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Chrome’s JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Experts speaking at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft’s next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in…
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Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Intel CEO Justin Rattner teased his Intel Developer Forum audience with technology of the not-so-disant-future that could take an object design of any imaginable shape, ‘hit the print command,’ and see the matter take shape. SAN FRANCISCO, CA–Mobile phones in future could be thumb-sized in pockets, and in practically…
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Introduction to dynamic documents

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Q&A Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, says ynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Dynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for…
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IBM AlphaWorks: From software theory to fact

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Laura Bennett, senior engineering manager at IBM’s software development community, discusses how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical products. Semantic Web, rapid application development, data visualization, and health care applications are just some of the emerging software types being investigated by IBM’s AlphaWorks…
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Bidding stalls again on key U.S. wireless airwaves

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Pause prompts speculation that bidding for the C block spectrum may have run its course, and the most likely winner could be either Verizon Wireless or Google. Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is…
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‘Lyrics’ launching online game

Monday, February 4th, 2008

The Fox primetime series Don’t Forget the Lyrics will get some casting help from a new companion online game. The Fox primetime series Don’t Forget the Lyrics will get some casting help from a new companion online game being developed by the show’s producer, RDF USA, a unit…
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Web series ‘Sanctuary’ gets slot on Sci Fi schedule

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Science fiction show, which originally aired online, will be the first TV show to feature live-action actors with CGI sets. Sci Fi Channel has green-lighted Sanctuary, the first television series to use live-action actors against virtual sets in the style of the features 300 and Sin City. …
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Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

With critical ISO vote on ratification of Office Open XML looming, company maintains it has users’ best interests at heart. Weeks away from a crucial International Organization for Standardization vote in Geneva on the ratification of Microsoft’s proposed Office Open XML standard, the software giant is engaged in…
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‘Beavis’ goes portable on PlayStation format

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Sony Computer Entertainment America is offering popular MTV programming on the Universal Media Disc for PSPs, marking the first collaboration between Sony and a major TV content provider. The Universal Media Disc, a proprietary format for Sony’s PlayStation Portable, failed as a movie format. But Sony’s continued attempts…
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