http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:04:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few bloggers have suggested that Dropio, which lets users toss all kinds of media into group "drops," could be "this year's Twitter," as SXSWi attendees could potentially use it to communicate and share information with one another. Lessin has mixed feelings about the characterization. "There are aspects of Twitter ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/09/looking-for-this-years-twitter-at-sxswi/ I got my hands on a CardScan Personal review unit and set up the system in no time. I installed the software, calibrated the scanner using the included blank card, and chose a location for the program data. I then started feeding the scanner with a series of cards I'd ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/cardscan-turns-cards-into-contacts/ The two PC industry giants sent out a media alert saying that they will host a teleconference to announce the research venture. The amount of funding for the research, which several universities bid on, will be $2 million annually for five years, according to the Journal. The need for more research stems ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/microsoft-intel-to-sponsor-multicore-development/ With the annual Web 2.0 conference only a week away, we're about to get bombarded with the latest avalanche of marketing hype about technologies that are supposed to change our lives. And if past is prologue, I'm quite sure the 24-hour attention cycle will again be dominated by more monotonous ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/whats-interesting-is-what-we-say-it-is-really/ Cape Wind, a controversial project to build a huge wind farm in Nantucket Sound, passed an environmental review from a federal agency, bringing the U.S.'s first offshore wind project closer to reality. The U.S. Department of the Interior's Mineral Management Service did a review of the potential impact of the installation, ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/offshore-cape-wind-project-clears-federal-environm/ A view of space from Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is ready to boldly take Web surfers where none has gone before. The software giant on Monday launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free Web-based program that allows Web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems, and distant planets. The program, which was developed ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/microsoft-launches-space-tours-on-the-web/ Update 2:15 p.m. PST: No sooner do I post this than RIM goes and issues an explanation for the outage. Read on for the details... In the immortal words of Cinderella's Tom Kiefer, you don't know what you got, till it's gone. Monday's widespread BlackBerry outage--the second major one in the ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/blackberry-outage-the-day-after/ Microsoft didn't say how much it was paying for Danger when it announced the deal on Monday. However, according to Om Malik, the price tag for the company was $500 million. That's more than $1 million per employee for the company, which has 294 workers. However, the price tag makes some ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/dangers-price-tag-reportedly-500-million/ Our Open Season podcast series continued with Episode 19 last week as we wallowed in my general inabilities and the fact that open source realities are starting to kick in for many people. Topics: -Apache licensing and the inability to make money -Bill Gates' departure -Contest: Bill Gates or Kermit the ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/open-season-episode-19-kermit-the-frog-or-bill-ga/ As part of its push into business telephony, Microsoft said Tuesday it is investing in Aspect Software, whose technology is used to run large call centers. Aspect, in turn, will make sure its software works with Microsoft's unified communications products. "A key pillar of Microsoft's unified communications vision is improving access ... http://www.paris-hotelfrance.com/2010/08/microsoft-adds-aspect-to-telephony-push/