By integrating the individual pressure distributions, the software can produce a visual picture of the flow over the car's various components with the pressure changes shown as different colours in the flow pattern (see illustration).

ECONOMIST: CAR DESIGN

It is really a hodgepodge of different products including server software, Visual Studio, Windows Embedded device platforms and consulting services.

FORBES: The Blockbuster Microsoft Business That Nobody Ever Seems To Talk About

You can be a software engineer, hardware engineer, product manager, visual designer, salesperson, office manager, copywriter, investor, analyst, chef, artist, sysadmin, photographer, lawyer, journalist, PR person, and much more.

FORBES: In Silicon Valley, Can The "Good Guys" Really Win?

Mono for Android consists of the core Mono runtime, bindings for native Android APIs, a Visual Studio 2010 plugin to develop Android applications, and a software development kit that contains all the tools needed to build, debug and deploy applications.

ENGADGET: Novell's Mono tools let devs create .NET apps for Android devices

Hunter and company found a great creative partner for the band in Casey Reas, an artist and professor at the University of California Los Angeles who has been writing software to create his visual art for more than a decade.

FORBES: A Look At The Creative Process Behind Yeasayer's New Performance Visuals

Kodu is software that enables kids to design video games using a simple visual programming language.

FORBES: Microsoft Launches 'Kodu' Game Design Challenge For Younger Kids

Some of the new offerings: free software that can tailor the text on any Web site to your personal visual needs, and a cellphone that can snap photos of text -- like signs and restaurant menus -- and read it back to you.

WSJ: High Tech for Low Vision