Archive for June 6th, 2008

Microsoft Videos BETA: Another attempt to push Silverlight? 0

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Microsoft Videos lets us explore and watch Microsoft’s collection of online video. The whole experience is built using Microsoft Silverlight platform. The site is a collection of all types of Microsoft videos which includes demos, advertisements, tutorials, press releases, Microsoft Research videos etc. We can scan through Quick Picks for the latest videos, or enter a search for a particular video and we can also choose from one of the given Video Categories.
I personally liked the site. It has got some useful demo videos especially for Expression Studio and I being a developer loved it as it isnt quite easy to find free demo videos for Microsoft Expression suite on the Internet.
Though I also think that the site wont really appeal to the average Joe and it seems like the only purpose of Microsoft behind this website is to push their Silverlight technology more into main stream.

View: Microsoft Videos BETA

New iPhone 3G tech specs and announce date., Exclusive in spanish page 0

We have a very trusted source inside the mobile phone industry, and we have confirmation of the new iPhone 3G tech specs and announce date.
This is what we can confirm:
* 16GB memory available on launch date, 32GB will follow later in the year.
* iPhone will have different color covers.
* 5 megapixel camera
* One-touch photo geotagging. This also confirms built-in GPS support.
iPhone will be announced on June 9, but it won’t be available the same day. It will be sold on different dates on each country and largely depends on the phone carriers.

Via: Appleweblog

Google Seals Deal For New Offices At NASA Center 0

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - In the latest sign of its ambitious growth plans, Google Inc. has signed a 40-year lease to secure space for a huge office complex that will be built on a federal government research center near the Internet search leader’s Silicon Valley headquarters.
The 1.2 million-square-foot campus announced Wednesday fulfills a vision that Google first laid out with the NASA Ames Research Center in 2005. The NASA center is within a 10-minute drive of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View.
Google anticipates needing the additional space for the thousands of workers it expects to hire as tries to mine more profits from the Internet’s advertising market and expand into other areas of technology and media.

Link: Full Article at Yahoo