Current pattern-detection proposals for streaming data recognize the need to move beyond a simple regular-expression model over strictly ordered input. We continue in this direction, relaxing restrictions present in some models, removing the requirement for ordered input, and permitting stream revisions (modification of prior events). Further, .. more »

Microsoft Research reveals that most users don't derive any benefit from the use of multitouch-enabled desktop mice, preferring the speed offered by mechanical buttons and wheels... more »

Three researchers from Microsoft Research and one from Pacific Biosciences have made a significant contribution to insights into the role genetics plays in human disease... more »

Microsoft Research will be presenting its prototype of ScholarLynk, which helps researchers manage their information, during the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held Sept. 6-10 in Glasgow, Scotland... more »

Project Colletta is an extension of the Windows UI that supports lightweight management of the user's activities through tagging... more »

One of the most important ways in which we are supporting European technology companies is helping them find access to capital in those crucial early years. So we’re delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Innovation Exchange, organised by the European Tech Tour Association, in association with the European Venture Capital Association and Info.. more »

REDU, a new Bing-powered website focusing on education, will help parents, teachers, students and education advocates learn more about the state of education, have conversations about education and take action to bring about change... more »

To make it quick and easy for you to access the latest API news, we’ve created a one-stop online shop for the adCenter API. provides you with updates about the latest release, including features that can help you manage your Microsoft Advertising adCenter accounts more efficiently. If you subscribe to the , you’ll be one of the first in the know .. more »

Today Microsoft Advertising is launching third-party ad serving for mobile in the U.S. Our solution enables agencies and advertisers to use trusted third party ad servers such as Microsoft Atlas and Google’s DART to serve mobile display ads on all of our premium Microsoft Mobile Media properties including MSN Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Windows Li.. more »

Ian Morrison hits the nail on the head with his newest commentary on Hospitals and Health Networks online site.  In “ The New Math ” Ian explains why business as usual in the healthcare industry just isn’t sustainable anymore.  While this has...(read more).. more »

If you have been following this blog for a while, you will have often heard Kristen and I talking about virtual classroom tours, more commonly know as VCTs. These are the project submissions that we receive and share at the Partners in Learning Innovative Education Forums. We have over 200 VCTs hosted on the UK Partners in Learning Network site. .. more »

released its first version of a customized Places application as part of its Social Marketing Suite subscription. Pages administrators can use the app to install a The Facebook Places Check-In Leaderboard as a tab called “Check-Ins”. The Leaderboard allows brands to recognize which Facebook users are checking into their retail stores or rest.. more »

Music Pages took up over half of our Top 20 Facebook Pages list this week, 11 of the Pages to be precise. The list is compiled with our tool, which counts the number of Likes added to a Page each day. Other than musicians, there were a few television shows and then a list of brands, from Megan Fox to Manchester United to Kohl’s and Gucci. It took be.. more »

In the weeks since Facebook launched its location service Places, it has been refining the product while users and businesses get more comfortable and explore its potential. Places is being further integrated around the site, with check-ins listed on the Events home page and in the right sidebar. Businesses have begun claiming their Places, opening .. more »

JAMF Software announced Casper Suite 8 will expand the Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities of iOS 4 on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch. The new version of the client management software will ship this fall. A company spokesperson said that the new version will provide IT administrators with more extensive control over the Apple devices in .. more »

Bryan Schappel has an answer to last week's reader question about the inability of Mac OS X to use a Network Trash folder created by a Linux server: The folder that netatalk creates is for Mac OS 9 clients. The ability to use the network trash folder was removed from OS X. Back in the days of 10.1 I went around and around with Apple on the demise .. more »

In my recent blog post, Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards , I explained why IE9 only supports the ECMAScript 5 API for defining getter/setter methods. I also mentioned that it is fairly trivial to define a simple compatibility library to help transition existing code to this new API. This is part of what it means to support .. more »

Social media technologies collapse multiple audiences into single contexts, making it difficult for people to use the same techniques online that they do to handle multiplicity in face-to-face conversation. This paper investigates how content producers navigate ‘imagined audiences’ on Twitter. We talked to participants with different types of foll.. more »

With today’s advanced storage technology, e.g., flash memory devices, it takes many compute nodes accessing storage directly over the network to utilize the device’s high throughput. We devise Flash-Log, a reliable, persistent and totally-ordered log which uses network-attached storage devices directly, and alleviates any bottleneck servers in betw.. more »

As you may recall from my Not only is SBSC staying, it is THE Small Business designation in the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) post, the Microsoft Small Business Specialist designation will continue to be the way that Microsoft partners can demonstrate their focus and skills in serving the needs of small businesses.  Just like with the Gold and S.. more »