Month: February 2010
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Microsoft Previews What’s Next for Bing Maps
New features coming to Microsoft’s search technology include integration with Flickr photos, sick support in Streetside views for ‘indoor panoramas,’ and real-time video overlay capabilities. Microsoft demonstrated new and experimental features that it proposes adding to Bing Maps, the mapping component of its search engine technology, at the Technology, Entertainment, Design 2010 (TED2010) conference in…
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Feds push for tracking cell phones
Two years ago, page when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the “Scarecrow Bandits” that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves. CNET. Com: FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers…
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What does your browser say about you!!!
BrowserSpy.dk is the place where you can see just how much information your browser reveals about you and your system. Did you know that all websites that you visit can find out which fonts you have installed? It’s also possible to find out if you have a range of programs installed. These include Adobe Reader,…
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Think big with a gig: Google experimental fiber network
Google Plans Gigabit Fiber Internet for 50000 to 500000 homes Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, hospital streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world…
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Thinking big, being part of a team pay off for entrepreneur Alexander Muse
Dallas TX: Unconventional describes Alexander Muse. He thinks big and – for the most part – it has paid off. He helped start a half-dozen technology companies in Dallas – with creative names such as MotorSport Ranch and Big in Japan – since the late 1990s. He sold three of them for tens of millions…
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Apple vs. Google (BusinessWeek)
How the battle between Silicon Valley’s superstars will shape the future of mobile computing …When companies start to imitate one another, see it’s usually either an extreme case of flattery—or war. In the case of Google and Apple, it’s both… Read the full article at BusinessWeek.
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Partners With JAGTAG to Deliver First of Its Kind 2D Barcode Initiative
JAGTAG TO DELIVER MODEL’S VIDEOS IMMEDIATELY TO READERS’ MOBILE PHONES NEW YORK, cure Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Sports Illustrated expanded their partnership with JAGTAG to change the way readers enjoy America’s largest print media event, the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. The issue hits newsstands today and will feature JAGTAGs throughout the magazine, providing readers…
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Microsoft e-health research taps Xbox, mobile phones
IDG News Service – Microsoft is researching how gadgets like the company’s Xbox game machine, view surface computers and accelerometers in mobile phones could be used to improve health care. Some of the applications from Microsoft Research, tooth the software giant’s lab branch, more about plug into existing Microsoft products like HealthVault, a Web service…