Archive for July, 2009

the “Will Code for Green” Developer Contest

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http://willcodeforgreen.gnomedex.com/ 
Bing and Gnomedex are sponsoring a “Will Code for Green” developer contest. Make the world a little better, win US$10,000 and be featured at Gnomedex. Create a green app using the Live Search API (search results, phonebook, video, images etc.) with any tech platform or language.

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Microsoft Contributes Open Source Linux Drivers for Hyper-V

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Microsoft has contributed 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community. The code contribution, a Linux device driver, will be published on CodePlex, and will be immediately available to the Linux Community and customers, enabling any distribution of the Linux operating system to be virtualized on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. For more, check out [...]

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MSN Soapbox is shutting down

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MSN Soapbox is shutting down. Another good move from MS. MSN will no longer offer Soapbox. It was really an overhead and confusing offering.

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Why Projects fail

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An eye opener from my friend Sajad.

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Microsoft India launches Online Services

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Cloud based services have been in focus for a few years now. From FREE online email services (e.g. hotmail, gmail) to paid online services (e.g. Google Apps, Office Online, Yahoo Premium emails), the adoption of these services has been steadily rising. The safety of these applications have been questioned (as exposed by recent Twitter docs [...]

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