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Your morning update: Daily News - Microsoft tops new Brand-Like-Me survey, while Apple too cool for school

Wednesday, January 08, 2014 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com   View online 08 January 2014 Advertisements "45 Database Performance Tips for Developers" Improve your application database performance with 45 tips from SQL Server MVPs and industry experts. Polish your table indexes, love your ORMs, master efficient queries - and get your DBA to buy you a beer. Get the eBook here. USB and HID with Plantronics Plantronics devices use HID descriptors as a way to inform host devices of the USB capabilities plugged into it. For an example of how to code using these features with a Blackwire 320 from Plantronics, check out this blog post: Accessing USB devices via HID. SpreadsheetGear 2012 for .NET Now Available! New WPF and Silverlight controls, multithreaded recalc, 64 new Excel compatible functions, save to XPS, improved efficiency and performance, Windows 8 support and more. Download your fully functional SpreadsheetGear trial Today! Industry News Intel officially announces dual OS support, many devices running both Windows and Android coming in 2014 "Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice" Source: Microsoft News Meet Edison, Intel's tiny plan to power the next generation of wearables If the computer is the size of an SD card, where do I insert the SD card? Source: Read Write John McAfee 'elated' at Intel's decision to drop his name from security software "I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet." Source: Digital Trends Microsoft tops new Brand-Like-Me survey, while Apple too cool for school "A lot of the world uses Microsoft products and people relate to it, while Apple is like a prom king or queen, beautiful but not really like us." Source: Re/code It's official: Ford CEO Alan Mulally says he won't be Microsoft's next CEO I suppose I could do a lame, "Quality is still job 1" item here, but I'll just say, "THANK you!" Source: Business Insider Developer News New release - Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces) var crashes = from my in logs where result=='boom' select my.excuse; Source: MSDN Blogs How Google cracked house number identification in Street View OK, Google, just go self-aware already. Source: MIT Technology Review Mobile Development Survey I survey, you survey, we all 'oy vey' for survey! Source: Smith's Point Analytics Meet the open source trio primed to topple Oracle Yeah. Good luck with that. Source: Wired Code Project Discussions - Your say! We live in the future "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." Source: CodeProject © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use Insider@codeproject.com