Big announcement from Microsoft late Monday night, but not exactly surprising. Microsoft has said it will purchase Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services for EUR 5.44 billion (roughly US$7.2 billion). ...
Touch interface is changing the way we interact with computing devices. Touch brought a revolutionary change in mobile industry with smart phones and tablets. Now this technology is moving from Smart phones to desktop software. Using touch screen in place of keyboards & mouse, makes...
Notes on Azure, SharePoint, and Windows Live Recently I needed to authenticate an external SharePoint site using Windows Live. So, I logically thought of using Azure since that is way Microsoft is going and it is easier to configure than the old Windows Live way without using Azure. There...
Social SharePoint is coming to a desktop and a mobile device near you … and soon. Today SharePoint is ubiquitous in the enterprise. With over 125 million SharePoint users and a goal to reach 500 million with the next release of Office (aka Wave 15 ) From Jared Spataro’s...
If you have the option to login with multiple providers you are presented with a login page that lets you choose which option you want. The default file for this is in the hive under TEMPLATE/IDENTITYMODEL/LOGIN and is named default.aspx. If you want to automatically log on with Windows...
I get asked a lot on twitter, “what is the best OCR for Linux?”, usually there is “free” in there somewhere as well. The fact is, although of the top 4 commercial OCR engines, 3 have Linux versions; the accuracy compared to their Windows counterpart is substantially less...