A final tidbit called “Who was here?” attaches further meaning to a place. Selecting it from the menu will call together a list of photos and videos for that most-wanted location. You’ll be able to browse through the content or add your own. You’ll also be able to seek out geotagged photos and videos by [...]
“Silverlight multimedia applications will provide an all-access pass for the Convention’s online audience, offering an unprecedented opportunity for viewers to individually tailor their Convention experiences,” the party and Microsoft said in a statement.
The software maker will power real-time online voting systems for delegates as well as live, gavel-to-gavel streaming coverage of the event at DemConvention.com. [...]
Snyder says often the security story isn’t that a company created a tool that found 14 vulnerabilities in it own product, it’s that there were 14 vulnerabilities in the product in the first place. “Why would they want to share this tool? Maybe they want to demonstrate how successful it was because it found a [...]
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Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery
Napster won’t rule out a sale
IBM tests 4-terabyte solid-state drive tech
Comcast’s cap plan
Do you download more than 250GB of data per month? If you’re a Comcast customer, you’ll likely want to get out of the habit–quickly. Beginning October 1, the Internet provider said customers [...]
Pressed by analyst Heather Bellini on when Microsoft might see the business shift away from being a drag on overall margins, Liddell said, “I can’t promise you you are going to see a massive turnaround in the short term.”
Update: 2:40 p.m. PDT: CFO Chris Liddell speaking, noting that, since its last conference call, Microsoft has [...]
The I-Ball won Britain’s Ministry of Defence’s Competition of Ideas contest, which challenges U.K. companies to come up with problem-solving technologies.
“A chap from the MoD told us there was money if (we) came up with a good idea so we came up with an idea, we didn’t know if it was bonkers or [...]
First, hiring companies can see lists of candidates who are interested in their available positions, and the tool ranks those candidates in order of the likelihood of a match, from strongest to weakest.
Then, they can deploy a series of widgets that allow the candidates to show exactly how they want to be presented on the [...]
How did Yahoo become such a loser company in anyone’s mind other than the idiotic investors who usually don’t seem to know what they’ve bought. Let’s have a little reality check about that big fat failure Yahoo supposedly is.
So is there also a contrarian case to be made against the naysayers? More than [...]
In addition to its exploratory angle, StumbleUpon is introducing a new partner program. Sites that have StumbleUpon installed will be able to offer their users a new “Stumble This” button with a counter on it. When a user clicks this it adds to the number, which can help promote it for other StumbleUpon members. It’s [...]
Microsoft said Sunday that it plans to ship the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite.
In addition, Microsoft said that it would contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches to the JQuery open-source project and that later this year it would extend product support to JQuery.
Guthrie also pointed to a newly posted tutorial [...]
