Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Believe it or not but Microsoft’s newly evolved search engine bing is nothing less than the answer of the above analogy question. You must have solved many of these analogy questions during your SAT exam. When I apply my knowledge and understanding to the question“Windows : Mac :: Google : (?)”, ...
Tags: apple, bing, google, mac, Microsoft, Search Engines
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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It's great to see cloud computing pushing for deep interoperability. This MSDN post covers some interesting topics around the manifesto and also speaks a bit about some interesting demos showing integration between Google's App Engine and Azure. Very excting.
"At MIX, we highlighted the use of our Identity Service ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, AppEngine, Azure, Cloud computing, google, Google App Engine, Microsoft, Python
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
All the video's for the 2009 MIX conference are posted online (http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09) and they are interesting for anybody developing on the Microsoft platform. One of the session posted is about developing consumer facing brand sites, presented by Tony Jones, Technology Director for Razorfish. It touches on the unique challenges that ...
Tags: Microsoft, MOSS
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...
Tags: Amazon, Cloud, Cloud computing, google, IBM, Microsoft, Skynet, Terminator
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Last year three major CMS/ECM vendors IBM/Microsoft/ECM came together to propose new standards that will change the CMS landscape the same way SQL 92 did for the database industry. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standards cover services that allow interoperability between content stores.
These standards cover the three basic areas of ...
Tags: Alfresco, CMIS, CMS, documentum, ECM, EMC, filenet, IBM, Microsoft, OASIS, Sharepoint
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Yesterday, Google launched its first beta version of open source web browser called Chrome. Some people consider this launch as Google’s attack on Microsoft’s IE and some regarded this launch as yet another browser to choose from. Google indirectly claims that market needed a fresh web browser. A browser that ...
Tags: Browsers, Chrome, google, IE, Microsoft, WebKit
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Microsoft has introduced new features in .NET with their Service Pack 1 (SP1) release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.
Most of the stuff included in the service pack releases is new features and functionality rather than bug fixes and updates to existing feature-set. For example, .NET Framework 3.5 ...
Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Service Pack, Visual Studio
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
With Google Gears, Adobe Air, and Microsoft WPF there's definitely lots of exciting changes in the desktop application area. Using the openness of the web to crack open the 'closed' nature of regular documents that we use today. At the recent Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit, Andrew McAfee ...
Tags: adobe, air, Andrew McAfee, google, Microsoft, WPF
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
When doing WPF development, a good source of information is http://windowsclient.net. One interesting download on that site is the Syndicated Client Starter Kit . It is a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content client applications. It has built-in ad-serving capabilities, and includes ...
Tags: Microsoft, SQL Server CE, WPF
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
As mentioned in an earlier post, we worked with AT &T and the Microsoft Surface team to build a Surface application for AT &T retail stores. It was demo'ed 2 weeks ago in Vegas, and will be going live April 17 in stores in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface, WPF
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