At this very moment, the OEM partners of Microsoft are busy creating new images of Windows Vista SP1 to be pre-installed in all new PC’s. Microsoft has gone RTM (release to manufacturing) with Windows Vista SP1. Is it a big deal? Not really. A service pack…
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Beta AdWords feature spends your budget automatically
Google has launched a very limited beta for some AdWords advertisers that aims to do “automatic matching”. What does that mean? Well, theoretically, this feature will make advertising on AdWords as easy as 1-2-3.
Sign up for Google AdWords
Enter your credit card information
Specify your budget
Advertisers could leave keyword matching and ad serving completely in […]
Filed in: Google
Beatles on iTunes? Maybe Not Yet…
We previously reported on Page 2 about reports that Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with iTunes for the distribution of the Beatles’ back catalog.
Word spread quickly about the imminent deal, but today, Apple actual…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Online Behavior Tracking: No Such Thing as Enough
Every time you go online, you leave electronic footprints — and someone is following them. When you display a page, enter a search query, play a video or click on an ad online, that information is logged by the servers of the companies that own the site or serve the video or ad or search results.
Filed in: Personal Tech
This is why I’ll always remain a Microsoft skeptic
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie may profess that the company’s top priorities are transparency, standards and interoperability. But regardless of these kinds of pronouncements, the Softies seem to believe that insisting their actions are altruistic and customer-motivated — even when they are really motivated by lawsuit threats and other, less-palatable reasons — will fool its constituencies.
Filed in: Microsoft
Real World: Windows Home Server Backup and Windows Live OneCare backup do not play nice
A few weeks ago, I started playing around with Windows Home Server. If you haven’t seen any of the posts, they are: “Real World: Using Windows Home Server” “Real World: Adding Disk Space to a Windows Home Server” “Real World: Connecting your computers to your…
Filed in: Software
Windows Server 2008 Domain and Forest Functional Levels
With each new release of Windows Server come new sets of features related to the domain and forest functional levels in your Active Directory domain. The table below outlines the differences in domain and forest functional levels between Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. …
Filed in: Software
Generate dynamic SQL statements in SQL Server
When you need to solve a tricky database problem, the ability to generate SQL statements is a powerful tool — although you must be careful when using it. This article explores how you can use this functionality to generate SQL statements on the fly. Dynamic SQL statements A…
Filed in: Software
Paramount Rolls Clips on Facebook
Paramount Pictures and developer FanRocket have teamed to bring Paramount Pictures movie clips to Facebook’s user profile pages. Using the third-party developer’s VooZoo application, available Monday, subscribers to the social networking site will have access to clips from a gamut of films including “Forest Gump” and “Mean Girls.”
Filed in: Personal Tech
Live From SXSW: Pop Culture and Social Media Collide
The South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival kicked off last weekend as roughly 9,000 Web designers, Web developers, academics, bloggers and social media participants gathered for the five-day event. The 15-year-old conference features scores of panelists throughout the day, the Screen Burn gaming center, keynote addresses from luminaries involved in new media projects.
Filed in: Personal Tech
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