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Finland’s fortunes in balance as Nokia opens Windows
Wow, I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week – well on the wall of the meeting room housing the companies top executives and emissaries from Microsoft, Google and other operating system makers. The Barcelona show is always a colourful one […]
MoreCES: Tablet hopefuls vie for attention
It was amazing how quickly Las Vegas emptied out over the weekend as the 160,000 visitors to the CES show headed home and relaxed holiday makers reclaimed the bars, restaurants and casinos of Sin City. The quiet tail end of the show gave me a chance to wander the halls of CES relatively unmolested – […]
MoreCES: Subdued Ballmer looking for Windows everywhere
Las Vegas: Having watched Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer warming up in the darkened corner of the Hilton Las Vegas this evening, slapping friends on the back and punching the air, I expected him to unleash some of his trademark over-exuberance. But it was a relatively subdued Ballmer who took to the stage for the […]
MoreCES: Tech industry plays catch-up with Apple – again
I’m in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, the massive tech-fest that usually sets the tone for the year ahead in the world of technology and consumer electronics. Well, that’s how it used to be at CES, which this year will attract in excess of 120,000 visitors to Sin City. In recent years, the […]
MoreKinect: Is this the future of video games?
For a couple of years its been known as Project Natal – Microsoft’s bid to do away with the game controller and usher in an era of more naturalistic video game playing. A few hours ago on the eve of the the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles, Project Natal received its official debut […]
MoreBroadcast education system takes out Imagine Cup
A few weeks back I wrote about a team of University of Auckland engineers who had come up with a seemingly novel and low cost way to get educational information out to villages in poor outlying areas. Team One Beep was competing as part of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where teams of university students compete […]
MoreA beeping good idea for low-cost communication
Yesterday was intense. As a judge on the preliminary round of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, which pits teams of university students against each other in a bid to find the top four most innovative and potentially world-changing projects, it was a blur of powerpoint slides and Dragon’s Den-style questioning as we got through twenty 20-minute pitches […]
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PETER GRIFFIN 