Topic: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft co-founder Allen launches space project

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle and put paying passengers into orbit this decade.Lifelong space enthusiast Allen is hoping to launch unmanned rockets from a massive flying carrier ...
In 2008, Google got its logo on the rocket launching the GeoEye-1 satellite for collecting space-based imagery. But where Google got sole online rights to the GeoEye-1 imagery, Microsoft will be sharing access to WorldView-2 images with Google, a Digital Globe representative ...
Its bloated cost, twisted politics and limited scientific productivity have made the ISS an easy target for ridicule. A collaboration between the U.S, Russia, Canada, Japan and 10 European nations, ISS construction started in 1998 and is scheduled to be completed n ...

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope to focus on Mars

Microsoft and NASA on Tuesday announced an alliance to focus the software giant's virtual WorldWide Telescope on space agency images of Mars and other celestial bodies.NASA and Microsoft will jointly develop a system to make high-resolution images and scientific data from Mars, ...
If you think the new Google Earth update that shows even more about Mars' surface is cool, Microsoft thinks what's it's about to offer is even cooler.. The two organizations will jointly develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make NASA content--including ...
As I announced last week, I'm holding a short but sweet Microsoft codename contest this week, with the prize being a free signed copy of my Microsoft 2.0 book (which I will ship anywhere in the world to the winner).. I was ...
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of digital imagery in future space-agency missions. Microsoft on ...
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of digital imagery in future space-agency missions. Microsoft on ...
To highlight the launch of the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour Tuesday, Microsoft has teamed up with NASA to provide exclusive 3D views of the craft and a look at how the space agency prepares it for launch using Microsoft's Photosynth technology.. In ...

Graphic Images in the Information Age

You boot up your computer and click a graphic image to open a program. Another graphic image leads you to the function you wanted to use. You click these icons without much thought, and certainly without much reading. But have you considered ...