Monthly Archives: October 2005

If you can’t beat them, unite. Microsoft MSN Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger networks are joining together to fight AOL and the new threat from Google (I don’t think anybody considering it a threat has actually tried to use … Continue reading →

Eric Ligman covered the news of the new incentives program Microsoft is offering to the small business. Starting October 17, 2005, qualified purchases (anotherwords, Office, SBS & SBS CAL’s) will entitle the small business to a given amount of $$ … Continue reading →

Just when you thought there weren’t enough ways to keep in touch with everything on Vladville, here come MSN Alerts. Clicking on the Alert Me link below will allow you to receive MSN Messenger alerts every time a new story … Continue reading →

If you’re a reseller you might find this webcast relevant: CA is holding a reseller-exclusive webcast tomorrow (10/11/2005, noon-1PM EST). Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) will be introducing release 2 of its Business Protection Suites for Microsoft Small Business Server … Continue reading →

Next Monday (17th October) we will be hosting another LiveMeeting for our Partners. This time the topic will be “Mobilising Small Business Server 2003”. The webcast will be broadcast 4pm – 5pm and will also be available for offline viewing … Continue reading →

Found two things today that may be interesting to everyone, depending on the depth of your pocket. First one is the Sony Vaio VGP-UHDM08 80GB external drive with crypto support through wireless keychains. I see people walking around the airport … Continue reading →

Nothing kills a boring Sunday afternoon like exploring new development environments. In a world where I could stop time, messing with these things would be fun but there is just too little time to dedicate to training, development and project … Continue reading →

SBS Podcast #3 was uploaded earlier this morning and the best news is that they are getting some real audio equipment. So great news to some of you that have complained about the voice quality, apparently it’s an 8k LiveMeeting … Continue reading →

Another day, another Google beta project. This time its the Google Reader, an AJAX based web application intended for RSS reading over the web. Played with it for a few minutes but to be honest, I don’t find it very … Continue reading →

Slickdeals of all places is reporting that the Microsoft SST Teams (MSDN & Technet in this case) are holding two special events to launch SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. Below is the registration, in Florida they are December … Continue reading →