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I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired InMage, an innovator in the emerging area of cloud-based business continuity. Our customers tell us that business continuity – the ability to backup, replicate and quickly recover data and applications in case of a system failure – is incredibly important. After all, revenue, supply chains, customer loyalty, employee productivity and more are on the line. It’s also very complicated and expensive to do. CIOs consistently rank business continuity as a top priority, but often don’t have the budgets or time to do it right. As the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, Microsoft is commit…
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iTunes 11.3 lets you watch iTunes Extras without downloading them
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Apple has released iTunes 11.3, bringing some improvements to iTunes Extras for HD movies. This biggest change is that you will no longer need to download iTunes Extras to your computer before using them. Along with the changes in iTunes, iTunes Extras are now available for the Apple TV. The lack of iTunes Extras support for Apple TV has been a sore spot for years, so it's great to finally see them making the jump out of iTunes. Additionally, when iOS 8 is released in the fall, iTunes Extras for movies will be supported on your mobile device too. Apple says that the "new iTunes Extras" will be automatically downloaded to your previously purchased HD movies at no cost…
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Capo touch for iPhone and iPad: Learn to play songs faster
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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Capo, the renowned song-learning app for Mac, is now available on the iPhone and iPad. Called Capo touch, all the power of the original, the ability to "reverse engineer rock and roll" as they put it, now fits into the palm of your hand. Whether you're a working guitarist or strings player on your way to a last minute gig, a songwriter needing to quickly note down a new song or riff, or an aspiring musician who just wants to learn more, faster, Capo touch provides a remarkably powerful toolset for doing all that, and more. Made by Apple Design Award (ADA) winner Chris Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy, Capo touch for iPhone and iPad is a distillation of Capo for Mac. It t…
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Google releases AdWords Express for iPhone and iPad
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Google has released an iPhone and iPad app for AdWords Express. The app lets you manage and edit your AdWords ads, and monitor how your ad is doing. You can edit the ads that you've created right in the app. You can adjust the text, or adjust your ad budget at any time. You can view the number of calls, clicks, and views your ad gets, and receive important messages for your AdWords account. The app is free, though you will need to enter your billing information to pay for your ads. AdWords Express for iOS is only intended for AdWords Express accounts in the United States for now. You can download AdWords Express from the App Store right now. Free - Download…
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LinkedIn Contacts relaunches as Connected, aims to keep you more in the loop
by Guest Derek Kessler- 0 replies
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LinkedIn's old Contacts app for iPhone has been revamped with a new focus: it's now LinkedIn Connected. The app, which previously served as little more than a standalone Rolodex with a hint of updates for your LinkedIn connections, is now more about keeping you up-to-date with what's going on in your extended business network. Connected puts those updates front and center, using a "card" format to display one update at a time, swiping from the right to pull up the next one. It helps to keep you focused on whatever that update is, be it a promotion, job change, a mere profile update, or (as your author's quick perusal of Connected revealed) a lot of suggestions on wit…
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Minecraft Pocket Edition for iPhone and iPad uncovers infinite worlds in latest update
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Mojang has released a fairly substantial update for the Pocket Edition of Minecraft, available for iOS and Android. This release focuses on adding more mobs, features and extended functionality, while also addressing the size of worlds and squashing any known bugs affecting the immersive experience. Version 0.9.0 contains quite the feature list, so be sure to check out the list below for a full run through. Infinite worlds Caves Loads of new blocks and items including Monster Eggs and huge mushroom blocks. Wolves! Tame a loyal companion. Loads of new flowers! So pretty. New mobs, including the spooky endermen and less spooky Mooshrooms. New biomes from the …
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New: ASP.NET Session State Provider for SQL Server In-Memory OLTP
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 brings new performance and scalability gains by introducing In-Memory OLTP. In-Memory OLTP contains tables and indexes optimized for in memory. Transactions execute under lock-free algorithms to provide linear scalability and Transact-SQL stored procedures can be compiled in native machine code for maximum efficiency in processing. Working with SQL Server customers on In-Memory OLTP engagements, a common pattern emerged around the desire for increased performance and scalability when using ASP.NET session state. Some early adopters modified their SQL Server objects to take advantage of In-Memory OLTP for ASP.NET session state, with great succ…
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Getting Started with Power Query - Part I
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Welcome the Excel and Power BI getting started series. Today we're starting with the first step of the data analysis process: Discover and Get Data. Power Query allows you to easily discover and connect to data from public and corporate data sources. This includes new data search capabilities to facilitate discovery, as well as capabilities to easily transform and merge data from multiple data sources, so you can analyze the data in Excel. In the following video you'll learn how to: Perform an Online Search, import public data results, and visualize these results in 3 easy steps with Excel Apply some easy transformations to your newly gathered data with the …
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Introducing Microsoft Azure StorSimple
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I am excited to announce the Microsoft Azure StorSimple solution. Available August 1, this new offering builds on the success of previous StorSimple offerings that automate and eliminate one of the biggest problems facing IT organizations – double digit data growth and the storage capacity and data protection complexities that come with it. Customers around the world such as Mazda, SK Telecom, Paul Smith, Sundance Film Festival, GF Health Products, Black and Veatch, and the City of San Jose, California have all simplified their storage infrastructures with StorSimple hybrid cloud storage solutions. The new StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays are the most pow…
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Microsoft takes on global cybercrime epidemic in tenth malware disruption
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Editor’s Note: This blog post was updated with the following new information at 8 a.m. on July 9: On Monday, June 30, Microsoft filed a civil suit in a Nevada federal court to disrupt Bladabindi-Jenxcus, a pervasive family of malware that put millions of customers at risk. Today both Microsoft Corporation and Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC announce they have reached a settlement in the matter of Microsoft Corporation v. Mutairi, et al. Microsoft has reviewed the evidence provided by Vitalwerks and enters into the settlement confident that Vitalwerks was not knowingly involved with the subdomains used to support malware. Those spreading the malware abused Vita…
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Weekend Reading: June 27th Edition – More free storage is on the way with OneDrive
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In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on the greatly increased OneDrive storage space coming in the next month for those who have free or subscription accounts, Xbox One’s holiday lineup of exclusive games winning awards and nominations, and how you can now use Bing to search for tweets from your favorite folks and celebs. Office 365 subscribers are going to get 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage, way up from the current 20 GB. That’s great news for a service that works across Windows, iOS, OS X and Android, and for those of us who need to securely offload our stuff from our computers and other devices. Individuals who use OneDrive only will also get a nice…
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Welcome, Cortana, part of Skype 2.19 update for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone 8!
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A Skype update now available for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 integrates Cortana, Microsoft’s new digital personal assistant. Now you can start Skype video and audio calls by simply asking Cortana something like “Skype, get Mom on the screen.” Cortana is currently available in the U.S. on Windows Phone 8.1. The Skype update also has increased language support, from 19 to 51 languages, and improved notifications. Download the update from the Windows Phone Store, and to learn more, head over to the Skype Garage & Updates blog. You might also be interested in: · Microsoft Research: Cortana is the start of personal assistants that naturally anticip…
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Xbox One holiday lineup: Already more than 25 awards, 60 nominations
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Xbox One’s 2014 holiday lineup of nine exclusive games, announced at E3 2014 earlier this month, has already received more than 60 nominations and 25 awards. Seven of the nominations are for the prestigious Game Critics Best of E3 2014 Awards, leading the industry for 2014 games. “Congratulations to the creators who are receiving broad acclaim for the games shown at E3,” said Phil Spencer, head of Xbox. “We saw an incredible display of games at E3 from across the industry and we’re thrilled gamers will have such a wide selection available this year on Xbox One, including ‘Halo: The Master Chief Collection,’ ‘Sunset Overdrive,’ ‘Forza Horizon 2,’ ‘Ori and the Blind Fore…
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Mining for digital gold with Amir Netz
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When you watch the video, you think, wow, the man is cool. Amir Netz is cool. The video in question, which is easily found on YouTube, shows Netz introducing Power BI for Office 365 to an audience of thousands at the 2013 World Partner Conference. Watch it and you’ll see a TED-quality speaker who pretty much owns the room. He’s effusive, upbeat and genuinely funny, even giving a sort of stand-up routine: Using Power BI’s data visualization features, Netz analyzes some 50-plus years of number-one pop songs, from Elvis Presley to Rihanna, with a breathless, dizzying flair. With rapid-fire delivery, he describes Mariah Carey’s 1990s run of number one hits as if she were a…
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Apple able to trademark retail store layout across Europe, says EU court
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Apple has won the right to register the layout of its iconic retail stores as a trademark in Europe, thanks to the EU court of justice overruling a German verdict saying otherwise. The company has already trademarked its store designs in the U.S. From the signature wooden tables holding up its products to the glass front with the massive branding signage, Apple has made it an experience beyond purchasing physical products. Germany chose to reject the filing, admitting while it's an essential aspect of Apple's business it does not fulfil the criteria for a trademark, which the highest EU court disagreed with. As lightly touched on above, the stores not only provide th…
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UK government set to rush through emergency surveillance legislation
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The UK government is looking to reinforce powers of security services to require internet and phone providers to maintain records of customer email and calls. Emergency laws are to be introduced into the Commons next Monday, following private talks and gaining support of both Labour and the Liberal Democrats on the basis that there will be new board to oversee the functioning of new powers. The move is an effort to continue protecting UK citizens from external threats. Transparency reports will be released on an annual basis confirming just how frequently police and security services are using the legislation. Expiring in 2016, the new laws will require fresh legisla…
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Clean energy the focus of Apple's environmental report
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Apple has just released its environmental report for 2013 where the company is highlighting its clean energy use at its offices, stores, and employee initiatives. The report makes note of Apple's use of renewable energy, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and reduction of carbon footprint. Apple says: That though it consumed 44 percent more energy between 2011 and 2013, it was able to reduce its carbon footprint by 31 percent for the same period 145 U.S. and all of Australia retail stores are powered by renewable energy. All data centers are powered with 100 percent renewable energy, making it reach a 94 percent renewable usage across its campuses and data …
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Popular strategy game Magic 2015 debuts for iPad
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Magic 2015: Duel of the Planeswalkers is now available for iPad. One of the world's most popular strategy games is ready for you to play with today. Play as a Planeswalker and you become a mage with the ability to travel between Multiverses, cash powerful spells and more. Read on to get the Magic 2015 download link plus a video of our hands-on. Head into the App Store and you'll find Magic 2015 - Duels of the Planeswalkers available for free. The latest installment of the popular game brings the following features: LEARN MAGIC: - Detailed tutorial makes it easy to start playing - The quickest way to learn the world's best strategy trading card game BATTLE ACROS…
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Improving graphics performance on OS X: Is Metal the answer?
by Guest Peter Cohen- 0 replies
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I've previously discussed Metal in iOS 8 and why it's so important: Because reducing overhead imposed by OpenGL ES means games (and other apps) can run faster and more efficiently on the right iOS hardware. Can the same happen for OS X? Metal and the problem it solves First, let's do a quick recap on what Metal is. Metal is a forthcoming iOS 8 technology that will enable dramatically faster graphics performance on devices that use Apple's A7 processor: Right now, that includes the iPhone 5S, iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display. (We can safely presume that future iOS devices that use new generations of Apple processors will retain this ability.) Macs don'…
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Today, we are updating the Certificate Trust List (CTL) for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows to remove the trust of mis-issued third-party digital certificates. These certificates could be used to spoof content and perform phishing or man-in-the-middle attacks against web properties. With this update, most customers will be automatically protected against this issue and will not need to take any action.
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How to change the iTunes account on your iPhone or iPad
by Guest Allyson Kazmucha- 0 replies
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For some people, their iTunes account, iCloud, even Apple Online Store accounts are one and the same. The email address and password combo they use to log into the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, and App Store is identical to the one they use to log in iCloud email and Find my iPhone, is the same one they use to checkout from store.apple.com. It's a beautiful, unified dream. Others, however, have separate iTunes accounts. Whether that's because they're so old they predate iCloud, or because they're shared with a partner or family, or simply because they want them that way, the email address and password they use to log into iTunes is different than iCloud, and has to be set u…
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Custom keyboards in iOS 8: Explained
by Guest Rene Ritchie- 0 replies
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Custom keyboard extensions, part of iOS 8's new Extensibility feature, allow developers to almost completely replace the default, system-wide iOS keyboard with ones of their own devising. (That's in addition to Apple's own, new QuickType predictive keyboard.) Not only does that include favorites from other platforms, like Swype or SwiftKey, but it opens the door to ones that offer new languages, novel input methods, special options, and more. So, how do the new custom keyboard extensions work? From in app to out For a while now Apple has let developers create and deploy custom keyboards, but those keyboards could only exist within their own apps. For example, Appl…
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We have an iPod touch winner!
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With the announcement that Apple updated the iPod touch lineup to bring colors and a camera down to $199 and 32GB and 64GB down to $249 and $299 respectively, you just know we couldn't resist giving one away. And as promised, since there were over 3200 comments, we're giving our winner a 32GB iPod! Keep reading to see if you are the winner! The winner of a brand new, 32GB iPod touch is: bobbob1016 Congratulations! We'll be in touch soon to get your prize sorted out. To everyone else, thanks for entering! Keep your eyes open for our next fantastic contest! Continue reading...
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How to enable automatic downloads for music, books, and apps with iTunes in the Cloud
by Guest Allyson Kazmucha- 0 replies
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If you own both an iPhone and iPad, iTunes in the Cloud, which is part of iCloud, lets you easily sync your content from one to the other with no work on your part. For example, if you downloaded an app on your iPad, it can automatically appear on your iPhone as well if you have automatic downloads for apps enabled. The same holds true for music and iBooks purchases. All you have to do is enable automatic downloads on all your iOS devices. How to enable automatic downloads for music, movies, books, and apps on your iPhone and iPad Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap on iTunes & App Store — you'll need to scroll down a ways. Under the Automatic…
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iTunes U's update now live in the App Store, go jump start your summer learning!
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Announced late last month, Apple's newly revamped iTunes U 2.0 app for iOS is now live in the App Store and ready to download. The update brings a slew of new features for both educators and learners. With iTunes U 2.0, students can now take part in private course discussions and learn from a number of free hosted courses while teachers can create courses, record lectures, and upload course materials and documents directly from their iPad. Apple now boasts over 750,000 courses that are available for free in a variety of subjects and topic areas. Below are the features that are new to iTunes U 2.0: Students participating in private courses can pose questions…