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CBS has unveiled an upgraded version of its CBS Sports: NCAA March Madness on Demand app for the iPhone with a key feature: 3G support. (Hey, if Sling Media can finally add it…) MediaPost reports that the new app offers live streaming video and Westwood One radio coverage of the NCAA tournament as before, but over 3G cellular data networks as well as Wi-Fi. It even knows how to scale the stream back if you’re only in an area with EDGE.

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Dear 1998: In a dozen or so years, another search engine war will be raging. Microsoft will battle Google for domination, while Yahoo looks on (what’s an “Alta Vista?”). One will frame itself as David in the battle against Goliath. Here’s the twist, however: Microsoft considers itself the underdog in this fight. Announcing a new Bing campaign, the software giant’s managing director and vice-president of consumer and online at Microsoft U.K., Ashley Highfield, told The Guardian , “This is a big moment—we are taking out our slingshots and taking on Goliath.” In the search space, the analogy actually makes a bit of sense

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Phanfare now allows you to sell photos online and earn money off them. The Pro Selling feature is another step in broadening the photo site known for uncluttered photo and slide shows, best-in-class iPhone links, and unlimited storage for photos and videos. While Pro Selling targets professional photographers, it could also be used for fundraiser photo sales by civic groups. Just announced, this component is a work in progress: You can sell prints but not digital images and setting prices is a bit involved. In the past year, Phanfare evolved to a two-tier model: $50 a year (Premium) for unlimited storage of photos and videos, $100 (Pro) for unlimited storage, HD videos and longer videos (20 not 10 minutes), and the ability to break your Phanfare site into segregated sections with custom backgrounds and headers, perhaps divided into different jobs if you’re a pro; perhaps into personal, school, youth sports, college reunion, church if you’re an individual

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While Windows 7 has been a major success for Microsoft so far amongst consumers, it’s a different story at the moment with businesses. Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein, announced that Microsoft has shipped over 90 million copies of Windows 7 . Yet they are still struggling to wrap up impressive sales figures with businesses. Klein told those gathered for a Morgan Stanley investor conference that year 2011 would see the beginnings of a revival in enterprise technology spending. He says that the large majority of businesses are getting ready to deploy Windows 7 over the next 18-24 months

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The browser ballot screen debacle began as a complaint by the makers of the hugely un popular Opera browser to the EU about the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.  This followed on from similar complaints about the bundling of Windows Media Player and it’s sure to rumble on in a variety of ways in the coming years. The move was widely derided at the time by tech journalists as being unnecessary, confusing and a waste of EU legislature time.  Now that the rollout is starting I’m beginning to think that perhaps the biggest winners in this will be consumers in the EU and the biggest losers will be the countries where the browser ballot won’t be seen. Here’s the logic.  If we look back to the time when Internet Explorer 6 ruled the world, having seen off Netscape once and for all, there was stagnation.  This allowed all sorts of security exploits and attacks to appear that we’re still suffering from today.  Only with the introduction of the Firefox browser from the Mozilla foundation did we have any competition, and thus improved security. So the first part of the answer is that everybody will win.  This move can do nothing except promote competition in the browser market which will, in turn, encourage innovation and transformation.  The browser will change immensely in coming years and in a large part we’ll have this ballot screen to thank for it. But will the companies win?  This, after all, was the entire point of the ballot screen.  Oh!  You thought it was there to provide consumers with better choice?  Sadly, all it was intended to do was to make more money for the authors of the smaller browsers, Opera in particular.  I don’t think it’ll do that.  Certainly it’ll make a small difference and IE’s market share will fall again, but I believe the usage metrics from this that will come from Microsoft in a couple of months, will demonstrate that not much has changed

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The Microsoft Windows 8 team probably had a strategy defined before they were even brought on to build Windows 8. How much say does the development team have on altering the strategy? Can they even have some free thinking on improvements? We continue to look through blogs, forums, and other anonymous sources of reliable information to find hints and clues to the actual Windows 8 strategy.

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No doubt by now you know how useful Search is for finding files on your computer but did you know you can also use it for other tasks? Besides searching for missing files, Search also provides you with the quickest way to: Open an application Find information Access Windows 7’s Troubleshooters Here are just a few additional uses of Search. Scenario 1       Opening an Application You want to open an application in a hurry but there’s a problem.

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Citing data from Devil Mountain Software’s community-based XPnet, Craig Barth, the company’s chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of PC’s running Windows 7 are using 90-95% of their ram, as a  result there is bottlenecks and decreased performance as systems are forced to turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. While Vista was known for using a lot of RAM while it was idle, Windows 7 hasn’t been plagued with the same issues. However according to the pool of  XPnet computers, the number of  Windows 7 PCs using 90-95% of RAM is double that of the number of XP computers that run at memory “saturation” point. XPnet have more than 23,000 PCs in their pool and a recent snapshot shows that only a mere 40% of XP machines were using high amounts of RAM.

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Microsoft has released a hotfix for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users who are experiencing issues when burning dual layer DVDs in the operating system. Some Windows users experience a time-out when they try to burn DVD-R Dual Layer discs in Windows Explorer and in applications that use IMAPI v2 (Image Mastering API version 2.0). The hotfix is only intended for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 users who experience the time-outs. The usual important words of caution for hotfixes: A hotfix is intended to correct a specific problem. Apply the hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the specific problem

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Microsoft has announced that a version of Active Directory lightweight version (AD LDS) of Active Directory for Windows7 is available for download. AD LDS provides directory services for directory-enabled application. Administrators will be able to use this version without the domain control oversight that is normally needed for Active Directory. AD LDS comes with support for Windows 7 Enterprise; Windows 7 Professional; and Windows 7 Ultimate

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