Friday 31 July 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 Puts Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the Web

Microsoft Office 2010 Puts Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the Web

In an expected and inevitable move, Microsoft has announced that the next version of Office will include Web-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote.

Not to be confused with Microsoft Live Office Workspaces, which lets users of the desktop Office suite collaborate online, Office Web Apps will be full lightweight versions of the products, allowing users to create, edit, save, and share docs on the Web. And, like obvious competitor Google Docs Office Web Apps will be available for free.
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Google vs. Microsoft: Will This Time Be Different?

Google vs. Microsoft: Will This Time Be Different?

Microsoft is unleashing its full arsenal of engineers, finances, resources, partnerships, and cunning in its push to bring Google back to earth. They have made a multi-billion dollar bet with Bing and the Yahoo search deal, so you can bet Microsoft will do all it must to get a positive return.
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Microsoft on Yahoo Deal: “Nobody Gets It”

Yesterday, Yahoo and Microsoft finally announced the big deal that would transform their “search platforms into a market competitor.” Microsoft will power Yahoo Search, while Yahoo gets a revenue sharing agreement. How did Wall Street react? While Microsoft investors and shareholders had a mildly positive reaction to the deal, Yahoo shares sunk. By billions of dollars.
Microsoft on Yahoo Deal: “Nobody Gets It”
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Firefox passes billion milestone

The open-source browser Firefox passed its billionth download on Friday, ahead of the release of its fourth iteration.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Firefox passes billion milestone
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BBC NEWS | Technology | File-sharer 'violated copyright'

BBC NEWS | Technology | File-sharer 'violated copyright'

A US student could face $4.5m (£2.8m) in fines following a federal court ruling that he violated copyright law for sharing music files online.
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Wednesday 29 July 2009

Apple iPods

Apple iPods

Apple iPods have overheated and burst into flames and smoke on a number of occasions, causing both injuries and property damage. And Apple has fought to keep federal government reports of these incidents from becoming public, according to a Seattle TV station.
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BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal

Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google.

Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering.

Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.

But last year it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.

Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer said the 10-year deal would provide Microsoft's Bing search engine with the necessary scale to compete.

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Tuesday 28 July 2009

Microsoft, Yahoo Near Web Search Deal

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. appears to have finally locked up rival Yahoo Inc. in a long-awaited Internet search partnership aimed at narrowing Google Inc.'s commanding lead in the most lucrative piece of the online advertising market.
Microsoft, Yahoo Near Web Search Deal

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Saturday 25 July 2009

NYT: Will intelligent machines outsmart us? - The New York Times- msnbc.com

The researchers — leading computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and roboticists who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California — generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon.
NYT: Will intelligent machines outsmart us? - The New York Times- msnbc.com
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Friday 24 July 2009

Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories - Bill Gates - Gizmodo

Back in the 1970s, there was a publication called the International Computer Programs Directory that handed out what was known as the ICP Million Dollar Award for applications that had more than $1 million in annual sales. In the late 1970s the list included more than 100 different products, but they were all for mainframes. In April, the 8080 version of BASIC became the first software product built to run on microprocessors to win an ICP Million Dollar Award. That was a pretty good sign that a significant shift was underway.
Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories - Bill Gates - Gizmodo
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Tron 2 video from Comic Con

Microsoft, G-word, and Apple – How firm is your IT faith? - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

First off after having spent a year at Microsoft I quickly found that the bashing that I expected to happen there didn’t happen the same way. It was much more open than I expected. A lot of smart people were around me and I quickly made personal goals to one day become a full time employee, a blue badger.
Microsoft, G-word, and Apple – How firm is your IT faith? - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
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Twitter / The Cyc AI System: @NeedMoneyTips Microsoft C ...

@NeedMoneyTips Microsoft Corp. and Google, Inc. are corporate competitors. http://bit.ly/kSYpI
Twitter / The Cyc AI System: @NeedMoneyTips Microsoft C ...
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Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds

Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds | Linux Magazine

Microsoft has released code for inclusion in the Linux kernel, but should it be accepted? Linus Torvalds gives his perspective.

CNET: Source: Yahoo-Microsoft deal unlikely this week

Ina Fried with CNET has this post:

Microsoft and Yahoo may well reach some sort of search partnership, but any deal is unlikely to come this week, a source told CNET News.

The on-again, off-again talks reportedly heated up last week, with Microsoft executives said to have traveled to Yahoo. The All Things Digital Web site reported that things were "down to the short strokes."

Among those said to have made the Silicon Valley trip were three of Microsoft's top online executives: Yusuf Mehdi, Satya Nadella, and Qi Lu.

However, a deal has yet to materialize, and a source said on Thursday that none is likely this week.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Yahoo's board plans to meet on Thursday for an "update" on the talks.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said in May that she was open to a search deal if she believed in the partner's technology and they provided "boatloads" of money.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has indicated for more than a year now that he would like to strike some sort of search deal, although he no longer wants to acquire all of Yahoo as his company offered to do in February 2008.

Yahoo declined to comment on board meetings or matters. A Microsoft representative declined to comment

BBC: Computer version of Human Brain in 10 years?????

BBC NEWS | Technology | Artificial brain '10 years away'

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain.

He told the TED Global conference in Oxford that a synthetic human brain would be of particular use finding treatments for mental illnesses.

Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said.

"It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years," he said.

"And if we do succeed, we will send a hologram to TED to talk."

'Shared fabric'

The Blue Brain project was launched in 2005 and aims to reverse engineer the mammalian brain from laboratory data.

In particular, his team has focused on the neocortical column - repetitive units of the mammalian brain known as the neocortex.

"It's a new brain," he explained. "The mammals needed it because they had to cope with parenthood, social interactions complex cognitive functions.

"It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man it expanded about a thousand fold in terms of the numbers of units to produce this almost frightening organ."

And that evolution continues, he said. "It is evolving at an enormous speed."

Over the last 15 years, Professor Markram and his team have picked apart the structure of the neocortical column.

"It's a bit like going and cataloguing a bit of the rainforest - how may trees does it have, what shape are the trees, how many of each type of tree do we have, what is the position of the trees," he said.

"But it is a bit more than cataloguing because you have to describe and discover all the rules of communication, the rules of connectivity."

The project now has a software model of "tens of thousands" of neurons - each one of which is different - which has allowed them to digitally construct an artificial neocortical column.

Although each neuron is unique, the team has found the patterns of circuitry in different brains have common patterns.

"Even though your brain may be smaller, bigger, may have different morphologies of neurons - we do actually share the same fabric," he said.

"And we think this is species specific, which could explain why we can't communicate across species."

World view

To make the model come alive, the team feeds the models and a few algorithms into a supercomputer.

"You need one laptop to do all the calculations for one neuron," he said. "So you need ten thousand laptops."

Instead, he uses an IBM Blue Gene machine with 10,000 processors.

Simulations have started to give the researchers clues about how the brain works.

For example, they can show the brain a picture - say, of a flower - and follow the electrical activity in the machine.

"You excite the system and it actually creates its own representation," he said.

Ultimately, the aim would be to extract that representation and project it so that researchers could see directly how a brain perceives the world.

But as well as advancing neuroscience and philosophy, the Blue Brain project has other practical applications.

For example, by pooling all the world's neuroscience data on animals - to create a "Noah's Ark", researchers may be able to build animal models.

"We cannot keep on doing animal experiments forever," said Professor Markram.

It may also give researchers new insights into diseases of the brain.

"There are two billion people on the planet affected by mental disorder," he told the audience.

The project may give insights into new treatments, he said.

The TED Global conference runs from 21 to 24 July in Oxford, UK.


BBC: Unsung heroes save net from chaos

BBC NEWS | Technology | Unsung heroes save net from chaos

Crack teams of volunteers keep the net online and functioning, according to leading internet lawyer Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard University.

The way data is divided up and sent around the internet in many jumps makes it "delicate and vulnerable" to attacks or mistakes, he said.

However, he added, the "random acts of kindness" of these unsung heroes quietly keep the net in working order.

Professor Zittrain's comments came at the TED Global conference in Oxford.

Incidents such as when the Pakistan government took YouTube offline in 2008 exposed the web's underlying fragility, he explained.

But a team of volunteers - unpaid, unauthorised and largely unknown to most people - rolled into action and restored the service within hours.

"It's like when the Bat signal goes up and Batman answers the call," Professor Zittrain told BBC News.

Blind faith

The fragility of the internet's architecture was largely due to its origins, said Professor Zittrain.

He said it had been conceived with "one great limitation and with one great freedom".

"Their limitation was that they didn't have any money," he told the TED audience in Oxford.

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft profits down by a third

Microsoft has reported disappointing results for the April to June quarter, with profits down by almost a third.
BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft profits down by a third

Wireless power system shown off from BBC



A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference.

The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices.

Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly at the TED Global conference in Oxford.

He said the system could replace the miles of expensive power cables and billions of disposable batteries.

"There is something like 40 billion disposable batteries built every year for power that, generally speaking, is used within a few inches or feet of where there is very inexpensive power," he said.

Trillions of dollars, he said, had also been invested building an infrastructure of wires "to get power from where it is created to where it is used."

Tuesday 21 July 2009

BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo posts fall in revenue

BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo posts fall in revenue

21 July 2009 22:59 UK

Internet search engine Yahoo has seen revenues in the quarter to 30 June fall 13%, citing the challenging economic environment.

Revenues for the three-month period dropped to $1.57bn (£953m) from $1.79bn in the same period a year earlier.

Meanwhile profit for the quarter edged up to $141m from $131.

Yahoo shares fell 4% in after-hours trade after saying income this quarter would range between $55m to $65m, from $76m in the second quarter.

Ross Sandler, an analyst with RBC Markets said: "Everybody expected conservative guidance. It's more conservative than even most people had expected. There aren't great estimates out there."

Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said "We established a clear, simple vision to be the centre of people's lives online, and we're backing that vision with important initiatives to create 'wow' experiences for our users".

Yahoo earned $141.4m, or 10 cents per share, in the quarter ending in June, up $131.2m, or 9 cents per share, in the same period in 2008.

The results come as the firm unveils its redesigned front page, to make it easier to users to access content.

The move is aimed at boosting its position as the main portal to the web.

Deal?

Laxmi Poruri, an analyst with Primary Global Research, was more upbeat: "The revenue was a little bit under what people wanted but earnings per share was better than expected."

"This is definitely a sign that they're trying to be more efficient. What's really holding (the stock) up is an imminent deal that people are expecting with Microsoft."

Last year a tie-up between the firms collapsed after Microsoft's $47.5bn takeover bid for Yahoo collapsed.

And Yahoo's attempt to form an alliance with Google came to nothing following regulatory examination.

But in recent days, there has been renewed speculation that a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is imminent.

Investor Carl Icahn, who holds around 5% of Yahoo, recently voiced his backing for such a deal.

COMMENT:  I have felt that this deal was going to happen all along.  In the past days the decision by Microsoft to close Popfly seems like a sign that Microsoft is preparing for a merge.  Popfly was a "half ass" version of the excellent Yahoo Pipes.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech 'has changed foreign policy'

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech 'has changed foreign policy'

Technology means that foreign policy will never be the same again, the prime minister said at a meeting of leading thinkers in Oxford.

The power of technology - such as blogs - meant that the world could no longer be run by "elites", Mr Brown said.

Policies must instead be formed by listening to the opinions of people "who are blogging and communicating with people around the world", he said.

Mr Brown's comments came during a surprise appearance at TED Global.

"That in my view gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world," he told the TED Global (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.

"Foreign policy can never be the same again."

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Cloud Computing overview and case study

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Monday 20 July 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download

The server-packages of June Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. KB articles are also available.
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download

Download Information

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971538

Office SharePoint Server 2007 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971537

Detail Description

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971538

Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971537

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Apps 'to be as big as internet'

The market for mobile applications, or apps, will become "as big as the internet", peaking at 10 million apps in 2020, a leading online store says.

However, GetJar say, the developer community will decline drastically as each developer makes less money.

According to the Symbian Foundation, newly in the developer market, apps will become more personal and practical as their numbers grow.

The comments were made at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco.


BBC NEWS | Technology | Apps 'to be as big as internet'
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Twitter future?

I am going to go on a ledge here, but some of my behind on the line and make a prediction based on my evolving concepts of the Internet. I think Twitter has peaked, that is its recent growth will suddenly come to a stop.

The key question is if Twitter is Hotmail (stable and essential), Flickr (stagnate and outdated but surviving) or Bebo?

Web 2.0 fads exhibit a radical come and go, they top the "e" generation of the late 1990s in fad and buzz words. So far none has stuck. If you ask me I don't think it will be Twitter. I think the next thing to watch is Last.FM which will take off soon.

BBC on Netbooks



I have been playing with Netbooks for over a year right now. The Eee PC with Linux is okay, but they still cost too much in performance to make up for size. And the size actually can be a problem when it means small screen and small keyboard.

I actually would go for a blackberry over a Netbook. And to be honset, Netbook with Windows is a bad idea. Wrong OS. As for Google OS, yah right we will see.

Sunday 19 July 2009

BBC NEWS | Business | Dip in global computer shipments

Worldwide personal computer shipments between April and June were down 5% from a year earlier, a report has said.
BBC NEWS | Business | Dip in global computer shipments
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Saturday 18 July 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview

Not sure if this circle is clearer than the 2007 circle that we all know and "love"

Google Image Result for http://www.maximainc.com/images/sharepoint_img1.jpg

Sure the new circle is cooler and more web 2.0 and user faced, with Search replacing the techie Enterprise search  and communities replacing collaboration.  But the MOSS 2007 market information present things I could easily instruct techie to install.  Not sure what to make of some of this new circle.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Wikipedia painting row escalates

BBC NEWS | Technology | Wikipedia painting row escalates

The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified.

The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission.

But the gallery has said it needs to recoup the £1m cost of its digitisation programme and claims Wikipedia has misrepresented its position.

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Friday 17 July 2009

Apples cost too much



But, she didn't seem to notice the the Eee PCs.

BBC NEWS | Business | Google sees quarterly profit up

Internet search engine Google has seen better-than-expected quarterly results even as revenue growth slowed following the economic downturn.
BBC NEWS | Business | Google sees quarterly profit up
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Thursday 16 July 2009

Facebook | Photos of Christy Conroy Levy

Facebook | Photos of Christy Conroy Levy

OmniTech New Media, an old job from the late 20th Century which I sometimes miss.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf

he latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK.

Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.

The home version of the operating system costs around £50, while the professional version costs around £100.

The limited number of pre-ordered copies will be shipped on 22 October, the same day it goes on sale in stores.

Pre-orders are available from a number of retailers, with the period ending on 9 August.

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Monday 13 July 2009

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft Office takes to the web

Microsoft has fired its latest salvo at Google, announcing a free web-based version of its Office software.

Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it ships next year.

The new web offering will compete with Google's free online Docs suite launched three years ago.

Last week Google took aim at Windows with news of a free operating system while in June Microsoft introduced a new search engine called Bing.

"We believe the web has a lot to offer in terms of connectivity," Microsoft's group product manager for Office told the BBC.

"We have over a half a billion customers world-wide and what we hear from them is that they really want the power of the web without compromise. They want collaboration without compromise.

"And what they tell us today is that going to the web often means they sacrifice fidelity, functionality and the quality of the content they care about. We knew that if and when we were ever going to bring applications into a web environment, we needed to do the hard work first because we hold such a high bar," said Mr Bryant.

Microsoft said that 400 million customers who are Windows Live consumers will have access to the Office web applications at no cost.

At a conference for business partners in New Orleans, Microsoft announced an early release of web-apps to thousands of testers later this year.

At the end of the year the company expects to release a proper public beta for the software and ship a final version off to PC makers in the first half of 2010.


BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft Office takes to the web
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Sunday 12 July 2009

SharePoint Social Computing Site




New Microsoft SharePoint social computing site. SharePoint is very much a lag product, bringing technologies proven to a larger market in a format that works for business. This site finally makes the jump showing SharePoint as a social networking tool.

Saturday 11 July 2009

BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | Pair jailed for web race crimes

BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | Pair jailed for web race crimes

Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.

Simon Sheppard, 51, of Selby in North Yorkshire, received four years and 10 months, and Stephen Whittle, 42, of Preston, two years and four months.

The men printed leaflets and controlled US websites featuring racist material.

They fled to the US after being convicted at Leeds Crown Court last year, but failed in an asylum bid.

Sheppard, of Brook Street, Selby, was found guilty of 11 offences and Whittle, of Avenham Lane, Preston, was found guilty of five offences at a trial in July last year.

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Wednesday 8 July 2009

Sure Thing in Las Vegas

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Web weathers celebrity send-off - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

Web weathers celebrity send-off - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

Chastened by Inauguration Day's online video breakdowns, Web sites bulked up their capacity to handle the crush of traffic for pop star Michael Jackson's memorial service today - and statistics showed that the bits flowed at mostly manageable levels.

When President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, so many people were watching online that some sites couldn't keep up with the flow. The benchmark number for that day was 7.2 million active streams, as recorded by Akamai, a Massachusetts-based company that handles high-traffic events for a long list of Web sites, including msnbc.com.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | TalkTalk drops ad tracking firm

UK internet service provider TalkTalk has pulled the plug on its agreement with online behaviour tracking firm Phorm.
BBC NEWS | Technology | TalkTalk drops ad tracking firm
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Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

However, after reading the very few Chrome OS details that Google smartly dropped a couple of weeks before Microsoft is expected to announce the release to manufacturing of Windows 7, I’ve got a few doubts…. And quite a few more than the huge number of Google fanboys and girls who seem to forget for all its product debuts, Google hasn’t had any home runs other than search.
Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
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Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
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N. Korea Suspected In Attacks On U.S. Web Sites : NPR

A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other U.S. government agencies, according to officials inside and outside the government.
N. Korea Suspected In Attacks On U.S. Web Sites : NPR
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Governments hit by cyber attack

A widespread computer attack has hit several US government agencies while some South Korean government websites also appear to be affected.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Governments hit by cyber attack
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NYT: Google to introduce PC operating system - The New York Times- msnbc.com

SAN FRANCISCO - In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal computer based on its Chrome browser, according to two people briefed on Google’s plans.
NYT: Google to introduce PC operating system - The New York Times- msnbc.com

As with all things Google, big concept with no details.
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Friday 3 July 2009

Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt - O'Reilly Radar

Even with an improving economy, there's still a lot of developers out there who are looking for work. And though it may make seasoned Open Source hackers cringe at the thought, one quick way to find employment may be to go over to "the Other Side" and become a Microsoft SharePoint developer. I recently attended the SPTechCon conference, and talked to Gary Blatt, founder and current board member of the Washington D.C. Sharepoint Users Group, about the overwhelming demand for SharePoint-savvy developers, especially in the federal government. We also discussed Vivek Kundra, the new Federal CIO, and the things that Gary likes and dislikes most about SharePoint.
Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt - O'Reilly Radar
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Zoho Office For Microsoft SharePoint, Online Collaboration, Online Word Processor, Online Spreadsheet, Online Presentation

Zoho Office For Microsoft SharePoint, Online Collaboration, Online Word Processor, Online Spreadsheet, Online Presentation
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Zoho Builds Cloud Apps on SharePoint - Business Center - PC World

In its effort to overtake Google in the cloud productivity apps space, Zoho has turned to the company Google Apps is targeting in the first place: Microsoft. Specifically, Zoho is taking advantage of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration technologies with its Zoho Office for SharePoint.
Zoho Builds Cloud Apps on SharePoint - Business Center - PC World
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Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today

A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was “seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates.” He noted that the problem began around 6:30 AM Pacific time and that the team was looking into it. A few minutes later he updated that Google App Engine was going into “unplanned maintenance mode” — over 4 hours later, it’s still not back up.
Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Mixed results for green IT goals

A majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in government's Greening ICT Strategy.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mixed results for green IT goals
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Thursday 2 July 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download.
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
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Will 'good enough' virtualization topple VMware? | The Open Road - CNET News

I'll let you read Cappuccio's excellent post for his full argument, but the crux of it is that in the face of dominant but pricey technology, many buyers will turn to "good enough" to fill their needs. For Novell, that competition to its 90 percent market share came from Windows, which displaced Novell's "great technology that was more complex (or complete) than most customers needed."

Today, VMware faces a host of rising threats. Cappuccio picks out Microsoft's Hyper-V as chief among them:

[L]urking in the background is this little thing called Hyper-V; not as robust, or as tested as VMware, with almost no install base, and certainly not ready for prime time in most people's minds. However, it will be an integral part of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 7 in 2010. Why should you (or VMware) care? Because like "free networking", or "free SharePoint", hyper-V will get used, slowly at first, but as more and more systems get installed the base will increase and within just a few short years companies will discover (surprise, surprise!) that they have business applications running on both VMware and Hyper-V.

Free-and-good-enough is a great strategy, and one that Microsoft has long used to exceptional effect.

Of course, Microsoft isn't the only one playing this game. Xen is included for free in Linux, though Red Hat is pushing to move users to KVM (and succeeding to an increasing extent). Virtualization customers are spoiled for choice.


Will 'good enough' virtualization topple VMware? | The Open Road - CNET News
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Wednesday 1 July 2009

HP Professional Workstation gets Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor

HP Professional Workstation gets Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor
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“‘We haven’t had the Office Suite, a productivity suite, for marketing’

“‘We haven’t had the Office Suite, a productivity suite, for marketing’
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Backing Up and Restoring Databases by Using the SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 Tools (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)

Creating regular backups allows you to restore your servers and sites in case they happen to fail. To restore a server or server farm from a database backup, you must perform the following steps.

  1. On your server, or on the front-end Web servers in your server farm, in Internet Information Services (IIS), create the virtual servers to host your Web site content. For more information about creating a virtual server, see Extending Virtual Servers (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0).

  2. Using the SQL Server restore tools, restore the databases from the backups.

    For more information about restoring databases in SQL Server, see the SQL Server documentation.

  3. In IIS, create the application pools for the content virtual servers.

    Be sure that you use domain accounts for the application pools, and that these accounts are members of the Security Administrators and Database Creators roles in SQL Server. For more information about creating application pools, see the Help system for Internet Information Services.

  4. On your server or front-end Web servers, install Windows SharePoint Services, and connect to the restored configuration database.


Backing Up and Restoring Databases by Using the SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 Tools (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)
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Failbook?

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Workplaces set to get 'smarter'

"We are getting more mobile and work anywhere, any place that we might be going," said Dr Marie Puybaraud, research director at Johnson Controls, a company that designs car and office interiors and sponsored the report.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Workplaces set to get 'smarter'
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