Google AdSense has introduced two new "page-level" ad formats that only display on high-end mobile devices. The new formats are considered beta at this time. The new formats are anchor/overlay ads and vignette ads. Google explains that the new formats do not count towards your 3 ads/page limit and are optimized to help increase revenue for mobile-optimized sites. Anchor … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
Google Summer of Code 2016 projects
Google Summer of Code has been around since 2005. In the program, Google partners with open source software projects and technology-based groups to fund students interested in working on real world software development for three months. Students gain good experience and advice from mentors. The organizations get specific projects or features developed while increasing the … [Read more...]
Dropbox demo of Project Infinite
Dropbox showed off a preview of an upcoming Dropbox feature. It will allow people to use their familiar operating system file explorer to see all of the content that they have access to without having to have a local copy on their hard drive. The cloud icon will indicate that you can open the file and stream it from the Internet. Alternatively, if you want to ensure that you … [Read more...]
Microsoft fighting WSUS problems with Windows Update KB3148812
If you manage Windows Server Update Services for your organization, particularly with WSUS running on Windows Server 2012 R2, you might have been following the fun since last week's non-security update release of updates on April 19th. KB3148812 was released that day to "enable Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to natively decrypt Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) in … [Read more...]
Microsoft provides free resources for IT Pros to shift careers to the cloud
Last week, Microsoft announced an impressive collection of free resources that they are providing to IT professionals in order to help make the transition to an IT career in the cloud. The resources were presented on Microsoft's Server & Cloud Blog where they also quoted statistics like: There is a significant opportunity for IT professionals to adopt the cloud. IDC … [Read more...]