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Mozilla Updates Firefox 4 With Sync Feature
Meanwhile, Firefox 4 Beta also now includes Panorama, formerly known as Tab Candy. With a single keystroke, Panorama provides an overview of all your tabs to easily organise your tabs into groups, name them, prioritize them, and quickly switch between tabs or tab groups, Mozilla said. [...] Mozilla, the maker of the popular open-source Firefox browser, has delivered the two new features for developers and users to test, just weeks after the release of the last Firefox beta 4 update. The Sync feature helps users synchronize their Web experience and organize their online life. [...] Meanwhile, in a separate post, Paul Rouget, a Mozilla technology evangelist, said the latest Firefox 4 Beta features hundreds of bug fixes in addition to Sync and Panorama. Added Rouget. Here is a quick overview of the new features for web developers. [...]
Twitter Rolls Out Lists Beta
Twitter has this week made live a beta of Twitter Lists, a new feature to let users organise their contacts into various groups. [...] Twitter users now have the ability to organise their contacts into various groups, after the beta of Twitter Lists went live this week. [...] First off, sign in to Twitter and if you see this message when you go to your Twitter homepage, you're ready to use it. New. Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA) . [...]
Nokia Discusses Linux Strategy, New Handsets
Oistamo prefaced the overview by remarking to a group of U.S. journalists that Nokia's goal was to be the leading provider of mobile solutions, and that it was focused on creating strategies that quickly integrated its devices and services in order to offer a seamless and intuitive user experience. [...] Nokia VP Kai Oistamo offered an overview of all that was new at Nokia World 09, starting Sept. 2. [...] From the Nokia World 09 show in Stuttgart, Germany, starting Sept. 2, Kai Oistamo, Nokia executive vice president of devices, offered an overview of the mobile offerings Nokia was introducing at the event. [...]
Microsoft Releases IE8
Tab Groups. Tab Groups allow consumers to quickly discern which tabs have related content. Clicking on a link within one tab spawns another. the new tab is placed next to the originating tab, and both tabs are marked with a color. [...] Compatibility. Internet Explorer 8 ships with a more standards-compatible layout engine that allows developers to build a single standards-based site for multiple browsers. To provide developers with the choice for when they migrate their sites to the new standards-compliant layout engine, Internet Explorer 8 enables Web developers to ask for the Windows Internet Explorer 7 layout engine by inserting a simple meta tag into their code or by adding a single HTTP header on their servers. [...] Group Policy enhancements. Internet Explorer 8 allows IT administrators to control and configure browser features, including Accelerators and Web Slices, with more than 140 new Group Policy settings in Internet Explorer 8, bringing the total to nearly 1,500&mdash. [...]
Obama Warned On Net Neutrality
It is truly unfortunate that the House Republican leadership has put itself in the position of trying to slow down the greatest economic engine for job creativity and innovation ever created. Under the neutral, non-discriminatory Internet, thousands and thousands of new businesses were created and millions of dollars were invested, Gigi B. [...] It is an important reminder that the role of government is to provide investment that spurs innovation and common-sense ground rules to ensure that there is a level playing field for all comers who seek to contribute their innovations. . [...] In what is becoming a political tit-for-tat over network neutrality, groups supporting network neutrality quickly responded to Boehner and Cantor's letter to Obama. [...]
Microsoft To Lose Another 3000 Staff
With this announcement, we are mostly but not all done with the planned 5,000 job eliminations by June 2010. We are moving quickly to reach this target in response to consistent feedback from our people and business groups that it's important to make decisions and reduce uncertainty for employees as quickly as possible, and so that organizations can concentrate their efforts and resources on strategic objectives. . [...] You are here. Home News Management Microsoft To Lose Another 3000 Staff. [...]
Salesforce Offers ‘Facebook For Businesses’ With Chatter
A specific Groups feature in Chatter lets users create collaboration groups as needed to share content, assign tasks, or exchange updates. In the context of Salesforce.com core customer relationship management and sales management mission, Chatter is supposed to provide a built in way for users to track and follow through on sales opportunity, track sales results in real-time, and resolve customer problems and complaints as quickly as possible. [...] Salesforce users will be able to filter the most relevant Twitter feeds into Chatter to track the competition, to watch for new business leads and follow developments or user opinions about a particular product or industry. Employees will also being to pull selected information from their Facebook profiles to populate their Chatter profiles. [...] Salesforce.com is offering its business users to join the social networking revolution with a new workgroup collaboration tool dubbed Chatter . [...]
ContentWatch Security Appliance Offers Filtering, Anti-malware
Rules governing content, application and bandwidth usage can be set for individuals and groups. Administration can be done via browser or SSH (Secure Shell), and larger organisations have the option of managing multiple ContentProtect boxes through a single interface. [...] Users Access Site / Product Unit Manager / Browser Example Businesses Search Site st. [...] I installed the CP 300 following the clearly written Quick Start guide, configuring it first from a workstation directly attached via cross-over cable and then moving it onto my Secure Web Gateway testbed to sit between the external firewall and the testbed's Ethernet switch. [...]
How To Choose A Data Loss Prevention Tool
Likewise, many DLP solutions are piecemealed together with third-party databases, software and servers, he added. Businesses need to have consensus between the different purchasing groups on how to acquire, deploy and manage these assets, or they should consider a solution that integrates these components into a single appliance. . [...] The single most important thing we tell customers is to make sure they have a plan that includes not only technical solutions but also employee education. To successfully implement DLP, it is important that businesses understand and prioritise the key issueswhether those are compliance issues or concerns around proprietary informationdriving the deployment, Hansmann said. [...] For example, he said, will a DLP system require a change to the email messaging infrastructureand potentially slow down a rollout because of requirements of adding a completely new Message Transfer Agent Will the DLP system be able to link into enterprise reporting and incident response systems, or will it require an extensive retooling of how the company's processes work . [...]
Review: VMware’s View 4 Improves VDI Performance
I created virtual machine instances that were variously turned into templates or linked clones, depending on the deployment choices I made for various groups of end users. As with competitive offerings from Citrix, virtual desktops can be created for use by a single user or for mass deployment. [...] In addition to providing quick desktop response in my LAN environment, PCoIP gave me much greater choice when it came to monitors on end user systems. I used a new Dell Precision M6500 mobile workstation tricked out with an Intel Core i7-920XM extreme edition processor and 4GB of DDR3-1333MHz RAM and an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M GPU to drive 1,900-by-1,200 display resolution to both the 17-inch monitor on my workstation and a 24-inch external monitor. [...] The increased cost of data centre hardware needed to run the VMware View 4 infrastructure can be offset by cost savings from the centralised patching and updating capabilities the platform affords, as well as from the ability to repurpose older hardware. In my tests, I was able to use View 4 to breathe new life into some ancient equipment (circa 2000) to run Windows XP and Windows Vista virtual desktops as if they were top-notch new systems. [...]
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