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Microsoft announced that your computer is up for 16 vaccinations or booster shots coming this Tues., June 14. Hackers are targeting everything from MS Office to .Net Framework. Say, “Ah for the doctor and bend over, please!” It won’t hurt a lot and it’s better than the alternative! …
Skype was down for a better part of day this week because of a buggy update (so what’s new?!) They have released a simple update for Windows users and Mac and Linux fixes are on the way. Guess who is getting blamed?! 😉 Microsoft! …
Gary Baker will be a judge at this year’s Fifth Annual Battle of the Entrepreneurial Improv
Podcast: May 14, 2011 – Hour 1
Podcast: May 14, 2011 – Hour 2
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No sooner had rumors begun about a fight for Skype between Microsoft, Google and Facebook, than Remond, WA biggest business announced victory…but an expensive one, $8.5 billion for a company valued at $2-3 billion. One author sees this as an expensive game of “keep away” for Microsoft. What do you think? …
Microsoft has a new cloud based version of Office called Office 365 designed for businesses. Here are 13 outstanding features of this new virtual Office setup. …
Here is something to consider if you don’t need MS Office very much and certainly don’t want to pay for it. Office 365 is cloud based.
Gary Baker
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Browser was are the new battle field for tech companies and the new open source FireFox has thrown down the gauntlet to Microsoft’s sleek and speedy IE9. …
March 23 kicks off another milestone for the Imagine Cup student technology competition. Right now, the People’s Choice Awards are live. You can check out the finalists, view videos of their projects and vote for your favorite team, including LifeCode.
The Software Design and Game Design teams with the most votes will be crowned champions at the Imagine Cup 2011 U.S. Finals awards ceremony on Monday, April 11, in Redmond, Wash. There are 22 U.S. teams competing in the U.S. finals on April 8-11 in Redmond, vying for a spot in the Worldwide finals on July 8-13, which will be held in the U.S. for the first time in 10 years in New York City.
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The LifeCode Team from Wayne State University has made it to the US finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup again! LifeCode uses sensors attached to a person’s body which capture vital information, uses Bluetooth technology to transmit the data to their Windows 7 phone which in turn sends the data to “the cloud” (remote data storage servers) where it can be stored and analyzed. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, is an international competition designed to encourage a new generation of computing geniuses.
Good luck to the LifeCode Team during the US finals in April!
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The folks in Redmond do more than develop software, they hunt down botnets and kill them! Witness the demise of Rustock, a botnet that at one point contained over 2 million zombie computers responsible for sending 30 billion pieces of spam a day. …