Category Archives: Information Design

Announcing Windows Azure price reduction for storage and extra small compute

We are pleased to announce that effective March 8, 2012, we are lowering the monthly cost of Windows Azure storage from $0.1793 per GB to $0.1601 per GB, a savings of over 10%. Last month we announced a new billing … Continue reading

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Text to Speech in .Net and .Net Micro Framework, with translation too!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Text-to-Speech-in-Net-and-Net-Micro-Framework-with-translation-too “While the thought of a cube farm filled with talking computers is the stuff of nightmares for many (well for me anyway, there’s enough chatter already, and to add to it every PC verbally chatting away too? AHHHhhhh… lol), … Continue reading

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Entering the HIVE (Highly-portable Immersive Virtual Environment) with NASA!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Entering-the-HIVE-Highly-portable-Immersive-Virtual-Environment-with-NASA “Today’s another inspiration video show off how the NASA Langley Research Center is using the Kinect to create the HIVE… I find it pretty awesome just how broad and varied the scenarios where the Kinect for Windows sensor and … Continue reading

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Metro Studio

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wmexperts/~3/UWW6kNUQWew/story01.htm “Every so often we cover tools that help out developers, but this is in another league. A company called SyncFusion has created a product called Metro Studio 1 which looks to be invaluable to developers and designers alike. The … Continue reading

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Microsoft Shows Off Interactive Wearable Multitouch Projector!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/Wkfhip3trhk/ “Microsoft Research is continuing its efforts into Natural User Interaction space. The latest project they demoed is a Interactive Wearable Multi-touch Projector. The project is in its early stage, but you can see the potential from the video above. … Continue reading

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NoSQL Document Database – Embedding RavenDB into an ASP.NET MVC 3 Application

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh547101.aspx

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structuredata

http://event.gigaom.com/structuredata/?utm_source=cloud&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=intext&utm_term=491015+how-nosql-database-riak-makes-bump-work&utm_content=dharrisstructure GigaOM’s Structure:Data will explore the technical and business opportunities spurred by the growth of big data, including storage needs, data analysis and the uncovering of new revenue opportunities.  Are you sitting on un-mined gold?

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Baroque.me: Bach’s Cello Suite No 1

http://visual.ly/baroqueme-bachs-cello-suite-no-1 Music Visualisation

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Spotfire

http://spotfire.tibco.com/ Contextual, Social Collaboration Socialize insights across your enterprise; embed analyses in relevant business context •Interact with analyses in social media platforms, business processes, and existing portals •Leverage your collective intelligence, using tibbr, Sharepoint, iPad, etc •Rapidly drive collaboration, insight, … Continue reading

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Timesearcher – Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher/

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