Year: 2010

Microsoft’s big Bing theory targets Google

Microsoft’s big Bing theory targets Google With Microsoft and Yahoo officially teaming up in the search market this week, it’s time to wait and see if this move could eat into Google ‘s hearty lead over its top opponents. Microsoft and Yahoo announced Tuesday that Bing is totally fueling Yahoo search results in the U.S. […]

Microsoft Page Aimed at Mac Switchers

Microsoft Page Aimed at Mac Switchers PCs just work, Microsoft MCTS Training argues in a new Web page that attempts to convince Windows users not to switch to the Mac platform. The site contains a list of talking points, including “Having Fun,” “Simplicity,” “Working Hard,” “Sharing,” “Compatibility,” and “Choice”. It’s a bit of propaganda, perhaps. […]

Dominate Your Fantasy Football Draft With Excel

Dominate Your Fantasy Football Draft With Excel Using the Value Based Drafting strategy and Excel spreadsheets, you can create a straightforward cheatsheet that’ll help you dominate your fantasy football draft. NFL training camps are in full swing, and the regular season is only a month away. This is an exciting time for fantasy football players […]

Like EMC HP pushes around smaller rival in bidding war

Like EMC HP pushes around smaller rival in bidding war The HP/Dell bidding war over storage vendor 3Par is shaping up to be a repeat of last year’s high-profile battle between EMC and NetApp. In May 2009 NetApp triumphantly announced a $1.5 billion deal to purchase Data Domain, but was quickly outbid by EMC. Although […]

Registry operator Afilias embraces DNS security

Registry operator Afilias embraces DNS security which operates .info and more than a dozen other Web site extensions, will announce on Monday plans to deploy an emerging standard known as DNSSEC that adds a layer of encryption to the Internet’s Domain Name System. Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud? Osterman Research : Minimizing […]

Microsoft Issues New Windows Security Advisories

Microsoft Issues New Windows Security Advisories Microsoft issued even more details about Windows security concerns, even after releasing its August security update on Tuesday. Late yesterday, Microsoft MCTS Training announced two security advisories. One is new, while the other updates a previously issued advisory. Meanwhile, IT pros already are tying to cope with this month’s […]

Microsoft Extends UTD Discount for Windows and Office

Microsoft Extends UTD Discount for Windows and Office Microsoft has extended its “up-to-date” (UTD) discount upgrade offer for Windows and Office licensees through next month. The extension of the UTD upgrade offer “through September 30, 2010” was announced on Tuesday by Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group. He provided […]

HTML5 raises new security issues

HTML5 raises new security issues When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind. “Web apps are becoming incredibly rich with HTML5. The browser is starting to manage full-bore applications and not just Web pages,” […]

Surviving And Staying Ahead

Surviving And Staying Ahead To survive and thrive in today’s brutally competitive business environment, tech firms must find ways to continuously move ahead– and to stay ahead– of their competition. Here’s an insight on the factors that differentiate the best from the rest, and the leaders from the also-rans. Joe Tiller, a famous football coach, […]

What New With Operating Systems

What’s New With Operating Systems? In the light of fast-paced changes on the browser front, are users finding that innovation at the desktop has stagnated? Has it? Or is there a lot brewing ‘under the hood’ that we’re just not aware of, yet take for granted as our user experience improves incrementally? For most computer […]

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