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HOUSTON, TX–Microsoft has released a collection of virtualization products that the company says demonstrates its interest in capturing the server virtualization market.

During his keynote Wednesday at Microsoft’s 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference here, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, said the company intends to capture the vast majority of servers that are not running virtualization technology.

To that end, Kelly announced a set of new virtualization products, starting with the company’s hypervisor virtualization system, Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008, that is available via Windows Update.

He added that Hyper-V would cost a third of that offered by competitor, VMware.

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Google has said it is using face blurring technology to preserve the privacy of individuals photographed.

“In our view they need a person’s consent if they make use of a person’s face for commercial ends,” Simon Davies, of Privacy International.

Street View has already been launched in the US and includes photos of streets in major American cities. Photographing of areas in the UK, including London, is believed to have started last week.

Via BBC

Spb Software, the leading Windows Mobile applications vendor will host its fifth annual Spb Day conference on August 9th in St. Petersburg, Russia. Spb Day is a user-friendly, local Windows Mobile community get-together, where users, developers, media, device manufacturers, and mobile operators gather to exchange mobility views and ideas in an informal setting. This year’s Spb Day participants will enjoy each other’s company, discuss the newest mobile devices and technologies, and be among the first to play with Spb’s latest mobile entertainment products.

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Google has released lively a browser plugin to express yourself in a more fun way, with 3D graphics and real-time avatar.(Applies to windows only)

The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the web.the product is to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the web.

To visit lively Click here

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