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Smartphone Adoption Continues to Grow in Japan

By Guest PostFebruary 25, 20112 commentsTechnologyapple, Comscore, comscore mobilens, Google, google android, Japan, japan kk, japanese, Microsoft, mobile media market, mobile usage, palm platform, rim, shin imamura, smartphone adoption, Technology

*comScore Releases Latest Mobile Industry Insights from its MobiLens Product*

Tokyo, Japan, February 25, 2011 – comScore Japan KK, a wholly owned subsidiary of comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the latest insights into mobile usage in Japan from its comScore MobiLens product. The report found that Japanese users are continuing to adopt smartphone devices, with Apple and Google platforms seeing significant increases in subscribers. (more…)

Hello Mother: Microsoft Makes ‘Native Languages’ More Accessible

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2011Technologycarla hurd, english to vietnamese, environments and communities, greater economic opportunity, high tech world, indigenous polynesian, international mother language day, inuktitut language, language interface packs, lauren woodman, lips, malaysia, maori language, microsoft local language program, microsoft windows, new zealand, te taka keegan, Technology, Vietnam, visual studio

*The Microsoft Local Language Program extends software to often underserved cultures, allowing people to experience technology in their native language. Feb. 21 is International Mother Language Day*

REDMOND – Feb. 21, 2011 – While visiting a government office in Vietnam nearly a decade ago, a Microsoft employee noticed one of the employees had Post-It® notes all the way around her computer monitor.

The notes weren’t daily “to-dos” or grocery lists, but English-to-Vietnamese translations of common Microsoft Windows and Office commands such as “file,” “save” and “print.” At the time, there was no Microsoft software available in Vietnamese. (more…)

Multidisciplinary Student Teams Meld Minds in Microsoft Competition

By Guest PostFebruary 4, 2011Technologyautism, bxt philosophy, carnegie mellon school of design, engineering schools, Europe, firenze, florence, grand prize, greatest thinkers, italy, james liu, kinect avatar, mainstream, Microsoft, microsoft firenze bxt student innovation competition, multidisciplinary work, ohio state university, pradeep u n, product innovation, redmond campus, renaissance, subha rangarajan, Technology

*The 5th annual Microsoft Firenze BXT Student Innovation Competition brings together business, design and engineering students to showcase how innovation happens in the real world. This year’s finals take place this weekend on Microsoft’s Redmond campus*

REDMOND, Wash. – Feb. 4, 2011 – Midway through last year’s Microsoft Firenze BXT student innovation competition, James Liu realized something he wasn’t expecting.

He wanted to work at Microsoft. (more…)

Microsoft Survey Highlights Cloud Movement Across the US

By Guest PostJanuary 12, 2011Technologybig capital cost option, cloud computing, cloud friendly uscities, it decision makers, job growth, Microsoft, microsoft azure, rda corporation, scott woodgate, Technology, tom cole

*Microsoft today named some of the country’s top “cloud-friendly” U.S. cities. The rankings are based on the results of an extensive survey in which 2,000 IT decision makers nationwide discussed how they are adopting and using cloud computing.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 12, 2011 – The forecast for cloud computing across key U.S. cities calls for new lines of business, more need for IT services, and potential job growth, according to a new survey released today by Microsoft.

Microsoft released the results of the study this week after interviewing more than 2,000 IT decision-makers in 10 U.S. cities. (more…)

Russian Nuclear Industry to Conquer Country of Pyramids

By PravdaDecember 22, 2010Politics, Science, Technologyalexandria, Bangladesh, bushehr npp, egypt, electricity, gigacalories, gw, haripur, hydropower, India, kudankulam, nuclear power plant, power plant, rachid mohamed rachid, rivers, rosatom, russia, Technology, thermal power, Venezuela, viktor khristenko, vladimir putin, West Bengal

Russia is ready to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt at its own expense, to manage the plant, and even find markets for the electricity. Early next year Egypt is expected to announce a tender for the construction of nuclear power plant with the capacity of 1 GW 150 km from Alexandria. Russia’s Rosatom will participate in the tender.

A meeting of Russian-Egyptian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific-technical cooperation was held on Monday. From the Russian side it was chaired by the Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko. (more…)

Tiny Protozoa May Hold Key to World Water Safety

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2010Environment, Sciencebarometers, better world, biologist, bob curtis, camera, car, climate change, department of defense, digital camera, dod, gasoline, groundbreaking technique, microscopic plankton, one celled protozoa, pesticides, plastic containers, protozoa, sbs, scott gallager, software, swimming behavioral spectrophotometer, Technology, toxins, underwater environment, wade mcgillis, water

Right now, it looks a little like one of those plastic containers you might fill with gasoline when your car has run dry. But Scott Gallager is not headed to the nearest Mobil station. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) biologist has other, grander plans for his revolutionary Swimming Behavioral Spectrophotometer (SBS), which employs one-celled protozoa to detect toxins in water sources.

Not only is he working on streamlining the boxy-looking contraption—eventually even evolving it into a computer chip—but he sees it as a tool to potentially “monitor all the drinking water in the world.

“It has a unique utility.” (more…)

New Report Summarizes Key Themes in American Doctoral Education

By Guest PostDecember 5, 2010Culture, Educationamerican system of doctoral education, doctoral education system, doctorate recipients, engineering, mathematics, microsoft excel, pdf, portable document format, Science, sed, stem, stem pipeline, subra suresh, survey of earned doctorates, Technology, united states, universities, us universities

*Summary report, “Doctorate Recipients from United States Universities: 2009” is available online*

A new report recently released by the National Science Foundation, titled “Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: 2009,” presents a statistical overview of the U.S. doctoral education system in snapshots and long-term trends.

It notes the American system of doctoral education is widely considered the world’s best, as evidenced by the large number of international students who choose to pursue a doctorate at U.S. universities. But this status is subject to the many factors that shape U.S. doctoral education. (more…)

Microsoft Lync 2010: The Future of Communications, Right Now

By Guest PostNovember 17, 20102 commentsTechnologya t Kearney, Bill Gates, communications, fortune 500, gurdeep singh pall, instant messaging, Microsoft, microsoft lync, microsoft office 365, microsoft office communications server, ocs, Technology

*Microsoft Lync puts people at the center of communications, connecting in new ways, across the PC, phone and browser.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 17, 2010 — Three years ago, the introduction of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) changed the way people stay connected. An individual’s identity and presence became the center of business communication, thanks to the integration of unified communications across e-mail, voice, instant messaging, audio- and videoconference tasks — and even desktop sharing. People could choose how to manage their conversations, redirect calls, set their level of availability, and decide how and when they could be reached. (more…)

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