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Watch For Microsoft To Acquire Nokia, Nvidia
InformationWeek
So Microsoft may be getting into the hardware game for keeps. What's behind the moves? For starters, the company is sick of watching Apple's beautiful new products draw raves and set fanboy hearts afire while its partners come out with Windows-based ...
Microsoft Translates English To Mandarin Speech In Real Time (VIDEO)
TPM
Microsoft has developed an automated speech translation system that is capable of converting an English speaker's words to Mandardin Chinese audio in the speaker's voice, in real time, as Microsoft's chief research officer Rick Rashid demonstrated in a ...

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Honey, I Shrunk the Xbox
Motley Fool
The one thing working in Microsoft's favor -- and it's something that it hasn't had with last month's Surface debut -- is a built-in audience of hardcore gamers that love their Xbox consoles and value their Xbox Live subscriptions. We'll see if that ...
Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server
Computerworld
IDG News Service - In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will feature the ability to host database ...