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- Sheraton Club Lounge: Another Surface Demo (Photos: Microsoft's First Public Demo of Surface)
- Sheraton Club Lounge: Another Surface Demo (Photos: Microsoft's First Public Demo of Surface)Watch the Mac zealot crowdI bet they claim that MS saw that the iPhone was coming out and immediately created the Surface Table in response to it. That actually might be a compliment. They are basically admitting that...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft First, Sheraton, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-06-09
- Microsoft provides first public demo of the Surface tabletop
- On Saturday, June 9, at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Microsoft let the public see, touch and test-drive the Surface interactive tabletop system that the company unveiled at the end of May.Surface -- the product formerly codenamed "PlayTable," and later "Milan" -- is a hardware-software bundle that Microsoft...
- Tags: Vista, Research, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-09
- Corporate marketers to 48 million Internet users: 'share your stories'
- Web 2.0 Social Web start-ups, move over. From hotel chains to sports broadcasters, established top tier corporate marketers are aiming for the Social Web.Sheraton Hotels & Resorts is no longer a hotel booking site, it is a “global community” where travelers can “connect with others.” In the Fall, the sports...
- Tags: Sheraton
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
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- Surface tabletops debut at select Sheratons
- Nine or more months later than expected, the first Microsoft Surface tabletops have gone live inside select Sheraton hotels. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Surface, Sheraton Hotels, Productivity, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Hotel Improves Guest Experience and Revenue Through Innovative Use of Technology
- Located in downtown Philadelphia, Sheraton University City Hotel is in the midst of a major university and business center served by several hotels. To stay competitive, the hotel continuously improves the amenities that it offers its customers. The hotel wanted to provide more than just Internet service; it wanted to...
- Tags: Revenue, Hotel, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Microsoft Surface tabletops delayed until spring 2008
- If you were holding your breath for the first Microsoft touch-screen tabletops, originally due to debut in November in selected Sheraton hotels, Harrah's casinos, and T-Mobile retail locations, you can exhale now. Microsoft is delaying delivery of the first Surface shipments until spring 2008, officials told News.com...
- Tags: T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Surface, Keyboards, Tools & Techniques, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Components, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Niagara Falls Cams (widget)
- Four live views of the world famous Niagara Falls, from the top of the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel and Conference Centre. Included are local traffic cams and surrounding cams spotlighting the Niagara area. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Niagara Falls
- Software downloads 2007-07-24
- For business uses, Second Life is a fad and a crock
- The Los Angeles Times reports that some companies that have opened virtual presences on Second Life have closed their virtual doors or are letting them rot through lack of attention.We're talking Dell, Best Buy Geek Squad Sun Microsystems, American Apparel, Starwood Hotels (Westin, Sheraton, etc.) In fact, that's the Los...
- Tags: Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-07-15
- Photos: Microsoft's First Public Demo of Surface
- On Saturday, June 9, at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Microsoft allowed the public to get its first taste of Surface, the digital interactive table it rolled out at the end of last month.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-09
- Rochester Hyatt's outsourcing of WiFi to T-Mobile is unforgivable
- Rochester Hyatt's outsourcing of WiFi to T-Mobile is unforgivableWhat were you thinkingYour First mistake was thinking that Rochester was a Hi-Tech town, being originally from the area I can for a fact that it really isn't that hi-tech of a town, hence the reason I'm not located in the area...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, outsourcing, T-Mobile, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Part 2 of passage to India - New Delhi transforming from government to IT
- [This is an account of my first trip to India, traveling as a guest of Tibco Software, an SVW sponsor. Vivek Ranadive, the CEO of Tibco is launching his business IT strategy book "The Power to Predict" in India, and he invited me to come along as he meets with politicians...
- Tags: Mr Ranadive, information technology, TIBCO Software Inc., Vivek Ranadive
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- The run-up to a make-or-break moment
- Preparing to present at DEMO is a psychological marathon. You get six minutes, including all the time you have to get up onto the stage after Chris Shipley introduces you, getting your product to do its dance and explaining it to the audience, as well as gracefully wrapping up the...
- Tags: DEMO
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Fortune 500 target Social Web: investing millions in 'boring' Internet
- For Mark Cuban, “The Internet is Boring. Its old news.” For America’s Fortune 500 mega-corporations, however, today’s Social Web is the “coolest” thing around.As I discuss in “Corporate marketers to 48 million Internet users: 'share your stories'”:Web 2.0 Social Web start-ups, move over. From hotel chains to sports broadcasters, established...
- Tags: Social Web
- Blog posts 2006-07-13
- Lengthy Heathrow logistics
- This morning I experienced what Londontravellers have been grappling with for two weeks -- changes in securityprocesses at Heathrow have resulted in lengthy queues for security. Iwaited over 50 minutes to pass through security at T-2, along with manyother grumpy fliers.Two things struck me...
- Tags: queue
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- New WMF vulnerabilities
- Remember my loooong blog posting about weldng in the ship yard? See Tip of the Iceberg) How one pin hole in a weld led to the discovery of a sponge of metal holding two joints together?Well following in the usual path new vulns in the way Windows interprets...
- Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Windows Metafile, WMF vulnerability
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
- Head in the clouds
- There are indeed days where I feel likemy headis in the clouds, but yesterdayit was quite literally so, and what a view.Of course, I can't say what customerI was visiting in London's Canary Wharf, but this was the view out theconference room window. It's...
- Tags: VLM, Canary Wharf
- Blog posts 2005-12-09
- Cyberterror 'overhyped,' security guru says
- Cyberterror 'overhyped,' security guru saysO RLY?Terrorists win.Again.You see, the problem with smoke and mirrors is that you can set up such an elaborate system, only to have the smoke blow right back in your face by a guy with a $3.99 battery-powered fan.And a terrorist with a stolencredit card number...
- Tags: Homeland security, Sales channel, Internet, network, security, Cyberterror
- Discussion threads 2005-11-23
- The STIENNON Fall Road Show reprinted
- Get the T-Shirt! Or, attend one of these meetings and I will sign your very own copy of the State of Spyware Report! September 15.CSO Executive Discussion Series on Privacy. San Francisco Hilton. September 23 IBM Global Services Breakfast Seminar,Waltham, MA. October 6th. Keynote address at...
- Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Hyatt Hotels & Resorts
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- The STIENNON Fall '05 Road Show
- Get the T-Shirt! Or, attend one of these meetings and I will sign your very own copy of the State of Spyware Report! September 15.CSO Executive Discussion Series on Privacy. San Francisco Hilton. September 23 IBM Global Services Breakfast Seminar,Waltham, MA. October 6th. Keynote address at...
- Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Hyatt Hotels & Resorts
- Blog posts 2005-09-12
- Starwood moves to SOA
- Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. is investing heavily in the promise of SOA. The company, which controls 750 properties around the world (including Sheraton, Westin and the "W"), is migrating its reservation and Preferred Guest applications away from a Cobol-based, IBM mainframe system. Starwood's biggest act is...
- Tags: Starwood, Starwood Hotels, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-07-25
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