A few weeks ago I reported about the Sky Player in Windows Media Center being announced at the Windows 7 press launch. Well today, Sky Player is finally live and running. If you launch Windows Media Center you will see it under TV. Media Center - Sky Player If you click on it you will be prompted to install it. It only takes a moment or two to .. more »

ObviouslyMicrosoft is already working away at the first Service Pack for Windows 7, but thats about all we know. Well now the Russian site wzor.net, which gave away lots of leaks leading up to the final release of Windows 7 has released time frame information about the release of the first Windows 7 service pack. According to this rumor Windows 7 .. more »

Understanding intents from search queries can improve a user's search experience and boost a site's advertising profits. Query tagging via statistical sequential labeling models has been shown to perform well, but annotating the training set for supervised learning requires substantial human effort. Domain-specific knowledge, such as semantic class .. more »

We were warned yesterday about phishers scamming folks out of personal info, promising entry into a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta that hadn't even been announced. It seems they weren't completely off the mark though, as EA told Blend Games that details about a BF:BC 2 beta would arrive this week. If you remember, GameStop recently posted -- then .. more »

BioWare announced today that awardwinning rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars will headline the ingame soundtrack for the new epic RPG, Dragon Age Origins... more »

Last week we published an interview with Andrew Sampson who runs Stephen Fry’s website. Andrew gave some great insight into how the actor uses Twitter and their approach to blogging, advertising and connecting with their audience through social media. This week, we talk to Ben Chapman who is Interactive Editor at BBC Radio 1 on ho.. more »

Certainly the first in the UK and Europe, South East Essex College went for a complete roll-out of Windows 7 for the start of term in September, making it the biggest educational user of Windows 7 at the start of term. They moved everything together all of their workstations moved from Windows XP and their servers moved from Windows Server 2003 .. more »

Microsoft Press has released a new free eBook about Windows Server 2008 R2. more..... more »

From examiner.com:[QUOTE]Do you like to use the party chat option on your Xbox 360? Well, if you do, you may soon find yourself being forced out of using that option. Microsoft appears to be offering developers the option to negate the private chat option the Xbox 360 offers.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will force players to decide whether or not .. more »

Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server R2 have two multi forest topologies that have been tested by and are supported by Microsoft. One of these topologies is the Office Communications Server Resource forest \ User forest topology and the other is the Office Communications Server Central forest and User forest topology. .. more »

Administered Pages. The other desktop clients that we investigated were . Yoonos customer service rep said that it is a highly requested feature, and they are working with Facebook on permission issues, and we review PeopleBrowsrs client below, as it is basically identical to its web version. We found three clients (well, two and a half as youll .. more »

Today's guest blogger is Michael Merlin, Lead Software Developer at I recently wasted an hour trying to set a field's Back Color property to the hex code generated by the color picker. I figured it out after some searching, but still nobody online had the exact correct answer. I wrote a function that lets you easily use the hex color in code. The .. more »

Something happened back on October 14th: three make-your-own-quiz applications started growing really fast, and they havent stopped. Meanwhile, on our list of the 20 Facebook apps that gained the most users this past week from , were seeing the usual mix of games, simple gifting apps, and Facebooks in-house iPhone app. Who was i, in my past life ? .. more »

Once again, we've bitten the bullet of plotline spoilification for you lot, and measured the believability of two recently released lists of Achievements and Trophies for Assassin's Creed 2. Our initial impression is that they seem legit -- but they also contain references to a number of plot points and gameplay mechanics you may want to remain in .. more »

A new feature that gets to the heart of the college game by focusing on team styles of play, ball movement, and authentic motion offenses... more »

Improve your security management process by using MBSA to detect common security misconfigurations and missing security updates on your computer systems. Built on the Windows Update Agent and Microsoft Update infrastructure, … More here: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1 Megaupload, Hotfile ….. more »

Abstract: This session covers how to create advanced reports by using SQL Server 2008 R2. Advanced reports are highly customizable views that enable report authors to deliver information to users they way they want to see it. Category: Business Intelligence Published: 10/20/2009 4:15 PM # Comments: 0.. more »

Technology news, views and jobs, Almost a third of the customers who have installed Microsoft’s free Security Essentials software have been found to be suffering from major malware infections. Originally posted here: iTWire - One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft.. more »

The dust has quickly settled from Microsoft's launch of and the introduction of the Windows phone.  The launch drew mixed reactions ranging from the positive to the down right hostile.  Having seen cooked versions of Windows Mobile 6.5 as well as the numerous screen shots and reports the actually release of WM 6.5 wasn't earth shattering. Did Mic.. more »

One of the little known features of Office Communicator is the ability to make consultative transfers.  Very often we’ve been asked to include this feature, however it’s already included! As background, a consultative transfer is a common scenario where before transferring a call to someone you want to contact the person you’re transferring to firs.. more »