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- Visual Studio 2008 coming next week
- The MSDN Subscriptions Weblog is telling us that Visual Studio 2008 will be available to subscribers early next week. Darryl Taft of eWeek has some additional information about the VS 2008 release with a supposed date of November 19th. Visual Studio 2008 has a number of features...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, MSDN Subscriptions Weblog, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in November
- Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in NovemberWe've been using Visual Studio 2008 BetaWe've been using Visual Studio 2008 Beta for a while now. The app we are building uses WCF/WPF and we are targeting .Net 3.0 (not .Net 3.5)We were very happy that we can target specific runtimes with this...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Microsoft development tools, Middleware, VS2008, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008, LINQ
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Near-feature-complete Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this week
- Microsoft plans to deliver the Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") later this week, according to Scott Guthrie, General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division."You'll see Beta2 ship later this week - so only a few more days now," Guthrie posted, in response to a reader comment, on July...
- Tags: Development tools, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
- Microsoft announced at its partner conference on July 10 that it will launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together in a single launch on February 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.Microsoft officials have been saying for a few months now that while the company planned to...
- Tags: Database, Development tools, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Windows server, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
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- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 1.4 bln Internet users in 2008
- Roughly 1.4 bln people ill use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 bln unique users, or 30% of the world’s population, in 2012, according to IDC. Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 bln devices worldwide in 2008, including...
- Tags: Internet User, Mobile, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone gas application roundup
- On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
- Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total 65.2 bln USD in 2008, which is nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media, according to IDC. This share is expected to reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 bln worldwide. by NB
- Tags: Internet Advertising, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 50% of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008
- China’s online population is forecast to grow from 275 mln users in 2008 to 375 mln users in 2012, according to IDC. Nearly half of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008. By 2012, there will be more than 1 bln online buyers worldwide making business to consumer...
- Tags: Internet User, B2C, Internet, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- New telescopes embedded in glasses lens
- Small bioptic telescopes mounted on glasses to help people with visual impairments have been in existence for about 60 years and are allowed for use in driving by 39 states in the U.S. Most of them were either too heavy or too ugly to be widely used. Now, a Harvard...
- Tags: Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...
- Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 253 mln Chinese Internet users, 214 mln of them use broadband
- There were 253 mln Chinese Internet users in June 2008, China Internet Network Information Centre reported. Internet penetration in China is still at 19.1%. 214 mln, or 84.7% of all users, are connecting via broadband. by AM
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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