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Everyone in the IT world will identify IBM as one of the Open Source supporters in the world, along with other companies such as Sun, Red Hat, Zend, etc. IBM strategy in Open Source world has even become research materials for books discussing open source and user-driven community. One of the books is “Wikinomics: how [...]

As part of Windows 7 Launch series of events, Microsoft run a Windows 7 Certification Hero program. The program offers interesting benefits for IT professionals who passed Windows 7 certification. Here are details about the benefits:

The program run from 15 September until 18 November 2009
Eligible for exam 70-680 MCTS Windows 7 Configuring
77 people who passed [...]

Windows 7 is officially launched yesterday, 22 October 2009, worldwide, including in Indonesia. The launch in Indonesia is done with the media at Hard Rock Cafe. I’m proud to be one of the person involved in presenting demos of this great product to journalists
After the launch, Windows 7 is officially available in all [...]

Finally, I can start playing with wireless network at home
In our new house in Bintaro, we got 1-year package of Telkom Speedy connection as part of the house purchase. After waiting for 3 months, finally Speedy reached our house 2 weeks ago. Bintaro Jaya already provided the ADSL modem, but the plain [...]

Simple API for Cloud Application Services (or in short Simple Cloud API) was recently launched by Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Zend and a few other companies. This project allows PHP developers to write simple cloud applications which will run smoothly across major cloud platforms, including Windows Azure.
This project adds to the long list of Microsoft’s [...]

Microsoft recently launched Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), which provided real-time protection for home computers against viruses, spywares and other malicious software. MSE is free for download from Microsoft Security Essentials website.
MSE uses the same technology as the other Microsoft enterprise-scale security product: Forefront Client Security (FCS). However, MSE is created with a very simple [...]

Microsoft has launched Zune HD in 2 editions: 16 GB and 32 GB. All features and full specifications can be found at Zune HD official website. Customers can even order a special edition which can be personalized with artist design and engraved text. It’s time to ask friends coming from US to bring one [...]

Lately, more and more countries do random laptop check when we come in to or go out of that country. It happens more frequently now, especially in the US or UK. The border inspectors, directly or indirectly, have the rights to search the content of our laptop, and we are forced to open the laptop [...]

For Linux users that all this time cannot access Kompas ePaper, the developer team has come up with an Alpha version that runs on Moonlight. In other word, this ePaper can run on Linux. We need help from all of you Linux users to test this Alpha version and give feedbacks if you find [...]

Here are a few new eBooks (in Indonesian language) from INDC (Indonesia .Net Developer Community):

Building Your Own Portal with DotNetNuke by Ahmad Masykur
ASP.NET and jQuery by Reza Faisal
.NET Application Framework by Ari Yanto

Enjoy!