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Windows Vista Road Map
Windows Vista will deliver great value to businesses by seamlessly connecting people to information, enabling increased mobile and remote productivity, significantly reducing deployment and support costs, and providing a more secure and compliant desktop platform. For consumers, Windows Vista will bring clarity to the world of personal computing, enabling people to more safely and easily accomplish everyday tasks, instantly find what they want, enjoy the latest in entertainment, and stay connected at home or on the go. More than half a million customers have received the latest community technology preview for Windows Vista, and have been providing consistent and positive feedback. "Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both," said Jim Allchin, co-president for the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. "But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability"......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Doubleclick Inc. Announces Agreement To Acquire Falk Esolutions AG
"Falk is a natural fit with DoubleClick because of its commitment to product innovation, reliability and local customer service. Combined with DoubleClick's seasoned industry experience, scalability, and global presence, together we will be able to offer clients a feature-rich solution which can enable them to increase ROI on their digital advertising investments," said David Rosenblatt, CEO of DoubleClick. "The acquisition will complement DoubleClick's strong focus in digital advertising, our innovative research and development, and our ongoing investment in search, optimization and rich media". By acquiring Falk, DoubleClick will add to its global presence and localization capabilities, and will almost double its European headcount with a global development team in St. Petersburg, Russia and additional offices in Düsseldorf and Amsterdam. DoubleClick will then have sizeable engineering hubs in North America, Europe and Asia dedicated to developing innovative products and services for local markets. The combined company will also have broad agency and publisher coverage in key global markets......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source thought Googe Earth Was Cool! Wow Google Mars
Link for this post: Google Mars If Google Mars weren't a well rendered topographic map of what we know so far about our neighboring red planet, it could make a good art project. The colors and textures are awesome. By exploring, you create art at the same time. There is an About Google Mars section of the site which sums things up: This map of Mars, published by Percival Lowell in 1895, was the result of many years spent carefully studying the Red Planet through his telescope. Now you can do the same through your web browser. In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, we've created some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made. If you have half as much fun exploring them as we did making them, you're in for a great time. I agree about the fun and you may also......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Google Finance Beta Gives Instant Stats, Draws Instant Criticism
MarketWatch: Reviewer Bambi Francisco gives the site a modified thumbs down, explaining that it has some interesting features but isn't "terribly impressive. besides an interactive chart, there is nothing innovative or certainly spectacular about the new service." Bill Bishop, co-founder, MarketWatch (via Seeking Alpha): "If GF gets to scale, which it should if Google decides to redirect even a small portion of its traffic firehouse towards GF, Google will be positioned to squeeze millions of dollars from business publishers desperate for traffic and eyeballs, even if they do not surpass YF." Henry Blodget: The former Wall Street analyst says it would take total market domination to register on the revenue scale. This post showed up in the related blog posts on the Google Finance Goog page., which he describes as "a traffic firehose. Here I am, bashing away (initially), and suddenly the traffic starts gushing in from the Google Finance Google page. Business bloggers are going to love this." Times Online: Bryce Elder likes the interfact but has serious qualms about the discussion groups. "Every poster this new site attracts will need a moderator, which makes the whole project hugely expensive. With financial bulletin boards, Google could well have created its first product that cannot increase its audience without expenses rising at the same pace. This could prove to be a very expensive, very public mistake."........ Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source What is Ajax?
Ajax -- (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). A way of including content in a web page in which javascript code in the web page fetches some data from a server and displays it without re-fetching the entire surrounding page at the same time (hence the 'Asynchronous'). Often (but not always) the data fetched by the javascript code is in XML format. It is common for Ajax applications to update the Ajax content multiple times without the surrounding page needing to be updated even once. A simple example of Ajax would be a weather-forcast box in the middle of a web page. Ajax could be used to populate the box every 5 minutes without needing to refresh the surrounding page......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Liquid Lens may shrink sizes on computer chips
Image courtesy of Nonequilibrium.com
In a paper reported in the March 10, 2006 issue of Applied Optics,* NIST scientists present newly measured values for key properties of organic solvents and inorganic solutions that might be useful in immersion lithography. Little more than an idea three years ago, immersion lithography is already being commercialized, thanks in part to previously published NIST data. The technique uses liquids to sharpen the focus of patterns used in "printing" semiconductor circuits, much like the eye uses a liquid center to help form images on the retina. Prototype commercial systems use water between the last lens element and the circuit's silicon wafer base, to focus 193-nanometer wavelengths of light down to circuit feature sizes of perhaps 45 nanometers. The liquids used for immersion lithography must have a high refractive index-the higher the better-which affects how light bends as it crosses interfaces. NIST previously published data on the refractive index of water, which is almost 50 percent higher than that of air. "When we started this work two years ago, you couldn't even find adequate data on water," says Simon Kaplan, lead author of the new paper......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source March 19, 2006, 9:17 PM CT Verbatim Store 'n Go USB HDD Picks up Ceedo
Kington Self-Destruct Privacy Flash Drives Trying to force your way into the new Kingston Data Traveler Elite Privacy Edition for a competitor's data? Think again. The Kingston can reportedly melt the data, in a digital way, after just 25 consecutive failed passwords. This should supposedly thwart the "brute force attack" in an attempt to guess your password. Yawn! Another MuVo from Creative Creative is again renewing its interest in the less-than-stellar MuVo product line that has been with the company since the department division. So, what is under Mr. Hoo's sleeve this time? The MuVo S200. Though, nothing is really spectacular with the modest upgrades. MSI's Tunes Powered by the Sun MSI has found a new power source for their 4GB HDD MP3 player, and that is solar power. While larger than many popular players, the solar MP3 player will be ideal for people that spend time in areas without electricity or are away from home often. USB Adapter Delivers Skype on Your Normal Phone USRobotics has a new USB adapter that allows any standard phone to be used with Skype. The USR809620 adapter also allows you to place standard telephone calls as well by keeping your phone connected to the standard telephone line. First Mobile WiMAX USB Adapter Hits Market Airspan recently announced the first WiMAX USB adapter for mobile use. The device is called the 16eUSB and is fully compatible with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard and the WiMAX Forum Mobile WIMAX System Profile. Permalink Source: Map Displays Nearly Every Bar In NYC
Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Supercomputer In A Blade
A supercomputer in a blade was unveiled Wednesday by Silicon Graphics. The company has constructed the product from dual Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGAs to create a high-performance computing (HPC) configuration that features a low cost and small footprint for the HPC universe......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Microsoft Developing Platform For Windows Live Mail
I'm now working on building the developer platform for Windows Live Mail, Calendar and Contacts. There are a ton of cool ideas you guys have mentioned to me but there is only a finite number of developers we have. So why not make Kahuna extensible so external folks out there can implement their own cool features in Kahuna? Well, it's my job to help make that happen. You can help me by telling me what you would build if Kahuna was easy to extend. If you haven't already, check out the MSN Developer Center. There you can find ways to extend other Windows Live products. Also check out Microsoft Gadgets, one of the core technologies behind the Windows Live developer platform......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source |
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