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Steve Ballmer to Developers – Meet You at Australia Mate!!!

Posted November 5, 2008 by Sam

liberationday thumb Steve Ballmer to Developers – Meet You at Australia Mate!!!

Well, Steve Ballmer CEO of Microsoft, will be presenting along with his mates Gianpaolo Carraro and Tim Sneath, will be presenting both Windows Azure and Windows 7 and how they fit in the fluffy cloud computing vision. This will will be Live Web Steam being a 3-hour keynote event.

As I reported in My PDC coverage, that Microsoft has launched it’s Cloud OS called Windows Azure which will entail Microsoft’s Software+Service strategy. Now Steve will be highlighting along with his team how developers can significantly use the power of cloud computing to build highly scalable apps on the cloud.

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CRITICAL SECURITY ALERT – Update Your Adobe Reader’s

Posted November 5, 2008 by Sam

adobereader CRITICAL SECURITY ALERT – Update Your Adobe Reader’sThere’s a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat/Reader version 8. This effects Adobe Acrobat reader installed on Windows platform.

According to a recent report by Core Security, Adobe Reader is said to have a critical bug that could allow manipulated PDF’s to be sent and then after opening the user could be exploited via the rigged file.

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Barack Obama – My Fellow Techie’s Let see the Tech Policies

Posted November 5, 2008 by Sam

The elections are over!!! And we being techie’s should be very concerned how thing’s would dramatically change if policy’s were to be changed based on IT and tech.

I recently saw this video of Barack Obama’s Tech Policy:

Technology policy has been eclipsed by the economy and other matters in this year’s presidential election, but Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign released a video Sunday that addresses the issue.

The video, called "A Blueprint for Change: Technology," features Obama laying out broad proposals such as doubling federal funding for basic research, enforcing tough antitrust laws, and putting put government data like grants and federal lobbying contracts online in universally accessible formats.

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The Intel Core i7 – The Performance Bar Gets Raised

Posted November 5, 2008 by Sam

intel core i7 The Intel Core i7 The Performance Bar Gets RaisedBoy are these chips powerful or what!15 Years ago we might not have thought or even considered chips to be this fast as they are today.

The Nehalem cores are said to be breaking barriers and performance thresholds destroying CPU benchmarks.

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25% accessed iTunes in August; Yahoo! Music the most visited site in Japan

Posted November 4, 2008 by Shoaib Hashmi

comscorelogo 25% accessed iTunes in August; Yahoo! Music the most visited site in JapancomScore has released the stats for the month of Japanese market for the month of August. The stats show that iTunes was accessed by 25% of the users. Yahoo! Music was the most visited site in Japan followed by Sony Connect and Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

comscorejapanstatsforaugust thumb 25% accessed iTunes in August; Yahoo! Music the most visited site in Japan

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Viacom Media’s revenue grows despite of ad sales down

Posted November 3, 2008 by Shoaib Hashmi

viacomlogo Viacom Media’s revenue grows despite of ad sales downViacom Media’s third quarter results are here and the network’s revenue has increased almost 6% as compared to the same period last year. The company has managed to increase revenue despite of the fact that the ad sales went down 2%. The company has reported $3.41 billion in the third quarter revenues. According to the Q3 report:

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