Microsoft Debuts Project Madison CTP for Data Warehouses Comments

eWeek - RSS Feeds - Aug 27, '09 9:30pm
Microsoft has released the community technology preview for Project Madison, the data warehousing solution based on technology acquired when the company bought DATAllegro last year.
- Microsoft has made the community technology preview of “Project Madison”, the culmination of the companys DATAllegro acquisition last year. Madison is Microsofts answer to calls for a massively scalable data warehousing solution. The appliance partitions large tables across multiple physical ...
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Bing Coming to IPhone Apps (PC World) Comments

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Aug 27, '09 6:50pm
PC World - Microsoft is targeting the iPhone as another avenue for boosting usage of its Bing search engine.
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Hackers mailing malware-infested CDs to banks Comments

ZDNet Blogs by Ryan Naraine - Aug 27, '09 1:29pm
Cybercriminals are currently mailing infected CDs to credit unions and smaller banks as part of a clever offline scheme to load malicious software into computers with valuable data.
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FTC to ban most telemarketing 'robocalls' Sept. 1 (AP) Comments

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Aug 27, '09 12:24pm
AP - Many of those annoying prerecorded telemarketing calls will be history starting Sept. 1.
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Facebook agrees with Canada on privacy controls (AP) Comments

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Aug 27, '09 11:43am
AP - Facebook agreed Thursday to give users more control over the information they share with third-party applications like games and quizzes in response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials.
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New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute (PC World) Comments

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Aug 27, '09 2:40am
PC World - Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.
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Microsoft cutting price of high-end Xbox 360 (AP) Comments

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Aug 27, '09 4:42am

-- FILE ** In a Nov. 9, 2005, file photo the Microsoft Xbox 360 is on display at the the annual Microsoft shareholder meeting in Bellevue Wash. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. Microsoft is cutting the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony's PlayStation 3, which saw its price slashed by $100 last week. (AP Photo/John Froschauer/fiole)AP - Microsoft Corp. is slashing the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony's $100 price cut for the PlayStation 3 last week.


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Microsoft Seeks Patent for CAPTCHA-Based Ads Comments

InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers - Aug 26, '09 10:33pm
Using ads as solutions to CAPTCHAs could serve dual purposes of making money while providing security.
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Zune marketing exec says good-bye to Microsoft Comments

CNET News.com - Aug 26, '09 5:29pm
Chris Stephenson, one of the employees Microsoft tasked with building Zune into an iPod challenger, is headed to Universal Music Group.
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Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive: Download 1 Million Books for Free Comments

ReadWriteWeb by Frederic Lardinois - Aug 26, '09 4:01pm

google_books_logo_aug09.pngGoogle just announced that it will now allow users to download over 1 million public domain books in the EPUB format. Google had already made this archive available to some of its partners, including Sony and Barnes and Noble, but until today users weren't able to download these free EPUB texts from Google directly. Google will continue to make PDF versions of these books available for download as well, but users with eReader's will find the new EPUB files far more useful.

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If you don't have an actual hardware eReader but still want to read these EPUB versions, you can install Stanza or a similar desktop reader to read these books.

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EPUB: The One eBook Standard to Rule them All

EPUB is a free, standardized format that almost every hardware eReader or desktop software understands. Amazon's Kindle, however, cannot read EPUB texts without using some intermediary software that converts these books into a format the Kindle can understand. While there are a few competing formats, EPUB has turned into the de facto standard for eBooks. Some vendors, like Sony, wrap a digital rights management (DRM) solution around these books, but others just publish completely open, non-DRMed versions of their books. The EPUB files from Google Books will not be locked down by a DRM solution.

It is important to note, however, that these EPUB files were run through an optical character recognition (OCR) system and weren't edited afterwards. While this software has greatly improved over the last few years, there are still quite a few mistakes in most books. This post on the Google Books blog explains the conversion process in more detail. The PDF versions of these books don't suffer from this problem, as they are just copies of the actual pages. This also means, however, that these PDF files are far larger and that users can't, for example, adjust the size of the books' fonts according to the size of their screens.

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