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Once upon a time, I used my smartphone camera to take pictures of things so I could share them on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, With Windows Phone 7 “Mango” I can still do that, but “Mango” also comes with a whole new bag of tricks for the camera that are much more useful. For today’s 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 post I will take a look at some of the more creative ways “Mango” uses the camera.
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There are some technologies that you just don’t monkey with. Running water, for example. And the Global Positioning System that is the enabler to about a zillion different location applications found in many aspects of modern civilized life. But courtesy of newcomer 4G wannabe LightSquared, a somewhat exotic mobile network technology threatens to lay functional waste to millions of consumer, commercial, and military GPS-enabled devices.
Network Computing
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Hailing the arrival of all-silicon enterprise storage and the end of mechanical storage arrays, Violin Memory, Inc. is rolling out new products that deliver 80 percent reduction in cost per input/output operations per second (IOPS) and a 15:1 reduction in physical consolidation of hardware from a disk array vendor. The company says its new 6000 series and the addition to the 3000 series of solid-state drives mark the beginning of the end for HDDs, equivalent to the impact event that killed off the dinosaurs.
Network Computing
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Oracle has rolled out the SPARC SuperCluster integrated computer system, the third such computer built from the ground up with Oracle servers, storage, operating system, processors, database, middleware and application software in one complete unit.
Network Computing
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Admittedly, the vast majority of my interactions with my smartphone are accomplished with the familiar tapping, pinching, zooming, and virtual keyboarding. But, if I am driving, or walking, or otherwise occupied, it is nice to be able to work with Windows Phone 7 using voice commands as well.
Speech Commands with “Mango”
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On October 4th, storage management vendor Symantec is releasing version 6.0 of its Storage Foundation and Availability Management software portfolio, which offers new tools to create a private cloud without the need to rip and replace existing IT assets.
Network Computing
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As the Great Debate: iSCSI Beats Fibre Channel session I’m moderating at Interop NY next month will demonstrate, passions run high when you get storage and server administrators talking about their favorite storage protocols. While the iSCSI vs Fibre Channel debate gets the most attention, the even older battle between file and block protocols is again heating up.
Network Computing
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There is one thing that the Microsoft mobile OS has always had that no other mobile platform can really match–Microsoft Office. Windows Phone 7–especially “Mango”–goes beyond the Office Mobile apps with the Office Hub, so today I am going to jump into the Office Hub and see how “Mango” lets you be more productive on the go.
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Facebook is set to unveil an ambitious plan to attract more small businesses to set up shop on the social network. It plans to offer $ 50 in free advertising to as many as 200,000 small businesses to demonstrate the power of marketing on Facebook.
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Today I am continuing the conversation from Day 18 about productivity on the go with a “Mango” smartphone. The Office Hub in Windows Phone 7 sets the device apart from the competition as a platform for mobile productivity.
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