Microsoft Research demonstrated a new street-level image viewing option that knocks the socks off of Google Maps Street View this week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Called Street Slide, the technology allows users to zoom out from the fish-eye pannable photos you see on standard street view options and instead see a series of flat panoramic photos stitched together like a timeline.
Former frenemies Apple and Google may be gearing up to do battle over search.
Firefox cracks 20% market share for the first time, Google drops IE 6 support and IE — in all its nasty flavors — drops below 70%.
Billboard reports that Microsoft hopes to license original and exclusive content to distribute through Zune, the company’s portable media player. Microsoft is looking for non-traditional fare that takes advantage of the device’s social media capabilities. Two million Zunes have been sold since the product’s introduction in November 2006, while Apple sells 3.5 million iPods a [...]
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