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Some Microsoft news items from this week that didn’t find a post of their own:
MSN wrings the last lonely remaining viewers out of the “long tail” with “‘A Big Life With Sissy Biggers’ webisodes to air exclusively on MSN.”
Microsoft will provide search, mail, and messaging services to the customers of India’s 4th largest mobile provider, Hutchison Essar.
Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft Robotics Studio which was announced in June.
Microsoft’s Live Labs And Microsoft Research launched a tech preview of Photosynth, an application that blends ordinary photos into an immersive 3D image. It uses technology developed by Seadragon Software which Microsoft acquired in January, er February. More details at the Photosynth site and from Tuan Nguyen at DailyTech.
From last week: Microsoft and a number of other leading tech companies settled the “JPEG patent case” with Forgent Networks for considerably less than Forgent had been hoping for.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:49 PM
[...] Photosynth project today left the lab for the Web where it was promptly overloaded which makes it rather difficult to kick the tires, but [...]