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DBSophic Trace Analyzer For Sql Server
DBSophic’s Trace Analyzer helps you analyze multiple trace files and trace tables quickly and accurately. Within a few minutes all the trace events are analyzed, deparameterized, grouped, and clearly arranged in a tree format, graphically displaying their total and relative resource consumption. You can even drill down to specific parameter value sets and clearly pinpoint [...]
Microsoft gobs up SQL Server 2008 R2 public preview
Redmond has dished out a community test preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 to developers. Earlier this week, Microsoft dropped the test code into the laps of MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The final product is expected to be available in the first half of 2010. Features include application and multi-server management, SMP scale for up [...]
Can Zune HD topple the iPod touch
Microsoft is having a hard time breaking into the portable media player market, but can the combination of the Zune HD, along with undercutting Apple be what finally works? The Zune so far really wasn’t the success that Microsoft had hoped that it would be. Or, to put it more bluntly, compared to Apple, it’s [...]
Microsoft confirms Zune HD details
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed several of the worst kept secrets in the industry, acknowledging the pricing, availability date, and capacities for its upcoming Zune HD. The black 16GB version of the touch-screen media player will sell for $219.99, while a 32GB version in “platinum” color will cost $289.99. The pricing had already leaked via Best Buy and [...]
Samsung launches Omnia HD in India
Mobile handset maker Samsung announced the launch of ‘OmniaHD’ in the Indian market. Priced at Rs33,990, OmniaHD is a full-touch handset, equipped with 720P high definition (HD) video recording on mobile and 9.4 cm Amoled screen, Samsung said in a statement. The company also launched OmniaPRO B7320, priced at Rs 16,500. Based on Windows Mobile [...]
First look: Google Earth’s Desi rival
Google Earth’s Indian rival is finally here! Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took a leap into satellite imagery of geographical regions with the launch of `Bhuvan’, India’s mapping application website. Similar to Google Earth or Wikimapia, Bhuvan goes a step ahead. The application allows users to zoom far closer than the aerial view from a [...]
Microsoft Prices Zune HD Below iPod
Microsoft Corpput its new Zune HD digital music and video player on sale on Thursday, pricing it below comparable Apple Inc iPod devices, in an attempt to claw some market share away from the dominant leader. The devices, which are available for pre-order but won’t hit shelves until September 15, are priced at $219.99 for the [...]
Open Source Web Anti-Malware Tool Released
An interesting new piece of security freeware was launched today as Dasient introduced an open source version of its Web server infection remediation technology. An offspring of Dasient’s Web Anti-Malware (WAM) remediation package, the open source Mod Anti-Malware Lite release is an Apache server module that promises to allow Web site operators, Web hosts and developers [...]
xTuple 3.3 release, – open source ERP debuts
xTuple is making its open source ERP platform more sophisticated and easier to use. The xTuple 3.3 release, which was announced today at the start of OpenSource World, offers support for international taxation and distribution requirements planning as well as numerous usability improvements. “We’re stretching in both directions,†said Ned Lilly, President and CEO of [...]
Penguin puts Linux supercomputer in sky
The San Francisco-based outfit announced the debut of what it calls Penguin on Demand – POD, for short – a service that offers remote access to high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. The idea is to provide researchers, engineers, and simulation scientists with the sort of number-crunching power they can’t get from the typical so-called infrastructure [...]
Cisco collaborates with Aiesec
Cisco Malaysia and Aiesec — an international student-run organisation — have launched an internship programme to give Malaysian IT students a chance to expand their skills and gain experience with multinational companies. Under the 6-to-18 month internship, Cisco Networking Academy students will be placed with industry giants such as Tata Consultancy Services, Microsoft, Standard Chartered [...]