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Bing National Tailgating Championship to Decide America’s Top Tailgaters

By Guest PostOctober 25, 2010Technologybing, bing national tailgating championship, brats versus burgers, dallas, danielle tiedt, decision engine, football, fort worth, joe cahn, Microsoft, recipes, tailgate to tailgate, tailgaters, tailgating institute of america, taxicab, team jersey versus winter coat, the commish, tia, weather

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 25, 2010 — Brats versus burgers; team jersey versus winter coat; early departure versus post-game party in the parking lot — all are important game-day decisions for football fans and tailgaters this time of year.

Today, Bing, the Decision Engine from Microsoft Corp. that provides football fans with everything they need to make these vital game-day choices, is introducing a new competition that will celebrate tailgating and crown the team that makes the best tailgating decisions in four key categories: cooking, sports trivia, parking lot athletics and team spirit. (more…)

Samsung Electronics Completes Windows 7 Deployment in Korean Offices

By Guest PostOctober 22, 2010TechnologyMicrosoft, pc management, samsung electronics co, samsung group, south korea, su mi lee, windows 7, windows 7 enterprise, windows 7 operating system

Image credit: Microsoft

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 22, 2010 —

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a Windows 7 Enterprise customer and the flagship company of the Samsung Group, has completed deployment of Windows 7 throughout its offices in South Korea, the global headquarters of the consumer electronics manufacturing company. Samsung Electronics’ offices in South Korea house a majority of the company’s 150,000 employees worldwide.

To reduce the amount of time spent managing its client computing environment, Samsung Electronics upgraded to the Windows 7 Enterprise operating system and the Windows Internet Explorer 8 browser across its offices in South Korea. As a result of the deployment, Samsung Electronics has enhanced IT security; simplified IT maintenance, which resulted in a 20 percent cost savings; reduced power consumption by 34 percent; and significantly improved employee productivity. (more…)

comScore Announces New Initiative For No Cost Tagging of Website Server Data with Media Metrix 360 in Hong Kong and Taiwan

By Guest PostOctober 21, 20101 commentTechnologyadvertising, asia-pacific, Comscore, digital economy, digital measurement solution, discuss, Google, hong kong, kevin huang, media metrix 360, Microsoft, networld technology limited, online channel, online measurement, oscar leung, taiwan, uwants, victor cheng, web usage, Yahoo

*comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement Approach Continues to Gain Industry Support*

*Yahoo! Sites Ranks as Top Internet Property in Hong Kong*

Hong Kong, October 21, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that it will offer free participation in Media Metrix 360 to online publishers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Under this new initiative any publisher can now participate in Media Metrix 360 measurement with no implementation fee for tagging their website server data, providing publishers of all sizes the ability to participate in this enhanced, unified approach to digital measurement. comScore also announced growing industry support of the comScore Media Metrix 360 measurement solution, with Discuss.com.hk and Uwants.com recently becoming the first Hong Kong-based publishers to participate in this approach. (more…)

Countdown to Kinect: 17 Controller-Free Games Launch in November

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2010Technologyellen degeneres, geoffrey the giraffe, holiday season, jackie evancho, kinect, Microsoft, mike delman, next big thing, oprah show, richard barry, show, susan boyle, the nutcracker, times square, xbox 360

About the image: A screenshot from Kinect Adventures, one of 17 controller-free games that will be available when Kinect for Xbox 360 becomes available in November. Image credit: Microsoft

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 18, 2010 —

Tune in to see it on “The Oprah Show^®.” And find out what has Ellen DeGeneres moving and grooving. Even Geoffrey the Giraffe^® knows Kinect for Xbox 360 is sure to be the hottest gift this holiday. Today, the countdown to Kinect begins, as Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of a multiyear advertising campaign and revealed the complete lineup of 17 controller-free games that will transform living rooms around the world starting on Nov. 4. (more…)

Microsoft Research Collaborates With Wikipedia to Enhance Multilingual Content

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2010Technologyaachen, beta version, danese cooper, european microsoft innovation centre, extreme computing group, Germany, hindi, machine translation system, mediawiki extension, Microsoft, microsoft research, multilingual content creation tool, multiple languages, p anandan, redmond, sanskrit, wiki, wikibhasha, Wikipedia

*WikiBhasha tool will help simplify and speed up the process of creating multilingual content in Wikipedias.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 18, 2010 — Microsoft Research today announced the launch of the beta version of WikiBhasha, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia. The WikiBhasha tool enables contributors to Wikipedia to find content from other Wikipedia articles, translate the content into other languages, and then either compose new articles or enhance existing articles in multilingual Wikipedias. (more…)

Microsoft Delivers New Innovations That Reinforce Its Dynamic Business Vision for CRM and ERP Customers and Partners

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2010Technologyconvergence 2010 europe, crm 2011, dynamic business, global reporting initiative, gri, kirill tatarinov, london, Microsoft, microsoft dynamics nav 2009 r2, prague, the hague

*Microsoft announces new Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online promotion and global expansion of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail.*

LONDON — Oct. 14, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT”) opens Convergence 2010 Europe today in London with a keynote address from Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president, Microsoft Business Solutions. Throughout the three-city event that also includes Prague and The Hague, Oct. 14–21, Tatarinov will share how the company is delivering on its Dynamic Business vision by providing customer-driven innovations. (more…)

comScore Releases September 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Technologyalgorithmic explicit searches, aol llc, ask network, bing, Comscore, comscore qsearch, Google, google instant search, Microsoft, mywebsearch, organic search, qsearch, query, u.s. search marketplace, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, October 13, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in September with 66.1 percent of searches conducted, an increase of 0.7 share points from August 2010. (more…)

comScore Releases September 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Technologyamericans, brightroll video network, Comscore, comscore video metrix, content, Facebook, Google, hulu, Microsoft, online video, tremor media video network, us internet users, Yahoo, YouTube

*Microsoft Sites Climbs to Fourth Place in Video Content Ranking with 45 Million Viewers*

RESTON, VA, October 12, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 175 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in September for an average of 14.4 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 5.2 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. (more…)

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