It's pretty amazing to me how car makers are adapting to the upheaval in the auto industry. They're consolidating, re-thinking the number of brands they carry and restructuring like never before. And while there's been a lot of pain, there will ultimately be a lot of gain-greener cars, leaner manufacturing and hopefully, a resurgent U.S. auto .. more »

So we’ve posted the Imagine 09 Highlights Video and excerpts from Martin Raymond, Bill Buxton and Anna Kirah’s presentations. Now it’s the turn of the advertisers/agencies. Below are three videos of discussions between Stephen Kim, who heads up our Global Creative Solutions Team, and some of the leading minds in the digital industry who are pu.. more »

At 12pm on Thursday amidst tweeters, bloggers, and marketers, I found myself at the Digital Media Strategy session called Digital Branding: Measuring the Effectiveness of Online Brand Advertising. The speakers at this session included: · Andy Atherton, COO and Co-Founder, · Andrew Markowitz, Director, Digital Marketing and Media, · Carl Fremont, Exe.. more »

As usual at these events, we have the best intention of writing blog posts every day, but the events agenda of workshops, keynotes and collaboration projects has kept us completely occupied from 9 18:30 every day. Thus its now Friday and its only our second post of the week. Better late than never, I always say In my last post, I mentioned that .. more »

After many hours of travel, Stuart and I, our innovative Teachers Ollie and Mandeep and our new Innovative Schools from Scotland arrived in beautiful Salvador, Brasil. We were particularly excited about this years Innovative Education Forum, as it combines the best teachers from around the world, sharing practice and collaborating together, with .. more »

My favourite part of the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum is meeting the teachers that have submitted Virtual Classroom Tours to share with their colleagues. Im lucky enough to have been asked to be a judge at this years Forum, which is a lot of work, but also means that I get to speak in-depth to most of the teachers about their truly .. more »

If you’ve got a Sixth Form, you’ll want to know… XMA and Toshiba have launched a competition, called “The next Bill Gates”. In a world of competitions and campaigns all the time, it’s a bit of a “does what it says on the tin” competition. It’s for students who’ll be applying for university next year, and students enter by re.. more »

Picture this: you’ve just listened to a captivating presentation on MOF 4.0, and you’re all fired up and ready to get started. This stuff sounds great, makes sense, and could really turn your organization around. You can see all sorts of benefits from...(read more).. more »

Centralizing and sharing business intelligence helps Microsoft lower costs, streamline business processes, share business information securely across the entire company, and establish closer relationships with business partners... more »

n10381469571_2067A Facebook page can help a local government build a stronger social connection to the citizens it represents. Sure, local governments in democratic countries are already social, as they do things like offer public hearings around controversial issues, or mail out surveys to residents. But how many people come to hearings, or bother .. more »

Retailers that are launching or beefing up their Facebook pages may not be able to easily track a monetary return on the time and energy spent on the pages, but many are starting to see benefits. Engaging in customers and building large fan followings is giving retailers like Kohls valuable insight into what their customers want, so sellers are .. more »

Facebook has been working on Jabber support for Facebook Chat for a while, but it appears the service may be closer to launching. IM server company Process One says their bot has just detected Facebook’s deployment of the XMPP stack on chat.facebook.com. Facebook has previously said the Jabber interface to Facebook Chat will allow users to: Chat wi.. more »

Five more readers report success with adding port 139 to the SMB file sharing logon (smb://share:139) as a workaround to problems with Snow Leopard accessing SMB servers. One reader said it didn't work. Tyler Gingrich reported: Snow Leopard "139" SMB server access tip port trick worked once but after I unmounted the drive, can't get it mounted .. more »

Reads have previously reported problems printing from Snow Leopard to Windows-connected printers, but Mausy's problem is the other way around: Have an iMac (early 2008) with an Epson DX7450 connected via USB. This printer is being shared across the network. Earlier this week this set-up worked fine. I could print from my Windows XP SP3 PC to the .. more »

Improving Privacy and Security in Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption.. more »

This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihoods collective in urban Cape Town, South Africa, received training to make use of the data (internet) features on the phones they already owned. None of the women had .. more »

Microsoft is looking to expand ties with Japanese universities and has unveiled a multi-million dollar long-term plan to deepen its research roots in the country... more »

Commute UX, a project from the Speech Technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond, is designed to make driving more pleasurable—and less distracting... more »

According to my host Gabriel, and reinforced by the 2008 award to Acate. After 3 days in Sao Paulo, I traveled to the Brazilian island of and the city of Florianopolis where the Brazilian technology incubation organization and the World Bank had a conference on developing new technology companies in rapidly developing regions like Brazil. The .. more »

  Watch Microsoft MVPs at the recent Windows 7 Launch Event in New York City! Nine MVPs attended the event including: Consumer Security MVP Bill Pytlovany, Visual C# MVP Brian Peek, Windows Live MVP Stephen Boots, App-V MVP Daniel Nerenberg, ASP.NET MVP Miguel Castro, Access MVP Scott Diamond, Visual Basic MVP Matthew Kleinwaks, Windows Desktop E.. more »