft’s appeal of an injunction in a patent-infringement case against the software giant. Microsoft said new copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 would […]
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Microsoft is trying to woo Android application developers, offering them help in porting applications to Windows Phone. The company has released a Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android developers to help them find their way around the Windows Phone platform. Developers should think of the tool as being like […]
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Purpose Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 provides event-driven operations monitoring, performance tracking, security policy enforcement, and auditing capability. Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Training at Certkingdom.com The MOM software development kit (SDK) provides developers and administrators with information about extending and customizing MOM. The documentation includes […]
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First-quarter profit of $5.41 billion Microsoft has announced record financial results, with Steve Ballmer announcing $16.20 billion in revenue for the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, with $5.41 billion in profit. Ballmer and co. are citing Office 2010 and the sustained ‘PC refresh cycle’ as the key drivers […]
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I was talking about colleges with my son the other day to see what he is interested in for a possible major. I was hoping and praying he wouldn’t say English since my guidance there would be like trying to divide by zero or philosophy because that meant he’d be […]