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July 2011

Google Buys IBM Patents

July 31, 2011

“Google Inc. said Friday that it has purchased technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. as the Web-search giant stocks up on intellectual property to defend itself against lawsuits.” This article lists some of them. Google on the defensive. You kind of have to when you find yourself on the receiving end of the Apple-Microsoft-Oracle [...]

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Simplify your customers’ cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0

July 31, 2011

The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for free download. Planning a customer journey to the cloud just got easier. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0, you now have [...]

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Attention SMB’s! Dell can help! [Sponsored]

July 31, 2011

By Betanews Staff By incorporating server management, disaster recovery and storage provisioning, Dell drives complexity out of virtualization with business-ready configurations with Intel Technology. Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2011 Betanews – IT Systems

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Windows Phone Radio – 37

July 30, 2011

Very special show this week, as we crash Terry Myerson’s office and ask him about the recent RTM of the Mango release coming later this fall. We also take some time to chat about some of our favorite apps of the week and recent news. You can find Windows Phone Radio in the Zune Marketplace, [...]

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Gmail Snooze with Apps Script

July 30, 2011

Posted by Corey Goldfeder, Software Engineer Editor’s Note: For a more technical description, see the Google Apps Developer Blog At Google, we all use email very heavily — for communicating with other Googlers, for task management, and to mail around funny pictures of kittens. Because of the volume of email we all deal with, a [...]

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Weekly Wrap: Mango RTM, Dilbert, and the first Mango phone

July 30, 2011

Check out a few of our favorite bits from around the web this week. Have a great weekend! Mango goes RTM In case you missed it, the Windows Phone engineering team officially signed off the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of Mango earlier this week.  Here’s what you didn’t see in this week’s official blog [...]

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Friday Mail Sack: Anchors Aweigh Edition

July 30, 2011

Hiya folks, Ned here again. I finally have an editor that allows anchors on all the questions, so I am adding a quasi “table of contents” for these posts that allow easier navigation and linking. I’ll retrofit all the old mail sack articles too… eventually. This week we discuss – eh – let’s have the [...]

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New Google Search experience for tablets

July 30, 2011

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog) As part of our effort to evolve the Google design and experience, we’ve improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets. We’ve simplified the layout of search results pages and increased the size of page contents like text, buttons and other touch targets to make it faster and easier to [...]

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OK Go play with Chrome

July 29, 2011

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) We all have a song or a personal soundtrack that speaks to us. But it doesn’t always say exactly what we want it to say. In All is Not Lost — an HTML5 music collaboration between the band OK Go, the dance troupe and choreographers Pilobolus, and Google—you can [...]

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OK Go play with Chrome

July 29, 2011

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) We all have a song or a personal soundtrack that speaks to us. But it doesn’t always say exactly what we want it to say. In All is Not Lost — an HTML5 music collaboration between the band OK Go, the dance troupe and choreographers Pilobolus, and Google—you can [...]

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