MSN Strikes New Entertainment
Deals
Microsoft's MSN division
inked two new content deals on
Wednesday, including an
agreement to rebroadcast the
Bob Marley Festival in Miami
as well as a deal with
Billboard to run a music site
on the MSN Latino service...
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23.02.2006Verizon Re-enables Reggae Ringtones from Bob Marley
In the midst of debates with his estate over charges of trademark infringement, Bob Marley's ringtones are again available from Verizon, enabling a
veritable throng of users to finally be able to pick up their phones to the tune of "I Shot the Sheriff."..
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18.09.2007Chris Gray: Windows Home Server Extensibility Model
Charles Torre: We recently announced the availability of
Windows Home Server. I caught up
with Lead Developer Chris Gray to get the scoop on Home Server's extensibility model (fully .NET managed APIs, by the way) and talk about some of the
innovative add-ins customers have created. Chris demos a few simple add-ins to show how easy it is to extend the Windows Home Server admin console
using Visual Studio.
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06.11.2007Coast Guard searching for missing Microsoft researcher
The U.S. Coast Guard has been
conducting an extensive search
for 63-year-old Jim Gray, a
senior manager with
Microsoft's Silicon Valley
research organization. Gray's
wife reported him missing
Sunday afternoon when he
failed to return to their home
in San Francisco from his
sailboating trip. The Coast
Guard is continuing to search
4,000 square miles of Pacific
Ocean between San Francisco
and the Farallon Islands,
where Gray was reportedly
headed in his 40-foot sailboat
Tenacious Sunday morning. The
Coast Guard said it has
deployed a C-130 fixed-wing
aircraft, an HH-65 Dolphin
helicopter, three 87-foot
coastal patrol boats and other
equipment to continue the
search.
Gray was
hired in 1995 to run
Microsoft's Bay Area Research
Center in San Francisco.
According to a biography of
Gray on a Microsoft Web site,
he researches databases and
transaction processing systems
with a particular focus on
using computers to make
scientists more productive in
the fields of astronomy,
geography, hydrology,
oceanography, biology, and
health care. Gray, who has
also worked at such technology
companies as IBM, Tandem
Computers, and Digital
Equipment, won the ACM Turing
Award in 1998 for his work on
transaction processing.
neowin.net -
31.01.2007Tribute to honor Jim Gray will be held on May 31st, 2008 at UC Berkeley
winbeta.org -
18.11.2007Jim Gray eScience Award Recipient Unlocks Secrets in the Snow
Using satellites and powerful computing tools, Jeff Dozier has gained a deep understanding of the role snowfall and snowmelt play in creating healthy
ecosystems...
microsoft.com/presspass -
16.10.2009New Tools for Discovery on Display at eScience Workshop
Microsoft External Research workshop and new Jim Gray eScience Award highlight technologies fueling the advancement of science...
microsoft.com/presspass -
12.12.2008Vista 'inevitable' for enterprises, says Forrester analyst
Although a "significant" number of corporations are hesitating to move to Windows Vista, businesses should bite the bullet because Microsoft Corp.
is retiring Windows XP, and there's no guarantee it will deliver a next-generation operating system on time or with compelling features, a research
analyst said.
"Vista is an inevitability, for a number of reasons," said Ben Gray, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. He
then ticked off several, including Windows XP's announced retirement and unsubstantiated talk about Vista's successor, Windows 7.
"They are sort of in a 'caught between a rock and a hard place' situation," said Gray. Administrators may not want to move to Vista, but
neither of the alternatives -- the older XP and the not-even-officially-scheduled Windows 7 -- is attractive, he said.
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29.04.2008Lik-Sang Loses Sony PSP Import Battle
Sony said Thursday that it had
prevailed in a so-called
"gray importing" case
against a Hong Kong-based
company who was selling
PlayStation Portable gaming
systems intended for the
Japanese market in Europe...
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20.10.2006Vista's biggest problem remains Windows XP, survey says
Microsoft Corp.'s biggest worry over Windows Vista shouldn't be rival operating systems from Apple Inc. or Red Hat Inc., but remains competition
from its own Windows XP, an analyst said today.
"The big story isn't that 32% of the companies we surveyed said that they would
start Vista deployments by the end of next year," said Benjamin Gray, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. "It's that companies have been hugely
successful in standardizing on Windows XP."
According to a survey of nearly 600 U.S. and European companies that have more than
1,000 employees, 84% of all their PCs now run Windows XP, up from 67% the year before. While XP may have peaked, Gray warned not to bet against the
6-year-old operating system. "There are plenty of companies looking forward to XP SP3," he said. That next hot-fix and patch rollup is to ship
sometime in the first quarter of 2008, Microsoft has said, and it will reportedly be XP's last service pack.
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15.11.2007ActiveX Controls Still
Vulnerable After Four Years
Activity spotted by an eWeek
reporter on at least two
"gray-hat"
vulnerability research sites
appears to indicate that an
exploit for a weakness in one
of Microsoft's Multimedia
ActiveX controls discovered
last June may still be
feasible, even after four
years of patches...
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15.09.2006WinHEC 2007 Day 3: First Glimpses Inside Windows Home Server
WINHEC DAY 3 A
standing-room only crowd
appeared late Thursday morning
to see Windows Home Server
lead developer Chris Gray
answer technical questions on
the subject of how the company
will make its latest
permutation of Windows Server
2003 usable by people who have
enough difficulty with their
microwaves and universal
remotes...and how developers
will be expected to help them...
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18.05.2007Apple unveils new iPod Shuffle
Apple surprised many today by unveiling a redesigned iPod Shuffle. The new design gets a memory spec bump to 4GB for $80.00. The new design
(seen below) has no screen but Apple did include a new VoiceOver feature. VoiceOver allows "
ith the press of a button, it tells you what song is
playing and who's performing it. It can even tell you the names of your play lists, giving you a new way to navigate your music". The new unit
is on sale now in steel gray or charcoal colors and comes with the usual Apple accessories. Apple generally unveils new products on Tuesday but with
this unveiling maybe Apple is trying to keep its followers on their toes.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 11.03.2009
Happy 40th birthday to the Internet!
Today, September 2, is the Internet's 40th birthday! On this day, 40 years ago, in a test lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two
computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable - it was then called the ARPANET. One month later Stanford Research Institute had also joined.
By the end of the year, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah had joined, thus creating the "internet". The Web, as we know it, was invented
by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, when he invented the "World Wide Web" or "WWW".
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 03.09.2009
WinHEC: First Glimpses Inside Windows Home Server
A standing-room only
crowd appeared late Thursday
morning to see Windows Home
Server lead developer Chris
Gray answer technical
questions on the subject of
how the company will make its
latest permutation of Windows
Server 2003 usable by people
who have enough difficulty
with their microwaves and
universal remotes...and how
developers will be expected to
help them.
A
machine certified to run
Windows Home Server is likely
to occupy the space of an old
Toastmaster appliance, and
some early prototype cases
actually have the appearance
of one.
But inside,
the machine is expected to
support as many as six
simultaneous SATA drives, not
as a RAID array but as a means
for providing home-based video
storage of around three
terabytes, given the
increasing ubiquity of 500 GB
hard drives...
winbeta.org - 18.05.2007
Inside the iPhone Gray Market
Encamped along the aisles of the massive Zhongguancun Kemao Electronics Market in Beijing are many people like Li Zhongxin, of the Beijing Xinyu
Lianhe Telecom Equipment Co. Li sits atop a plastic stool in front of his open-air stall on the third floor, scanning the throngs of shoppers for
would-be customers. There's no sign of Apple's iPhone among the thicket of cell phones, handset covers, and other accessories hung on shelves and
inside the waist-high glass display case, but he'll be glad to show you one. In exchange for an up-front payment, "you can buy as many as you'd
like," Li says.
winbeta.org - 13.02.2008
Microsoft Hires Database Pioneer, Opens Database Development Lab
In an effort to forward fundamental database research and push the limits of database scalability, Microsoft has hired parallel database pioneer David
DeWitt as the company's newest technical fellow and will open an advanced development laboratory in Madison, Wis.
The
laboratory, called the Jim Gray Systems Lab, will perform fundamental research on databases and work closely with Microsoft Research and the
company's development teams to do advanced development of database technologies that the company will roll out in the midterm.
winbeta.org - 24.04.2008
Philips Paper-like Display
Earlier Than Expected
A few months ago
Philips Polymer Vision, a
company backed by Philips
promised a rollable,
paper-like display in two
years - and took then only a
few months to have a prototype
ready. Philips Polymer Vision
is showing its Concept Readius
during an international
exhibition in Berlin,
Germany.
T
he Philips Concept Readius is
a prototype of a connected
consumer device for business
professionals. The device
implements a pocket-sized
e-reader withouth sacrificing
readability, mobility,
performance, or
weight.
The Readius
is the world???s first
prototype of a functional
electronic-document reader
that can unroll its display to
a scale larger than the device
itself. With four gray levels,
the monochrome, 5-inch QVGA
(320 pixels x 240 pixels)
display provides paper-like
viewing comfort with a high
contrast ratio for
reading-intensive
applications, including text,
graphics, and electronic maps...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005
The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit
More office workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones are demanding Macs. Is business ready? Is Apple?
Soon after Michele Goins
became chief information officer at Juniper Networks in February, she decided to respond to the growing chorus of Mac lovers among the networking
company's 6,100 employees. For years, many had used Apple's computers at home and clamored for them in the office as well. So she launched a test,
letting 600 Juniper staffers use Macs instead of the standard-issue PCs that run Microsoft's Windows operating system. As long as the extra support
costs aren't too high, she plans to open the floodgates. "If we opened it up today, I think 25% of our employees would choose Macs," she says.
winbeta.org - 02.05.2008
Windows XP still powering 71 percent of business PCs
More than two years after the Windows Vista launch, XP is still the dominant business PC operating system in North America and Europe.
Windows Vista “finally appears ready to dethrone XP” as the
operating-system choice for enterprise PCs, trumpeted a new Forrester Research report released on January 30. But the report, based on a survey of 962
IT decision makers, didn’t do much to bolster Vista’s image in the market. From the report by Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray...
winbeta.org - 02.02.2009
