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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 Twitter’s APIs move into what…
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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 communications protocol on some of…
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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 a translation dictionary, Senior Technical…
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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 information about creating MOM applications…
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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 behind these record financials, in…
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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 living here until his late…
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“No doubt you’re going to see significant security issues with people uploading different things to the cloud,” says Nemertes Research analyst Andreas Antonopoulos. “You saw that over the weekend with the Chinese hackers who hacked into government officials’ Gmail accounts. Why were those people using Google for email when they’ve already been issued secure BlackBerrys?”…
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Apple iOS 4.3 is a well-designed, stable mobile operating system that remains one of the best in the smartphone and tablet arenas. But it isn’t perfect. Recently, the rumor mill has been cranking out speculation stating that the OS’ successor—iOS 5—will see a drastic overhaul that will bring a slew of new features to Apple’s…
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Its wakes you up, kicks you into the day’s tune, and keeps you punctual. It captures your perfect moments, connects you to the internet, and keeps your favorite music library a button away. That’s all that an iphone does which is more than most phones out there can do. This is why an iphone is…
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Opposition to AT&T’s T-Mobile land grab is growing Meanwhile, opposition to the AT&T merger with T-Mobile is growing. The FCC has posted a list of 50 questions for the giant carrier, asking it to defend claims that the $39 billion acquisition, which would give the combined company about 130 million customers, is in the public…