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Giveaway and Review: Techinline, Remote Assistance Software

Need access to your computer at the office or while on the go? Need to maintain your customer’s servers out of regular business hours? No matter, whenever you need access to a remote computer without someone on the other end running a program or giving you manual access, as Techinline is your best resort. Techinline [...]

Samsung’s first Dual-core processor “Exynos”

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Samsung has introduced its 1 GHz Arm Cortex A9 Based Dual-core application processor for advance mobile applications, Exynos 4210 (code named “Orion”). This application appears to have been designed and developed to meet the needs of high performance and low-power mobile applications. Designed using Samsung’s 45-nanometer low-power process technology, Exynos features a set of 1GHz [...]

Two days free online training for Windows Phone “Mango”

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Willing to getting started with Mango development, Windows Phone MVP Rob Miles and Andy Wigley will be taking two-day Jump Start class for the developers to learn building cool applications and games for the new Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Platform. These advanced courses assume a certain level of expertise and domain knowledge, so they move quickly [...]

Download Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365

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Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime is all about cloud solutions for small businesses, focusing on the core software services (Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Office Web Apps, and Microsoft Lync), and demonstrating ways you can create, manage, and lead teams effectively using the communications and collaborative online tools. This book [...]

Upgrade your Development environment with this free ebook

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Most of the developers are concerned about their application upgradation. They develop an application and after some period of time it seems there should be much more functionalities and features in that application which can be made available through the latest development environment. Then they have to migrate from their old development environment to the new system. [...]

Birth of IBM personal computer, Happy Birthday

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Decades ago one of the most powerful computer inventor, IBM, set a foundation for personal computer. Their continuous hard work and dedication towards innovation made possible for every human being now a days to think beyond the innovation. On 14 August 1981, IBM has introduced their first personal computer, IBM 5150, efficient and powerful like no one introduces [...]

Enjoy software development with ease

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In an age governed by technology, the importance of software development has increased manifold. For every entrepreneur or business owner, anything that saves time is of immense priority. In this post we will be talking a little bit about the problems faced by the developers while developing the software application. With regard to this, the [...]

Training course and Developer resources for Windows Phone codenamed “Mango”

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Windows Phone is going to be improved with hudreads of features and immersive user experiences. Microsoft will be shipping the next version of Windows Phone (codenamed “Mango”) later this year. Developers, willing to develop or upgrade their application for the next version, have to download and install the new training kits specially designed for WP7.1 [...]

What is Software Testing? Difference between Alpha and Beta Testing

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Basically people are not perfect. We make errors in design and code. Hence testing is an essential activity in Software development life cycle which is used to uncover as many as possible. Testing is an important activity carried ou in order to improve the quality, finding out all possible errors by generating test cases and [...]

What is Virus Signature ?

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Though virus attach themselves to executable program in a way that they are difficult to detect, they are not completely invisible. Every virus executes in a particular way, using certain methods to spread. These characteristics from a pattern called Virus Signature and every virus has its own specific pattern or signature. These pattern or virus [...]

What are Covert Channels ? How can potential covert channel can be identified?

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The channels that leak information where information travels unnoticed, accompanying other perfectly proper communication, are called Covert channels. In other words, through these channels information is received by people who should not receive it. To understand the concept of Covert Channels, consider the following example: There are four friends who are going to give an [...]

What is Salami Attack ? understanding and control

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The salami attack approach gets its name from salami or sausage that is made by fushing small bits of meat and fat. In salami attack we merge bits of seemingly inconsistant data to get powerfull results. To understand the Salami Attack better, we can consider following example: A bank has several account holders. Every month these account [...]

What is COM? Evolution of .NET and DCOM

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This post aims at explining the component model proposed by Microsoft, namely, Component Object Model (COM). This technology of Operating Systems enables software components to communicate with each other. The component model evolved from clipboards, which evolved to DDE. OLE 2.0 removed the defects in DDE and later OLE evolved into COM. To enable communication [...]

Getting started with Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2

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Microsoft’s Drew Robbins has just announced the availability of Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v.1.2 during today’s keynote at TechEd North America. They have demonstrated how to build a cloud application for windows phone 7 through couple of exapmles. Some of the latest feature of V.1.2 is as follows. Support and tooling for [...]

Download Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 10

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With more than a billion systems using its products and services worldwide, Microsoft collaborates with partners, inductry, and governments to help create a safer, more trusted internet and to improve security. Microsoft has released the 10th volume of Security Intelligence Report which contains an in-depth perspective on software vulnerabilities and exploits, malicious code threats, and [...]

Price increment for Microsoft Certifications

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If you are planning to do Microsoft Certification in comming month, study faster and schedule for it before 1st July. Microsoft is about to do some significant changes in price of Certification exams effectively from 1t July onwards. Although the discounts available for the certification will be remain same. IT Academy members, high school, college, [...]

Google launches “‘Music Beta”

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One of the best fruitfull advantage of Online music streaming is we dont have to carry a bulky disk space to store the music. But one of the main disadvantage of it is the streaming is done every time even if we play the same song. Google has launch the new service, Google Music Beta, [...]

Developer Giveaway – Visual Studio 2010 Resource Kit

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After getting peesed of with my College schedules and university exams, finally i got some time to spend on my blog. Since a month i am trying to learn Windows Phone 7 Programming and indeed so far im going quite well for which i did my hands dirty on virtual machines and hands on Labs. I got a [...]

Register for Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2011 [Giveaway winners announced]

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Thanks for your overwhelming response and participation towards giveaway meanwhile I am happy to have such good readers with keen interest regarding Microsoft Technology. So here is the winners list who are getting chance to attend Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2011 Free from WinSpark.net. FRANCISCO RIVERA Arun Saloni Deshaware Wooseop Abubakar Lasisi Winners will be [...]

Microsoft FUSE labs’ Project Emporia – an online feed aggregator

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You might be using Google news or other blog resource to get daily top news regarding different categories including technology, lifestyle, politics and sports. Herbrich, director of Microsoft FUSE Lab analyzed the statistics of online traffic volume feeds and micro-blogging posts and introduced a platform, Project Emporia, an experimental web service which provides top ranked [...]

Attend Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2011 for free

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I would be very delighted to give away free passes to attend Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2011, an online 24-hour virtual event where you can meet potential employers from across the world and can build a strong network with fellow professionals which can help you through your career opportunities. Microsoft has been hard at work [...]

Silverlight for Windows Phone – another free e-book.

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Development of application for Windows Phone 7 is increasing at greatest hype and Microsoft is providing hell lot of documentation, tutorials, hands on videos through webcast or virtual event and developer oriented e-books. Here is a Free ebook “Silverlight for Windows Phone” written by Puja Pramudya from Microsoft Innovation Center, Indonesia. This e-book is written [...]

Confirmed : Yahoo Mail causing data leaks on Windows Phone 7

Andrew Willett 22 from London gets his hands on the first Windows Phone 7 at the Orange Shop Oxford Street, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday October 21, 2010.  Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA Wire

One of the blogger Mr. Rafael Rivera from Within Windows had done some R&D on windows Phone 7 and found the unusual network transfer and data leaks due to Yahoo Mail. Microsoft officials declined to name the application which was causing the problems. On January 31, company officials admitted it was Yahoo Mail. On Rafael’s [...]

Technologies expected to be released in 2011

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iPad 2.0 The revolutionary first tablet PC from apple has rules over computer market, and now a days lot more companies has accepted the tablet revolution and accepted android, an open source operating system from Google, as their primary operation system for their tablets. In 2010, Apple has presented their first MAC based tablet to [...]