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Microsoft turns to Europe to fight the Google might
News The centre joins Microsoft's more than 40 other R&D centres, including labs in Cambridge, Dublin, Copenhagen and Oslo. Microsoft will set up a Search Technology Centre designed to help its Live Search... [06 Oct 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Research Labs who is the founder and director of Live Labs, a combo of Microsoft's research and Windows Live organisations. He allegedly is part of the All-Star Team... [24 Jun 2008]
Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?
News Accenture Technology Labs' Teresa Tung said: "A data centre typically uses up to 10-15 more power per square foot than your average office block and can use up to 100 times more per square foot if they are poorly... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo Picture credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks silicon.com took a trip to Heidelberg in Germany for a behind the scenes look at NEC's R&D labs. This shows the three Bell Labs scientists who invented the... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Driving safety through tech
Photo There were a number of other technologies on show at the R&D labs, including an internet TV service with an interactive buddy list, as well as 'session mobility' which allows users to switch live... [21 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News The software powering the technology exists within Microsoft's research labs but Gates doesn't see this device coming to market as a standalone product. Microsoft has a new concept application for its Surface computer... [07 Jan 2008]
Microsoft digs in for online ads campaign
News executive who heads up Microsoft's Live Labs, which tests out new ideas in internet content and advertising, said: "To think about this as the endgame is quite silly. Despite losing out to Google in a... [09 May 2007]
Gates snuggles up to Auntie Beeb
News We are meeting with Real Networks, IBM and Linden [Labs, behind the Second Life 3D digital world], and we're also keen to speak to the Apples and Googles of this world. Highfield cited Microsoft's MSN service, Windows... [29 Sep 2006]
Philip Rosedale
AS Profile Philip Rosedale runs Linden Labs - developers of Second Life, a virtual world which boasts more than 700,000 so-called 'residents'. Rosedale, former CTO at RealNetworks and an expert in streaming technology, is at the... [25 Sep 2006]
Betfair scores 100 per cent uptime Down Under
News According to Moss, Betfair is keen to seek out any technology that could help the company improve its site's performance and availability but before the company invests in any new technology it puts the products through a 'real world'... [20 Sep 2006]
Redmond reshuffles more execs
News Gary Flake, who heads Microsoft's Live Labs, and the labs team will immediately move to the platform division, where they will continue to focus on research projects and developing... [02 Aug 2006]
Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News Scott Carpenter, director of Security Labs at Secure Elements, said in a statement: "In recent similar attacks, Microsoft has not issued an out-of-cycle patch. The software maker said it has added detection capabilities... [19 Jun 2006]
Google Spreadsheets takes aim at Excel
News Google Spreadsheets, which will go live on Tuesday as part of Google Labs, supports the import and export of documents in the dot-xls format used in Excel and the dot-csv (comma-separated values) format,... [06 Jun 2006]
What will the office of the future look like?
News CIW's new scenario is a pharmaceutical company that interacts with many "beyond the firewall" components, such as research labs; government agencies requiring compliance; manufacturing; distribution; pharmacies; doctors;... [10 May 2006]
Ex-Yahoo! staffer to head Microsoft's Live Labs
News Live Labs", as the effort is called, will be a coupling of workers from Microsoft Research and MSN, and will be headed by Gary Flake, a top researcher Redmond poached from Yahoo! The research unit is... [26 Jan 2006]
