Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Monday Briefs!….On Tuesday
Welcome back, I hope everyone had a nice independence day! Now you can archive the internet - Seagate has just unveiled a new portable 3 TB storage device called FreeAgent GoFlex Desk . It has USB 2.0 adapter that can be upgraded to USB 3.0 or Firewire 800. Let them have bandwidth - Finland has become the first country in the world [...]
Friday Blurbs…..
Cisco's New Router: Trouble for Hollywood - Time: Cisco's CRS-3 router made a bit of a splash when it was announced on March 9, but the power of this new device hasn't yet sunk in. Consider: The CRS-3, a network routing system, is able to stream every film ever made, from Hollywood to Bombay, in under four minutes. That's right — the whole [...]
IE9 to be GPU-accelerated
Microsoft dropped a major announcement at the MIX conference today. They released the Internet Explorer 9 platform preview and along with that we learned that IE9 would be be GPU accelerator. This next version of Internet Explorer will be the first browser to be capable to handling this sort of GPGPU activity. Nvidia, Microsoft’s partner [...]
Microsoft Selects Navizon for Geolocation
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navizon Inc., (formerly Mexens Technology) today announced that the company has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp., under which Microsoft will use Navizon’s global location database to provide an enhanced experience to its mobile users. "This agreement with Microsoft [...]
Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful
ATLANTA and REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eclipsys Corp.® (Nasdaq: ECLP) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of [...]
Microsoft e-health research taps Xbox, mobile phones
IDG News Service - Microsoft is researching how gadgets like the company's Xbox game machine, surface computers and accelerometers in mobile phones could be used to improve health care. Some of the applications from Microsoft Research, the software giant's lab branch, plug into existing Microsoft products like HealthVault, a Web service for [...]
Microsoft and the State of Georgia to Offer Free Tech Training
Microsoft and the state are teaming up to provide free online training to workers who want to improve their tech skills to land better jobs. A total of 30,000 vouchers will be issued to Georgians interested in learning how to use Microsoft Windows or one of its other office programs. The vouchers also are good for certification exams that will [...]
