Hopefully you just read Michael’s post about Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans . The answer is so simple that a lot of people overlook it: No one wants to hold their hands at monitor-level all the time, you’d get tired very quickly. If you’re looking for a quick answer as to why many touch screens like the TouchSmart line haven’t seen success in the past, that’d be it.
USB Wooden Clip Flash Drive Japanese company demos hydrogen-powered electric bike Kodomo No Nomimono: Beer for kids The Microsoft Windows Phone commercial: Small, puffy men will follow you around New technology analyzes, visualizes breath odors
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine just can’t seem to stay out of the red light district, no matter how hard they try.
This is the third installment of our exclusive interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer . In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities, Operating Systems/Browsers, Mobile, Search and Developers. In the second post we did a deeper dive on his thoughts on big business opportunities for Microsoft in the next 5 – 10 years.
Tetris Tiles Hit The States, Showers Forever Changed This Microsoft Windows 7 launch video is, if possible, worse than that musical one Poken gets a Pulse iPod nano banned by many gyms R2D2 features 8 consoles, projector
Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload the data to the cloud, where everything is date/time and geo stamped and the sound files are automatically transcribed and indexed. Photos of people, of course, would be automatically identified and tagged as well.
Residents of San Francisco are a bit put off by the temporary closure of the Bay Bridge this holiday weekend.
I think we all knew it was coming. After all, the new interface , while aesthetically similar to the old Zune UI, is totally incompatible with the old hardware
There is no denying that Bing’s Double Cashback promotion served up some great deals. But apparently they were so good that Microsoft had to end the deal a full four days early — and even earlier for some. Here’s the statement they gave earlier today announcing the official end of the promotion: “Due to an overwhelming, positive response from our Bing cashback shoppers, we’ve now closed our limited time back-to-school promotion where Microsoft increased the percentage of cashback rewards on behalf of retailers.” Microsoft had set a cap on the amount of money saved or an end date of August 30, whichever came first
Microsoft and Nokia announced a broad ranging alliance this morning which will bring Microsoft Office and other productivity software to a Nokia phones. The agreement marks “the first time Microsoft will make Office for non windows mobile phones,” says Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop.
