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Synopsis: Ict: Computer: Computer industry: Computer companies: Microsoft:


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Some of the major international companies located here include Coca-cola, Pepsi, IBM, American express, Agilent, Microsoft, and Bank of america."


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data-stuffed companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix. Finally, younger tech companies, including Airbnb,


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After taking advice from the likes of Microsoft and Google, officials were convinced that the state-school curriculum was out of step with modern-day technical standards.


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#Microsoft Open Tech Integrates Office 365 Moodle Moodle partner Remote-Learner. net has teamed up with Microsoft Open Technologies to integrate Office 365 with Moodle.

""We are thrilled to be able to work with Microsoft to integrate Moodle with the Office 365 platform.

With the Office 365 plugins for Moodle, Microsoft continues to demonstrate its commitment to open source software

Moodle administrators can deploy these new features knowing they have the support of both Microsoft and the Moodle Partner community


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#Watch Bill gates Drink Water From Human waste We know that Bill gates made a lot of money from Microsoft


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Letv could face legal action from companies like Apple and Microsoft. And U s. consumers may be wary of using devices that connect to machines in China.


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Microsoft Is Now the Largest Company in the World to Accept Bitcoin The trouble at the popular exchange couldn come at a worse time for the ultra-hyped virtual money,


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They have since been joined by more than 20 other leading multinational companies including Diageo General mills Johnson & johnson Mcdonalds Microsoft Nestl


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Huang now a software engineer at Microsoft corp. in Seattle notes that the research prototype could easily be developed into a thin screen protector


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and Microsoft Research. The National Science Foundation the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Centers for Systems Biology supported the research.


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and correct the drawing strokes of subsequent touchscreen users in an application created by researchers at Carnegie mellon University and Microsoft Research.

and Michael Cohen, principal researcher in Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media Group. The National Science Foundation, Google, Qualcomm, Adobe, Intel,


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and Microsoft initially#hummed its way through calls for a Skype transparency report before#giving in#to pressure from privacy groups.

In May, Microsoft said its Xbox One console would have an#always-on microphone, constantly listening to whatever people say near it.

It alleged that the NSA had#direct access to the servers#of the big U s. tech firms, such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.

Google, Microsoft, Apple and others appeared utterly complicit with the NSA, as though they were happily inviting them into their data centers for a look around,


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long before#Nokia sold its mobile division to Microsoft#in September, and is encouraging venture capitalists from around the world to invest in the local talent.##

along with Nokia and Microsoft, and is set up to spur app development for Windows phones. Startups from various countries around the globe,


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Reactive logic is applied automatically to all changes it s the next level up in reuse beyond object-oriented programming. 5. The big kids are into it Microsoft#led the effort#by releasing Rx extensions to its.

It s not just for the front end While Microsoft laid the foundation with the release of reactive extensions to.


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#a senior researcher in mobile computing at Microsoft Research,#told the#MIT Technology Review. Via Singularity Hub Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http://www. youtube. com/v/snzwgazqo2c&


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Google chrome and Microsoft Internet explorer were traded for proxy browsers Some found smartphone camera apps which do not log a picture s GPS.


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The technology is being developed in collaboration with researchers at MIT and Microsoft. In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses


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a Microsoft Kinect movement sensor to track gestures and jerks, and a microphone to capture inflection and tone.


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Mary Czerwinski is a cognitive psychologist at Microsoft Research doing pioneering work in Affect Computing.


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and Microsoft just increased its storage limit for Onedrive business customers from 20gb to 1tb#on Monday.

Now, users will be able to edit Microsoft-formatted files directly within Google Apps without converting them to Google s file formats.

Those sync with Microsoft Active directory or with any generic LDAP framework, Johnston said. There will also be much better visibility into

and it seemed that Larry page was satisfied to keep the product around as a decent side business (advertising still makes up 90%of Google s more than $40 billion in annual revenue) and a thorn in Microsoft s side,


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Created by#Accenture,#Microsoft, #and#Avanade, the Connected Fitting Room is currently in use at the department store Kohl s,

which has locations all throughout the US. In addition, talks are in process that would bring the technology to retailers in the UK as well.


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she was thanking Microsoft for being a major sponsor of the conference and inviting the company new CEO, Satya Nadella, on stage.

He threw in a little dig at Microsoft when announcing the news saying: e want to reignite in all of our universities around the world operating system research

since Microsoft doesn freely share that code. Windows is not free and open source as Linux and Android is.

In other words, HP could be doing a joint development project with Microsoft if it wanted to.

As Whitman said about the HP, Intel, Microsoft combo, ur partnership, the three companies it was the defining partnership of the industry for the last 30 years but sometimes 30-year marriages,

It not wholly surprising that HP is building a new computer that will extricate itself from Microsoft,

Last year, Whitman called out Microsoft and Intel as competitors. After a disappointing quarter for the company PC business she told Wall street analysts:

Current partners like Intel and Microsoft are turning from partners to outright competitors. Since then, HP has introduced new Windows 8 PCS.

and hp is interested clearly not in helping Microsoft, and prefers open source OSS. Intel also might be left out in the cold.

Since snubbing Microsoft seems to be the sport of tech royalty this year, shorting MS stock might be fun money too t


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Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms building a complex system of projectors and computers.


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Microsoft or Oracle, sign up for a platform as a service and be up and running in minutes. Competition is fierce


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according to a report by the Wall street journal. An Israeli startup by the name of Storedot revealed the technology at Microsoft Think Next Conference using standard smartphone batteries,

video) As the demo was held at a Microsoft conference, the actual demonstration was shown on a Samsung galaxy S3;


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Apple Inc.,Google Inc.,Microsoft corp. and Cisco systems Inc. are a few major Silicon valley tech companies selling either hardware or software to K-12 educators.


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Facebook and Microsoft play such a central role in the Internet worldwide functioning. The NSA revelations exacerbated those concerns. his is a step in the right direction to resolve important international disputes about how the Internet is governed,


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wee excited to be working closely with industry leaders Microsoft and Supermicro to provide enhanced performance

Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.

Microsoft. ee proud to work with companies such as Seagate and Supermicro who continue to innovate

and deliver highly reliable and high performance Microsoft Fast Track Data warehouse designs. With this solution companies will be able to more efficiently support real time reporting and streaming data,

Supermicro Superserver SYS-4048b-TRFT system and Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Enterprise Edition to deliver a fully-optimized,

efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg, vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. ur Microsoft certified solution comes preconfigured with quad Intel Xeon E7 processors, Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator cards, memory,

storage and SQL SERVER 2014 installed and validated. With this turnkey solution, organizations can focus efforts on more strategic decision making activities around data analytics

For more information please visit http://www. seagate. com and Seagate and Microsoft Fast Track.

Information on Microsoft SQL SERVER Fast Track Data warehouse reference architecture can be found at Microsoft Solutions o


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condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.


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or Microsoft's Bing images to obtain evidence to support their case. Why would they need space detectives?


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and Microsoft DOS paving the way for personal computers in the 1980s. Before those components became available,


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Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video.

Michael Rubinstein of Microsoft Research, who did his Phd with Freeman; and Gautham Mysore of Adobe Research.


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The camera is based on ime of Flighttechnology like that used in Microsoft recently launched second-generation Kinect device, in


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Generally determining an object s orientation entails trying to superimpose a geometric model of the object over visual data captured by a camera in the case of Glover s work a Microsoft Kinect camera


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#Microsoft pays 5m CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research.

Over five years Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT research projects.

Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities. Microsoft has been investing in Swiss research for years

and now the US technology company is renewing its longstanding collaboration with EPFL and ETH Zurich.

Microsoft will provide one million Swiss francs per year in funding for IT-related research projects at the two universities over a period of five years.

For his project he and Dr. Shahram Izadi from Microsoft Research are investigating how flying robots can work

and other scientists from Microsoft Research in Cambridge to develop new applications for this system known as Scale-out NUMA A


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It has been developed by RCAST at the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Microsoft Japan and is available from assist


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#Skype's Real-time Translator Now Open to All Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.

or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn. Skype Translator preview debuted late last year,


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The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."


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and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture,


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in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works. The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves


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The edict that Microsoft has enterprise on lockdown is dissipating. Huge enterprise player Cisco and Apple announced a ast Lanefor ios enterprise users,


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Intel Realsense, like Microsoft more famous Kinect cameras, work by projecting a signal (a laser

Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.


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There's the charismatic Satya Nadella in charge at Microsoft. There's the 10-year-strong reign of Shantanu Narayen at the top of Adobe.


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In 2011, Microsoft bought up more than 660,000 IP ADDRESSES from Nortel for $7. 5 million US ($11. 36 each.


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Having sold its mobile handset division to Microsoft last year for $7. 2 billion, Nokia has focused since primarily itself on network equipment manufacturing,


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which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,


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since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s


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and Microsoft have not decided to jump in as of yet. MJ Freeway was created out of necessity.

if Microsoft wants to play and will kiosks be needed if Bank of america decides cannabis won get them in trouble with the Feds.


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#Depth sensor could bring Kinect games outdoors A new imaging technology could address a major drawback of depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft Kinect controller:


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Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p


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#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d-Printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,


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and Microsoft has starting pooling resources into virtual-reality research. n addition to the major business Eyenetra is doing for prescriptions,


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including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.


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Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface

and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye.

"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),


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Just ask Facebook, Google and Microsoft. With its promising application to video games and other in-real-time experiences, its no wonder the biggest tech players in the field are eager to explore AR possibilities.


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such as Microsoft's Kinect controller for video games, have become widely used 3-D sensors. Now, a new imaging technology invented by Carnegie mellon University and the University of Toronto addresses a major shortcoming of these cameras:


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and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture,


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In turn, it could model how a specific treatment would interact with the patient. heyl be the Microsofts and Googles of biomedicine,


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. the investment fund of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allenas solved the long-enough problem. Making the plasma hot enough is the next key challenge.


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It focuses on the first and clearest of a number of complaints filed in 2009-10 by various Google competitors-from other giants, such as Microsoft, to small, struggling or defunct web businesses.


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If youe Microsoft, you can at least reassure yourself that you now also have a funky new URL.


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Microsoft told its enterprise cloud customers on Tuesday that it believes they can continue to transfer data by relying on additional steps


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#Microsoft granted patent for glasses that detect wearer's emotions Put this one in the WTF file.

The United states Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent today for a pair of glasses that can detect a wearer emotional response to what theye looking at.


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Past complainants include Microsoft, Tripadvisor, and Yelp, as well several German and French publishers. The charges will bring to a head the EC's five-year investigation into Google's business practices in Europe

One of the key reference points for the EC's actions against Microsoft in 2007, which ultimately saw the company fined hundreds of millions of euros.

and a new wave of search assistants like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, as well as more specialized services like Amazon, Idealo, Le Guide, Expedia, or ebay.

The recent Samsung S6 is a great example of this-there are pre-installed Facebook, Microsoft,


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including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,


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#Samsung, Dell, other OEMS to bundle Microsoft apps, services on Android tablets Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Samsung and new deals with Dell and other OEMS to preload Microsoft

The Android preload deals, announced March 23, cover both consumer and business Microsoft apps and services.

Samsung, for its part, will preinstall Microsoft services and apps on its"portfolio of Android devices.""Samsung committed to offering Microsoft office 365

Microsoft also announced today it has expanded bundling deals with Dell, as well as regional OEMS including Trekstor of Germany, JP Sa Couto of Portugal, Datamatic of Italy, DEXP of Russia, Hipstreet of Canada, QMOBILE of Pakistan, Tecno of Africa,

Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,

Android distribution startup Cyanogen might be next up to forge a similar bundling relationship with Microsoft.

A recent Forbes report claims Cyanogen is"close to finalizing a wide-ranging partnership to incorporate several of Microsoft's mobile services,

"Microsoft originally was rumored to be considering making a minority investment in Cyanogen, but supposedly the Redmondians have decided against that, at least for now


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since Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 Mobile test Build on August 12, Microsoft pulled the trigger on Build 10512,

which it made available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring.""Our major focus on Windows 10 Mobile right now is on improvements to core quality,

Microsoft is expected to make Windows 10 Mobile available on new Windows phones and to and existing Windows phone users later this fall l


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Using data analysis technology from Council Lead Partner Microsoft, they are able to position officers where they will make the biggest difference.

How it works Microsoft Domain Awareness System gets most of the attention for its work in preventing crimes.

While the analytics were built by Microsoft, New york city police officers guided the development. Police officers described their biggest pain points

Doesn break the budget Microsoft is quick to point out that these benefits are available to cities of any size at a very modest investment.


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The city has partnered with Council Lead Partners Cisco and Microsoft in addition to Fiberco, the Technology Innovation Agency and Nunnovation Africa Foundation on the program.


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Microsoft, andcisco and Associate Partner Siemens have been working with Chinese companies on national information security as well as technologies


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an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that manages messages from a collaborative perspective. Decisiv Email offers more than a carbon-copy of what's going on


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Microsoft is also hoping to benefit from the phenomenon. Its Microsoft Tag mobile scanning technology supports both 2d barcode formats (including QR Codes and the Tag format) as well as Near Field Communications.

This month, Procter & gamble are running a month-long test in the Chicago and New york areas of pop-up stores,


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(either desktop or mobile) so Microsoft is playing platform favorites with this early beta program.


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It very hard to think of how Microsoft will manage to turn this around, and you do have to wonder

The big picture for feature phones is not unlike that of Microsoft legacy smartphone maker Blackberry:


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Adobe, AIG, Akamai, AOL, Appnexus, AT&T, BSA, ebay, Electronic arts, Expedia, Facebook, GE, Goldman sachs, Google, Groupon, IAC, IBM, Lockheed martin, Massmutual, Microsoft


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Even a closed behemoth like Microsoft is now recognizing the value of open-sourced collaboration,


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#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,

you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games

Members of Reddit bitcoin subred noted that Microsoft appears to be working with payments firm Bitpay to make this happen.

Neither Microsoft nor Bitpay have announced formally the partnership or details but the former does have a series of instructions related to bitcoin payments within its illing helppages.

Microsoft has confirmed now that it is indeed working with Bitpay. It described its adoption of Bitcoin as being bout giving people options

Customers can use bitcoin to load money into a Microsoft wallet or to create digital gift cards,


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While some organizations already have the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) in place allowing IT administrators to manage large groups of Windows-based computer systems,


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and Microsoft consulted with the startup to make quieter fans for the Xbox One games console,


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An early mover the firm has seen increased competition from younger firms like Dropbox and older companies like Microsoft and Google.


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and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Finally, you can use it with private cloud infrastructure services including virtual machines, bare metal and Openstack.


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Overstock and even Microsoft, hopped onto the cryptocurrency to give customers an alternative avenue for payments. he integration with Bitnet platform will make Rakuten one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world to begin accepting bitcoin,


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Microsoft and countless startups working on making better predictions. As Herzberg says, once you have been able to collect the data from a sensors,


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#Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China New Report Finds Only a few weeks after Google Gmail service was blocked in China a new report from online censorship monitoring organization Greatfire. org released this morning

states that Microsoft email system Outlook was subjected recently to a an-in-the-middleattack in China.

but the web interfaces for Microsoft webmail services were not. That is Outlook. com and Login. live. com were affected not.

which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft

or have allowed willingly the attack to happenwrites Greatfire. org in its report. f our accusation is correct this new attack signals that the Chinese authorities are intent on further cracking down on communication methods that they cannot readily monitor. ee reached out to Microsoft for comment on this attack


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and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.


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The product puts Facebook head-to-head with the likes of Microsoft Yammer Slack Convo Socialcast and a huge number of others who are trying to tackle the nterprise social networkspace.

A lot of messaging apps (Microsoft Yammer being one of the notably early movers) have tried to tap into onsumerizationor getting enterprise apps to look


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There no reason to believe the company will stop Google Microsoft Telenav or Here from offering its mapping services on its platform though.


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#Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team up To Launch Webassembly, A New Binary Format For The Web Google, Microsoft,

Some of these projects focus on adding new features to the language (like Microsoft Typescript) or speeding up Javascript (like Mozilla asm. js project.


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Microsoft this year launched a database called COCO to try to fix that. Google used COCO in its new research,


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Partners already working with Intel include Microsoft s Skype unit the movie and gaming studio Dreamworks and the 3-D design company Autodesk according to Achin Bhowmik general manager for Intel s

Those demonstrations were reminiscent of Microsoft s Kinect sensor for its Xbox gaming console which introduced gamers to depth sensing

Microsoft launched a version of Kinect aimed at Windows PCS in 2012 and significantly upgraded its depth-sensing technology in 2013

Some of Intel s demos were rough around the edges suggesting that their compact sensors are less accurate than the larger ones of Microsoft.


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Luth current and former clients include Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San diego padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix. The information it collects can help companies decide where to spend advertising dollars.


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Microsoft is involved in ongoing litigation against a search warrant issued in December 2013 by a U s. magistrate authorizing the search

and seizure of e-mail accounts hosted by Microsoft. The company objected to the warrant with regard to data stored at its data center in Ireland claiming that U s. courts are authorized not to issue warrants for extraterritorial searches.

Microsoft also argued that if it turned over data stored abroad to the U s. government it would be more difficult for the company to resist requests by foreign governments for data stored in the U s

Microsoft argues that it does since it directs the company to produce information stored outside the United states. The government's argument is that

because Microsoft is subject to U s. jurisdiction it must turn over data it controls regardless of where the data is stored.

and Verizon) have supported publicly Microsoft's position. The revelations of Edward Snowden have put them all under increasing pressure to resist U s. requests for data access.

The issues raised in the Microsoft case are relevant to all companies subject to U s. jurisdiction not just those in the Internet sector including companies based abroad but active in the U s. market.

Microsoft has stated that it will appeal Judge Preska's decision and sources in the U s. legal community tell me that the case could eventually go all the way to the U s. Supreme court

. But while Microsoft s argument that the case has major policy implications is compelling the U s. government's position may be difficult to overcome under the current state of the law.


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#Turning a Regular Smartphone Camera into a 3-D One Microsoft researchers say simple hardware changes

new research from Microsoft shows that with some simple modifications and machine-learning techniques an ordinary smartphone camera or webcam can be used as a 3-D depth camera.

Microsoft modified camera A group led by Sean Ryan Fanello Cem Keskin, and Shahram Izadi of Microsoft Research is due to present a paper on the work Tuesday at Siggraph, a computer graphics and interaction conference in Vancouver, British columbia.

To modify the cameras, the group removed the near infrared filter, often used in everyday cameras to block normally unwanted light signals in pictures.

By doing so, they essentially made each camera act as an infrared camera. computer with Microsoft image of person's face e kind of turned the camera on its head

The Microsoft team says it wanted to use the reflective intensity of infrared light as something like a cross between a sonar signal and a torch in a dark room.

But the group needed to train the machines (in this case a Samsung galaxy Nexus smartphone and a Microsoft Lifecam Web camera) on that relationship,

Microsoft chose skin since it has so many implications for navigating Xbox and Windows environments, but Kohli points out that the machine learning techniques could transfer anywhere. he only limitation is


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