Stephan Sr.

Rasfoind din intamplare internetul am dat peste concursul go4it.ro ce se desfasoara in perioada 14 aprilie - 12 mai sub numele "GADGET-uri DE BLOGGER - In telefoane sa ne luptăm!". M-am gandit sa scriu si eu despre SPV-ul meu C600....ce a aparut in Q1 2006.

Est un telefon excpetional ce are sistemul de operare windows mobile 5.0 bluetooth, infrarosu, tehnologia EDGE, card 512 mb, mp3, camera 1.3 megapixeli cu 8x zoom, etc.

Conluzia! SPV C600 este un telefon pur de business cu multe aplicatii de tip office si internet. Usor de folosit si configurat. Ca aplicatii multimedia, amintim de player, radio si camera foto/video.

Motivul pentru care m-am gand sa scriu despre telefonul mobil este pentru ca particip la un concurs organizat de go4it.ro (Castiga un telefon mobil cu go4it.ro. Bafta tuturor!

The mother of all geek conferences in Malaysia (and maybe South East Asia) is coming back to Kuala Lumpur from 11-14 August. This year will focus on new products such as Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. So again there will be tonnes of tracks about those products for both IT Pros and developers. There is an early bird ticket of RM699 and to buy just click on the banner above.

With waves of products launch this year (i.e. Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Mobile 6.1, Silverlight) it is guaranteed there will be tonnes of contents from our “ang mor” speakers from US and Australia. Of course don’t just come for ang mor, but also catch what our local speakers share about. Some of them whom are MVPs still at MVP Summit in US so I also hope they will bring back cool stuff to share about.

In fact you can register now at the official website as a super early bird price now at RM649. Do take advantage of it because the actual price will be RM 1299.00 and you will be getting huge discount also. Also watch out for upcoming Microsoft events because there might be more goodies if you sign up for Tech.Ed in those events. For instance, you can go to TechNet MSDN Road Show to check out more as I will be speaking there as well.

Skydrive comes out of beta

Beta is over for http://skydrive.live.com and the new version increases the storage by 4Gb to 5Gb! I use this to put my presentations in on the right column on the blog - easy to imbed the link with the icon

Interoperability announcements

there is a lot to read about here.

The one thing I wanted to pull out:  Steve Ballmer says:

Second, in the area of data portability, we recognize that different users definitely support different file formats for different reasons. And we have consistently supported multiple file formats and user choice. But, as part of today's announcement specifically, we're announcing that we're designing new APIs for Word, Excel and PowerPoint that will allow developers to plug in additional document formats, and enable users to set those formats as their default for saving documents.

New Microsoft Office Live Small Business launched

Simple Windows Live ID signup process. No need to validate with a credit card any more !

Used by nearly 600,000 customers worldwide, Office Live Small Business is available in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan. The service also provides an excellent environment within which partners can build industry-specific solutions.

Office Live Small Business is now available with :

• Full Firefox 2.0 support for PC & Mac
• Easy-to-use Website Designer tool or use html/3rd party design tools
• Outlook Connector for offline synching of email, calendar, contacts & tasks
• Mobile access to email, calendar and contacts from Windows-Powered SmartPhones or PocketPCs
• Solutions Packager for Web designers

FREE when you sign up :

• Domain name *
• 500MB fully hosted Website
• Up to 100 email accounts
• Contact Manager
• Document Manager
• Project Manager
• Workspace

* (.co.uk free for the first 2 years or .com, org, net, .eu free for the first year)

Additional affordable features :

• E-mail marketing beta
• Search marketing
• More storage, users and tools

What are you wating for ? Read more details and signup now at : smallbusiness.officelive.com

The past SAF conference was hosted at the MS Conference Center (Redmond, USA) over three days during November, 2007. All the keynotes and informational sessions are available below for download.

Here are the direct links to the presentation slide decks in ZIP format and PowerPoint 2007 (PPTX) format:

Part I:

Changing the World with Software and Services

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Project Astoria: Data Services for the Web

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Anatomy of An S+S Application

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Unified Communications: Breaking VoIP Barriers

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Composite Application Architectures Using the 2007 Office System

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A Data-driven Approach To Distributed, Concurrent Software

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Part II:

A Look Into Microsoft Research

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Claims-Based Identity Layer For The "New Internet"

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The Reality Of The Cloud And The Future Of The Datacenter

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Mining Lightning For The Cloud

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User Experience for Architects

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Windows Live Platform: Making Better End User Experiences

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Duet: An Enterprise S+S Offering From Microsoft And SAP

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Dynamic IT

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Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, Elastic Compute Cloud, and Simple Queue Service

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Part III:

Lessons Learned from the Web's Edge: MySpace

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Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology

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I will see you next year !!! Have a blast :-)