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You asked, we listened. Today marks the exciting debut of OneNote Mobile for Android in over 20 international markets. With this release, OneNote Mobile is available across a variety of platforms, all of which let you effortlessly collect, find, use, and share your notes and ideas on the go. Read the full blog post to download OneNote Mobile to your Android phone and to get a first look at the app! ...(read more)

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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview will be available for download on February 29. Why isn’t it called a beta? Blame Google. And Apple. And Microsoft. Especially Microsoft.

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The software giant takes another step toward releasing its next computer operating system, holding an event at Mobile World Congress to unveil the Windows 8 beta.

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Scientists said Wednesday they had reached the waters of a lake that has been sealed off for millions of years.

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Two US startups are breaking solar efficiency records in their quest to bring clean, cost-effective, eco-friendly energy to a power grid near you. Alta Devices, based in Santa Clara, CA, has achieved a 23.5 percent efficiency rating with its standard solar panel, while Semprius, a Durham, NC company, has achieved a rating of 33.9 percent with its concentrated photovoltaic offering -- besting the previous records of 22.9 percent and 33 percent, respectively. Interestingly enough, both outfits ch...  show all text

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IE 9 proves 96-plus percent effective in blocking malware, while Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all lag

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Overview One of the topics that does not get that much attention, but is available on many different series of switches, is private VLANs. A private VLAN expands on the abilities of a standard VLAN, allowing traffic to be separated at another level allowing the design engineer a number of flexible options. This article provides a short review of what a VLAN is and what it provides. Then, we will review the concepts behind the private VLAN feature and how it can expand on the capabilities of the...  show all text

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Sprint Nextel is taking the first steps toward finally shedding the Nextel iDEN network, which has been nothing but a financial and operational drain on the company.

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One of the most popular scripts on my site with 26,966 downloads of v5 has been the vCheck script, for those of you who haven’t seen this yet here is a quick summary of this script: Summary vCheck is a vCenter checking script, the script is designed to run as a scheduled task before you get into the office to present you with key information via an email directly to your inbox in a nice easily readable format. This script picks on the key known issues and potential issues of the virtual infrast...  show all text

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Chrome 17 expands malware detection to some downloads. (Credit: Google) Safer downloads and a cautious expansion of site pre-caching land in Chrome 17 today, continuing Google's two-tiered approach to browser speed and user safety. Google Chrome 17 stable for Windows (download), Mac (download), Linux (download), and Chrome Frame includes a number of new extension APIs and security fixes. As revealed in the Chrome 17 beta version, Chrome's safe browsing technology will now scan downloads as well...  show all text

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A quick video on the plugin utility commands found in vCheck 6! For more info, be sure to visit the vCheck 6 release page, and visit the vCheck Plugins page to browse the available plugins. Don’t forget to thank Alan for all of his hard work on vCheck! Get-vCheckCommand # Get commands found in vCheckUtils.ps1 Get-vCheckPlugin # Retrieve list of plugins Add-vCheckPlugin # Add plugin from Virtu-Al.net Remove-vCheckPlugin  # Remove an installed plugin For more help on these commands, use Get-...  show all text

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As part of news aggregator Techmeme‘s big redesign a couple weeks ago, it moved its flow of top stories to the left to make room for… white space. But founder Gabe Rivera promised at the time that there’d be stuff coming to fill it, and now we know what — an events calendar for the tech world. It’s a play to solidify the site’s position as the watercooler for anyone in tech, especially in Silicon Valley. In a post on the addition today, he says that while anyone can submit an event (sort of like  show all text

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Path aims to regain users' trust with an apology and a mass deletion of data it got without permission.

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The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the moment's hottest tech stories on a single page.

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First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK and that a representative of Guardian News & Media will join our board of directors as an observer. A few weeks ago when Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM, came to the board and suggested that we ...  show all text

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Overview There’s lots of confusion about the security of using public cloud computing. I hear questions about data security at rest, security in transit, and how secret a provider must keep stored data whenever I speak at a conference or teach a class. The US government also hears these questions, both from inside and outside the government. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), part of the US Department of Commerce, is typically responsible for issuing security guidance and  show all text

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The Microsoft Unlimited Potential Blog tells the stories of Microsoft's Citizenship, corporate social responsibility and community efforts to help provide access to technology, strengthen economies, address societal challenges.

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There’s been a string of bad news for vehicle startups in recent months, including electric car company Fisker suspending its Nina project in Delaware and laying off workers, electric car company Think filing for bankruptcy, and next-gen car company Next Autoworks (formerly called V-Vehicle) cancelling its factory plans. Other than the difficult market for electric cars and the recession, what’s something that ties these companies together: funding from Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & By...  show all text

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News and Perspective covering the top stories, events and activities from Microsoft. The content for this blog includes the official information and stories from all of Microsoft's primary businesses.

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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is launching in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress on February 29.

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The startup CEO has to do everything, but there's one thing especially that only the CEO can do. Consultants ideally have recent operational experience very relevant to your needs.

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Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing. To do so, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley says the company is in the process of redesigning its mobile app for a broader audience, disassembling it and trying to put its features back together in a way that's more useful and interesting....  show all text

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The tile-based user interface created for Windows Phone has moved to the core of Microsoft's consumer offerings. Now, Microsoft has to make sure it doesn't muddy Metro's clear design.

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How do the heavy weights of the Internet and telecom stack up in terms of how green their technology, energy consumption and political advocacy are? On Tuesday night Greenpeace released its latest Cool IT leaderboard report, which ranks the world’s largest IT giants, and shows who’s making progress and who’s falling behind. Greenpeace gave Google the top overall score (53 out of 100), while Cisco (49 out of 100), Ericsson (48 out of 100) and Fujitsu (48 out of 100) followed shortly behind. On t...  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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