The "Blister in the Sun" Award for best packaging to highlght an innovative product goes to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 , itself an award-worthy mashup of tilt-wheel notebook mouse, presentation remote and laser pointer.
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Microsoft and Verizon Wireless have opened a new chapter in a long partnership.
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Microsoft's wireless push takes flight as its large stable of MSN Web services, such Hotmail and Expedia, becomes available on wireless phones and handheld devices.
Mira, another Microsoft initiative, adds wireless networking to computer screens.
On the wireless server front, Microsoft needs to catch up with a number of vendors, including IBM and Oracle, that have already launched such products.
He also is talking with Comcast's Internet-access service, Yahoo Japan, Microsoft's MSNonline service and wireless carriers about distributing the RipeTVformat to an international audience that, he insists, could include 300million homes and cell phones by 2006.
Wireless Knowledge, formed with Microsoft to build software for mobile phones, fizzled.
Finally, the move hastens the step of industry lockups, while cash-rich powerhouses like Apple, Google and Microsoft consider finding a partner for a wireless entrance before the realignment dance stops.
Transmeta's low-power chips are billed as a natural fit for wireless Internet appliances-- Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people), for instance, is reportedly working with Transmeta to develop a new electronic tablet computer.
Krulwich counted at least five Microsoft patents related to determining phone location using wireless access points, radio beacons, device movements and other radio signals.
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Microsoft and U.S. carrier partner Verizon Wireless have never revealed how many KINs were purchased during that short period.
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Office 365, which is part of Verizon Wireless' Small Business Essentials portfolio, is Microsoft Corp.
Although RIM and AOL want to make their deal privately, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will openly discuss one of the wireless industry's worst-kept secret projects, a Tablet PC that will also feature a persistent wireless connection to home and office networks.
In addition to the one over licensing fees and a case in Germany involving standard essential patents, Google has maintained legal action against Microsoft in the ITC over a patent relating to a wireless peer-to-peer network, which is not a standard essential patent.
The server will be much like Workstyle Server from Wireless Knowledge, which is a joint venture between Microsoft and Qualcomm.
At the end of March, Advanced Info Service signed an agreement with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT) to become the first Asian wireless provider to offer the Windows-powered SmartPhone.
The company develops and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
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The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, Tumblr, broadband operators, wireless providers, cable companies, etc.
Microsoft and Starbucks have even linked up to make the coffee chain wireless and webby.
For those with a WiFi dongle, Microsoft's suggesting you use that packaged USB extender and plug your wireless connection into one of the front two ports.
He served as Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at Paramount Pictures and also ran Global Wireless Strategy and Business Development for the digital media division at Microsoft Corporation.
It looks like ExtremeTech is still wading through the bevy of Microsoft peripherals released of late, and while the firm's Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 isn't going for the gaming-centric set as was the Habu, it is aimed squarely at folks who spend more time mousing around than actually getting outside.
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To provide these notifications in real time, the wireless wide-area network modules from Novatel Wireless securely connect through HSDPA and EV-DO networks to the Microsoft Exchange Server, storing user information and filter policies.
Microsoft msft , meantime, looked like it was heading for its own web-wireless protocol, taking on Netscape in browsers and talking up its wireless prospects.
Reuters reports that on remand, the presiding administrative law judge reversed his stance in a new initial determination, clearing Microsoft of the remaining infringement charge for patent number 6, 069, 896 on wireless peer-to-peer technology.
According to the studio, Microsoft isn't actually allowing third-party manufacturers to make anything using its proprietary wireless standard -- so while the capability is there, the all-important green light from Redmond is not.
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There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to mobile operating systems (OS) and the announcement by Microsoft of Windows Phone 8 will soon give customers another choice when shopping for a new Verizon Wireless smartphone.
This game and others can be played on computers, wireless devices and Sony consoles--but not on rival console systems from Nintendo or Microsoft.
And then there is its crowning glory: a wireless broadband digital home entertainment system, installed by Abrocour with a digital kit of parts from Microsoft and Intel, among others, and a BT broadband connection in the broom cupboard.
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