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- Microsoft disbands its Live Labs group
- Microsoft disbands its Live Labs groupWill this...have any effect on Windows Live Essentials?Um...who knew?Did anyone outside Microsoft even know about "LiveLabs"? Related to Microsoft's "Live" products? Or what? I mean, really...this company would compete well with the federal government for ability to blow money. The only...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Live Labs, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloadsVolta and PDCI'm guessing Volta will show up again at the PDC. Dharma Shukla's Live Platform Architecture session seems to hint at it with "hybrid client/cloud scripting". I also wouldn't be surprised if a stand-alone Volta session is added at the last...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Dharma Shukla, Pocket Internet Explorer, Deepfish, Volta, WM7, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
- Microsoft has quickly and quietly killed off one of its touted Live Labs projects, as my ZDNet blogging colleague Matthew Miller recently blogged. And another of the Microsoft incubator's projects -- the Volta tookit -- is missing in action. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Volta, Live Labs, Deepfish, Windows Mobile 7, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to action
- Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to actionInternet as mirror of the physical worldSee "Mirror Worlds", David Gelernter (Oxford U. Press 1992). Published 14 years ago (!), Gelernter in "Mirror Worlds" predicted most of what you are describing, and did so in detail. Well worth reading.Oh...
- Tags: Web browsers, CSS, MSN, Mozilla Firefox, David Gelernter, Live Labs, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-26
- Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to action
- I'm at the Microsoft Search Champs in Redmond and Gary William Flake, ex Chief Scientist at Overture and now a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, has announced a new initiative called Live Labs. The Internet is now a mirror of the physical world His...
- Tags: Gary William Flake, Live Labs
- Blog posts 2006-01-26
- Microsoft taps ex-Yahoo researcher to head 'Live Labs'
- Microsoft taps ex-Yahoo researcher to head 'Live Labs'Didn't MS just sue Google for taking one of their engineer's ?NTRebirth of the reserve clauseWith only a slight expansion of the non-compete agreement, companies will be able negotiate employment exchanges. A valuable employee will some day be traded for a less...
- Tags: ex-Yahoo, Live Labs, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-26
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- News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Microsoft Live Labs shutters ThumbTack bookmarking project
- Bad experienceObviously it was just a beta project that MS got bored with. Would have been nice if they communicated this to the customers.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Microsoft Live Labs shutters ThumbTack bookmarking project
- Microsoft's Live Labs -- its MSN-Microsoft Research "mash-up" -- is closing another of its incubation projects. The latest to go is ThumbTack, a bookmarking service project. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Netbook or a cheap Compaq for students?
- Re: Netbook or cheap CompaqThe problem I see at least in my organization it is never 1:1. Sometimes I wish we could get away with a netbook or using some of our older desktop hardware for lighter 1:1 usage. We bought a small cart of Netbooks...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Compaq Computer Corp., netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear site
- Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.RE: GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear siteI do not worry, Israel does not miss around and will take care of it if they feel it is a threat, they have done it before and i am sure they will do it again. With or...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Iranian nuclear site, GeoEye, nuclear site, Deleted
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Will online education kill the university?
- More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...
- Tags: Harvard, education
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Labs look: Outlook 2010 technical preview
- Re: Send/receiveWhile you were noting that there is now no send/receive option without digging into the other ribbon tab, that send/recieve button that you so much wanted to click was a mere couple of inches left and up from your pointer.Yes, it's there, with the little two envelope icon that...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, technical preview, Outlook 2010
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Verizon Wireless Escapade
- If you wanted to use a cell phone in the U.S. and abroad, we would usually recommend you get a quad-band GSM handset if you were an AT&T or a T-Mobile customer, or a dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone if you were a Verizon Wireless or a Sprint customer. So far, the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Escapade, Verizon Wireless Escapade, Verizon Wireless, phone, display, dual-mode CDMA GSM phone, GSM
- Product reviews 2009-09-02
- Canon Vixia HG21
- The Canon Vixia HG21 is an excellent HD camcorder that's reasonably easy to operate out of the box and looks good, too. It's almost identical to the company's Vixia HF11, but rather than recording mainly to internal flash memory, it records to a hard drive. As for performance, it's as...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Flash memory, stereo microphone, Canon Inc., HG21, Vixia HF11, camcorder
- Product reviews 2009-09-01
- Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down
- RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Open source can save your life
- Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
- Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
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