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Hi… have you seen this http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_melds_game_show_with_video_game_in_bid_for_more_ads_53936297.html ?? This might be the biggest thing since the invention of TV some days ago. In the recent past TV suffered from its uni-directional
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Hi… (this time in German) In der FTD von Freitag konnte man unter „Heiter bis wolkig“ (S.30) ein Zitat von Richard Stallmann lesen „Cloud Computing ist Dummheit. Es ist eine Marketing-Hype-Kampagne“. Ich verkneife mir hier mal zu wiederholen was die Mehrheit
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Hi… remember the “IT doesn’t matter” article of 2003 (see http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html )?? That time it shocked the whole IT world. The real fear behind that was the guts feeling: it might be true somehow. Well, it is true somehow.
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Hi… I have a very special idea around marketing. Maybe this is a result of being a technical guy and having to deep dive into marketing. History of Marketing For me marketing is more than advertizing. When marketing started beginning last century it was
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Hi... if you ever wanted to play a bit with multitouch... well you only need a webcam to do so. You can find the SDK, some demos and stuff here http://www.codeplex.com/touchless/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=17986 The Project is called touchless
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Hi… today we received a load of boxes for the MTC (for more on the MTC see here http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcmuc/default.aspx (in German)). Since the MTC is a showroom for us and for some of our partners we are pleased to welcome lots of customers and partners
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Hi… it is an often repeated prejudice that PowerPoint kills the art of rhetoric. Well, there is certainly a truth in that. One might argue if it is PowerPoint’s fault but I also observe that (especially in business meetings) slides are misused as reporting
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Hi… since 2003 we have a research and development facility in Aachen here in Germany. It is called EMIC and Lori just visited those guys to get a glimpse of what they do. You can find the videos on Channel9 in Lori’s section: http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Lori/
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Hi... like last years there is a PC Design competition going on right now. One of the ideas I like a lot is the Backpacker's Diary: Next-Gen PC Design | Home CU 0xff
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Hi... this paper might contain some explosives: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-167.pdf The basic idea is "The platform aims to enable selling digital content by any- one, anywhere, and anytime"... ??? The system works by having two trusted
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Hi... Microsoft Research and Microsoft adCenter recently announced the 20 winners in an Award called "Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics Awards" . The award had rewards around a million US$. (not that bad). http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/beyondSearchAwards.aspx
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Hi... ok, I must admit it took me quite a while to get it. After reading the documentation I found THE sentences to define it in a few words right on the landing page: The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier
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Hi... <Quote> "...The transistor's minimum layout dimension were about 10 micrometers 40 years ago, and are less then 50 nanometers today, smaller by a factor of more than 200. Suppose 1960s transistor was as big as a three-bedroom house and that
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Hi... researchers made a "transistor" able to use a single photon (input) to amplify a stream of light (output). This sounds like nothing special first but it could open the door for faster and less power consuming computers. http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5497
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Hi... we all know services (like Hotmail for example) which require to identify the person behind the client to be a human being. I would call it a Turing test, others call it a CAPTCHA (Complete Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
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