Category Archives: General

instagramdown: Instagramm is down – worldwide

Posted on 2019-06-14 by guenni

The Instagram platform, which belongs to Facebook and on which people can post photos, is currently unavailable worldwide. Something serious must have happened.

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Microsoft closes Mixed Reality Studio in Berlin

Posted on 2019-06-11 by guenni

It was just a short episode that Microsoft did there in Berlin. The Mixed Reality Studio in Berlin is closed after 2 1/2 years, 10 employees have to look for a new job.

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Copyright take down for Microsoft Youtube video

Posted on 2019-05-30 by guenni

Gotcha: That went pretty stupid. Microsoft uploaded a video with a presentation to YouTube. And suddenly the video was blocked because of suspected copyright violation.

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Google suspends cooperation with Huawei

Posted on 2019-05-20 by guenni

Google (and other US companies) has suspended cooperation with chinese device manufacturer Huawei – due to a measure based on sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

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May 1st: Labor day

Posted on 2019-05-01 by guenni

Today we have May 1st, and here in Germany is Labor day. I spend the day on a long walk in sunny weather – it’s spring time here in Germany– had some barbecue – and enjoyed a nearly perfect day … Continue reading →

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BUILD 2019 Agenda

Posted on 2019-04-30 by guenni

Microsoft has released the complete agenda of all sessions of it’s BUILD 2019 developer conference. BUILD 2019 starts at Mai 6. 2019. More details may be found here.

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Microsoft restores deleted Technet- and MSDN-Blogs

Posted on 2019-04-21 by guenni

[German]After massive protests, Microsoft seems to be rethinking and trying to restore the blog posts that were deleted on Technet and MSDN during the hiring of employee blogs.

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Blog has been down

Posted on 2019-04-11 by guenni

Just a short note to my blog readers. All my blogs at borncity.com has been unreachable on Wednesday April 10, 2019. The reason: My provider had blocked my web package due to heavy traffic.

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Bye, bye Google+

Posted on 2019-04-03 by guenni

The social network Google+ has been history since yesterday, when public user accounts were deleted on April 2, 2019. The end of a short excursion in which Google wanted to compete with Facebook.

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Google I/O will be held from May 7, till 9, 2019

Posted on 2019-01-27 by guenni

Google holds a developer conference once a year, the Google I/O. Traditionally, this takes place in May. Now the date for 2019 has been announced.

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