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OpenX goes hosted

Sites serving under 25 million ads a month can now get control of their ad serving, free, without the cost of running the software themselves. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Advertisement, Ad Serving, OpenX, Dana Blankenhorn, Google Inc., Open Source, Officials

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon

If you liked the first Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ad for Microsoft, you'll probably love the second. If you didn't, there's hope: A more Windows-centric one will air in a matter of days, according to Microsoft officials. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Officials, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-11

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Apple bans bobble head Congress app

Apple has banned an app from the App Store that depicts our members of congress as bobble head caricatures. Not because the app put them in compromising positions or contained foul language, violence (or god help us, nudity) but because it "ridicules" them. Really? ...

Tags: U.S. Congress, Apple Inc., App, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

Until quite recently, Microsoft officials emphasized the "home" in Windows Home Server WHS when explaining how that product fit into its server line-up. Last week, however, something changed. Microsoft officials added small office/home office SOHO users to its list of potential customers for WHS. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Small Business, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Windows Server 2008 R2 finally gets its day in the sun

Microsoft officials highlighted the company's wave of enterprise server products during the kick-off keynotes at the company's TechEd Europe conference on November 9. Among this wave is Windows Server 2008 R2 (WS2008R2) -- the server complement to Windows 7, which has a lot of unsung features that could be of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Microsoft 'builds a branch to Java developers" with Teamprise buy

Microsoft has bought the Teamprise assets from SourceGear LLC for an undisclosed amount, company officials announced on November 9. A Microsoft-branded version of Teamprise is slated for release in late March, 2010 -- the same time Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2010. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Java Developer, Java, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Asset Management, Microsoft Development Tools, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-09

The long and winding road to MSN's reinvention as a social hub

It took a couple of years, but Microsoft is finally making good on some of the ideas officials had for making the company's MSN home page more viable. On November 4, Microsoft launched a preview of the fruit of its efforts: A radically redesigned MSN.com with Facebook and Twitter integration....

Tags: MSN, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-04

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe

Microsoft officials have shared details about two of the three different versions of Office 2010 that are in development: The Office 2010 client and the Office Web Apps. Next week, at the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, they finally are slated to show and tell more about the third: Office...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)

Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...

Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

Starting November 16, Microsoft is ending distribution and sales of its Microsoft Office Accounting product. Company officials began notifying customers of the decision on October 30. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Microsoft Office, Finance, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Why is Microsoft opening up its Outlook file format now?

On October 26, Microsoft officials announced they were planning to open up the Outlook Personal Folders .PST file format and making it freely and safely licensable. What no one has said so far is why is Microsoft doing this now and who will likely benefit from the move. ...

Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., File Format, PST, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Corporate Law, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Black Duck finds its business makes sense

managing dual-use encryptionThe important lesson from the Jonathan Erickson (Dr. Dobbs) piece is that a simple application filing averted the panic that ensued when he received a "charging letter" from U.S. export enforcement officials. 88% of all export applications qualify for exceptions given to ?mass market? or ?unrestricted? retail...

Tags: SECURITY, encryption

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

SharePoint: The team that makes the donut(s)

When Microsoft officials describe SharePoint Server, they often refer to what's called "the donut" diagram -- a picture of the six server workloads that comprise the overall product. But who actually makes the donuts, and how does the team decide which features to bake into a new release of the...

Tags: Team, Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Open source scores small victory at White House

Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government's choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov. The U.S. government's technology team announced that it had selected the open source content management system to make http://www.whitehouse.gov more transparent to consumers and developers. ...

Tags: White House, Government, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Drupal challenged as White House goes blog

The switch was designed to be transparent, but even a casual observer will note the site now features five separate blogs, and that officials' names are now listed on announcements that read more like stories, often with personal details. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Drupal, White House, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing

Microsoft's Bing search engine won non-exclusive deals to integrate Twitter and Facebook feeds, officials said at the Web 2.0 conference. The deal may be a sign that Google won't chase pricey search deals. The news, first reported by Kara Swisher at BoomTown, could be construed as a...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Microsoft releases Windows-7-friendly version of Desktop Optimization Pack

Microsoft officials last month said they had revised their Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP plans so as to get a Windows-7-friendly version of its tools out to businesses around the time of the Windows 7 launch. On October 20, the MDOP team announced it was ready to open the floodgates....

Tags: Desktop, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Team Management, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-20

SharePoint: What's coming when with the 2010 release?

Even though Microsoft released a private beta of its SharePoint 2010 product to testers in July, the company has said relatively little about the next release of its collaboration platform -- until October 19. Today is the opening day of the SharePoint conference, where Microsoft officials are sharing a...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-19