http://www.jonmojuddho.org Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:52:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The posting of additional technical information is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts around interoperability with products from other vendors, including open-source software. It's also important technology in Microsoft's strategy to attract more application designers to its Expression line of products. XAML is a lingua franca that designers can use with ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/09/04/microsoft-releases-more-xaml-details/ Judging by my Tweet Cloud, it looks like I most frequently Twitter about hopping around the grid of Manhattan. My most-Twittered word is "going," followed by words like "getting," "home," "time," and um, "party." After that, it looks like I Twitter about my job: words like "office," "work," "writing," "coffee," ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/29/what-does-your-tweetcloud-say-about-you/ Once in a long while a cell phone comes along that is completely unlike any other. We've seen fancy touch-screen phones and smartphones so clever they're practically computers, but it's rare we see anything that's truly unique. The LG Decoy steps outside conventional wisdom and presents to us one such ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/24/we-review-the-lg-decoy/ SAO PAULO, Brazil--Microsoft on Monday shifted the leadership of its emerging market unit, placing former unified communications chief Anoop Gupta at the helm. Gupta plans to hire two new corporate vice presidents to oversee Microsoft's educational and emerging market products, Microsoft said. Orlando Ayala, the Microsoft executive who had been leading ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/microsoft-shakes-up-emerging-market-unit/ AMD also announced the immediate availability of four new high-performance Phenom X4 processors with the TLB bug fix. Led by the AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition processor (which is designed to be overclocked), the CPUs will be matched with the AMD 790 series chipsets. The quad-core Phenoms are targeted ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/triple-core-amd-phenom-chips-ship/ New environmentally friendly, nitrogen-based explosives could deliver more of a bang while being safer to handle than traditional charges, according to chemists at the University of Munich in Germany. Chemists at the University of Munich made tiny bombs from two tetrazoles called HBT and G2ZT, which not only proved more stable ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/german-scientists-developing-green-bombs/ But one of the most promising possibilities is following in Google's footsteps with search ads. Growth in search queries was better than the 10 percent that ComScore estimated, Decker said, meaning that there are more opportunities to display ads. At the same time, Yahoo is improving the relevance of ads, ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/yahoo-bets-on-a-glass-half-full/ The really big untapped market for these digital media companies is gift giving. No matter how much someone loves an online world no one is going to say "hey, merry Christmas. I logged into your account and gave you 25 bucks." Not to mention the impulse buy. According to Goldberg, sales ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/retail-game-card-sales-may-hit-100-million-this-y/ Facebook and other social sites that let you group contacts have crude versions of variable privacy. Since Aaron's a buddy, I can't give this product a fair review (see TechCrunch for an opinion on the service itself). However, I did want to point out that Iminta has a cool ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/your-privacy-is-variable-iminta-gets-it/ The WorldWide Telescope is a great way to learn about the galaxy. (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Find all the celestial objects in the sky tonight with CalSky. This week, astronomers will be up in the early morning hours to see Perseids, a meteor shower that has historically proven to put on quite ... http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/08/23/online-resources-for-the-amateur-astronomer/