Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010 - Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010 - Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs:

"SharePoint Server 2010 extends crawl rules to add two major useful features: Regular Expressions and Case Preservation. Regular Expressions in crawl rules are discussed in this blog post, so we will not talk in detail about it here and focus instead on case preservation support. The crawl rules can be made case sensitive and the links that match with that particular rule are then case preserved."

Microsoft SharePoint Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Microsoft SharePoint Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability: "Microsoft SharePoint Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability"

Bugtraq ID:23832
Class:Input Validation Error
CVE:CVE-2007-2581
Remote:Yes
Local:No
Published:May 04 2007 12:00AM
Updated:Oct 10 2007 05:28PM
Credit:Solarius is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.

5 Ways to Ruin Your SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

5 Ways to Ruin Your SharePoint 2010 Upgrade


http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/5-ways-to-ruin-your-sharepoint-2010-upgrade-008392.php

1. Only Consider the Technical Issues

2. Disregard a Business Case for Upgrading

3. Don’t Bother Training your Users in the New Version

4. Don’t Plan Feature Transfer

5. Have No Rollback Plan



Firefox Private Browsing Data Leaves Little to the Imagination

Firefox Private Browsing Data Leaves Little to the Imagination

Saturday, 21 August 2010

BBC News - Ofcom report highlights 'multi-tasking media users'

BBC News - Ofcom report highlights 'multi-tasking media users': "The annual Communications Market Report says that the average person spends around 15 hours 45 minutes every day awake. Of this time, it says, the average person spends seven hours and five minutes 'engaging in media and communications activities'."

BBC News - Online sales hit three-year high

BBC News - Online sales hit three-year high: "Internet sales grew in July at their fastest pace since before the recession, as wet weather encouraged home shopping, a survey suggests.

Online sales grew by 18% in the month compared with a year earlier, the biggest jump since 2007, IMRG said.

UK shoppers spent 5bn online in July, more than in any other month this year, it added."

Friday, 20 August 2010

BBC News - Living life in augmented reality

BBC News - Living life in augmented reality: "Augmented reality smartphone apps allow users to view the world through their phone's camera with an overlay of useful local information. But with the advent of augmented reality games, could fantasy finally become reality?"

Photosynth from India



This technology from Microsoft is amazing, but Google seems to have leaped over it with a technology that does the same with all pictures stored on Google maps. Photosynth seems limited by the fact you have one author, one synth, one set of images rather than a growing collection of images evolving a global synth, which is what Google is doing.

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

BBC News - India sets Blackberry monitoring deadline

BBC News - India sets Blackberry monitoring deadline: "India has sent formal notices to the country's mobile operators telling them they must have equipment to monitor Blackberry services by 31 August."

BBC News - Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media

BBC News - Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media: "Young people may one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned."

BBC News - Ofcom report highlights 'multi-tasking media users'

BBC News - Ofcom report highlights 'multi-tasking media users': "The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data suggests."