As music lovers mobbed an outdoor stage, vying for views of Radiohead, Beck and other rockers, Keith McPhail enjoyed a prime view of the show from a couch in an internet “living room”.
Continue reading… “CrowdFire – New Online Concert Experience”
Denver’s Pepsi Center and Invesco Field are just fine for their concerts and professional sporting events. But for when the Democrats come into town for their National Convention this week, the two buildings are getting technologically gutted.
Continue reading… “Technology Behind The DNC”
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Moving beyond the Long Tail, “Wired” editor and author Chris Andersen is now pondering the economics of advertising on micro-sized social networking sites. In keynote remarks at the MediaBistro Circus in New York, he detailed his frustrations with his own micro social site which is about, of all things, reconnaissance drones. Second video after the jump.
Continue reading… “Chris Anderson’s Recon-Drone Theory”
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OK, so it’s not really a hologram, but it is pretty cool. This project is a combination of a number of technologies. In this video, they are using a multi touch software and combining it with the Musion Eyeliner System.
Continue reading… “Introducing the “Minority Report”-Like Display”
A social graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.
Continue reading… “Instant Messaging World Validates Six Degrees of Separation”
If memory keeps failing you, worry not. IBM has been working on a software that might help you in recalling forgotten pieces of your life.
Continue reading… “Software That Can Help Improve Memory”
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A new product from Microsoft Research. The Sphere comes from the same Microsoft Researchers that developed the Surface, aka “PlayTable”.
Continue reading… “Introducing the Microsoft Spherical Shaped Computer Display”
Taking on cigarette giants that are aggressively targeting developing countries, billionaires Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have jointly pledged $500 million for a massive anti-smoking campaign with special focus on India and China.
Continue reading… “Bill Gates Wants India to Quit Smoking”
Shortly after Microsoft announced its hostile bid for Yahoo, Google objected and raised the prospect that it would lobby government regulators to block any merger.
As it turned out, Google was very much the spoiler in the deal. But its most effective weapon was not threats or coercion, but its very effective, and unconventional, use of its own checkbook.
Continue reading… “The ‘Coop-etition’ Between Google and Yahoo”
A recent poll of about 12,000 US business decision-makers by market researcher CoreBrand found that Microsoft’s brand power has taken a dive over the past four years. According to the study, Microsoft dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful US company brands in 2004 to number 59 last year. In 1996, the company ranked number 1 in brand power among 1,200 top companies in about 50 industries.
Continue reading… “Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline”
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In 2005, Microsoft made a “Jump In” ad for their Xbox 360 console that never aired. The ad, deemed too controversial, showed commuters on a subway platform playing “shoot ‘em up” with their fingers (Bang!).
Continue reading… “Banned Microsoft Commercial”
Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe.
Continue reading… “Introducing Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope”
