This week Bytes by MSDN and TechZulu bring to you Jeffrey Palermo.  Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems. Jeffrey specializes in Agile management coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. He is instrumental in the Austin software community as a member of AgileAustin and a director of the Austin .NET…continue reading.

Google Reader users might salute the release of version 0.5 of Speed Reader, a Google Reader client for Windows Mobile Professional 5 and above, .NET Compact Framework v3.5 enabled. Quote from the release notes: V0.5 – May 17, 2009 -Implemented Mirabyte Touch UI for finger friendly lists and scrolling -Fixed bug where Google API token…continue reading.

  Google Maps and its Street View project have pulled out one of the most basic of all forms of transport to bring the most detailed mapping and filming of storefronts, houses, people and streets … the tricycle. In order to get to those public places which cars cannot, like busy tourist areas and small…continue reading.

  Many of you may know StumbleUpon as the website that randomly drops you into sites of your personal interest.  Well did you know that some of those sites could be planted Advertisements?  Well according to StumbleUpon they are highly targeted ads that are relevant to your stumbles.  On the Publisher side, However, it can…continue reading.

Google is now expanding its map-based, location-aware service Latitude beyond the the Latitude destination in new ways with a public location sharing badge for third party sites and other apps that incorporate location. The first of those other apps is Google Talk. In the first example, Google has enabled those already signed up for Latitude…continue reading.

Google Apps can now be linked with corporate data behind the firewall, through the Google Secure Data Connector. the tool allows developers to create applications that allow various Google Apps to access corporate databases. The Secure Data Connector is just one of multiple enhancements to the Google App Engine that were announced this week. For…continue reading.

Just over a year since it implemented AdSense for Video, Google announced that it will soon be stopping the said AdSense program by the end of April.  According to the Inside AdSense blog, the decision was made after a careful review of the program which they found out was not creating the impact that Google…continue reading.

CellFrog just announce their syncing capabilities with your google accounts.  I just tried it out and it worked seamlessly.  Originally when CellFrog was first made public they had Plaxo syncing capabilities from the start.  The thing was that all of my contacts were in google, so manually entering all of my contacts to make a…continue reading.

Google has just release a new tool called Google Sync, a service that syncs your Google Contacts and Calendar wirelessly to your iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, or Windows Mobile phone or any phone that supports the SyncML format with your Google Calendar and Gmail contacts Google used a patent from Microsoft to get the sync to…continue reading.

Mark Mathson of Keenpath noticed an offline access button in his Google Calendar yesterday. As you would expect, the service uses Google Gears, which means you’ll need to either install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer or use Google Chrome, which has it built in. To find out whether Google’s ready to let you read…continue reading.