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- Busy week for Microsoft: Silverlight and jQuery
- I'm traveling so I wasn't able to chime in on the availability of a Silverlight release candidate. One of the most important thing for developers is that it sounds like this will be the last round of API tweaks so there will be no more updating your applications. Silverlight.net has...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight.net, Silverlight 2 RC, AJAX, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
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- Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft’s Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...
- Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Diaz Memo, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Sam Diaz, NBC, Netflix
- Videos 2008-11-21
- Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide
- With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people using Google Apps and Zoho, two of the main cloud office suites on the web, Microsoft once again sees an opportunity to slam it's iron fist onto the web in hope of crushing the same competitors as before. ...
- Tags: Office 2.0, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Adobe lands MLB.com deal
- updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight. Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reports: Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers. Games...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., MLB, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- $10k hacking contest announced
- Israeli software developer Gizmox is challenging hackers to try hacking into the company's Visual WebGui Platform, by offering a $10,000 incentive to those who manage to achieve the objectives of their contest launched at the beginning of the month. What's particularly interesting about the contest is the fact that the...
- Tags: Contest, Identity, Gizmox, Hacking, Semantic Web, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- CIO Sessions: Netflix Chief Product Officer: Neil Hunt
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about transforming the company's movie rental service from DVDs by mail to online delivery. He also discusses how the company is using digital rights management solutions, developing new delivery platforms and bringing its movies to Mac users....
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Digital-rights Management, Officer, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Rights management via Silverlight
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, says that by using Silverlight's "play ready" technology, Netflix can offer most Mac users the ability to watch movies instantly while still protecting the rights of the movie owners. by Administrator
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Movie, Rights-management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Worst. Bug. Ever.
- Worst. Bug. Ever.sounds like....Way back when... Bill was demo'ing a voice interface to windows when someone in the audience shouted out Format C colon....Confirmed.I've just confirmed this bug on my test model of the G1 (pressed [enter] R-E-B-O-O-T [enter] and it rebooted on the spot).Android is a java framework it...
- Tags: Speech recognition, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Java, java framework
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Worst. Bug. Ever.
- It turns out the bug in Android I wrote about yesterday was worse than we thought. When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thus every word you typed, in...
- Tags: Phone, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on it
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on itAs long as IE Supports Web StandardsWhy should they turn to WebKit? Imagine a software world where everything was open source? That to me is scary. Where is the innovation in open source? Where is the competition that drives innovation...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., WebKit, Microsoft Internet Explorer, open source, standards
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Google moves quickly to plug Android security hole
- Earlier this week a security hole was discovered in Android 1.0 (TC4-RC-29) that allowed you to gain root access to the device. The trick was that you have to start up a telnetd server on the phone, and then anyone who knows your IP address can log into the machine...
- Tags: Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Architecting your Rich Internet Applications
- Josh Holmes has posted a set of slides and detailed explanation for a talk he and James Ward did about architecting rich Internet applications. The post and the slides are well worth a read. One of the things that has been both fun and terrifying to watch as Flex evolved...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Slide, Josh Holmes, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the Mac
- Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the MacYipee!!I tried this out tonight! Compared to rebooting bootcamp in Windows XP and using IE, this is a whole lot better!I've tried a few movies and it works very well. I like the sort-of previews you get while dragging the time-cursor, sort of allows...
- Tags: Desktops, Cable, Web browsers, video quality, NetFlix Inc., Netflix Watch, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the Mac
- A week after a limited pool of Mac users were asked to test it, Netflix has opened the streaming portion of its movie rental service to all Mac users. The service, called Watch Instantly, uses utilizes Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in. A post on the Netflix blog...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?RE: Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?Microsoft is not going to go away any time soon. They are the predominate force in IT with its massive spendeing in advertisement to essentially brain wash the industry, and dumbing down the IT industry with the...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Programming languages, Microsoft .NET, Java, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-02
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is out
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is outTry the torrent instead, Adrian.I am using Shareaza to download the torrent instead of taxing the mirrors even further.Installed the RC of Ubuntu with Wubi.Now I am downloading the image of Kubuntu to test and see if KDE 4 is worth switching to before I...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Windows 7 - user interface is king
- Windows 7 - user interface is kingMaybe you should have used it a little more...You don't have to use XAML at all to build WPF apps. Every control, UI element etc is a .Net class, and if you like building up your object hierarchies with imperative code, then you can...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, XAML, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, markup, XML, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Microsoft's Live Framework: A (revised) picture is worth a thousand words
- Microsoft's Live Framework: A revised picture is worth a thousand wordsAre you saying......that MS expects developers to use their online Mesh service so SL apps can be made to run offline? Shouldn't it be easy to recompile a SL app as a WPF one and run it offline?I say -MeshMashFashFlashsorry,......that...
- Tags: online Mesh service, Mesh service, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- DemoMate (exe)
- DemoMate is the ideal solution to create, present, and distribute effective software demonstrations. Licensed users can create and distribute an unlimited number of DemoMate demos that can be viewed and presented using the free Presenter Version. Making a demo is easy, simply start clicking and you're making demos. DemoMate also...
- Tags: Morse Plc., Demo, DemoMate, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-29
- A report card: Microsoft's Ozzie grades his three years of 'disruption'
- A report card: Microsoft's Ozzie grades his three years of 'disruption'ozzie has been just greatYou can just see on how microsoft has been executing last 4 years. Dev studio 2005,dev studio 2008 had great features for developers. .NET 3.0 .NET 3.5 had lots of cool WCF and WPF features. C#...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., C# 3.0
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
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