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Microsoft unveils its first iPhone app
News Engineers in Microsoft's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's iPhone — even before making it available on Microsoft's own mobile platform. The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a [graphics processing...
[December 15, 2008, 7:25]
Windows 7: Mixed reviews from PDC attendees
News Azure Services Training Kit, a set of hands-on labs, presentations, and samples Some attendees took the opportunity to try out the new Windows 7 operating system in hands-on labs in the main hall of the event.
[October 29, 2008, 9:06]
Microsoft restructures platform group
News Gary Flake, who heads Microsoft's Live Labs, and the labs team will immediately move to the platform division, where they will continue to focus on research projects and developing online services. Microsoft announced executive changes within its...
[August 2, 2006, 9:50]
Microsoft shows off 3D photo viewer Photosynth
News Microsoft Live Labs's latest project is an old one with a new twist. Ina Fried of ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com, spoke with Microsoft's Gary William Flake about what you can do with this new technology.
[August 26, 2008, 11:57]
Microsoft zooms in on mobile browsing
News The Deepfish download is now available in a limited private beta from Microsoft Live Labs. Microsoft Labs' blog described Deepfish's goal as "preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices while providing novel ways of...
[April 2, 2007, 9:14]
Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel
News Google Spreadsheets, which will go live on Tuesday as part of Google Labs, supports the import and export of documents in the .xls format used in Excel and the .csv (comma-separated values) format, said Jonathan Rochelle, product manager for...
[June 6, 2006, 9:10]
Microsoft readies Linux lab's public face
News Hilf said Microsoft's product groups use the Linux labs to test how well upcoming Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, will work with Linux and other open source wares. We're opening the doors to what we do in the Linux labs," Hilf said on...
[April 6, 2006, 9:45]
Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista
News Joe Telafici, vice president of operations for McAfee's Avert Labs, told ZDNet UK that, in his opinion, Virus Bulletin had not used its latest antivirus updates, causing the failure. Microsoft's own antivirus software, Live OneCare, is unable to...
[February 6, 2007, 13:08]
Symantec attacks Microsoft's Forefront Client Security
News In a flurry of emails after the conference call, Microsoft said that OneCare held accreditation from both ICSA and West Coast Labs, which benchmark anti-malware products, and that OneCare had only narrowly missed the Virus Bulletin 100 (VB100) test.
[May 9, 2007, 16:32]
Linux to face off against NT again?
News And, as was the case with the last PCWeek Labs-sponsored Mindcraft benchmark, representatives from Microsoft Corp.and the open-source community are both expected to participate in the testing process.
[July 1, 1999, 10:25]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback These include GE, Bell Labs, Du Pont, Daimler Chrysler, Eli Lilly, Intel, Monsanto, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Cummins, GM, Microsoft and IBM. With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428 higher-education...
[September 22, 2005, 10:36]
Redesi worm reformats C: drives
News Zenkin said Kaspersky Labs had received no reports of the worm in the wild yet. Both versions are equally dangerous, said Denis Zenkin of antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, but only PCs running older versions of Windows that use the autoexec.bat...
[October 18, 2001, 17:27]
McAfee antivirus updates fail critical test
News Joe Telafici, vice president of operations for McAfee's Avert Labs, acknowledged Virus Bulletin's findings. Four out of the 15 products tested failed to protect users, including Microsoft's own antivirus product, Live OneCare, and McAfee's...
[February 12, 2007, 13:00]
McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.0 review
Reviews In ZDNet Labs' performance tests, VirusScan 7.0 beat NAV 2003 soundly in scanning speed (the amount of time it takes to search your PC for viruses), while both anti-virus programs made a similarly minimal impact on overall PC performance.
[January 20, 2003, 11:20]
Microsoft officially launches Photosynth
News The software, released on Thursday, was first developed by Microsoft's Live Labs research arm in 2006 and subsequently became available in trial versions. Microsoft has officially launched Photosynth, software for home and business users looking to...
[August 21, 2008, 16:52]
Microsoft gives 3D look at space shuttle
News It's much like a 3D video game — people can explore, walk around or fly around the shuttle," said Adam Sheppard, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, which developed the viewer. Nasa and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D...
[August 6, 2007, 9:23]
Microsoft testing next version of Exchange
News So starting in October 2007, the company started seeking out universities and schools willing to test E14 as part of Exchange Labs. Microsoft has started testing the next version of its Exchange email and calendar software, a product Microsoft said...
[January 14, 2009, 9:12]
Fishing for Deepfish
Blog Microsoft Live Labs recently unveiled a Technology Preview of a new browser called Deepfish, which is designed to make web browsing on small-screen mobile devices a much more satisfying experience than it currently is.
[April 19, 2007, 9:37]
Microsoft plans European search R&D centre
News The centre joins Microsoft's more than 40 other R&D centres, including labs in Cambridge, Dublin, Copenhagen and Oslo. Microsoft will set up a Search Technology Centre designed to help its Live Search gain on search leaders Google and Yahoo...
[October 3, 2008, 18:04]
Gates outlines goals for Microsoft's ad business
News To think about this as the endgame is quite silly," said Gary Flake, the former Yahoo executive who heads up Microsoft's Live Labs, which tests out new ideas in internet content and advertising. While Microsoft may face some challenges taking...
[May 9, 2007, 10:48]
