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Go Inside ‘The Hunger Games’ Movie with Groundbreaking New IE9 Site

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2012Technologybestselling trilogy, capitol city, css3, david hayes, evan dehaven, film clip, hollywood, hologram tour, html5, hunger games, internet explorer, internet explorer 9, lionsgate, Microsoft, movie trailers, movies, North America, panem, post apocalyptic world, ryan gavin, the hunger games, web

*Fans of the upcoming movie “The Hunger Games” can visit the fictional nation of Panem and immerse themselves into its futuristic Capitol city by visiting a new Internet Explorer 9 website powered by HTML5.*

REDMOND, Wash. – March 20, 2012 – The pages of the bestselling trilogy “The Hunger Games” introduced readers to a captivating set of characters living in a post-apocalyptic world, and on Friday the movie adaptation of the first book will bring that world to life.

Thanks to a partnership between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team and Lionsgate, fans of The Hunger Games can dive in and experience the world of Panem and its opulent and oppressive Capitol city today. (more…)

AARP and Microsoft Release New Study on How Online Communication Connects Generations

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2012Technologyaarp, americans, connecting generations, control panel, Facebook, guideline, internet safety, jacqueline beauchere, jeffrey love, jody holtzman, microsoft corp., mobile, new york, online communication, online game, operating system, population, Social networking, Technology, Twitter, web, windows 7

*The report reveals social technologies are helping families connect and enhance intergenerational relationships.*

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Feb. 7, 2012 — AARP and Microsoft Corp. today released “Connecting Generations,” a new research report that examines how people of all ages are using online communication and social networking to enhance their family relationships. The report reveals three key pieces of evidence showing that online communication is bridging the generation gap: (more…)

Yahoo! and ABC News Launch Premier News and Information Alliance

By Guest PostOctober 3, 2011Technologyabc news, ben sherwood, bill weir, christiane amanpour, digital media company, george stephanopoulos, good morning america, nightline, President Obama, ross levinsohn, web, Yahoo, yahoo news, yahoo news network

Powerful combination leverages Yahoo!’s massive reach, content breadth, and technology with ABC News’ leading brands, trusted anchors, and global newsgathering operation

Debut of GoodMorningAmerica.com on Yahoo! offers audience new ways to continue the conversation before, during and after the broadcast 24/7

Yahoo!’s and ABC News’ new exclusive slate of original online video programming kicks off today when ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos interviews President Obama live from the White House

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo!, the premier digital media company, and ABC News today announced a strategic alliance that will enhance and transform the delivery of news and information across the digital landscape. This multifaceted relationship blends Yahoo! News’ unmatched audience, as well as its depth and breadth of content, with ABC News’ global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters. Yahoo! News and ABC News reach a combined audience of more than 100 million people in the U.S. each month on PCs, mobile devices and tablets. (more…)

Helping Keep Children Safe Online

By Guest PostAugust 28, 2011Technologybeatbullying, british kids, computers, concise oxford english dictionary, cyberbullying, cybermentors, digital safety, internet keep safe coalition, justin patchin, laura banks, marsali hancock, Microsoft, richard piggin, riverton, sameer hinduja, sexting, smartphones, Technology, technology and public health, web

*Organizations around the world are addressing cyberbullying — and digital safety overall — by empowering youth and providing educators with resources to help them navigate the digital world. Includes tips for preventing cyberbullying.*

Redmond, Wash. — Aug. 25, 2011 — For all the benefits that smartphones, computers and the Web have to offer — especially for young people who have embraced digital technology and use it every day — there will always be those who misuse the technology to harass others, including their peers.

Known as “cyberbullying,” this problem can occur at any time of the day or night, due to the always-on nature of the devices and technologies used to create these hurtful interactions. So, for some young people, home offers no respite from being victimized. In fact, cyberbullying has beome common enough that the term was recently added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. (more…)

New Anticensorship Scheme Could Make it Impossible to Block Individual Sites

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2011Technologyalex halderman, Beijing, brainchild of computer science researchers, canada, censoring government, cryptographic protocol, cryptographic technique, https website, individual sites, internet, internet censorship, internet service providers, isps, proxy server, public key steganography, san francisco, steganography, telex, telex stations, university of michigan, university of waterloo, usenix security symposium, web, youtube videos

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.

The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo in Canada. They will present it Aug. 12 at the USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco. (more…)

Bing Makes Search Social with Help from 500 Million Friends

By Guest PostMay 17, 2011Technologybing, bing bar, chris pirillo, exabytes of data, Facebook, facebook fan pages, friends, human perspective, laptop, like, Microsoft, mother in law, paul yiu, pc magazine, sean suchter, search experience, search technology center, social, social features, stefan weitz, us weekly, web

*New social features in Bing let users make decisions with help from their Facebook friends.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Bing is adding 500 million new friends, and they’re all going to help the search experience become a lot more social. (more…)

IBM Delivers Technology to Help Clients Protect and Retain “Big Data”

By Guest PostMay 9, 2011Technologybig data, cloud computing, gunther weiss, ibm, ibm 726 magnetic tape recorder, ibm linear tape file system library edition, ibm system storage, klinikverbund suedwest gmbh, ltfs le, mobile devices, national institute of water & atmospheric research, new zealand, niwa, scale out network attached storage, social networks, sonas, southwest germany, tape storage, ts3500, ts3500 tape library, web

*Introduces industry-first tape library technology capable of storing nearly 3 exabytes of data — enough to store almost 3X the mobile data in U.S. in 2010*

ARMONK, N.Y., – 09 May 2011: IBM today announced new tape storage and enhanced archiving, deduplication offerings designed to help clients efficiently store and extract intelligence from massive amounts of data.

The amount of information generated is increasing dramatically each year driven by armies of sensors, mobile devices, social networks, cloud computing and public sources of information like the Web. At the same time, demand for storage capacity worldwide will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 49.8 percent from 2009-2014, according to IDC (1). Clients require new technologies and ways to capitalize on the growing volume, variety and velocity of information known as “Big Data.” (more…)

Yahoo! Introduces Search Direct – A Simpler Way to Find Answers Fast

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2011Technologybeta, digital media company, rich answers, search direct, shashi seth, web, Yahoo, yahoo content, Yahoo! Search

*New Yahoo! search technology adds immediate, rich media content, going beyond just links*

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 23, 2011 – Yahoo!, the premier digital media company, today announced Search Direct, which delivers answers and direct access to websites before you complete a query, hit the search button, or go to a search results page. This search innovation supports Yahoo!’s strategy to fundamentally shift the way people experience the Web – by providing the richest, most integrated content faster and more efficiently.

This new feature, currently in beta, taps into Yahoo!’s unique opportunity to combine content and structured data and to provide a rich search experience. Search Direct predicts search results as fast as a person types, character by character, and presents those results dynamically, generating a fast, simple search experience that goes beyond a list of blue links. Search Direct rolls out in a public beta to Yahoo! users across the U.S. today, and will be available in other Yahoo! products and markets later this year. (more…)

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