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Mapping A Path For The 3D Web
News With the spread of online games, virtual worlds and services such as Google Earth and MySpace.com, people may soon be spending more time, communicating more and shopping more in complex 3D Web environments.
[May 9, 2006, 16:20]
Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored Interface Business Productivity
White Papers Within the Microsoft Dynamics Research & Development group specifically, the implementation of this is "RoleTailored Interface productivity" and it is the key software strategy that enables the people-ready business by combining the worlds of...
[August 2, 2008, 11:14]
Hull Equips Its Students For The Real World With New Leading-Edge MSc Degree Course
White Papers Hull University actively works to create solid partnerships that span the academic and business worlds. The University has prided itself on being able to offer a unique blend of traditional teaching and research coupled with real-world theory and...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Recruits User Interface Expert
News In the best of worlds, this society of devices starts to complement one other and in their collective selves, let's say, reduce the overall complexity that confronts you and me," Buxton said. Microsoft Research has hired Bill Buxton, a designer...
[December 20, 2005, 9:15]
Can Fantasy Games Make Real Money?
News Microsoft will ship the fantasy role-playing game "Asheron's Call" to stores, while SegaSoft plans to begin public beta-testing of "10Six," its science fiction-based strategy game world.The new games should go a long way in showing whether these...
[November 1, 1999, 9:51]
Big Blue Ready To Search Corporate Data
News The two worlds of structured data and unstructured data are colliding. IBM's two largest database rivals -- Oracle and Microsoft -- have several integration products sold as database add-ons, but these lack the breadth IBM is aiming for, said...
[June 7, 2004, 9:00]
Bringing 3D To The Web
News But is there a market for walk-through worlds? The market is unknown," said Michael Arrington, an analyst at Penton Digital Media Research in San Francisco. Those familiar with the proposed standard said X3D provides a more complete base than VRML...
[February 27, 2002, 6:31]
Weaving Grid Computing Into Web Services
News A key force unifying the two worlds is IBM, which initiated its grid efforts in 2001 and named one of its top strategists, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, to lead the effort. IBM and top grid thinkers from academia have released a draft paper describing...
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Graphics Technology Shows Shape Of The Universe
News The four-day convention is dedicated to outlining new techniques for recreating three (and four and five) dimensional worlds through equations. Currently, graphics are created by cutting up three-dimensional objects and surfaces into triangles, Jim...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
IBM Brings Storage Networks Together
News NAS gateways are a way of bridging the worlds of NAS and SAN. John McArthur, an analyst at research firm IDC, said the changes result in a higher-end product appropriate for data centres at midsize and larger companies.
[January 28, 2004, 13:10]
Bloody Battles In The Courtroom: An Apple History
News By 1989, however, the music and PC worlds are already coming together. Critics point out that Apple's operating system, with its innovative icons, windows and mouse, is just a reverse-engineered version of software developed by Xerox' Palo Alto...
[August 3, 2000, 15:00]
Microsoft's Plan To Google Hard Drives
News WinFS seeks to bridge the worlds of unstructured documents and data stored in relational databases with a common storage and look-up mechanism. We analyse whatever text you are working on and then pull out words that are important and query on...
[November 25, 2003, 15:05]
MS, Netscape To Collaborate On VRML
News That slowed development of three-dimensional worlds and content on the Web. Incompatibility has been a major barrier for VRML content," said Mark Hardie, senior analyst for market researcher Forrester Research.
[July 28, 1997, 10:09]
Microsoft, Panasonic Sort Media Mess
News HighMAT is yet another technology, such as Universal Plug and Play, on which PC and consumer-electronics companies are working to bring their respective worlds together. HighMAT allows (consumer electronics) makers to capitalise on the large base...
[October 18, 2002, 8:01]
Windows 98: The Morning After
News Across the country, however, Dixon-owned PC Worlds, which did open in the night, had clocked up 1,000 sales of Windows 98 products within th first hour. Despite a dearth of pro-Bill Rolling Stones songs a la Windows 95, Tim Bajarin, president of...
[June 26, 1998, 11:20]
Restraints Relaxed In CD Anti-copying Tech
News SunnComm chief executive Peter Jacobs said the company offers the best of both worlds for record labels and consumers. Phil Benyola, a digital media research associate for investment company Raymond James Financial, said SunnComm is adding the...
[April 16, 2002, 12:17]
Microsoft Embeds Unix Tools
News And though the basic purpose of having Unix services is the same - to help make Windows work in mixed computing worlds - some of the needs of customers are shifting. Michael Cherry, an analyst with research firm Directions on Microsoft said that...
[September 2, 2005, 9:35]
Sun Rallies Hackers Against Microsoft
News But Joy explained to the audience that Sun was trying to take the best of both the open-source and proprietary worlds and synthesise them into its community licensing agreement for Jini. He said the community license is based on sharing code and...
[August 25, 1999, 9:02]
Disney Portal Slowly Passsing GO
News GO has tried to have the best of both worlds by integrating strong verticals such as ESPN.com and ABCNews.com into an overarching portal framework. Analyst Jae Kim of Paul Kagan Associates, a media research firm, says portals have moved into a new...
[July 22, 1999, 11:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The worlds envisaged by Philip K Dick and Derrida, where simulacra so pollute the concept of `real' that it ceases to mean much, grow closer every day. That disk didn't contain anything of commercial importance - but it has the email logs of my...
[July 25, 1998, 8:10]
