January, 2009

The recent beta announcement that Microsoft has made around Microsoft Tag has certainly sparked my interest. It offers the ability for you to embed 2D barcodes in to physical objects – examples of use magazine articles / billboards / packaging /products...

Like Ted I have largely missed these insightful talks. Were it not for a recent road-trip I would have missed the Boyer Lectures as recorded by ABC Radio. The lecture I found riveting was The future of newspapers: moving beyond dead trees by Rupert Murdoch...

Short story: Build 7000 works just fine. MBP better than MacMini Today the Windows 7 Beta was made available/announced (you can view the CES webcast here ), to select audiences. Even to Microsoft employees its been held back. This has created some anticipation...

I've blogged previously about these but now they are updated to Silverlight 2.0 RTM. For Banking: http://www.bankingwithxaml.com/woodgrovefinancial/woodgrovebank.html For Insurance: http://www.snowdencole.com:3347/default.aspx For Capital Markets: http...

The BMW Product Navigator employs Microsoft's Surface to assist potential customers to hand-pick options.

I was reading the other day a marketing site and found this interesting slide on purchasing intent. Although this is predominantly with respect to measuring online performance, I think its a good way of looking and analysing whether I'm doing a good job...

I watch a fair bit of cinema and unless you are truelly unaware of product placement you would have noticed like me that apple pops up quite regularly. Then I watched the Day the Earth Stood Still and it featured some Windows Logo and Microsoft Surface...

  Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas for 2009(thanks to Gartner, Oct 2008) Related Microsoft Approach 1. Virtualization All lineup(Thin-Application-Server) 2. Cloud Computing Azure service BPOS 3. Servers: Beyond Blades Hardware oriented 4. Web-Oriented...

Inspired by Windows 7 beta I saw today and the superb USB drive encryption I thought I'd post some links on BitLocker. BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732725.aspx My likes for BitLocker to go...

I accidentally stumbled upon the updated Digital Locked aka Microsoft Store . From here I found out about intriguing AutoCollage 2008 While I was there I noticed some nifty compatibility site for Windows Vista – pretty useful.   I also came across...

A pet project over the Christmas break was to do a low cost outdoor cinema. Thanks to ebay cheap projector and basic 100” screen and some X-Minimax speaker I had something working well. The speakers, for the size are jaw droppingly good, so I thought...