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Retro fun: Tom Brokaw Introduces the Internet
Great clip from The Daily Tube :  Remember life before Facebook, Twitter, what about before ‘the internet’?  Tom Brokaw introduces America to the Internet --- including an exchange with Bill Gates --- during the early 1990s. Read More...
Technical Mom Picture Time: Mom’s with O’Reilly Books
Pictures of technical moms with their pictures are starting to arrive!  Check them out at: http://oreilly.com/go/techmoms O’Reilly is collecting pictures of Technical Moms for their O’Reilly Mother’s Day Page and discount.  Take a pic with your Read More...
Technical Mom Picture Time: Send in Pics with O’Reilly Books
O’Reilly is collecting pictures of Technical Moms for their O’Reilly Mother’s Day Page and discount.  Take a pic with your O’Reilly books and send it into press@oreilly.com .  They plan to post a picture page of technical mom’s with their books. Read More...
Microsoft Student Partners Demonstrate Technologies They Love
Microsoft Student Partners in the US had a Demo-off to create videos of coolest technologies that they love, from desktop to Visual Studio features here are some of the top entries. o Vista Sidebar - PC Marie and Nerdy Ned demonstrate how to use Windows Read More...
O’Reilly Offers Mother’s Day Discounts on Technical Books
In just 24 hours, O’Reilly responds to my tweet for mother’s day discounts on technical books !  Give a technical book for Mother’s day using the code MDAYT for 40% discount at http://oreilly.com . What are you getting for the technical women in Read More...
Challenge: Technical Books Discounts for Technical Moms
My challenge to you :  What discounts can you offer for technical moms on Mother’s Day to tell the Women in Tech Story? On Thursday I had a fantastic interaction on Twitter with Tim O’Reilly , co-author of the upcoming Twitter Book , founder and Read More...
LEGO Rock Band Video Game Announced
An awesome combination of LEGO ® and Rock Band ® , check out this announcement. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090421005517&newsLang=en “LEGO Rock Band combines the multiplayer music experience of Read More...
NASA Images Coming to WorldWide Telescope
NASA Images Coming to WorldWide Telescope CNET - March 25, 2009 Large volumes of high-resolution images and other planetary data from NASA will soon become easier to access, thanks to a new partnership with Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope. Read More...
Microsoft Research TechFest Videos
Microsoft research hosts an event called TechFest to show off the cool things they are doing.  Check out some of videos from TechFest .   New innovations and cool technologies being shown at TechFest 2009. Back-of-Device Touch Input This demo Read More...
Windows 7 Links
The buzz around Windows 7 continues to grow with great new features like AeroShake , integration with IE8, ISO Burning and more. My favorite Vista feature was the Start Menu. I love being able to open the start medallion and type a filename or program. Read More...
Are You Certifiable
You may be a tech whiz…but ‘Are You Certifiable?!?’  Have you ever considered taking a certification exam?  Here’s your chance to practice, in a super fun way.  Choose an avatar, select your expertise, and pit yourself against a worldwide Read More...
The History of Microsoft
<snip>  Thirty-four years ago, a nineteen year old kid and his twenty-two year old business partner sold their first program to a little computer company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was called BASIC, and it was the start of this Read More...
Seadragon Mobile Releases for iPhone
Microsoft Live Labs released a demonstration of Seadragon Mobile, http://livelabs.com/seadragon-mobile for its first mobile platform, the iPhone.  Microsoft Live Labs has been experimenting with Seadragon technology on different platforms to validate Read More...
SlideShare Office 2007 Plugin
From http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/slideshare-sends-powerpoint-to-the-cloud-with-new-plugin/ :  SlideShare , a startup that we’ve likened to a YouTube equivalent for PowerPoint presentations , has released a new plugin for Microsoft Office Read More...
Silverlight 2 is Now Available
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