Windows 8 will be revealed at the BUILD conference

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Jun 022011
 

Microsoft just announced at their Windows 8 preview event at Computex 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, that they will reveal everything about Windows 8 at their new conference called “BUILD“.

BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.

The details of the new BUILD conference are as follows:

Date: September 13th (Tuesday)  to September 16th (Friday)
Place: Anaheim, California, USA

Who should be going?

If you are a contemporary developer, a geek who thrives on the newest and coolest, who loves the freedom of the web and the power of all devices from mobile to desktop, you need to join us to help BUILD the future.

For more information or to register, head over to www.buildwindows.com.

Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft Surface 2.0

 Technology  1 Response »
May 282011
 

The Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft Surface 2.0 includes the following features:

  • PixelSense
    • Recognizes fingers, hands, and objects placed on the screen
    • Up to 50 simultaneous touch points
    • Information of the object is immediately processed and interpreted
  • Microsoft Surface 2.0
    • New version of Microsoft Surface SDK to support object recognition and multi-touch
  • Thin Form Factor with multiple configuration options
    • 4″ thin
    • Vertical deployment – hang on the walls with VESA mount, embed in walls or custom enclosures
    • Standard legs available for horizontal deployment
  • 40″ HD screen
    • 1080p, 16:9, 1920×1080 display
  • Powerful embedded system
    • AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core Processor 2.9GHz
    • AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series GPU featuring DirectX 11 support

The suggested retail price for the Samsung SUR40 starts at US$8,600 (for Singapore) and will be available later in 2011 in 23 countries worldwide including: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, france, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, India, Italy, Korea, Norway, Netherlands, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, United Kingdom, USA.

For those developers out there, the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK will be made available (hopefully in a few weeks) to everyone for free. The Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK will include the Surface Simulator for developers to start writing Surface applications immediately.

Dell XPS 15z, the thinnest 15″ Laptop, is Available in Singapore

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May 262011
 

Is anyone drooling yet? Oh my, this baby looks simply amazing. The Dell XPS 15z laptop, one of the thinnest 15-inch PCs, and the first in a series of new thin and ultra-powerful products from Dell to come this year. With the XPS 15z, everyone from mobile warriors to students and small-business owners now have everything they need to work hard and play hard in one stunning package.

Availability:
The XPS 15z is available today in Singapore on www.Dell.com.sg and will be available through Dell’s retail partners by 31 May.

Detailed Information:

  • Thin (0.97”/24.68mm) laptop PC with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium; aluminum and mag-alloy enclosure
  • 2nd-generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 Dual Core processor choices
  • Standard HD or optional Full HD (1920×1080) WLED display
  • Fast NVIDIA graphics options:
    • NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M with 1GB graphics memory
    • NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M with 2GB graphics memory
  • Includes NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology; NVIDIA 3DTV Play technology
  • 4GB up to 8GB DDR3[vii] 1333Mhz memory options
  • Fast 7200RPM hard disk storage, up to 750GB
  • Built-in Slot load DVD +/- RW (reads & writes to CD/DVD)
  • Backlit, Chiclet-style keyboard with adjustable brightness
  • Optimized touchpad
  • Built-in Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 802.11 A/G/N and Bluetooth 3.0 wireless connectivity
  • Intel Wireless Display-ready[xi]
  • Up to 8 hours of battery life with 8-cell battery
  • USB 3.0 (2), USB/eSATA with PowerShare, HDMI 1.4, Mini Display-Port, Gigabit Ethernet and audio connectors
  • Built-in 9-in-1 media card reader
  • Built-in 1.3MP HD Webcam with dual array digital microphones and stereo speakers
  • Dell Stage software for fast access to content like music, videos and photos
  • Dimensions: Height: 0.97” (24.68mm) / Width: 15.15” (384.85mm) / Depth 10.25” (260.37mm); Weight: starting at 5.54lbs (2.51 kg)

Community {Technology} Update 2011

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May 242011
 

The 8th iteration of CTU is back – It’s the time of the year User Group of Singapore come together and put up a full day technical sharing event for the community. Organized by the community for the community, we have sessions that suits IT Professionals, Developers and Database Administrators. A full day of contents has been arranged for you to help get you up to date with the latest technologies in the Microsoft stack. If you are someone who like hands on more than anything, you are welcome to sign up for our Hands-on Lab on the actual day itself! Don’t miss this chance and start registering today!!!

Date: 25th June 2011
Time: 0900 – 1730 hrs
Venue: Microsoft Singapore, One Marina Boulevard
Registration Fees: $12 (Early-birds), $20 (Walk-ins)

Why you should attend this event:

  • To learn about the latest changes in .NET, Microsoft virtualization technologies, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Exchange, and new upcoming System Center product
  • To participate in Hands-on-Lab: Topic that address printer driver deployment via GPO

Who should attend this event:

  • IT Professionals
  • Developers
  • Database Administrators
  • Essentially you, as you’re one of our user group members!

For instruction to register to this event, go to www.sgdotnet.org/events/CTU2011/Pages/Registration.aspx.

To find out more about the event, go to www.sgdotnet.org/events/CTU2011/Pages/default.aspx

P.S.
I’ll be talking about the new C# 5.0 – Async keyword, so if you’re interested do come and drop by.

Parallels Transporter – Making your move from Windows to Mac easier

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May 192011
 

Parallels Transporter is an application that makes the move from a Windows PC to a Mac easy by automatically transferring all your files. Parallels Transporter is available on the Mac App Store today for limited time offer of US$ 0.99, a US$39 savings off of the US$39.99 standard retail price.

The Parallels Transporter app is designed for Mac users who may not need to run Windows on their Mac at all; it is a simple way to bring everything you need from your PC together on your Mac without wasting additional resources. The files stored in your Windows home directory are copied to the corresponding folders on your Mac so they can be accessed and used with compatible Mac programs.

dotPeek – Replacement for .NET Reflector

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May 192011
 

Ever since the announcement of a paid-for product, .NET Reflector by RedGate which has been a free application that is now an essential tool to many .NET developers, there has been an uproar among the community developers regarding this move to completely change a free essential developer tool to a paid-for app.

JetBrains, the creator of the famous and popular ReSharper, dotTrace and dotCover, has now created a free decompiler tool that’s similar (if not better) than .NET Reflector called dotPeek.

dotPeek offers:

  • Decompilation of .NET 1.0-4.0 assemblies to C#
  • Code syntax highlighting and code insight features
  • Complete keyboard support
  • Visual Studio look-and-feel
  • The full power of ReSharper-style navigation

Learn more about dotPeek and download an early build. Please submit bug reports and feature requests to the dotPeek issue tracker, and discuss the tool on the dotPeek forum.

For latest news and hints, follow dotPeek on twitter or like JetBrains on Facebook

Finally, have in mind that decompiling will also be available right in Visual Studio as part of the upcoming ReSharper 6.

Review: Nokia E7

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May 132011
 

The Nokia E7 is very similar in terms of look and feel to the Nokia N8, an equally handsome phone, that comes with the latest Symbian^3 OS for Nokia. However, the Nokia E7 is slightly bigger and heavier with a full qwerty slide-out keyboard, 8MP camera with Extended Depth of Field (read full focus, not autofocus), Nokia ClearBlack display, and geared towards business use. But does it really live up to its claim of being “The Ultimate Business Smartphone”? Continue reading »

Temasek Polytechnic Students Win Singapore’s Imagine Cup Championship 2011

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May 112011
 

Students from Temasek Polytechnic took the top prize today in the Singapore finals of the 2011 Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition. Called the Elder Rehabilitation and Support System (ERSS), the team’s application uses the Microsoft Kinect to aid the rehabilitation and recovery process for stroke patients.

The Elder Rehabilitation Support System (ERSS) is our solution to the problems of high cost and tedious exercises in rehabilitation process of stroke survivors.

The ERSS is using Kinect’s Technology in providing rehabilitation to stroke survivors from their numerous disabilities amongst many other diseases. By integrating the ERSS into the rehabilitation process, we can lower the cost of treatment and rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Our solution would be highly autonomous, where a nurse would bring the rehabilitating individual to the room where the Kinect console is located in. There the ERSS will guide the patient through various exercises that will be designed towards rehabilitating them back to health.

Another key feature of the ERSS is that families would be able to install the program in their home so that rehabilitation could also be carried out at home with the family members monitoring the patient.

Using Kinect, the rehabilitation of stroke survivors would be much more entertaining than just tedious slow exercises thus making the rehabilitation faster and much more enjoyable.

The complete list of winners and runners-up of the Imagine Cup 2011 Singapore Finals is as follows:

SOFTWARE DESIGN CATEGORY

First Place: Team ElderGuardian, Temasek Polytechnic – IT School
Students: Satrughan Kumar Singh, Ho Chee Boon, Wing Kin Seng and Kim Arvin Galutera Evangelista
Project: Elder Rehabilitation & Support System (ERSS)
Prize: A trip to New York City to compete in the Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals,  4 x XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle, 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, 4 x Lifecam HD-5000, 4 x MSDNA Subscription worth more than $10,000 dollars each.

1st Runners-Up: Team The Strides Analysts II, Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT
Students: Alson Wong, Kelvin Tan, Adam Bun Abdul Malik and Au Kah Khei
Projects: Silver Strides
Prize: 4 x XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle, 4 x Arc Touch Mouse, 4 x MSDN Subscription worth more than $10,000 dollars each

2nd Runners-Up: Team Bliss-Zard, Nanyang Polytechnic – School of Engineering
Students: Phyu Hpone Mo Khant, Chin Soo Wen, Zhao Dong and James Brian Woo
Projects: Blissymbolics Communication International (BCI)
Prize: 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, 4 x Life-Cam HD5000, 4 x MSDN Subscription worth more than $10,000 dollars each

3rd Runners-Up: Team Credit Mobile, National University of Singapore
Students: Danbee Shin, Nishanth Sudharsanam, Ramchander Krishna and Sivasankar Ramasubramian
Projects: Credit Mobile
Prize: 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, 4 x Life-Cam HD5000

2011 IMAGINE CUP PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Team Heal on the Move, Singapore Polytechnic
Projects: Your Health Monitor
Prize: 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000

How to fix this error: Configuration binding extension ‘system.serviceModel/bindings/netTcpRelayBinding’ could not be found.

 Development, Web Development  10 Responses »
Apr 272011
 

There are several ways of fixing this problem and it usually involves editing your machine.config, web.config or app.config file. One of the possibilities that might have raised this error is a bug that you’ll encounter when uninstalling Microsoft Azure SDK. Apparently when you install the Microsoft Azure SDK, it adds a few lines to your machine.config file. However when you uninstall it, it doesn’t revert the changes causing your machine.config to refer to unavailable libraries.

So in order to fix this error, you’ll have to comment/delete these few lines from your machine.config file.

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<!– Under <behaviorExtensions> –>
<add name="connectionStatusBehavior" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.ConnectionStatusElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="transportClientEndpointBehavior" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.TransportClientEndpointBehaviorElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="serviceRegistrySettings" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.ServiceRegistrySettingsElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
[/sourcecode]

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<!– Under <bindingElementExtensions> –>
<add name="tcpRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.TcpRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="httpRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.HttpRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="httpsRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.HttpsRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="onewayRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.RelayedOnewayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
[/sourcecode]

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<!– Under <bindingExtensions> –>
<add name="basicHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.BasicHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="webHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WebHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="ws2007HttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WS2007HttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="netTcpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetTcpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="netOnewayRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetOnewayRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="netEventRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetEventRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
[/sourcecode]

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<!– Under <client> –>
<endpoint address="" binding="netTcpRelayBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"
name="sb" />

<!– Under <metadata><policyImporters> –>
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.TcpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.HttpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.OnewayRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

<!– Under <metadata><wsdlImporters> –>
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.StandardRelayBindingImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.TcpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.HttpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.OnewayRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
[/sourcecode]

Microsoft Singapore warns of “Windows Live” Phone Scam

 Security, Technology  2 Responses »
Apr 202011
 

Scammers are using several well-known brands, including Microsoft, to fool consumers into believing that something is wrong with their computers. The scam typically unfolds in the following manner:

  • A cold caller, claiming to be a representative of Microsoft, one of its brands, or a third-party contracted by Microsoft, tells the victim that they are investigating a computer problem, infection or virus that has been detected by Microsoft.
  • They tell the victim that they can help and direct them to a website that then allows the scammers to take remote control of the computer.
  • The cold caller will then spend some time on the computer trying to demonstrate where the ‘problems’ are and in the process, convince the victim to pay a fee for a service that will fix the computer.

Singaporeans are advised to simply hang up if they receive a call of this nature and not to respond to any communications from these scammers.

For more information, Microsoft recommends the following resources:

Source: http://microsoftsgnews.com/?p=151

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