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Articles tagged with: Microsoft
Microsoft adds touch screen, Web browser to Zune
Microsoft says the next generation of its Zune music player due out in the fall will have a touch screen, Web browser and an HD Radio receiver. more
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What Would You Do With... $25 Billion?
Apple and Microsoft have a problem other companies wish they had. Each is sitting on cash and short-term investments worth $25 billion. more
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Telecom carriers spent $62 billion on outsourced services in 2008
Market research firm Infonetics Research is reporting that telecom carriers spent US$62 billion on outsourced services in 2008, and have plans to increase that spending. The report noted that the top revenue-generating tasks outsourced by service providers in 2008 include network maintenance, application service delivery, network build, and network planning and design. more
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Intel, Microsoft, Dell band together for WiGig
Wi-Fi, WiMax, WirelessHD, WHDI and now ... WiGig? Computer and home entertainment industry leaders, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Panasonic, said Wednesday that they're forming a new association to create an even faster wireless technology for zipping large files around the home. more
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Obama's tax plans raises high-tech hackles
President Barack Obama's plan to impose U.S. taxes on corporate America's overseas profits threatens to open a big crater in the financial statements of technology companies. more
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Microsoft's Tellme Unveiling Upgrades in Speech Services
Amid the recession, Microsoft's Tellme unit just had its best quarter. The reason, Tellme executives say, is because the company's interactive voice response systems can save companies money and improve customer service and satisfaction. more
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'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money
Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by "sleep talking." Computer scientists at UC San Diego and microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." Normally PCs can be in either awake mode - where they consume power even if they are not being used, or in a low power sleep mode - where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode. more
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Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone
Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. more
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Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America
The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more
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The Technology Generation Gap in the Workplace
A national survey of American white collar workers found that while technology is widely embraced among working professionals, significant gaps exist among generations regarding its use and application in the workplace. The survey - commissioned by LexisNexis examined the impact of technology in the workplace. It compared technology and software usage among generations of working professionals, including Boomers (ages 44-60), Generation X (ages 29-43) and Generation Y (ages 28 and younger). more
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