Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Microsoft to extend Silverlight for Mac?

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

HTML 5 in Internet Explorer may mean Microsoft is rejoined the league of civilized nations on browsers, but another Microsoft technology remains under lock and key more firmly than ever.

Microsoft’s Silverlight media player has, with version 4 due next month, gone from being closed source but able to work on other platforms – the Mac – to being increasingly tied to Windows.

An up-coming feature called COM Automation has been introduced that potential lets content in Silverlight and Silverlight applications work with documents in Microsoft’s Office stored on a PC. Also, COM Automation could access other system capabilities like a USB security card reader.

COM is a Microsoft architecture, not found on the Mac, so this means Silverlight is beginning to be built by Microsoft to give Windows a leg up over the competition. (more…)

2010 The World’s Most Innovative Companies

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Even in these tough times, surprising and extraordinary efforts are under way in businesses across the globe. From politics to technology, energy, and transportation; from marketing to retail, health care, and design, each company on the following pages illustrates the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution.
HP Acquires 3Com for $2.7 Billion, Brings Fight to Cisco DreamWorks Animation Has Become a Tech Incubator What Ever Happened to HP’s Augmented Reality Game? Topics:Innovation, Most innovative companies, Hewlett-Packard Company, PG&E Corporation, Amazon.com Inc., General Electric Company, Samsung Corporation (more…)

Stanford University

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States.

Stanford was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanfords used their farm lands to establish the university hoping to create a large institution in California.

Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. The university is divided into a number of schools such as the Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford School of Engineering, etc.

The university is in Silicon Valley, and its alumni have founded companies like Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google.

Stanford University
Motto: Die Luft der Freiheit weht
(German)
Motto in English: The wind of freedom blows
Established: 1885
Type: Private
Endowment: $17.2 billion
President: John L. Hennessy
Provost: John Etchemendy
Faculty: 1,807
Students: 14,945
Undergraduates: 6,759
Postgraduates: 8,186
Location: Stanford, CA, U.S.
Campus: Suburban, 8,180 acres (33.1 km2)[6]
Athletic nickname: Stanford Cardinal
Colors: Cardinal red and white
Mascot: The color Cardinal red (official), Stanford Tree (unofficial)
Athletics: NCAA Division I (FBS) Pac-10
Website: www.stanford.edu

Microsoft launches new search engine bing

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Microsoft has forgone its Live search engine in favour of the newly launched Bing, now in beta. For those in the know, the service formerly went under the name of Kumo, which sounds better to us, but hey, a good engine is a good engine, and Bing does work well. 9af901df

The design overall is very similar to Google, even down to the preferences page. Like iGoogle, this one offers the option to link up with your e-mail, assuming it is provided by Microsoft. Though it doesn’t boast themes and gadgets like the former service, we would anticipate this to come once the beta is complete.

Impressions so far are good, and neat features like related searches (i.e. walkthroughs pop up if you search for a game), pop-up text (mouse over a search result and the page text appears, something Firefox plugins offer with Google), and a cashback program for shopping results are all welcome.

In terms of actual search quality, it’s more or less the same as Google. In any case, there’s plenty of depth to explore which may make it the superior choice for some in the end, especially as more functionality and improvements are brought to the table.