While there are few things that truly compare to a hands-on retail shopping experience, Microsoft has done its best to make sure that customers get to explore every nook and cranny of new laptops they’re looking to purchase, even online. Windows PC Scout is an online application the Redmond company has set up t... |
22 March 2010
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A cocktail of Microsoft technologies is the catalyst for what the company has called the first big refresh of the technology behind Bing Maps in years. By mixing together not just the mapping, search and location platform, but also Photosynth, Silverlight and Seadragon, along with additional technologies from Live La... |
3 December 2009
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The next-generation Windows Mobile 7 operating system from Microsoft is shaping up into a very attractive mobile platform. The Redmond-based software giant is already known to plan on enhancing it with great functionality, including over-the-air software updates, better integration with various services, greater user... |
27 October 2009
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Got digital images with enough megapixels to feel like the real estate space of the screen is insufficient? Well, via Seadragon.com, a project from Microsoft Live Labs, now you have a way to do justice by your pictures, by transforming them into zoomable content. In this regard, all you need to do is leverage the new... |
31 July 2009
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Microsoft Live Labs serves as an incubator for a variety of projects from Photosynth to the Web Sandbox, and even Thumbtack, Seadragon, and Social Streams. At the same time, the group also fosters what it has referred to as a funky side project, labeled Infinite Canvas, now in Alpha stage. Designed to take comic book... |
30 January 2009
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An updated version of the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2 is available for download since the end of the past week. Microsoft's Janete Kirupa revealed that the focus of the update was to deliver fixes for the bugs reported via user feedback. At the same time, the update, which went live on December 19, fixe... |
22 December 2008
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Microsoft Live Labs dipped its toe in the iPhone market last Saturday, releasing the Seadragon Mobile technology preview as part of the team's continued experimentation with large picture viewing. When the Seadragon Mobile app was published, the ability to browse Photosynth collections in 2D was inoperable, but ... |
17 December 2008
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Microsoft is taking to the next level the way that iPhone users can handle giga-pixel images on their devices. In this regard, at the end of the past week, the Redmond company produced a mobile version of Seadragon, aimed exclusively at Apple's iPhone. Made available for download through the iTunes App Store, Se... |
15 December 2008
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Microsoft apparently has “deep” feelings towards the iPhone (or Apple), as the company behind the Windows OS has released a free iPhone app, and a cool one at that. Immediately available for download from the iTunes App Store, Seadragon Mobile lets iPhone and iPod touch users zoom in as deep as possible o... |
15 December 2008
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Seadragon and Surface are two illustrations of technologies developed by Microsoft which can combine to deliver unique results. An example is the video embedded at the bottom of this article courtesy of Eric Havir, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing at Microsoft Surface. Albeit a tad old, the video from the Micro... |
26 September 2008
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas, the father of Seadragon and one of the creators behind Microsoft Photosynth has been awarded among the exclusive 2008 Young Innovators Under 35 group put together by Technology Review magazine. Arcas made it on the elite TR35 Listing out of in excess of 300 nominees, thanks to the work he poured int... |
19 August 2008
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Seadragon and Photosynth are simultaneously two technologies and two projects from Microsoft Live Labs designed to irremediably change digital imaging management and viewing, both on a local computer and online. Essentially, Microsoft has set up to build an imaging social meta-universe. The Seadragon and Photosynth t... |
7 June 2007
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