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Exploring the Ocean in Our Brains with Jaron Lanier

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2011Technology100 most influential people of 2010, 3d environment, avatars, back to nature, cyberspace, digital maoism, gadget, geometry, hollywood, human, human machine interaction, jaron lanier, kinect for xbox 360, manifesto, Microsoft, microsoft research, minority report, motion sensing camera, optimist, sex in movies, silicon valley, somatic cognition, thinking about technology, time magazine, triangle, video game store in california, Wall Street Journal

*Jaron Lanier has spent decades thinking about technology and the ways we use – and misuse – it. He also has been thinking long and hard about using avatars to access the untapped potential of our brains.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 9, 2011 – One evening last November, Jaron Lanier queued up outside a video game store in California and counted down the minutes until he could buy Kinect for Xbox 360. Lanier – a technologist, computer scientist, composer, and one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2010 – was just as excited to get his hands on Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera as the other gamers in line, most of whom he quickly realized were half his age. He was only slightly embarrassed by the observation.

“As a grownup and as a father I can’t believe I did that,” said Lanier, a partner architect for Microsoft Research. “But I was just so amazed it was really happening.” (more…)

comScore Reports September 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2011Technologyamericans, apple, blogs, Comscore, google android, Microsoft, mobile devices, mobile phone, mobilens data, motorola, oem, rim, Samsung, smartphones, Social networking sites, symbian, us mobile phone industry

*More Than 40 Percent of Subscribers Use Browsers and Applications*

RESTON, VA, November 4, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending September 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.3 percent market share. Google Android continued to gain ground in the smartphone market reaching 44.8 percent market share. (more…)

Bing Social Search Team Makes Search ‘Less Lonely’

By Guest PostNovember 3, 2011Technologyamerican sitcoms, bing, bing experience, buffy the vampire slayer, cd of mp3s, christina aguilera, cliff claven, electronica music, Facebook, florida, german, Google, jack tripper, knight rider, maroon 5, Microsoft, microsoft news center, mnc, paul yiu, sean suchter, silicon valley, silicon valley campus, social networks, social search, social search team, sonic youth, Technology, the carpenters, the cranberries, the terminator, tim harrington, visuals and animations

*Three members of Bing’s social search team chat with Microsoft News Center about working in the exciting technological frontier of search – and what they do when they’re not hard at work.*

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Sean Suchter’s last name is a misspelling of the German word for searcher, which has to be one of the greater aptronyms in the technology industry.

Suchter heads up Bing’s social search team on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, where he relishes his job as a frontiersmen in the field of search, particularly social search. (more…)

‘Kinect Effect’ Magic Pushes Beyond the Living Room

By Guest PostOctober 31, 2011Technologyalex kipman, alex wiggins, cantebria, casey anderson, dance central 2, don mattrick, education, fabio matsui, forza motorsport 4, gaming gadget of the year, guinness world records, healthcare, houghton mifflin harcourt, jeremy gibson, jesus perez, jonathan fay, kinect, kinect effect, kinect for xbox 360, Microsoft, multi array microphones, nintendo, once upon a monster, patient at the royal berkshire hospital, razorfish, ruma paul, sesame street, spain, state of the art technology, Technology, technology startup, tedesys, times square, university of southern california, usc, xbox

*In the year since Microsoft launched controller-free Kinect for Xbox 360, the device has taken on a life of its own. First Kinect became the fastest-selling consumer device in history and then it started showing up outside the living room in healthcare, education, and technology.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Oct. 31, 2011 – When it comes to technology and moon landings, there are small steps – and then there are leaps.

It’s been a year since Kinect for Xbox 360 jumped onto the scene, bringing with it a new era of controller-free, interactive gaming and entertainment for the living room.

“It’s been an amazing 12 months – it’s been absolutely inspiring,” says Alex Kipman, general manager of incubation for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business. “When you have a great vision you expect it to do great things, but it’s humbling and inspiring to actually see it happen and exceed your expectations in terms of the ability – over a very short period of time – that you have affected the entire world.” (more…)

Turkey Has Third Most Engaged Online Audience in Europe

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2011TechnologyComscore, Facebook, Germany, Google, internet, internet usage in europe and turkey, istanbul, Microsoft, mike read, online measurement in turkey, russian federation, the netherlands, turkish sites, united kingdom, webrazzi

*Mike Read to Speak at Webrazzi on 19 October About ‘Turkey in the Global Internet and the Future of Online Measurement’*

LONDON, UK, 18 October 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview of internet usage in Europe and Turkey, showing that of Europe’s 372 million unique visitors, Turkey accounts for 23.1 million unique visitors during August 2011. The United Kingdom showed the highest engagement with users spending an average of nearly 35 hours online in the past month, up 1.5 hours from the previous month. The Netherlands ranked second (32.8 hours per month), closely followed by Turkey, where the average internet user spent 32.7 hours online consuming 3,706 pages per month, the highest consumption amongst all countries reported. (more…)

Of Avatars and Virtual Meetings

By Guest PostOctober 16, 2011Technology3d digital visualization, apple, avatar, camera and microphone, computer, craig mundie, excel, kinect device, Microsoft, microsoft kinect, microsoft phone 7, microsoft tag, remote locations, Steve Jobs, Technology, university of toronto, xbox system

Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, brought news of Microsoft’s plans to merge the physical world with the digital word during an Oct. 6 lecture at the University of Toronto.

“The computer is being endowed with more and more human sensing-like capability,” said Mundie. “We think this will be the predominant way people will use computers in the future.” (more…)

European Engagement on Entertainment Sites Grows 10 Percent in the Past Year

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2011TechnologyComscore, dailymotion, european markets, Facebook, france, german prosiebensat1, Germany, Google, internet usage in europe, italy, Microsoft, poland, russian federation, russian social network, spain, top european web property, turkey, united kingdom, vevo, vkontakte, YouTube

*comScore Releases Overview of European Internet Usage for August 2011*

LONDON, UK, 11 October 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview of internet usage in Europe, showing 372.1 million unique visitors went online in August 2011 for an average of 25.4 hours per person. This release highlights internet usage in 49 European markets aggregated under the European region and provides individual reporting on 18 markets. Among the reportable markets, the United Kingdom showed the highest engagement with users spending an average of nearly 35 hours online in the past month, up 1.5 hours from the previous month. (more…)

Choosing Microsoft Over the NFL

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2011Sports, Technologyacc, albert rocker, atlanta, atlantic coast conference, biggest software company, celebrity, david dowling, florida state, game, georgia institute of technology, georgia tech athlete, gigantic championship rings, irwin dolobowsky, it infrastructure, Microsoft, microsoft recruiter, national football league, nfl, trish lincoln, university of washington, virginia tech, yellow jackets

*Albert Rocker found himself at a crossroads of two big dreams: The Georgia Tech athlete had to choose between playing a final year of college football for a shot at the National Football League, or accepting a job offer from “the biggest software company ever created.”*

REDMOND, Wash. – It was the toughest decision of Albert Rocker’s life: should he pursue a career in the National Football League (NFL), or one at Microsoft?

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, Rocker was an outside linebacker for the Yellow Jackets football team with one year of eligibility remaining – one last football season to woo the NFL. Rocker played in a total of 38 games over his college career, including all 13 games of his junior season in 2010 – he was set to be a starter if he returned for his last year of eligibility. (more…)

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