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In-Stat: Fall in pay TV subscribers due to economy
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Market research firm blames the weak economy for the slight drop, and not people jumping ship to online content.
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Zeus banking Trojan targets mobile phones too
0Researchers uncover version of Windows-targeted malware that tricks people out of mobile numbers to thwart two-factor authentication text message confirmations from banks.
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Community Direction
0hought it was a great idea. It was a way for real users to submit bugs, and others to see those bugs, voting on them if they thought they were important. It would help Microsoft determine what features and bugs are important and perhaps allocate resources accordingly. However there was a fundamental problem with the system. People would see individual items, and could vote for them, but wouldn’t have an idea of what other items might be listed.
The work on SQL 11 is underway, and recently I got a note from Itzik Ben-Gan asking people to vote for windowing enhancements to the T-SQL language. I’m not sure exactly of all the places that these are useful, but Itzik is one of the smartest people I know and I tend to believe that if he finds these enhancements useful, they are likely going to make T-SQL easier to work with.
Read the rest of “Community Direction” at SQLServerCentral.
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Bing Maps gets public transit directions
0It’s not just for motorists and pedestrians anymore: Microsoft’s online map tool gets its first ability to route people by bus, subway, and rail.
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Wall Street firm: Netflix, Google to pressure cable
0Credit Suisse says younger people turning to Netflix and dropping cable. Streaming Web video from Apple and Google also threaten cable companies.
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