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- Silverlight
- A platform from Microsoft for developing rich Internet applications on Windows and Mac computers. It was designed to compete with other multimedia platforms, including Adobe Flash/Flex, JavaFX and...
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- Netflix will add 1080p, 5.1-channel surround sound streaming to its online video service later in 2010
- According to our sister site CNET, Netflix's on-demand video streaming service, a.k.a. Netflix Watch Instantly, is jumping on the 1080p HD bandwagon later this year, with a corresponding bump in audio to 5.1-channel surround sound. The move comes after the company recently announced buoyant fourth-quarter results and...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., 1080p, Home Entertainment, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Managed Hosting, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2010-02-08
- Testers get alpha of next version of Silverlight for Linux
- The Mono team has made available a preview test build of Moonlight 3, the next version of Silverlight for Linux from Novell. Preview 1 is downloadable from the Mono site, as of February 3. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Mono, Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Mono Team, Moonlight 3, Moonlight 2, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Linux, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2010-02-05
- Visifire 3.0.3b1 (Mac)
- Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP,...
- Tags: Data Visualization, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, Webyog Softworks, Visifire, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Databases, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2010-02-05
- Adobe's creative legacy & the proprietary aspirations of Apple & Google
- I've spent a lot of time working with Adobe's Creative Suite 4 recently, and it's really made me think about web standards, the future of web vector graphics and video. For all the hoopla around Apple as innovators right now, their foundations were...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Multimedia, Apple Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2010-02-02
- Will scaled-up iPhone apps be a usability nightmare on the iPad?
- Most apps "should" work?Now that sounds confidence inspiring.So what he is saying is that APPLE probably didn't TEST all of the apps before releasing the iPhlop. Nice R&D work kids.YesApple has a record of making old MAC OS apps work on the new MAC OS version without a lot of...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., hyperbole
- Discussion threads 2010-02-01
- No matter what Apple says, you can't get a rich web experience without Flash
- RE: No matter what Apple says, you can't get a rich web experience without FlashI think Apple doesn't allow Adobe Flash because they want to have total control over any application development for their devices. Flash and Silverlight have advanced to the point where you can build applications (albeit,...
- Tags: Channel management, FlashBlock, Web, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2010-02-01
- Steve Jobs calls Adobe 'lazy', says Google can't 'kill the iPhone'
- Flush FlashI'm glad Steve flushed Flash. It's mainly used to annoy people with irritating animated ads. Click2Fkash on my Mac (which blocks all Flash and let's me select which ones to load) is indispensible. I just hope if HTML5 is used for animations, they too can be blocked. BTW, you...
- Tags: Smart phones, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2010-02-01
- Ammunition Maker Uses Software-Plus-Services to Boost Web Traffic and Sales
- Winchester Ammunition, one of the legendary names in U.S. manufacturing, recognized that its most frequent customers wanted in-depth, dynamic information on the ballistics of the company's products - but the company's static brochures and Web site did not always engage each and every customer. So, Winchester created a ballistics calculator,...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing
- Case studies 2010-02-01
- Google dangles the Chrome carrot
- File this under "Stupid PR tricks"yawn.... been done before but never been of any value...RE: Google dangles the Chrome carrotGoogle is trying to bribe people to fix the holes in their browser for them. Apparently Google's staff are that incompetent to do it themselves, but that is what you...
- Tags: Public relations, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Linux Distro, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2010-01-30
- Visifire 3.0.1 (Windows)
- Visifire gives you a set of open source data visualization components that are powered by Microsoft Silverlight and WPF. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with...
- Tags: Data Visualization, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows, Webyog Softworks, Visifire, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Databases, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2010-01-30
- Windows Home Server 'Vail': A web based media center?
- Weren't you in the WHS beta originally?I honestly can't remember. I know you were a "Grasshopper", but I can't remember if you were in this one too. Of course it may have been one of those "US only" betas back then.Luckily for me, I'm running WHS on a...
- Tags: Web servers, Linux, Servers, Microsoft Visual Studio, Operating systems, Media Center PC, Redundancy, Web, WHS, FreeNAS, server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, HTML
- Discussion threads 2010-01-28
- Apple becomes more closed with each new device...
- I think you're forgetting the original Apple Computerthe Mac is not the original Apple. Mac closed the doors and made it a royal pain to program for the environment. It is today as it has always been: the environment that has the apps people want will get the business, open...
- Tags: INTERNET, Linux, WTF, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2010-01-28
- [Updated] Apple iPad: What will it mean for your TV watching?
- A few thoughts now that the iPad has been announced. 1. No Adobe Flash means video viewing will be limited. (Probably no Silverlight support either, as it doesn't work with Safari.) You'll be able to watch YouTube videos, including in HD, just...
- Tags: Apple Tablet, Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2010-01-26
- When is a Zune phone not really a Zune phone?
- It's the return of the Danger Sidekick!The new phones must emanate from the division within Microsoft known as 'Danger', who brought us the Sidekick debacle.The ones who lost the data of about 1 million phone subscribers. Great work. Bring us more.As the Sidekick brand has been soiled, Microsoft will have...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Zune, Zune-phone, phone, SideKick
- Discussion threads 2010-01-26
- Microsoft: Developing Windows Phone apps and games on the Mix 2010 agenda
- New search engine market share numbers!Hey Mary-Jo,ComScore just released their worldwide market share numbers for search engines. Thought you would like to know since you only publish their numbers:http://www.businessinsider.com/google-owns-the-worlds-search-share-2010-1Kisses,TimThe new phone platform will failMicrosoft's new phone platform will get a new name. Whenever there's a product failure like Vista, Microsoft...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, game, Microsoft Corp., phone, new phone platform, phone platform, Microsoft Windows Mobile, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2010-01-22
- Microsoft shakes up its Entertainment and Devices unit
- Shuffling deck chairs on Titanic? ntntthe real 'shakeup' is whenBallmer is gone and M$ GPLeds its code.If Windows Mobile moves to Sinoksky...expect that WM will share some code base with current Windows NT implementations to ease development. I could see a point, not too far into the future, where...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, entertainment, Windows-client, Microsoft Windows Mobile, product people, Microsoft Corp., storage, mobile, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2010-01-22
- Five Windows Mobile 7 questions and five speculative answers
- It'd be great if based on .Net and SilverLightIt makes developing for WM7 a lot easier to take on for us regular .Net developers.Some journalists are in Microsoft's pocketI'd have to question the actions of some journalists (not Mary-Jo), who seem to have compromised themselves by signing a non-disclosure agreement...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, .NET, Mobile applications, Smart phones, Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft .NET, smart phone, Microsoft Windows, WM7
- Discussion threads 2010-01-19
- Crypto Obfuscator for .NET 2010 (Windows)
- Crypto Obfuscator supports all versions of .NET framework. It also supports the .Net Compact Framework, Silverlight and XNA. It can protect assemblies created with any .Net language including C#, VB.Net, Managed C++, J#. Here are its features at a glance: Symbol Renaming; Advanced Overload Renaming; String Encryption; Control Flow Obfuscation;...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, LogicNP Software, .Net, Application Servers, C#, Middleware, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools
- Software downloads 2010-01-19
- Windows veteran Veghte quits Microsoft
- And the *Mass Exodus* continues...As many veterans of this corporation leave in increasing numbers when will the management team awaken to the root causes?UmPeople come and go. That's true with any business. Nobody here reports on Google or Apple peoples leaving so it seems only as if Microsoft is loosing...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2010-01-14
- Is Windows Mobile 6.6 Microsoft's Barcelona big bang?
- RE: Is Windows Mobile 6.6 Microsoft's Barcelona big bang?Well, Bach said it would not just be something evolutionary, but something that's completely different. I don't see how a Windows Mobile 6.6 could not just be something evolutionary. Normally you don't increase the version numer of something by .1 if it's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, Smart phones, Bach, Is Windows Mobile 6.6 Microsoft, IS Windows, Big Bang
- Discussion threads 2010-01-14
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