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Ok let me see if I have this straight: 2005 Release – Microsoft Live Communications Server (aka – LCS)2007 Release – Microsoft Office Communications Server (aka – OCS)2010 Release – Microsoft Lync (aka – Launching Your Next Communicator?) BINGO! I mean Turkey! I mean…? Looks like the Marketing team over at Microsoft has once again found a reason for their existence. They must really be getting desperate these days! Just pick a name and STICK to it....

Microsoft Teams Free The free version of Teams is available now and doesn’t require you to be an Office 365 subscriber. In fact, you don’t even need a Microsoft account to sign up; any email address will get you started. The free version is aimed at small to mid-size businesses and can be used by groups of up to 300 people. It includes unlimited chat and message search, unlimited app integrations, audio and video conference calling, 10GB of team storage plus an additional 2GB per person for personal storage, and a lot more....

Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students. I’ve talked a lot of ways that Apple needs to improve its education offering in recent weeks....

The Mandalorian director and star Taika Waititi knows Baby Yoda’s real name but won’t reveal it. Season one of the Disney+ show following the exploits of the titular Mandalorian bounty hunter recently wrapped up, and there’s no question the break out star was the tiny green alien dubbed “Baby Yoda” by the internet. Of course, on the show Baby Yoda was always referred to as The Child or The Asset, leaving the character’s real name a mystery....

At the first-ever Supermanila Pop Culture Convention in the Philippines, Marvel TV fans launched a petition on behalf of Filipina superhero Wave. Marvel Comics introduced Wave in May 2019 in the first issue of War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1. In her short comics history, Wave has appeared alongside other Asian superheroes including Shang Chi and The Totally Awesome Hulk. Wave was designed by comics writer Greg Pak and Filipino artist Leinil Francis Yu....

This February, Marvel’s relaunched X-Men are about to collide with the Fantastic Four. Marvel Comics is conducting a high-profile relaunch of the X-Men, helmed by legendary comic book writer Jonathan Hickman, and it’s seen the mutants abandon Xavier’s Dream once and for all. The entire mutant race are settling on the mutant nation of Krakoa, pursuing a far more isolationist philosophy than ever before. The world’s superheroes seem unsure what to make of this new status quo....

Matt Damon is one of the most accomplished screen actors of his generation. The Oscar-winning writer of Good Will Hunting has been nominated four additional times as an actor. Throughout his career, he has worked with the very best film directors, from Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese to Ridley Scott and the Coen Brothers. Under the direction of James Mangold, Damon is now set to burn up the screen opposite Christian Bale in Ford v....

As Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to trudge along, many fans are eager to see the long-awaited arrival of Marvel’s First Family in Fantastic Four. The film currently doesn’t have a release date and recently lost its director when John Watts stepped down. However, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness shocked audiences when John Krasinski cameoed as Earth-838’s Mister Fantastic. Whether that means he will be playing the role in the main continuity on Earth-616 or it was a just a fun cameo, like his fellow Illuminati members, this reignited fans’ passion and interest in seeing the Fantastic Four soon, with some taking to Reddit to share their theories for how the team could be integrated and utilized....

In Netflix’s new comedy series Medical Police, Erinn Hayes and Rob Huebel lead a cast that includes numerous other actors reprising their roles from the Adult Swim short-form series Childrens Hospital. This spinoff focuses on two doctors who secretly work undercover as special government agents. Medical Police season 1 begins in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as Dr. Lola Spratt and Dr. Owen Maestro serve an American expatriate community. After a deadly virus threatens to take over the world, they’re recruited by the CDC’s covert operations team known as G932....

Although it’s highly unlikely to see football matches on three iPhones linked to one another, there are high chances that someone would really use a tablet linked to a smartphone at his workplace or say, for gaming. How exactly the Pinch interface works? Well, Pinch was developed more out of curiosity and ingenuity by a research group at the Tokyo University of Technology, to help developers construct applications that can be shared between several screens and that can work with a symbiosis of smart mobiles....

The first set of eye glasses with embedded iBeacon Bluetooth LE technology and certified under Apple’s Made-for-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) program are coming soon. We’ve seen a growing number of companies embracing iBeacons by using the protocol: personalized retail experiences, in-store advertising, audience interaction at events, as well as apps that let you setup your own iBeacons at home and work. Now, a company called Tzukuri is about to launch a crowd funding project for the new eye glasses that use an embedded iBeacon to track lost glasses with accuracy to the nearest foot....

The New York Times reported that Microsoft Windows head Steven Sinofsky has left the Redmond-based company after a “mutual decision by Mr. Sinofsky and Steven A. Ballmer.” Julie Larson-Green will take over Sinofsky’s position. Microsoft described the departure of Mr. Sinfosky, a 23-year veteran of the company, as a mutual decision by Mr. Sinofsky and Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of the company. Julie Larson-Green, another Microsoft veteran in its Windows division, will take over the leadership of all engineering responsibilities related to Windows....

A note on the Mac Mojo blog on the Mac BU site says: “We are hard at work planning for products beyond Office 2008, and we are growing our team to help turn our vision into reality. We offer the feel of a small company with a strong team culture of innovation, creativity, and creating great user experiences.” Microsoft is hiring for multiple roles (Program Managers, Developers, Testers, User Experience, and Marketing) based in Redmond and in Silicon Valley....

The second season finally came out of our favorite serial killer binge: Mindhunter. By now, you’re more than familiar with Bill Tench and Holden Ford, right? Maybe you’re Team Bill and maybe you’re Team Holden, or maybe you realize that they both have their triumphs and downfalls. However, it is safe to say that Bill has some of the best quotes - whether they are sarcastic and hilarious or wise and deep....

Missing Link grabbed the world’s interest when it won the award for Best Animated Feature at the 77th Annual Golden Globes, beating out three Disney films and a DreamWorks movie. For those who hadn’t seen it, the win came as a total surprise; Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4 fans were shocked that the prize wasn‘t theirs. Now that more eyes are on the LAIKA studio film, perhaps it is appropriate to pinpoint ways in which the movie both met and subverted expectations....

This is going to be a comparison from a watcher’s perspective. I’m going to be covering which streaming platform I enjoy using, and why I believe one is better than the other Some Background Mixer was founded by Matthew Salsamendi and James Boehm and launched 4 years ago (January 5, 2016). This streaming service is currently owned and run by Microsoft. At the time of writing this currently, there are 22 thousand streams with 57 thousand viewers....

The popular MLB.com At Bat app has been updated today for the 2014 season and Spring Training with a complete redesign alongside new features and content. The updated app’s UI has been given a complete overhaul and redesign for iOS 7 on both iPhone and iPad, and new content starts with over 200 Spring Training games available as live video or radio broadcasts. The redesign offers a new inline video playback experience and the app now has “league-wide scoreboard functionality for single-tap expansion....

Smartphone forensic is relatively new and quickly emerging field of interest within the digital forensic community and law enforcement, today’s mobile devices are getting smarter, cheaper and more easily available for common daily use. Mobile forensic is a set of scientific methodologies with the goal of extracting digital evidence (in general) in a legal context, extracting digital evidence means recovering, gathering and analyzing data stored within the internal memory of a mobile phone....

James Wan’s next film has officially been christened with the title Malignant. Malignant will be the tenth film to be helmed by Wan, many of which have been horror films. So it’s no wonder that New Line Cinema has put their newest horror property in Wan’s capable hands. Wan, who cut his teeth writing and directing the first Saw movie, went on to provide numerous contributions to the Conjuring cinematic universe....

Why do we need Management of Release and Cycles in ALM? In reality, when a product development happens, there are various release for a particular product Each release is broken down into a number of cycles. Let’s say we have got 2 releases with each having 2 cycles of development and testing for Guru99 banking application. Each Release has also a predefined scope and milestone associated with it. For each cycle there is a specific number of requirements....