Report: Google, Microsoft, and two media companies bidding on Digg
Friday, den 7. March 2008
If every blog rumor were to be believed, social news site Digg would have been bought a dozen times over by now, so take the latest one with the requisite grain of salt.
TechCrunch reported early on Friday that four companies are in the running to place bids on Digg–Microsoft, Google, and two unidentified "media companies"–and [...]
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The Ultimate Link List of Everything MIX!
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
At the MIX08 conference, a lot of new, great stuff was announced, here is one place to download everything and try out the sites that were featured (like Hard Rock’s Memorabilia). The Ultimate Link List is here! Here we go.
Downloads:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86)
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 [...]
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Building Your Own Deep Zoom
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
In Silverlight 2, one of the new features is the support for Deep Zoom technology, which allows you to quickly zoom in and out on really large images. If you haven’t already done so, you’ve got to check out our video on this here. Or just visit the Hard Rock Memorabilia site here: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
So now [...]
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Try out IE8 Now with the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008New and exciting features
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to [...]
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Microsoft shows IE8 at Mix
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008
LAS VEGAS–Microsoft offered its first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, a prospect that had general manager Dean Hachamovitch struggling to figure out what to cover.
“I’m so excited that I had to figure out how to focus,” he told the crowd. The marketing folks naturally suggested he point to three major advances, but [...]
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Microsoft goes public with Office Live Workspace beta
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Regular readers of this blog know that I don’t believe that Google Apps is a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Office.
While Microsoft is not releasing a completely online version of its Office on Tuesday, it is releasing Office Live Workspace, an online-collaboration tool for Office that works in cooperation with the desktop application suite.
Workspace enables users [...]
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Microsoft Silverlight coming to mobile devices this year
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year.
The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft’s Mix ‘08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia’s Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which [...]
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope
Saturday, den 1. March 2008The WorldWide Telescope is a computer program created by Microsoft, expected to be released to public in Spring 2008, which allows its users to view outer space, much like Stellarium. It was announced at the the TED Conference in Monterey. Users are able to pan around outer space and zoom as far in to [...]
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Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni
Saturday, den 1. March 2008I have been using Xoboni for a while and love it. I have been wondering why doesn’t Microsoft buy Xobni and just put it in to Outlook. I saw this and said…. Yes!!!!
Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference [...]
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Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8
Monday, den 25. February 2008
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.
The Web site ActiveWin on Monday published the contents of a beta invitation, which said Microsoft is nearing a launch date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, which will be available [...]
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Microsoft Mulling Zune-Windows Mobile Integration
Monday, den 25. February 2008
Is Microsoft considering some sort of integration between its Zune digital music player and its Windows Mobile platform? InfoWorld.com speculates that this might indeed be the case. The Web site reports on a series of postings on the Windows Mobile blog over the weekend that include a Microsoft developer asking bloggers for ways that the [...]
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Is Yahoo the right mate for Microsoft? Yes…
Sunday, den 24. February 2008
New friends? Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang
With Microsoft’s pursuit Google…I mean Yahoo… going into the end game, some are questioning the wisdom of plunking down about $45 billion on such a prize. Last week, Robert Breza, an analyst with RBC Capital Market, made the case for Microsoft chipping away at Google’s search/ad lead in a [...]
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Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Students, and Technology
Tuesday, den 19. February 2008Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Students, and Technology
How would you like a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? How about the entire Microsoft Expression Studio? Not enough…… how about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and more?
For once, something that sounds too good to be true really is this good and really is true. Starting [...]
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MSN Direct now on Windows Mobile
Tuesday, den 12. February 2008At GSMA 2008 Mobile World Congress, Microsoft announced that its MSN Direct services is now available on Windows Mobile devices. A technology preview allows you to get instant, at-a-glance updates on weather, top news stories, stock updates, sports scores, and more. The service will also automatically refresh the content so you have the latest information. [...]
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Media Center Plug-In: Internet TV
Friday, den 8. February 2008
MiraWorldTV is a free plug-in for Windows Media Center that lets you to stream Internet TV from around the world straight to your Windows Media Center PC or TV. The plug-in, which works on Vista Ultimate or Vista Premium, provides thousands of mainstream channels built into the app and its database is updated frequently. The [...]
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MicroHoo: The effect on search and Web services
Friday, den 1. February 2008
Just about everyone else on the Internet has written on the potential acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft for $44.6 billion, but I thought that I would weigh in on what I think this might mean for search and Web services.
According to ComScore’s search share numbers for December 2007, Google has 58.4 percent of the market [...]
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Windows 7 isn’t headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011.
Tuesday, den 29. January 2008
Hey, it’s not Microsoft’s fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it’s certainly a long ways away any way you slice it. Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft planning a Windows 7 release sometime in 2009, Microsoft has apparently gotten in touch with WinVistaClub and set the record [...]
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SCREEN2EXE - Quick and free way to Screencast
Sunday, den 27. January 2008
SCREEN2EXE is an easy-to-use tool to capture desktop activity and save it as a self-playing .exe file. The program will capture mouse movements, clicks and even optional audio comments from your microphone. You can choose to record the entire screen or just a selected area, configure the recording quality and also the frame rate. The [...]
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5 Programs for Tweaking Vista
Saturday, den 26. January 2008
Was TweakUI your favorite PowerToy? Have you been searching for something similar for Vista? Several different programs are available that may be what you’re looking for. Here’s a quick list:
TweakVI is a software program designed just to tweak and optimize Vista. The program comes in 3 editions - basic, premium, [...]
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Zumobi to climb onto Windows Mobile phones
Tuesday, den 22. January 2008
Microsoft and Zumobi, a content distribution platform for mobile phones, announced on Tuesday a partnership that will preload Zumobi (download here) on select Windows Mobile phones.
Zumobi’s downloadable app (available now for Windows Mobile 5 and 6) offers an interface of 16 tiles to help users access key content quickly. Each tile is a widget that’s [...]
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