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Ideas for organizing your media

Several new projects and ideas emerged from Microsoft's TechFest 2008 to help streamline people's media intake. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has some of the highlights from the event, including a political blog aggregator and an application that can search your music library.

Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, music players, search engine, translation, bill gates, seattle, redmond

Videos 2008-03-18

Hands-on mapping from Microsoft

Imagine a mobile device with front and back touch-screen sensitivity to better navigate a map. What about a software program that allows you to plot your journeys and share them with a friend? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on two mapping ideas that debuted at Microsoft's Techfest 2008 in Redmond,...

Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, maps, kara tsuboi, redmond, seattle

Videos 2008-03-14

Making bad pictures great

With a few clicks of the mouse, bad photos can become great ones, according to Microsoft researchers. At Techfest 2008 in Redmond, Wash., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi demoed two new photo programs that can turn any amateur picture-taker into a professional photographer.rnrn

Tags: microsoft, photography, photoshop, techfest 2008, kara tsuboi

Videos 2008-03-10

Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope

Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope, a virtual map of outer space, is within months of its public debut. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with the space exploration program's founder, Curtis Wong, and shares video of what these celestial tours will look like.

Tags: kara tsuboi, microsoft, techfest 2008, redmond, space, worldwide telescope, stars, planets, astronomy

Videos 2008-03-05

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Touring Microsoft's science fair

Walking around TechFest 2008, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie talks to News.com's Ina Fried about the latest from Redmond's labs and where the company is placing its bets these days.

Tags: microsoft techfest 2008, redmond, seattle, bill gates, steve ballmer, ina fried, research and development

Videos 2008-03-11

Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface

Microsoft's touch-sensitive tabletop is about to get a spherical makeover. Microsoft officials have been talking up the company's plans to introduce more consumer-focused form factors of its Surface multi-touch tabletop. They've said future iterations of Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch technology will be available as part of next-generation PCs,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Form Factor, Surface, Games, Construction, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Want a peek at a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft?

Want to see what a non-Windows-based operating system developed by Microsoft looks like? If you are willing and able to sign a non-commercial, academic Shared Source license, look no further. Microsoft on March 4 made the few-hundred-thousand lines of source code for Singularity Version 1 available for...

Tags: Researcher, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Singularity, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-04