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2011年7月3日星期日

3D mapping software will be made by Microsoft, Google, and AOL

Microsoft, Google, and AOL are the subjects of a lawsuit from a company that claims the three defendants violated the patents of its 3D mapping software. Bloomberg reports that Transcenic filed the lawsuit earlier this week. The lawsuit states that the 3D software used in all three companies' street mapping services "has injured Transcenic and Transcenic is entitled to recover damages adequate to compensate for such infringement."
Google's popular Street View feature for its Map division is involved in the lawsuit along with Microsoft's Streetwise business and AOL's MapQuest division. The Lake Charles, Louisiana-based Transcenic company claims that all three companies used 3D mapping software to show its users where to go. The company claims that the software "misappropriated technology" from Transcenic. The company itself is privately owned and doesn't even appear to have its own web site. So far spokespersons for Google and Microsoft have not yet commented on the lawsuit, according to the article. AOL did not yet respond to an inquiry.
In related news. Wired.com reports that Google lost a court battle earlier this week dealing with its Street View feature. Lawsuits filed last year claimed that Google's use of vehicles to help create the Street View images "... were equipped with WiFi sniffing hardware to record the names and MAC addresses of routers to improve Google location-specific services." A judge agreed that such actions also secretly took info from people's WiFi networks and that Google can be held liable for any damages. Google has said that the use of its Street View vehicles in that way was a "mistake' and that any info taken from WiFi networks has not yet been viewed by Google.
Yay another patent troll out for some free cash, by being privately owned and not even having a website they're not actively using there patents so morally should be declared null and void
Software Patents are perfectly legitimate & a good use of the legal system, no, not a waste of time and a waste of money into the lawyers' pockets at all.
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2011年6月21日星期二

Microsoft plans to hold a major news event about Office 365

Microsoft has announced it plans to hold a major news event on June 28th in New York City, and—while the announcement doesn’t actually say its—the company will be officially launching its cloud-based Office 365 suite of productivity services to customers. Microsoft VP Jon Roskill has confirmed the June 28 event will be the official launch of Office 365, as have other sources within the company.
Originally announced in October 2010, Office 365 represents Microsoft’s effort to compete with the likes of Google Apps by offering a Web- and cloud-based alternative to its traditional desktop productivity application suite. Office 365 essentially combines Microsoft’s existing Office Web Apps with hosted Exchange and SharePoint services, all lashed together with Microsoft’s Lync technology that keeps files, contacts, and messaging synchronized across the services.
Microsoft launched a public beta of Office 365 in April, and claims to have more than 100,000 real users already on board with the offering.
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Office 365 is aimed primarily at businesses, and the company will be offering two versions of the service. A small business version (dubbed Officer 365 for Professionals and Small Businesses) will be available for $6 per person per month to businesses with 25 or fewer employees&mdash, while larger business will pay from $10 to $17 per person per month. Microsoft has also said it will offer alternative pricing plans for education customers.


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2011年6月7日星期二

Microsoft too has its own cloud service called SkyDrive


Apple’s iCloud announcemen finally showed the long awaited follow-up to Mobileme. While MobileMe was considered a failure on most accounts for Apple, iCloud looks to be a replacement worthy of the Apple branding.
Windows Flag (New)But not to be outdone, Microsoft too has its own cloud service called SkyDrive. Microsoft states that since 2007, Skydrive has been the one place to access your documents, photos and more from anywhere for free. Going a step further they state that Skydrive has over 100M users, 2.2Petabytes of data stored which includes 250M documents.
But more than just SkyDrive, the Windows live team has been investing in the cloud for over a decade. Microsoft is currently servicing over 500 million customers with Xbox Live, Skydrive, Hotmail and Messenger.  Microsoft is touting its statistics to show that iCloud is far from an industry revolution and that Microsoft has been playing in these waters for a very long time.
While the jury is still out on if iCloud will be a successful product, it has put the spotlight back on to cloud related services. For consumers, it is an exciting time as companies compete for your information to be stored in their cloud. For corporations, they have a massive investment that needs to show returns to support the cloud business model.
Microsoft doesn't provide any practical or friendly way to use and access skydrive. At least not for windows. You have accessing via browser, thats it.
why not allow an easier way to access it? Mount it as a drive? and so on.
if there is a microsoft way of doing this (without third party hacks) then please enlighten me.
i just use use livemesh which kinda syncs it to skydrive, but not really.
There is no simplistic Microsoft way to access skydrive, yet, which is a shame. But then again, they have so many users that will take advantage of the service, they probably just weren't ready to handle the potential bandwidth. However, just everything that iCloud is doing Mango bring to Windows Phone7, some it already does. The most unique this iCloud will have is accessing your music, which you can already do with Zune Pass but that costs $15/mo while iCloud is $25/yr, but, Zune Pass is all music, not just your own. Anyway, I'm glad to see Apple doing this, because it means that everyone will be fighting aggressively, which is great for us.




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2011年6月2日星期四

Google and Yahoo have worked together to create schema.org


It is not every day of the week that you see fierce competitors team up to create a unified project. But exactly that has happened as Bing, Google and Yahoo have worked together to create schema.org.
Schema.org is a new site intended to help site owners with using a common set of schemas. This new initiative is "aimed at creating and supporting a common set of schemas for structured data markup on Web pages." The search giants worked together to create a one-stop shop for website owners and developers. Microsoft states:
Schema.org will become a one-stop shop for site owners and developers, providing the tips and tools necessary to help improve how their sites appear in search results on Bing, Google and Yahoo! It will also help search engines better understand websites, and moving forward, Bing will work jointly with the larger Web community and its search partners to extend the available schema categories. Consumers will also benefit from this effort by experiencing richer search experiences and content from a much broader set of publishers.
While this new initiative is definitely for the technical user, it should help to create a more unified playing field now that Google, Bing, and Yahoo are all onboard. The goal is to help site owners and developers improve how their sites appear in search results.
The collaboration is a positive sign that even though Google and Bing are fighting for marketshare, they are able to put aside differences to help out the average consumer.
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    • Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo collectively announced that they will be partnering to create schema.org, a resource for site owners and developers to learn about structured data and gain insight into how to improve their site’s search results. The site adds more than 100 new forms of website markup for content ranging from movies to places in an effort to standardize, and thus improve, how websites are crawled and presented in search results. “The site aims to be a one stop resource for webmasters looking to add markup to their pages”, Google’s announcement reads.
    Essentially, the site will provide a collection of schemas, or HTML tags, webmasters can add to their pages to make it easy for the major search providers to recognize their sites. to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.
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    2011年5月19日星期四

    Windows 8 Traditional flavour will run on Intel’s chips

    Speaking at an Intel investor meeting on Tuesday, Renee James explained that Windows 8 will be available in versions for both x86 and ARM. James revealed there will be a Windows 8 Traditional flavour that will run on Intel’s chips and handle legacy applications. Microsoft is also planning a Windows 7 mode as part of the traditional SKU. “[Windows 8 traditional] means that our customers, or anyone who has an Intel-based or an x86-based product, will be able to run either Windows 7 mode or Windows 8 mode,” she said to The Register. “They’ll run all of their old applications, all of their old files – there’ll be no issue.”
    James also revealed that on ARM chips there will be a “new experience” geared around mobile computing andtablet devices. The ARM space will have no support for legacy applications, “Our competitors will not be running legacy applications. Not now. Not ever.” Intel claims that it’s also able to run the new Windows 8 experience. “We’ll kind of have the best of both worlds. So we think we’re extraordinarily well-positioned in Windows 8,” said James.
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    “We’ve been working for the last couple of years – very, very focused – on Windows 8,” she said. “I’m very excited about it. We’ve been working on it for a long time. There’s a lot of exciting new features and things about it that I think are going to be great for users, great for the PC and tablet industry.”
    James’ comments were also mirrored in a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. Microsoft will create multiple versions of its next Windows operating system that work on ARM chips. WinRumors revealed a number of different Windows 8 ARM versions last month. Microsoft held a special press event at the Consumer Electronics Showin Las Vegas in January to introduce a technology preview of Microsoft’s Windows ARM support and show off an early build of Windows 8. The company is partnering with ARM-based manufactures NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments to produce new Tablet devices.
    Microsoft is currently working on a Windows 8 “immersive” tablet user experience. However, the company may introduce Windows 8 ARM based tablets ahead of a full desktop release. Microsoft’s competitive tabletstrategy is believed to be further along than expected. Dell’s recently leaked Tablet Roadmap revealed that the OEM has marked Q1 2012 as its date for a Windows 8 based slate.
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    2011年4月10日星期日

    Microsoft can not run the PC operating system

    According to foreign media, someone said, Microsoft can not run the PC operating system that compete with Apple and Google before students return to school in 2012 in appearance, AiShuo A816 uses a 4.: 3-inch touchscreen 8 – the resolution is 800 * 600, which similar to the screen iPAD, ideal for web browsing and reading needs.
     
    But the machine does not mimic the IPAD appearance, but in a very positive use of the machine android operating system for a set of three buttons, the corresponding functions are menu, return, and the capacity of the main interface, with its capacity, eliminating the keys around to find Acer batbl50l6 battery the bitter.AiShuo A816 uses an operating system android2.2, you can use WIFI and 3G Internet access over the LAN, support flash10.1 play, visit Web site can display the full content, and even directly on the Tablet PC watch online video sites, plus the system Atradius on hundreds of thousands of application software, AiShuo is a great tool A816 Portable Internet.
    Apparently, the new version of Windows will be the end of this year open to partners and customers tests.As a Tablet PC products, the most commonly used applications is the large and small, but all the A816 is the easiest task indeed. Including high definition video, e-books, reading comics, editing Office documents, Internet chat, FM radio, and so all powerful and open platform Android, bringing countless games, tools , procedures, applications, download and install, allowing you getting to enjoy the cool fun digital entertainment. And the A816 also features high-definition HDMI interface, the screen that appears directly on the big screen TV, give you greater satisfaction.
    Microsoft should update Windows 7 laptop to make it more responsive to the touch screen, the size and autonomy. And moves more slowly from Microsoft, Apple and Google to strengthen its position further.
    The research firm Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg said that if Microsoft Tablet PC accessory market systems in 2012, will face three generations and Google iPad second generation, third generation Tablet PC. HP and RIM Touch Screen Monitors are also two outside may be introduced when the second generation of computers.
    Accelerating competition, competition Tablet PC market is intense, a consulting firm In-Stat, said there will be 100 this year, several new devices enter the market, to market size in 2015 will reach 118 million units.
    Apple iPad 2 LTN156AT02 launched yesterday, the generation of less than 1 year iPad listed so far Apple has sold 14.8 million units iPad. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said yesterday, the market share IPAD has more than 90%.
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    2011年4月1日星期五

    Microsoft executes the specified command fire tablet computer

    In three days after its launch, Apple sold 500,000 units of its iPad 2 tablet computer. To most people, that number would seem impressive. But Microsoft's Craig Mundie is not most people.
    In a recent interview with Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft global chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie had this to say about what appears to be a rapidly emerging tablet market:
    "I don't know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us or not... Personally I don't know whether that space will be a persistent one or not."

    Tablet Computers are Just a Fad

    Mundie stopped short of using the actual term "fad", but there's no escaping his overall impression of the tablet, or slate computer Hp dv6000 batteries: it may not be a long-term mainstay in the tech market.
    Mundie's position would make him quite the exception in this industry. After all, just about everyone -- including Research in Motion (RIM), Dell, and Motorola -- are releasing their own versions of the iPad right now. And why not? If any one of those firms can accumulate even a fraction of the 42 million iPads projected to sell between the item's original launch and the end of 2011, then they will have achieved considerable success.
    Many experts stunned by the Mundie comments have pointed out Microsoft founder Bill Gates' own proclamation ten years ago that tablets are "virtually without limits" in terms of their potential growth and capabilities.
    Good: Entry Level aPads come with processor speeds of less than 533Mhz, 128 MB RAM and 2 GB Internal Hard Drive Excellent for reading ebooks. Most Tablets Pcs in this catergory will have Android OS 1.5 - 1.9.The good news here is that the price point is slightly less than the OEM ebook readers.
    Better: This category of M-pad7a aPads come with processor speeds from 533MHz to 900 Mhz, 256MB RAM and and 2 GB Internal Hard Drive. Excellent for internet browsing, watching movies on Youtube and note taking.Best: These M-pad7a aPads are usually 10 inch, but there are some powerful 7'apads out there that compete with the Apple iPads. Any iPad with at least 1GHz (1024MHz), 512 MB RAM, 4 GB internal drive with Android 2.1 or higher are considered the ones to get if you are a serious mutlimedia user. Watching HD movies is a wonderful experience on these devices.
    I did not put any price points for these classifications because the cost will always drop as new products are released.
    On a final note, it is important to determine your needs before selecting the right desktop, laptop or tablet pc. Android aPads, like the iPad or any other tablet will not support all the applications out there, but it is increasing getting better by the day.
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    No Room Between Smartphones and Laptops

    So, what does Mundie think is a better product than the tablet? Simply put, Mundie believes either smartphones or laptops will fair better. The Microsoft exec just doesn't think there's much room between these two well-established tech items to put a tablet PC at a better advantage.
    Beyond that, Mundie had some rather abstract and ambiguous tech predictions for us, telling the Herald: "I believe the successor to the desktop is the room, that instead of thinking Hp dv2000 laptop battery that the computer is just something on the desk that you go and sit in front of [in the] future, basically the whole room is the computer and you go in it."


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