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Wild Pockets: Girl Geek Leads 3-D Gamer Revolution

By Guest PostJune 17, 2011Technology3 d game, art and technology, bizspark one startup, carnegie mellon university, Facebook, female ceo, game jams, high tech company, josh yelon, Microsoft, microsoft bizspark program, microsoft technology, mobile devices, open source gaming, san francisco, shanna tellerman, video game technology, visual studio, wild pockets, windows games, xbox, xbox 360

*Shanna Tellerman is on her game as CEO of BizSpark One startup Wild Pockets.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Wild Pockets, a BizSpark One startup, is building the future of open source gaming.

Shanna Tellerman had no intention of becoming the CEO of a high-tech company. In college, she was intent on pursuing a career in art. It wasn’t until she took a course that combined art and technology at Carnegie Mellon University that she had the idea that she could marry the two fields. While at Carnegie Mellon, Tellerman worked on a project that used video game technology as a training method for first responders in emergency situations. The result was a drag-and-drop user interface that let people set up almost any kind of firefighting scenario. Her solution was so easy to use that it quickly became popular with fire departments across the U.S. (more…)

Microsoft Ready to Turn Advertising Upside Down

By Guest PostMarch 31, 2011Technologyandrew zimmern, big motivation, brian grazer, ceo, coca cola, curbside cuisine, darren huston, ebay, ellie goulding, joyride, kinect, kinect for xbox 360, kinect game, Microsoft, microsoft advertising, microsoft technology, modern family, pizza hut, ron howard, steve ballmer, t-mobile, the art of imagination, toyota venza, woody allen movie, xbox

*Microsoft is “just scratching the surface” of what’s coming in digital advertising, said CEO Steve Ballmer. He spoke at Imagine 2011, the company’s advertising and marketing thought leadership conference.*

REDMOND, Wash. – March 31, 2011 – While Microsoft Advertising was busy on Wednesday helping T-Mobile stream a live Ellie Goulding concert across three screens, a first for both companies, CEO Steve Ballmer was thinking of the next big opportunity in advertising.

Microsoft has “a deep drive, commitment, and a lot of great work going on in all of our great brands to let our clients and consumers take advantage of the next generation of technology,” said Ballmer, speaking Wednesday at Microsoft’s Imagine 2011 marketing leadership summit. (more…)

Daimler Building New Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform on Microsoft Technologies

By Guest PostNovember 2, 2010Technologydaimler ag, Germany, microsoft office 2010, microsoft technology, ralph haupter, simon witts

*Automotive group migrates more than 180,000 computer workstations to Microsoft solution.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 2, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. has won another key customer with its collaboration platform and cloud solution. Following an evaluation phase, Daimler AG decided to migrate onto Microsoft’s unified communications, messaging and collaboration solutions. Staff members at Daimler AG now communicate and collaborate more efficiently by using Microsoft technology. (more…)

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Wild Pockets: Girl Geek Leads 3-D Gamer Revolution

Microsoft Ready to Turn Advertising Upside Down

Daimler Building New Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform on Microsoft Technologies