The Seattle area is leading the way in bringing high-tech innovations to hotels and their guests. – As one of the
core high-tech hubs in the nation, Seattle is making a splash as a hotspot for
delivering more diversified technology experiences for the hotel industry.
With companies
such as Amazon and RealNetworks headquartered in Seattle, and Microsoft in
nearby Redmond, Wash., the area has b…
Microsoft’s week included strong early Kinect sales, the launch of its Lync 2010 unified communications platform and Office Apps with the revamped Facebook Messages. – Last week’s Windows Phone 7 launch drew attention to Microsoft’s consumer
side. But a company of Microsoft’s size necessarily has other areas of focus;
and this week, it was the business-product end of Redmond’s
operations that seemed to attract news attention.
Microsoft formally launched Lync …
Microsoft says it will make Java a first-class development language on its Windows Azure cloud platform, providing tooling support for developers via the Eclipse IDE. – REDMOND,
Wash. – Microsoft is banking on its
relationship with developers to help the company win in the cloud space, and
Java may turn out to be its secret weapon.
At
its Professional Developers
Conference (PDC) 2010 here, Amitabh Srivastava, senior vice president of
Microsoft’s Server and C…
At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2010, Microsoft put its focus on the cloud, showing developers new ways to build apps for the cloud, the desktop and the new Windows Phone 7 platform. – REDMOND,
Wash. – At its Professional Developers
Conference (PDC) 2010, Microsoft laid out its plans for how developers can
build applications for the cloud.
Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer and the companys tools president Bob Muglia showed how
Microsoft is enabling developers to build cloud apps a…
Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 with a New York City event Oct. 11, which it also used to show off some newly launched and upcoming consumer products. Chief among them: the Kinect hands-free controller for the Xbox 360, which Microsoft hopes will extend that console’s viability for a few extra years. In addition, Microsoft demonstrated more productivity-related (as opposed to alien-blasting) products, including its flexible Arc Touch Mouse and a variety of laptops running its bestselling Windows 7.
With so many of its rivals gravitating toward mobile software and hardware, Microsoft needs Windows Phone 7 to be a hit with consumers and businesspeople& and much of the table space at the Oct. 11 event seemed dedicated to Windows Phone 7 devices such as the HTC HD7. Windows Phone 7 devices from Samsung, LG Electronics and HTC will debut on AT&T’s network starting Nov. 8, with others soon to follow. Those smartphones include a "Games" hub that integrates users’ Xbox Live accounts& part of Microsoft’s strategy to offer consumers a multi-device, cloud-centric entertainment ecosystem. Will it succeed? Executives in Redmond certainly have their fingers crossed. – …
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer turned 15 years old this week. Over that time, the browser has evolved from a bare-bones application (its Version 1.0 was only 1MB in size) to a robust product that allows users to leverage the full capabilities of the Web. It also managed to seize commanding market share, trampling early competitors such as Netscape-although it now faces strong competitors such as Mozilla’s Firefox browser and Google Chrome. But that history also features its share of controversy. Microsoft Internet Explorer descended from an early Web browser named Mosaic, whose source code Microsoft licensed from a small company named Spyglass-and which later filed a lawsuit over loss of royalties, once Redmond started giving away IE for free. Internet Explorer was also at the center of the landmark United States vs. Microsoft antitrust case. Whether you use it or not, it’s hard to argue against Internet Explorer’s key role in the Internet’s evolution. – …
Has the cloud awakened a sleeping giant at Microsoft? The cloud is the future of IT, and Microsoft’s Server and Tools business has the company poised to cash in on that opportunity. Server and Tools is now Microsoft’s third-largest unit, approaching parity with Windows and Office. – REDMOND,
Wash. Has the cloud awakened a sleeping
giant at Microsoft?
Well,
as quiet at it is kept, Microsoft’s strong, steady and increasingly effective
Server and Tools Business has crept into the limelight as one of the company’s
major sources of income. It is beginning to challenge long-t…
Microsoft announces the dates for its next Professional Developers Conference (PDC): Oct. 28-29. Microsoft’s PDC 2010 will be held on the company’s Redmond, Wash., campus, and all keynotes and sessions will be Webcast for viewers who do not make it to the event. – WASHINGTON Microsoft
has announced the dates for its next Professional Developers Conference (PDC):
Oct. 28-29.
At
the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
(WPC) here on July 12, Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools
Business at Microsoft, announced that the next Microsoft PDC will…
GUITAR SHREDDING DUO HEADLINES MAJOR U.S. VENUES
This summer Rodrigo y Gabriela will headline storied venues including the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver/Boulder, CO, and Greek Theatres in LA and Berkeley (see schedule below). In the meantime the duo has a fresh video for the latest single from their the latest single from the recent release 11:11.
The beautifully shot, larger than life new video for “Hanuman” was directed by Olallo Rubio and shot in Mexico near Zihuatanejo. The video hearkens back to a particular Pink Floyd performance amidst the ruins of Pompei.
Rodrigo y Gabriela Tour Dates
AUGUST
13 – Redmond, WA – Marymoor Amphitheater
14 – Troutdale, OR – Edgefield
16 – San Diego, CA – Humphrey’s
18 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
20 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
21 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre
24 – Vienna, VA – Filene Center at Wolf Trap
26 – Boston, MA – Opera House
28 – Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival
30 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Concert Pavilion
31 – Knoxville, TN – UT Knoxville
SEPTEMBER
02 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
03 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
Rodrigo y Gabriela Tour Dates :: Rodrigo y Gabriela News :: Rodrigo y Gabriela Concert Reviews
Microsoft had something of a rough week: Salesforce.com picked an old enemy to head up its patent-infringement lawsuit against Redmond, an alleged internal slide deck detailing Windows 8 leaked to the public, and its Kin phones went bye-bye. – Microsoft did not have the best week, at least on the corporate front.
First came the appearance of an old enemy: in its
patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, Salesforce.com has
retained David Boies, who represented the Justice Department in its
historic antitrust lawsuit against the so…
A year has passed after Farrah Fawcett’s death. The whole O’Neal family, namely Redmond, Tatum and Ryan, decided to commemorate the star’s anniversary of death on Friday and visited her grave in Las Angeles. Fawcett’s son Redmond who is currently 25 years old was given one-day permit to leave a sober living institution where he [...]
Late actress Farrah Fawcett’s son was granted special leave from a sober-living facility to visit her grave for the first time on the anniversary of her death. Redmond O’Neal, who had been in jail when Fawcett passed away on June 25 last year, and who has since been admitted into a drug treatment centre in [...]
Tori Spelling had a close encounter of the third kind with late bombshell Farrah Fawcett…either that or Girlie has officially flown over the cuckoo’s nest!Fawcett lost her lengthy battle against intestinal cancer last June 25, but in life the iconic blonde was great friends with the 90210 star. Tori first met Farrah when the young [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a trip to New Delhi that despite Apple surpassing Microsoft in terms of market capitalization, his company remains the most profitable in the world. In addition to insisting on Microsofts competitive value, Ballmer also reportedly said that Windows Phone 7, the companys upcoming smartphone operating system, will indeed be released by the end of 2010. News of Apples higher market capitalization came after Microsoft announced a major shakeup of its Entertainment and Devices Division, which creates consumer products such as smartphone operating systems and the Xbox game console franchise. – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested
during a trip to New Delhi that the
surpassing of Microsofts market capitalization by Apple, while trumpeted as a
major shake-up by the media, was not a cause for concern at Redmond.
On May 26, Apples market capitalization reached $227.1 billion, based on
…
Microsoft’s week was first highlighted by the unveiling of its Kin One and Kin Two phones, aimed at a younger and social-networking-friendly demographic, before moving on to focus on more international issues. After a report on allegedly substandard conditions at the KYE factory in China, which produces a number of Microsoft products, Redmond shifted into damage-control mode by promising to send an audit team to investigate. Microsoft also announced that it would outsource its internal IT services to India-based Infosys.
– Microsofts week started off with the unveiling of its Kin
One and Kin Two phones, aimed at a younger and social-networking-happy
demographic, at a high-profile stage event in San Francisco on April 12.
Journalists in New York City followed along via live video feed, which showed
Robbie Bach, pre…
The technology industry has changed dramatically since Bill Gates left Microsoft in 2008. In a little under two years, Microsoft has gone from a company attempting to sell consumers, vendors and the enterprise on a hobbled operating system to a company that’s trying desperately to take on Google in a market where the search giant is powerful and entrenched. But it hasn’t all been bad for Microsoft. The company’s Windows 7 launch was one of its best. Its efforts in the gaming market are strong. And just as before, the company is extremely successful. But Bill Gates’ departure has certainly been felt by Microsoft. All the while, Steve Ballmer has been attempting to do right by his company’s investors as Apple, Google and the rest take aim at Redmond. Microsoft has learned some lessons since Bill Gates left. This eWEEK slide show tells what they are.
– …
-Kate Moss covers the March Fashion Issue of Harper’s Bazaar…..
-Is Usher the new King of Pop?
-One chance for the junkie son of acting vets Ryan O’Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett. Redmond O’Neal, 24, will reportedly be released from jail for the third time to attend a drug treatment center. If Redmond was anything other [...]
Microsoft’s week involved patching a number of security flaws in Internet Explorer, which were apparently exploited in a wide-ranging attack against Google and dozens of other U.S. companies, and taking its Bing Maps Silverlight site out of beta. In addition, Microsoft was rumored to be in talks with Apple to possibly use Bing as the default search engine for the iPhone, perhaps a sign of increased tensions between Google and Apple as both companies attempt to gain and hold market share in the smartphone operating system space.
– Microsoft’s week revolved around patching a number of security flaws in
Internet Explorer, and around the future of Bing.
Arguably the biggest news on the Bing front came courtesy of Apple, which
is allegedly engaged in discussions with Redmond over possibly using the search
engine as the defau…
Concerns over privacy, security and transparency in the cloud prompt Microsoft to call for upgrades in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in addition to a new law Redmond is dubbing the Cloud Computing Advancement Act that would promote innovation, protect consumers and provide the White House with the new tools needed for a new technology era.
– Microsoft called for modernizing existing statutes and new federal laws Jan. 19 to provide privacy,
security
and transparency for consumers, businesses and government migrating to
cloud computing. In addition to strengthened U.S. laws, Microsoft
General Counsel Brad Smith said cloud computing re…
Microsoft’s Muglia Clarifies Silverlight Comments
Microsoft executive Bob Muglia used a corporate blog posting to clarify comments about Silverlight he made during last week’s PDC in Redmond. – Microsoft moved to clear up some controversy surrounding its support of
Silverlight, with a top company executive assuring developers in a blog post
that the software would remain a key cross-platform solution for some time to
come. Silverlight is Microsofts development platform for rich media ap…