The News Review:
- TLS & PRCESSES Intel Microsoft: The Future of Computing Is…
- Three Minutes With Google Docs’ Product Manager
- Sony Ericsson sees moderating growth of mobile phone units with…
- Lawson unveils Smart ffice user interface
TLS & PRCESSES Intel Microsoft: The Future of Computing Is…
TechNewsWorld – Mar 19, 2008
“Intel has already shown an 80-core research processor and we’re quickly moving the computing industry to a many-core world” said Andrew Chien vice president Corporate Technology Group and director Intel Research. The research will create long-term breakthroughs “needed to enable dramatic new applications for the mainstream user” Chien added. They will add new capabilities such as “rich digital media and visual interfaces powerful statistical analyses and search and mobile applications” and will ultimately “bridge the physical world with the virtual. Parallel computing sees several instructions carried out simultaneously and is based on the idea of splitting up a large problem into smaller ones and solving them concurrently… h the WasteAt least half the processing power available in desktops and notebooks goes unused now Reynolds said. “They just keep adding cores and the question is how do you use those cores?” he added. ffice applications like Word and PowerPoint “really don’t benefit from multiple cores” although spreadsheets and databases could; while games “are still not stressing the multi-cores very well” and so Intel and Microsoft are “looking for new applications new ideas new things” Reynolds added. These would include speech recognition.
Three Minutes With Google Docs’ Product Manager
PC World – Mar 19, 2008
Docs later gained a presentations application a la PowerPoint and became part of the broader collaboration and communication suite. Now the buzz has quieted down and Google like any vendor is immersed in improving its applications and remaining competitive. Microsoft is finally Web-enabling its ffice suite via… Now the buzz has quieted down and Google like any vendor is immersed in improving its applications and remaining competitive. Microsoft is finally Web-enabling its ffice suite via. This week as Google announced enhancements to its spreadsheet program IDG News Service chatted with Jonathan Rochelle senior product manager for Google Docs about various challenges like Microsoft’s threat in the hosted space and the difficulty of supporting millions of users. Here is an edited version of the conversation:IDGNS: Google Docs’ users seem very interested in being able to work with the applications when they aren’t online.
Sony Ericsson sees moderating growth of mobile phone units with…
Maketwire – Maketwire (Communiqués de presse) – Mar 19, 2008
In addition Sony Ericsson currently expectsgross margin to remain relatively stable for the first quarter of2008 compared with the first quarter of 2007. Sony Ericsson plans to announce first quarter 2008 results on April23rd. Microsoft Windows PowerPoint Windows Media Windows Mobileffice ActiveSync and Internet Explorer are trademarks or registeredtrademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications was established as a 50:50 jointventure by Sony and Ericsson in ctober 2001 with global corporatefunctions located in London. The company serves the worldwidecommunications market with innovative and feature-rich mobile phonesaccessories and PC-cards and it has R&D sites in Europe JapanChina India and America. Sony Ericsson is the title sponsor of theWomen’s Tennis Association and works with the Association to promotethe Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in over 80 cities during the year. Formore information please visit.
Lawson unveils Smart ffice user interface
Computer Business Review – Mar 19, 2008
Lawson Smart ffice places the business software user at the center of the “information workplace” and the multiple processes they work with. Smart ffice helps people access the information they need when they want it in the context required – combined with the analytic and Smart Notification capabilities of Lawson Business Intelligence. It also promotes greater collaboration and real-time information sharing across various business applications. Since Lawson developed Smart ffice around the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation the company can support virtually limitless business processes using Microsoft applications as compared to competing approaches from other ERP vendors that only support a limited number of specific and prescriptive business scenarios.