Posted by evoyage on November 6, 2007
Targeting a different market than it has gone after in the West, Microsoft announced a partnership with India’s Reliance Communications on Monday to provide Internet Protocol Television service to households in India. The companies are going after the fast-growing mass market in India, which is growing by about 25 percent per year.
Reliance Communications will pay Microsoft about US$500 million in license fees to use its software for Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, service, which delivers high-quality video over phone lines to home television sets.
Reliance Communications plans to launch the service in March next year.
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Posted by evoyage on October 19, 2007
Normally we get an error message that reports something is not working. But an error message just to tell you that no error has occurred is simply hilarious. It makes me wonder does this error pop up at regular intervals to report that everything is fine. What if it does not come, surely something is wrong then.
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Posted by evoyage on October 18, 2007
Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too.
The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers. “Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” the company says.
Microsoft researchers are working on a MIND_READING SYSTEM – hardware and software that can “interface directly with the human brain.” The company’s R&D department has figured out how to use a “low-cost electroencephalograph(EEG)” for “detecting specific forms of brain activity.” Research papers associated with the project say that “knowing the state of the user as well as the tasks they are performing may provide key information that would allow us to design context sensitive systems that adapt themselves to optimally support the state of the user.”The technology might also “know the precise intention of a user who searches for an ambiguous term.” Whether users will want Microsoft reading their brain waves is another matter altogether. Read the full Microsoft mind reading patent application
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