we announced that our next homepage photo contest will kickoff on March 29 and this time there’s a twist. We’re asking students in the United States to submit photos to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and the winning photo will be displayed on the Bing homepage on April 22, Earth Day itself! Justin Kraemer, winner of the Bing Home.. more »

About 6 weeks ago I asked the Bing Maps Product Management team about our presence at SXSW. A couple weeks later they gave me a panel. Then, they asked me to proctor it. Oh, and populate it. Hmm, this was a bit more than I was expecting to take on, but always up for a challenge I ran with it and now I’m proud to announce my panel for SXSW ja.. more »

As with any program, ease of integration (and migration) is a key concern to utilities considering new software solutions. Hohm is no different. Michaeljon Miller, the principal architect for Hohm, told me the other day that there have been a lot of such questions concerning Hohm . In response MJ has published the software specifications for the .. more »

We know how busy things are for teachers this time of year, and if you’re anything like me the sunny weather is a further distraction. So we wanted to take this time to remind you that the deadline for the Innovid video competition is fast approaching! Don’t forget to get your entry in to the Partners in Learning Network . In addition, Stuart and .. more »

Windows PowerShell doesn’t include this library of functions. But with these commands, managing Hyper-V directly from the shell is much simpler. Follow our daily tips on:Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS.. more »

Posted by Akhtar Badshah Senior Director, Global Community Affairs Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Global Community Affairs A milestone event took place last week in Manila, where Telecentre.org Foundation was officially launched as an independent organization...(read more).. more »

Posted by Pamela Passman Corporate Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs Pamela Passman, Corporate Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs Earlier today while speaking to the annual conference of the National Association of Workforce Boards in Washington...(read more).. more »

A couple athletes, a handful of musicians, two shoe companies and a few television shows, plus list regulars made up this week’s Top 20 Facebook Pages. Zynga’s continues its domination of the number 1 spot with almost 10 million fans, but its partner in crime for the past few weeks, Texas Hold’em Poker, disappeared from the list this week. Two so.. more »

has spent the last year quietly building an advertising offers service designed to take on established players like Offerpal and Super Rewards. Now, it’s taking the covers off. Every offers company is busy trying to optimize which ads appear to which users. Boomerang’s offer wall includes thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons so users can vote on whic.. more »

In the years following U.S. troop deployments to Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, thousands of former soldiers, both men and women, have returned home to to continue their civilian lives. Some of these veterans return physically injured or paralyzed, others with psychological issues. As these veterans adjust to the civilian life, Facebook has .. more »

Christopher Sokolov replied to TIP: Fix for Macs in AD "file is locked" error, with a cautionary question: I appreciate the work on this serious problem including the suggestion about changing ownership. I suppose I'm "stuck" psychologically on calling this a fix -- can't/doesn't this break the whole schema of ownership/permissions on Windows .. more »

Chris Wood reports problems syncing a Blackberry smart phone with Entourage 2004 and 2008. Every 8 hours, he winds up with duplicate calendar items: I recently upgraded my BlackBerry to a Curve 8900 which required me to use the new BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac. In exploring this sync problem with BlackBerry they concluded that it was between .. more »

Steve Humiston responded to More reports of losing Admin privileges with mobile accounts by sending in an AppleScript that he uses to work around the issue: do shell script rm -R /Library/'Managed Preferences'/`users`/com.apple.systemconfiguration.plist user name root password "whateverrootpasswordis" with administrator privileges. Although I .. more »

It seems as if just about every electronic product we buy these days comes with a software CD/DVD. Sometimes it’s no more than a digital version of the product manual – paper manuals are quickly disappearing from the packages, although prices don’t seem to be coming down to reflect the savings of not printing and binding them – and other times, t.. more »

The Forefront TMG team is pleased to announce that the product team blog will host TMG 2010 deployment success stories submitted by our business partners.   The ISA Server/Forefront TMG community will enjoy and benefit from reading about deployment cases illustrating a successful implementation of a scenario or the product features in a specific o.. more »

This blog is a follow-up to the RemoteApp for Hyper-V blog at Similar to RemoteApp, the RemoteApp for Hyper-V feature allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. When using RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp for Hyper-V enables remote access to .. more »

BPOS and Microsoft Dynamics CRM are two high-profile products that have great traction in the marketplace. They are both very flexible, but that doesn't mean that it's right to try to do everything in either one of them. In this session, we will show how the products can complement each other and how some simple integration between them can deliver .. more »

It's giveaway day 3 and it's launch day for PerfectDisk 11, our friends at Raxco have given us three sets of licences for PerfectDisk 11 Windows Home Server Bundle. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

Synology make a number of different NAS products that you can use in your home or office network. Today they announced the release of the DiskStation Manager 2.3 firmware update which brings a number of new and enhanced features, including a surveillance app for the iPhone. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

Today’s the day that PerfectDisk version 11 is officially released and today is also the final day for your chance to win one of the last remaining two copies. PerfectDisk 11 Windows Home Server Bundle includes a license for your WHS and also a license for one PC too and would normally cost $49.99. So, if you are lucky enough to win a copy you wo.. more »