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The computing industry that as we know today is changing very fast into one in which everything we need can be accessed online. Microsoft is onboard with this new computing paradigm popularly known as “Cloud Computing” which folks at Redmond more like to call it as “Software + Services”. For the past several years, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has always emphasized in his various keynotes and speeches on how important a role a Windows PC plays as the center of everyone’s digital life. Sure people have moved beyond the PC with connected devices, and has engage with others online, but the PC was always at the center. When you think about it, putting a PC in the center of our lives.. it makes a lot of sense … but the trend now is changing, people now are more looking for these portable form factors that utilize Internet that work online in ways that, as it turns out, don’t actually require Windows or traditional PCs. Now this to me is a very important time for Microsoft, the ...512 days ago
Live Maps team has updated maps of Beijing just in time for the upcoming summer Olympic games at Beijing. Here is the full list of updates courtesy LiveSide: Real-time Traffic in Beijing Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result Transitdata refresh for existing 11 cities including 3 new subway in Beijing (No.10, Airport and Olympic). Expandedcoverage from 11 to 31 cities. Geocoding and Local Search Datarefresh for existing 114 cities including Olympic Venues. Support city and county name geocoding for areas outside of 114-city coverage. Olympicquery relevance improvement Local search category refinement Maprefresh for 10 existing major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc. Expandedtile coverage for 30 more cities, totally 289 cities now. Too bad they didnt add support for Birds Eye View which in my opinion is the best feature of Live Maps and the one which really differentiate it from Google Earth/Maps. ...512 days ago
Yesterday I received an email from 360desktop announcing their long awaited beta release. I fired up my download manager and downloaded the small file. In case you are wondering what 360desktop is? More room for everything you like to do 360desktop transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace - with more space for everything. Slide around your new workspace quickly and easily between all your open applications, windows and widgets - it’ll spin you out. Easily make desktop widgets from your favorite parts of the web See something that you like online? You can now clip it and put it right on the desktop: any part of any webpage or grab your favorite web widgets, RSS feeds, games, videos - whatever you like - it’s totally up to you! An endless selection of stunning 360-degree wallpaper Bring your desktop to life, with an endless selection of stunning 360-degree wallpaper. Incredible web enabled 360s, that can be inspiring, entertaining , branded, useful or ...514 days ago
Are you looking to share with your friends what you are running on your computer? or do you want to know what software does your friends run or which one do they use the most? Look no further than Wakoopa! Wakoopa is a social networking site that monitors the software’s which run on the members computer. The Wakoopa service has a small application that runs in the background on a user’s computer. The application gathers the information about open software and games, and then publishes the information to their profile on Wakoopa’s web site. Wakoopa also allows you to share your software usage and your opinions about software. Recently they have also started a widgets section through which you can share your usage with your friends on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, My Space, Live Spaces, Orkut, and more in the form of Badges, Signatures and Cards. Wakoopa is the perfect place for people to discover software online. When you sign up, ...
