PhatWare Releases PenOffice three.3 for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) December 1, 2009 PhatWare Corporation announces the launch of the most recent version of PenOffice, which operates with Microsoft Windows® 7 and Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 to offer buyers enhanced security and innovative user interface attributes. PenOffice three.3 is an advanced collaboration and handwriting recognition computer software for Microsoft Windows-based computers which can be utilized with any pointing input device, such as graphic tablet, interactive although board, touch screen monitor, Tablet Pc, online digital pen, and even standard personal computer mouse.
“Our ISV community is alive with innovation, and we’re committed to helping our partners drive the subsequent generation of software experiences,” said Ross Brown, Vice President of ISV and Solutions Partners for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. “Adding compatibility for the most recent Microsoft operating systems assists ISVs to keep ahead of the competition and give their customers access to cutting-edge technologies.”
“PhatWare is excited to launch this new version of PenOffice,” mentioned Stan Miasnikov, president of PhatWare Corp. “Creating our application compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 assists us provide our consumers compelling rewards, including intuitive user interfaces such as pen-based collaboration, improved security and reliability attributes, full support for multi-core processing, and sophisticated configuration and management functions to increase mobile operating.”
PenOffice has located wide acceptance worldwide amongst OEMs and end-customers due to its highly accurate handwriting recognition, easy-to-use user interface, and substantial set of pen-based collaboration characteristics. In addition to a wide range of pen-based collaboration functions, the application recognizes handwriting in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Spanish, and is designed for use with Windows-based Desktop, Portable, Tablet, and Ultra Mobile PCs. In addition to Microsoft Workplace markup function, the new version of PenOffice now incorporates assistance for OpenOffice.org three. or later documents. The computer software permits customers to add handwritten notes and annotations to OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw documents.
PenOffice Availability and Pricing
PenOffice three.3 is accessible now at the list price tag of $ 59.95. A free 30-day trial version of PenOffice 3.three can be downloaded from the PhatWare web site at http://www.phatware.com/penoffice. It is a free of charge upgrade to registered owners of PenOffice 3.x. All registered customers of earlier versions of PenOffice can obtain an upgrade at a discount. The upgrade policy can be located on the PhatWare website at http://www.phatware.com/penoffice.
About PhatWare
Founded in October 1997, PhatWare Corporation is a leading provider of easy to use effective software products and skilled services for the mobile and desktop computing marketplace. PhatWare specializes in handwriting recognition, digital ink, note taking, and database and network management software package development. PhatWare Corporation is a founding member of Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC) – a special partner program developed by Microsoft Corp. to serve as a focused feedback mechanism for Microsoft Windows Mobile platform development, and give top companies with the tools and resources they want to bring the most innovative and successful mobility solutions to market – a Microsoft Certified Partner, and Microsoft Windows Embedded partner. PhatWare is also an Intel Software Partner. To understand a lot more about PhatWare, visit http://www.phatware.com.
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Microsoft was handed a legal victory on Friday after the International Trade Commission (ITC) ordered an import ban on Android-based Motorola devices that infringe on a Microsoft-held patent.
The patent in question covers technology for “generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device.” Unless Motorola removes the infringing technology from its gadgets or comes to a licensing agreement with Microsoft, it will not be able to import and sell them in the U.S.
“Microsoft sued Motorola in the ITC only after Motorola chose to refuse Microsoft’s efforts to renew a patent license for well over a year,” David Howard, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, said in a statement. “We’re pleased the full Commission agreed that Motorola has infringed Microsoft’s intellectual property, and we hope that now Motorola will be willing to join the vast majority of Android device makers selling phones in the U.S. by taking a license to our patents.”
Motorola did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The case dates back to Oct. 2010, when Microsoft filed a complaint with the ITC and sued Motorola in a Washington state district court. At issue were nine patents that deal with, among others, sending and receiving e-mail on smartphones, managing calendars and contacts, and managing a phone’s memory.
The ITC’s decision comes several days after HTC was forced to delay the import of two smartphones into the U.S. thanks to a similar patent battle with Apple. HTC ended up developing a workaround that avoided infringing on Apple’s patent, but inspections at U.S. Customs have delayed shipments into the country.
In a Friday post, patent blogger Florian Mueller suggested that “it won’t take too long” before Motorola reaches a patent-licensing deal with Microsoft.
Recently, Microsoft said that 70 percent of all Android smartphones sold in the U.S. were covered under Microsoft’s patent portfolio.
In April, the European Commission formally opened a patent abuse investigation into Motorola. The investigation was prompted by complaints from Apple and Microsoft, which accused Motorola of suing over “essential” patents rather than trying to work out licensing deals.
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Microsoft is launching a new infrastructure cloud, whatever that is. Photo: theaucitron/Flickr
The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon’s massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2.
According to Derrick Harris of GigaOm, Microsoft is building an “infrastructure-as-a-service” cloud that provides access to raw virtual servers, and it plans to launch this new service on June 7 at an event in San Francisco. The story provides few details, but it does say that the new service will offer virtual servers running Linux as well as Windows.
But Azure already offers raw virtual servers, much like Amazon does on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). And Azure has offered these virtual servers for nearly a year and a half. It’s just that right now they only run Windows.
The news, then, appears to be that Microsoft’s Azure cloud will finally offer Linux — though Microsoft may paint this as an entirely new service.
In any event, the move is telling — especially when you consider the introduction of Linux. In recent years, in an effort to attract the new breed of developer who grew up on Linux and other open source tools, Microsoft has slowly warmed to such tools, shedding its well-earned reputation as the enemy of open source, and Azure is at the forefront of this transformation.
That new breed of developer is flocking to Amazon. And Microsoft wants them on Azure, a service that Microsoft has apparently pumped enormous amounts of money into over the past several years.
The news out of GigaOm is confusing, though, because Microsoft has always billed Azure as a “platform cloud.” Unlike an “infrastructure cloud” such as Amazon EC2, a platform cloud lets developers build and host applications without worrying about virtual servers and other raw computing resources. It juggles your infrastructure needs behind the scenes — at least in theory. But long ago, Microsoft started offering raw resources as well, turning Azure into something that operated as both platform cloud and infrastructure cloud.
This distinction is subtle. And the terminology is annoying. But that’s the way it is. Microsoft been dolling up its platform cloud in infrastructure clothing and now the world is starting to catch on.
“The original point of Azure was that you were not supposed as a developer to log in to each individual machine and fiddle around with it. The platform stuff that had build on top was supposed to take care of all that — all the management of the application. But since Azure launched, Microsoft has moved ‘down the stack’ also, so that you have access to the virtual machines. You can configure these machines as you want,” says Michael Friis, who runs a cloud startup called AppHarbor that — in a way — straddles the line between Azure and Amazon EC2.
“In that respect, they moved from doing their own platform, down to what Amazon is doing.”
Microsoft has long told us that it added raw virtual server because customers were asking for them. But at the same time, the company always downplayed this part of Azure, preferring to paint it as a platform cloud — i.e. something different from Amazon.
The trouble is that selling a platform cloud is an uphill battle. Developers have flocked to Amazon — EC2 now runs as much as one percent of the entire internet — and this has happened in part because they could do just about whatever they wanted with those virtual servers. A platform cloud is easier to use — at least in theory — but it’s also more restrictive, and this can scare off some developers. Google has seen the same thing with its platform cloud, Google App Engine.
So Azure is changing. It’s offering virtual servers — and Linux too. Rumors have long indicated that Linux machines were on the way. And this makes sense. Developers also use Amazon because it runs Linux. That’s what they’re familiar with. “When it comes right down to it, many developers don’t want to run this stuff on Windows,” says Friis.
Clearly, Microsoft realizes this. And it’s trying to catch up.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) won a federal trade
ruling that will force Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) to alter
software on some of its Android-based mobile phones to keep
bringing them into the U.S.
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge found that
Motorola Mobility infringed a patent covering a program by
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft called ActiveSync, which
lets users generate meeting requests among a group. Six other
patents weren’t violated, the judge ruled.
The ruling still must be reviewed by President Barack Obama, who can override the order on public policy grounds.
“We hope that now Motorola will be willing to join the
vast majority of Android device makers selling phones in the
U.S. by taking a license to our patents,” David Howard,
Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, said in an e-mailed
statement.
An exclusion order would affect Droid 2, Droid X, i1, Cliq
XT, Devour, Backflip, Charm and Clip models, according to a
filing with the ITC.
Android Fight
Motorola Mobility said it was disappointed and would
explore options including an appeal. “Motorola Mobility will
not experience any impact in the near term,” Jennifer Erickson,
a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.
The ruling probably will push Motorola to reach a
settlement and pay Microsoft a licensing fee instead of having
to modify the phone software, said Charlie Wolf, an analyst with
Needham Co in New York.
“These cases usually end up with the parties settling,”
Wolf said.
The case is part of a broader effort by Microsoft and Apple
Inc. to curtail the growth of mobile devices that run on Google
Inc. (GOOG)’s Android operating system. Google licenses Android for
free to further its mobile-advertising business.
The platform has become the most popular for smartphones,
with more than half of a market for mobile devices that Yankee
Group has projected will reach $360 billion this year.
Licensing Deals
Microsoft contends it should be paid royalties by makers of
mobile devices that run on Android. The software maker has
reached licensing deals with Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC
Corp. (2498)
Motorola Mobility, which is being bought by Google, refused
to pay and instead struck back in a case at the trade agency.
Microsoft’s willingness to license is different from Apple,
which wants makers of Android smartphones to make changes to its
devices, Wolf said.
“I would expect Motorola to get together with Microsoft to
resolve this,” he said.
Xbox, Windows
Microsoft has capitalized on patents it said cover features
of Android, and said it has struck licensing agreements with
makers of more than 70 percent of all Android devices sold in
the U.S. Microsoft’s only litigation with Android-device makers
is with Motorola Mobility, following a settlement reached last
month with Barnes Noble Inc. (BKS)
The software maker filed the ITC complaint in October 2010.
Motorola Mobility responded by sending letters demanding
royalties on Microsoft products, including the Xbox and Windows
operating system. The legal battle has since escalated, with
Microsoft accusing Motorola Mobility of misusing its patents in
a lawsuit pending in Seattle and before regulators in the U.S.
and Europe.
Motorola Mobility has filed its own patent-infringement
claim against Microsoft at the agency, seeking to block sales of
the Xbox. An ITC judge said Microsoft was infringing four
Motorola Mobility patents; Microsoft wants the commission to
review that decision.
Microsoft’s case against Motorola Mobility is In the Matter
of Certain Mobile Devices, Associated Software and Components
Thereof, 337-744, while Motorola Mobility’s case against
Microsoft is In the matter of Gaming and Entertainment Consoles,
337-752, both U.S. International Trade Commission (Washington).
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sdecker1@bloomberg.net;
William McQuillen in Washington at
bmcquillen@bloomberg.net
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It’s Facebook’s big day.The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut in years.Here’s some of what Associated Press reporters are finding. Check back all day for updates. All times EDT.___5:22 p.m.ABOUT THAT $38 FLOORFor most of the last half-hour of trading, Facebook was at, or pennies above, the offering price of $38 per share. But it never traded at $37.99, or at any other price that would have put it in the red for the first day.No coincidence, said Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the University of Florida: The banks that underwrote the IPO put in enough “buy” orders at $38 to keep the price from dropping below that level.Underwriters are allowed under regulatory rules to buy back, for 30 days, a certain amount of the shares they sell on the open market.Ritter said that his research showed 9 percent of IPOs close at exactly the offering price on the first day, 16 percent of IPOs fall, and 75 percent increase in value.Facebook made it into the “increase” category, but just barely.— Pallavi Gogoi, AP Business Writer___4:56 p.m.SEC LOOKING INTO NASDAQ GLITCHESThe Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into glitches in the trading of Facebook stock around the time of scheduled debut Friday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.The glitches caused traders problems changing and canceling their orders and delayed the start of trading by about a half-hour. Nasdaq said around noon that it was “investigating an issue in delivering trade execution messages” for Facebook stock.The SEC staff “will review the incident with Nasdaq to determine its cause and steps that will be taken to address it,” agency spokesman John Nester said.— Marcy Gordon, AP Business Writer___4:47 p.m.NASDAQ ON GLITCHESNasdaq posted a message on one of its websites telling investors who had problems buying or selling Facebook stock between 11:11 and 11:30 a.m. to call Nasdaq before 5 p.m. with their order information.Nasdaq went on to say:”Our intention is to reach resolution of those trades today through an offline matching process If at the end of that process, a firm continues to have questions or concerns, the firm needs to submit a formal accommodation request to us through the normal channels. Those requests will be reviewed and ruled upon and further information will be forthcoming concerning those. This is a voluntary process and the normal accommodation rule process is available to those that do not want to participate will be made available.”___4:26 p.m.FINAL STAT CHECKFacebook closed at $38.23, a gain of 23 cents, or 0.61 percent.About 570 million shares were traded on its first day as a public company. For perspective, that is roughly equal to the combined trading volume of 28 of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average — every Dow stock except Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.___4:16 p.m.CHECKING BACK IN WITH AN EARLY INVESTORAlper Aydinoglu, the student at DePaul University in Chicago who got 50 shares via Etrade at $38, said that he was “disappointed with the first day of trading.”His gain on paper: $11.50.Before Etrade’s standard commission of $9.99.He called it an excellent learning opportunity, though. Plus this: “On top of everything, I now have the bragging rights that I participated in one of the most popular IPOs of all time.”— Pallavi Gogoi, AP Business Writer___4:09 p.m.ZUCK: PLAY ALONG AT HOME IIThe closing stock price of $38.23, multiplied by a holding of 503,601,850 shares, gives CEO Mark Zuckerberg a stake worth $19,252,698,725.And 50 cents.___4:02 p.m.’LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER’There’s the close on Facebook: $38.23.All that excitement for a gain of — 23 cents. And it took a rush of buyers in the final minutes to achieve even that. Facebook was hugging the $38 mark for much of the final hour of trading.In theory, closing near the IPO price is good. It means that the banks that took the company public judged demand almost perfectly, and got the most money possible for selling stockholders.But in practice, it’s bad: The institutions that buy from the sellers — typically big investors like hedge funds, mutual funds and pension funds — have come to expect big profits on the first day.”This is like kissing your sister,” said John Fitzgibbon, founder of IPO Scoop, a research firm. “With all the drumbeats and hype, I don’t think there’ll be bar room bragging tonight.”— Bernard Condon, AP Business Writer___3:46 p.m.ZUCK: PLAY ALONG AT HOMEIf you want to figure up Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth at the end of the trading day, here’s the math: He still holds 503,601,850 shares of Facebook after the initial public offering.If the stock closes at $38 — and it is hovering just pennies above that level with about 15 minutes of trading left — that would make Zuckerberg’s stake worth about $19.1 billion.— Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer___3:30 p.m.TEACHABLE MOMENTThe Associated Press spoke earlier with Ann Sherman, an IPO expert and associate finance professor at DePaul University, and asked her to check back in with her thoughts at the end of the trading day.With Facebook almost back to its offering price of $38 per share, she said that even the best stocks can be over-hyped.Sherman added: “From now on, I’ll be able to use Facebook as the perfect example of what I tell the students in my IPO and venture capital class — that even apparently hot IPOs can be risky to price, and that no company can perfectly control the timing of their offering.”— Pallavi Gogoi, AP Business Writer___3:23 p.m.MAD MONEYEarlier this week, Mad magazine imagined a Facebook stock certificate, complete with a photo of Mark Zuckerberg smiling from inside an oval, like George Washington on the dollar bill.”Thank you for funding our ongoing effort to collect and control every single piece of personal information on the Internet,” the certificate says. “Every photograph, every song, every social cause, every event listing, every opinion, every breathless description of a recently eaten pulled-pork [...] Continue Reading…
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To provide an online destination for content and discussion related to
business collaboration and communications, The CIO
Collaboration Network is a destination for IT executives who can
access content, share views, collaborate, and network with peers based
on topics developed by the community manager and CIO Collaboration
Network members. The site—which features specially produced articles,
multimedia content, and commentary by the manager and members—also
includes content from around the web. Forrester and The Harvard Business
Review will produce content for the site that will appear along with
articles from CIO
and Network
World.
The CIO Collaboration Network is a forum that brings to life Avaya’s
tagline -“The Power of We”- by bringing together a community of IT
executives with the right information and context for them to make
better business decisions.
Earned, Paid, and Owned MediaWith referrals from the CIO
Executive Council—a community of strategic thought leaders who are
passionate about driving the evolution of the IT profession—IT
executives will be interviewed along with Avaya subject matter experts.
The interviews will be conducted via the Internet with Avaya’s One
Touch Video product as part of the technology marketing program.
Among the key topics are video, business, and mobile collaboration. To
share discussion on those topics and primary research conducted on the
CIO Collaboration Network, IDG will produce CIO Community Pulse guides.
The research findings will also be detailed in Research Briefs. To aid
Avaya sales professionals, IDG will create a summary of content in the
site and provide tips on how Avaya sales can use the CIO Collaboration
Network with their prospects and clients.
“The CIO Collaboration Network combines the power of earned, paid, and
owned media,” said Ozzie Solares, senior manager, Global Brand
Management, Avaya. “The information and social networking are a focal
point for education and collaboration among peers: The Power of We.”
IDG’s Community Works at the Core of Avaya NetworkIDG
Community Works services produce “a social web activation” plan built
around content and a dedicated community manager. Program components for
the Avaya-sponsored, March-September 2012 CIO Collaboration Network,
include: recruit bloggers to post articles related to site themes;
establish Community Threading in several appropriate online communities
to provide relevant content and tweets to draw visitors to www.ciocollaborationnetwork.com;
and, connect the site to social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and
YouTube.
“The Avaya Community is one of the most comprehensive examples of
Community Works,” said Charles Lee, senior vice president, Strategic
Programs and Custom Solutions, IDG Strategic Marketing Services and IDG
Enterprise, Strategic Content Services. “The production of multimedia
content valued by IT buyers and prospects tied to extensive social
outreach and curation and interaction is a powerful combination for B2B
IT marketers.”
The community manager is Dave
Michels who is an established commentator in the enterprise
communications industry. Avaya
is a global provider of business collaboration and communications
solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking
and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.
Promotion and MetricsA range of social outreach including
Community Threading, influential bloggers, and executive IT moderators
and contributors will attract visitors to the site. IDG will also
promote the CIO Collaboration Network on CIO.com.
To highlight information of interest, a weekly newsletter will be sent
to members who complete a brief registration form.
The six month program that supports Avaya’s technology marketing
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By the conventional understanding of the network effect, which states a service is as valuable as the number of people using it, Facebook can only benefit, right? The social network has 845 million users logging on to the site multiple times a day and only has plans to get bigger as it just went public this morning and needs to keep growing to prove its value. But, in Facebook’s case, as the site grows and its network gets bigger, it will also get more annoying and less useful. Facebook’s network effect isn’t exponential, it’s more of a curve, that will, at some point, start its downhill trajectory.
RELATED: Is Facebook Turning Us Into Lonely Robots? Or Worse?The essence of a social network is that it connects one person to another person. That’s its value for regular people. And, Facebook’s mission is to do just that, “the make the world more open and connected,” as it describes in its S1 filing on that glowing web of connectivity over there. More connected means getting more people on the network. It also means getting them to share more things on the network. (Think: Open Graph.) For Facebook users, finding more and better ways to connect with friends or “friends” is the reason we use Facebook. That’s the network effect in action. If none of our friends were on Facebook, for whom would we post those memes and vacations photos? We wouldn’t. And the theory goes: the more people on there too share various things with, the more useful the product.
RELATED: How Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button Is Taking Over the InternetFacebook has succeeded at its mission. The site has millions of users and has shown steady growth since its inception. (See: Graphs below, from the S1.) And with its new Open Graph strategy, our sharing extends beyond photos and status updates to “verbs.” So we are more connected in more ways with more people. But, that mission is flawed, if Facebook wants to provide a useful service. Making our worlds more connected only makes the service less useful. As it grows, Facebook connects us with people we don’t want to be connected with all the time. Sometimes our friends turn into “friends” over time and we end up sharing things with this network that we don’t really care about.One could limit their Facebook network to a select group of friends — sans “friends” — but at this point, not accepting a Facebook friendship is a social faux pas. Plus, whose mother hasn’t guilted them into accepting a Facebook friendship? (This must be a trend if there was a Modern Family story line about it.)
RELATED: Facebook’s Middle East Censorship Problem
RELATED: Prius Drivers Will Get Their Own Social NetworkAnd, as Facebook inspires more sharing of more things we do, we have even more opportunities to share things we don’t want with certain groups of people. Sure, one can limit privacy controls. But, how much can we or do we want to micromanage our sharing? At some point it will feel easier to split our social lives on different networks with different friends. Instagram for that set; Path for that other one. And Facebook will have gotten so bloated we won’t want to hang out there at all.
RELATED: Boston Venture Capitalists Ponder the Facebook Billions They MissedThis migration might come naturally, but Facebook’s business plans almost ensure the site will become an unpleasant Internet space. Facebook’s business pitch relies on a growing audience. From the S1: “Reach. Facebook offers the ability to reach a vast consumer audience of over 800 million MAUs with a single advertising purchase.” Facebook sells itself as the Super Bowl of Internet sites: All the eyes are here. The more eyes the better (for businesses) and, worse for users. So it must grow. But it also needs to get better at selling these eye-balls. Facebook earned an average of $1.21 per Facebooker each quarter, Google earned $7.14. To make more money off of each user — and stop losing advertisers — it needs a more convincing advertising model, which probably means a more annoying user experience. Because who likes anything ad related? (Not even Mark Zuckerberg!)
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Ford and Microsoft joined Strategic News Service as a Future in Review (FiRe) 2012 Silver Partner this week. The sponsorship reflects the companies’ shared commitment to creating a better-connected car experience through the Ford SYNC software platform in select Ford and Lincoln vehicles. FiRe, an annual technology conference now in its 10th year, brings together a tight-knit community of global thought leaders to discuss emerging markets, global problems, and technology-based solutions.
“We are delighted to have the top global team in our ‘Car Computing’ category joining us for FiRe X. We consider Ford to be the hands-down leader in implementing advanced technology in the automotive world, and we are deeply aware of Microsoft’s core position in providing a technology platform that enables drivers and passengers to easily and safely interact with the system. I have no doubt that, together, they will provide our group with the most advanced understanding of the future of technology in the automotive sector,” said Mark Anderson, FiRe Chair and SNS CEO.
Recognizing the shift in consumer technology, Ford and Microsoft joined forces in 2007 to bring the vision for an affordable, easy to use in-car system to life, giving consumers the ability to combine their digital lifestyle with their life on the road. The Ford SYNC software platform is one of the first in-car technologies in the world that seamlessly blends the latest in consumer electronics with the functionality of a vehicle. Futurists from both companies will be speaking at the FiRe Conference.
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 166,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
The Strategic News Service provides a weekly online newsletter predicting global trends in technology and economics. It is the most accurate publicly-graded predictive newsletter covering the computer and telecom industries. Recent calls include the 2007 global economic meltdown, the emergence of “Currency Wars” and of “Economic Cyberwar,” together with increasing global IP theft by China, among other major global trends. SNS is delivered each week to a subscriber base of C-level global technology and finance executives, and to thought leaders in technology, science and economics.
It is also the host of Future in Review (FiRe). FiRe attendees convene each year with the goal of solving major world problems; a goal that is consistently met through FiRe’s collaboration across disparate industries and the intellectual and strategic guidance of FiRe Chair and SNS CEO, Mark Anderson. Future in Review 2012 will take place May 22-25th at the beautiful Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, California. The Economist has called FiRe “The best technology conference in the world.”
To register and learn more, visit www.futureinreview.com.
Strategic News Service was founded by Mark Anderson in 1995 as the first paid online news service. Since its inception, SNS has proven the most accurate predictive newsletter covering the computer and telecom industries. Its subscribers include top managers at technology companies across the globe, including Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, Intel, Sun, Google, Telstra, Orange and others.
SNS has been operating the annual FiRe Conference for ten years. The Economist calls FiRe “the best technology conference in the world.” FiRe exposes world experts and participants to new ideas, producing an accurate portrait of the future and focuses on creating technology solutions to current local and global problems. FiRe 2012 will take place May 22-25, 2012 at the Montage in Laguna Beach, CA. For more information go to www.futureinreview.com.
Future in Review™ is a Strategic News Service™ conference. Future in ReviewTM, and Strategic News Service™ are registered international trademarks. The SNS newsletter is the most accurate publicly ranked predictive newsletter in computing and communications.
Websites: www.stratnews.com, www.futureinreview.com, www.futureinreview.com/global/wc
Press Jennifer LeeStrategic News ServiceTel. 360 378 8628Email: Jenny@stratnews.com
Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ford-join-fire-2012-131100316.html
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