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Holiday headaches may be in store for two anonymous donors to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), apparently outed yesterday when Harvard’s seasonal thank-you notes to them were inadvertently sent to a list of Boston-area DEAS alumni. The notes suggest that Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window...
...idea is hot enough to entice IBM into taking a 5% stake in the company and incorporating Voice. Trust into its online-commerce platform. Other big customers include Microsoft and HSBC. Voice.Trust is being used within corporate networks for employee verification...
...falling behind in technology in part because the government has failed to adequately support research, Microsoft’s top attorney said in a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday evening. In his talk, “The Future of Software, the Internet, and Innovation,” Microsoft Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith said that technology research has declined since 2000 because the current administration is not focused on supporting basic research in the sciences. “Most of our company’s best innovations started out as basic research in our nation?...
...best reason is that the current version includes a media remote control. I've played with Microsoft's more advanced remote, as well as Logitech's Harmony remote built for the Xbox, and while both are quite nice, they don't do a whole lot more than the one that's included-for a limited time-in the $400 system configuration. If you can get that remote, you won't have to memorize a bunch of controller commands to play DVDs and music. (All of the remotes suffer from the same flaw, not being able to scroll through long lists...
...forget that, if you have one of Microsoft's Windows Media Center PCs, you get even more capabilities, like TV shows recorded in one room of the house and streamed to the other. Is that the future? Actually, it's all happening right...