Jeff Han's Research Ripped by Microsoft Surface?
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| Jeff Han, consulting research scientist for NYU's Department of
| Computer Science, developed a multi-touch interactive graphical
| interface, which he presented at the TED conference over a year
| ago. His research turned into its own company, Perceptive Pixel.
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| Now it seems Microsoft completely ripped the idea and created
| Microsoft Surface.
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http://www.jorispoort.com/2007/05/jeff-hans-research-ripped-by-microsoft.html
The "Surface" concept has also existed in Linux for quite some time:
http://tinyurl.com/yulqz2
Is Microsoft becoming a hardware vendor?
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| Microsoft for years has been building keyboards, mice and joysticks. More
| recently, it started building Xbox gaming consoles. Then Zune MP3 players.
| Now, with the company?s official unveiling of Surface, a k a
| Milan/PlayTable, Microsoft is mamufacturing large-screen, multitouch,
| gesture-recognizing computing devices.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=484
Just like Google, they just go where the money is. Search engines, software,
Internet services... as monolithic as Wal-Mart.
Related:
Microsoft to join municipal Wi-Fi fray
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| Microsoft is jumping into the municipal wireless space with a deal
| to provide local content and ads for MetroFi's free wireless
| Internet service in Portland, Ore., by the end of this year,
| the companies are expected to announce on Wednesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6135679.html
FCC Endorses Broadband over Powerline
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| The Federal Communications Commission on Friday gave a big boost
| to Broadband over Powerline (BPL), classifying the technology as
| an "information service."
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/193501695;jsessionid=3LCXWIHLMJH0MQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN
Gates to generate your electricity
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| His personal investment vehicle -- a nice drive if you can afford
| it -- Cascade Investments is today expected to partner with New
| Mexico-based PNM Resources on electricity generation and trading.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35521
Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips
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| For more than two decades, Microsoft's software and
| Intel's processors were so wedded that the pairingc
| ame to be known as Wintel. But as that computing era
| wanes, Microsoft is turning to a new source of chip
| design: its own labs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
Microsoft takes it to the bank
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| Is the world ready for Microsoft Banking? Banks are traditionally
| very conservative with their software and hardware choices, and
| most still rely on expensive mainframes with multiple levels of
| failure protection. However, banks are also making a huge push
| to expand into other services, such as investment planning, and
| all these new services require new software. If they are
| successful, Microsoft will be laughing all the way to the, er, bank.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/11/14/5956
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