According to Internet market research powerhouse eMarketer, the mobile search advertising market size is currently 13.5 million and growing by a projected factor of 50 within the next four years. With everyone buzzing about mobile these days, we…
By Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs TeamThe Google Data team is holding a local event for developers Thursday, December 13th, 5:00pm 10:30pm at the Googleplex Mountain View, CA . It ll be part hackathon, part unconference, part user group, part food, a…
If you re interested on seeing video of the keynotes and breakout sessions for some of the previous Microsoft conferences TechEd, WinHec, IT Forum, Ignite Tour, Microsoft Management Summit, Web Administrator s Summit, etc. check out TechNet Spotlight: http: www.microsoft.com emea spotlight . nbsp;The content is focused on IT Pro but there s some very good presenations up there. Check out the video on the home page from IT Forum: nbsp; nbsp; The Next Wave Bringing Dynamic IT to Life nbsp;which provides a good roadmap on the future of the IT infrastructure. nbsp;Scott Lum
Posted yesterday on Channel 8 Channel 9 for Students who like to code : Ingo Rammer and how to really debug code What s the worst bug? The one that you can t fix because it s quite impossible to detect. Will and I saw that Ingo Rammer he wrote THE book nbsp;on .NET Remoting was giving a talk at TechEd Barcelona about how to debug applications. nbsp;We both thought that we need to interview him on how to debug applications and what he thinks how the software is going to evolve in the future.Tune in, if you ever had a bug that was really hard to discover. Ingo is giving some tips! http: channel8.msdn.com Posts Ingo Rammer and how to really debug code Channel 8 Home: http: channel8.msdn.com Default.aspx Scott Lum
It s been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about where we are after the year. According to internal Microsoft research based on data from Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7. This makes IE7 the second most popular browser after IE6. IE7 is already 1 in the US and UK, and we expect IE7 to surpass IE6 worldwide shortly. Perhaps more important than the overall numbers is the positive impact IE7 has made for our users. As you know, we focused a lot on improving security in IE7. We believe IE 7 is the safest Microsoft browser released to date. According to a vulnerability report published today, IE7 has fewer vulnerabilities than previous versions of IE over the same time period. What s more, the report showed that IE7 had both fewer fixed and unfixed vulnerabilities in the first year than the other browsers we compared. In addition to having fewer vulnerabilities, as we previously mentioned, IE 7 s Phishing Filter stops more than 900,000 phishing attempts per week, stopping crimes in progress before users give up their personal information. On top of that, more sites are adopting Extended Validation Certificates as a way to help protect their users from fraud, and people are noticing. A recent USA Today article noted that for the ultimate peace of mind, look for the address bar to turn green in IE7 in the context of securely connecting with your broker. Finally, we ve seen a decrease of 10 20 in the support call volume for IE compared with a year ago, before the release of IE7. This is typically a sign that the product is more stable and has fewer issues than the previous release. While we re happy with how well IE7 is doing, as always, we continue to listen to our customers and find ways to further improve Internet Explorer. Look for more news on this front in the coming weeks. Tony ChorGroup Program Manager
Google Friends Newsletter November 2007 Autumnal greetings to our Google friends everywhere. We hope you enjoy this month s update on our products and services. POWER TIP Google Tip of the Day Gadget Various updates to Google products are sometimes released at such a pace that even we Googlers have a hard time keeping up and some of
Google Friends Newsletter November 2007 Autumnal greetings to our Google friends everywhere. We hope you enjoy this month s update on our products and services. POWER TIP Google Tip of the Day Gadget Various updates to Google products are sometimes released at such a pace that even we Googlers have a hard time keeping up and some of
There are a lot of memcached hackers and power users in the Bay Area, so we re proud to be hosting an all night hackathon in a couple weeks. Hack and code memcached. Active developers from the community will be joining us along with fellow Yahoo s for an all night hackathon. We are working towards shipping new features and releasing the binary protocol. Drinks and food provided! As the Hackathon Wiki says: Pretty simple: it s a marathon coding session. The goal is to get something done. Come armed with a pet project of your own if you like, or just with some energy and a willingness to think hard and pound out code. It has a scheduled start time, and it ends when it ends. Register on Upcoming.org: Memcached Hackathon Yahoo Campus. That ll help us figure out how much pizza to have on hand. : Oh, and in case you re wondering, we do use memcached on a number of popular Yahoo! services. Drop by and you might get to meet some of the engineers behind them. Jeremy Zawodny Yahoo! Developer Network
You may remember Nigel s article, Search Trails Back to the Future was published in Freepint.com a few months ago. We re very proud to report that the article has been nominated for the FUMSI Citation for Most Useful Article.Freepint have recently…