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Gadgets Oregon® 550 touchscreen navigation with a 3.2 megapixel digital camera.

The navigator with the photographic memory — Oregon 550 combines rugged outdoor touchscreen navigation with a 3.2 megapixel digital camera. Add high-sensitivity GPS, barometric altimeter, 3-axis electronic compass and microSD™ card slot. The result? A multipurpose device that will make your biggest adventures even more memorable.
Take Pictures and Save Locations
Capture locations and memories with Oregon 550's 3.2 megapixel autofocus digital camera with 4x digital zoom. Each photo is automatically geotagged with the location of where it was taken, allowing you to navigate back to that exact spot in the future. Snap and view pictures in landscape or portrait orientation. With 850 MB of internal memory, you'll never miss a photo opportunity. To store online, simply connect Oregon 550 via USB and log into my.Garmin.com to upload and store your photos at Picasa™, a popular online photo sharing community for friends and families around the world. For more storage, insert a microSD card; you can even view pictures from other devices on microSD with Oregon's picture viewer.
Touch and Go
Oregon 550 makes rugged navigation effortless with a tough, 3-inch diagonal, sunlight-readable, color touchscreen display. The interface is easy to use, so you’ll spend more time enjoying the outdoors and less time searching for information. Both durable and waterproof, Oregon 550 is built to withstand the elements. Bumps, dust, dirt, humidity and water are no match for this rugged navigator.
Get Your Bearings
Oregon 550 has a built-in 3-axis tilt-compensated electronic compass, which shows your heading even when you’re standing still, without holding it level. Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude, and you can even use it to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions. And with its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix™ satellite prediction, Oregon 550 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons.
Add Maps
Oregon 550 comes preloaded with a worldwide built-in basemap with shaded relief. Adding even more detail is easy: just insert a MapSource® microSD card preloaded with detailed maps. Oregon can accept a variety of maps for any navigational need. Add detailed street maps to get turn-by-turn directions to your destination. Add select topographic maps to take advantage of Oregon’s 3-D maps and elevation detail. Or add BlueChart® g2 maps, which provide everything you need for a great day on the water, including depth contours, navaids and harbors.
Find Fun
Go paperless with Oregon 550 by quickly downloading information from Geocaching.com for up to 5000 caches, such as location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description. No more manually entering coordinates and paper print outs. Slim and lightweight, Oregon is the perfect companion for all your outdoor pursuits.
Share Wirelessly
With Oregon 550 you can share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly other Oregon and Colorado users. Now you can send your favorite route to a friend to enjoy or the location of a cache to find. Sharing data is easy. Just touch "send" to transfer your information to similar devices.
Oregon 550: Picture the great outdoors.

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Wolfram Research will soon be releasing WolframAlpha.

First youn want to know what is wolframalpha.com it's

Computational Knowledge Engine. base on mathematical formula and mathematical life formula.

Launching May 2009

Some might say that Mathematica and A New Kind of Science are ambitious projects.
But in recent years I’ve been hard at work on a still more ambitious project—called WolframAlpha.
And I’m excited to say that in just two months it’s going to be going live:
Mathematica has been a great success in very broadly handling all kinds of formal technical systems and knowledge.
But what about everything else? What about all other systematic knowledge? All the methods and models, and data, that exists?
Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d quickly be able to handle all these kinds of things.
And that one would be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer.
But it didn’t work out that way. Computers have been able to do many remarkable and unexpected things. But not that.
I’d always thought, though, that eventually it should be possible. And a few years ago, I realized that I was finally in a position to try to do it.
I had two crucial ingredients: Mathematica and NKS. With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything—as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could arise from simple rules.
But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have accumulated?
A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And with search engines, we can very efficiently search for specific terms and phrases in that text.
But we can’t compute from that. And in effect, we can only answer questions that have been literally asked before. We can look things up, but we can’t figure anything new out.
So how can we deal with that? Well, some people have thought the way forward must be to somehow automatically understand the natural language that exists on the web. Perhaps getting the web semantically tagged to make that easier.
But armed with Mathematica and NKS I realized there’s another way: explicitly implement methods and models, as algorithms, and explicitly curate all data so that it is immediately computable.
It’s not easy to do this. Every different kind of method and model—and data—has its own special features and character. But with a mixture of Mathematica and NKS automation, and a lot of human experts, I’m happy to say that we’ve gotten a very long way.
But, OK. Let’s say we succeed in creating a system that knows a lot, and can figure a lot out. How can we interact with it?
The way humans normally communicate is through natural language. And when one’s dealing with the whole spectrum of knowledge, I think that’s the only realistic option for communicating with computers too.
Of course, getting computers to deal with natural language has turned out to be incredibly difficult. And for example we’re still very far away from having computers systematically understand large volumes of natural language text on the web.
But if one’s already made knowledge computable, one doesn’t need to do that kind of natural language understanding.
All one needs to be able to do is to take questions people ask in natural language, and represent them in a precise form that fits into the computations one can do.
Of course, even that has never been done in any generality. And it’s made more difficult by the fact that one doesn’t just want to handle a language like English: one also wants to be able to handle all the shorthand notations that people in every possible field use.
I wasn’t at all sure it was going to work. But I’m happy to say that with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, we’re actually managing to make it work.
Pulling all of this together to create a true computational knowledge engine is a very difficult task.
It’s certainly the most complex project I’ve ever undertaken. Involving far more kinds of expertise—and more moving parts—than I’ve ever had to assemble before.
And—like Mathematica, or NKS—the project will never be finished.
But I’m happy to say that we’ve almost reached the point where we feel we can expose the first part of it.
It’s going to be a website: http://www.wolframalpha.com/. With one simple input field that gives access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.
We’re all working very hard right now to get WolframAlpha ready to go live.
I think it’s going to be pretty exciting. A new paradigm for using computers and the web.
That almost gets us to what people thought computers would be able to do 50 years ago!

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Emil Cohen, a subsidiary of the WPP, has come out with its annual list and report, BrandZ, that ranks the most valuable brands in the world. Unsurprisingly, Google (GOOG) tops the list for the third year in a row, with the Google brand valued at $100 billion, rising 16% in value over the past year from $86 billion. Microsoft (MSFT) comes in second, with its brand valued at $76.2 billion, only rising 8% in value over the past year. Last summer, Google had the no. 2 reputation in the world, according to The Reputation Index, and Microsoft didn’t even break into the top 40 (the company was ranked #43 in terms of reputation). In last year’s BrandZ rankings, Microsoft was third on the list behind General Electric (GE), so the company has inched a little closer to Google.
Other notable tech companies that made the top 10 in this years most valuable brands list were IBM (no. 4, valuation: $66.6B), Apple (AAPL) (no. 6, Valuation: $63.1B), China Mobile (CHL) (no. 7, Valuation: $61.2B), and Vodafone (VOD) (no. 9, valuation: $53.7B). Ten of the top 25 brands are technology brands. Amazon (AMZN) is no. 26, AT&T (T) is no. 28, Cisco (CSCO) is no. 30, eBay (EBAY) is no. 54 and Yahoo (YHOO) is no. 81, falling from no. 62 last year. Yahoo’s brand value went from $11.5B to $7.9B.
Here’s the top 20 list and a screenshot of the top 100 below:
1. Google ($100 B)2. Microsoft ($76.2 B)3. Coca-Cola (KO) ($67.6 B)4. IBM ($66.6 B)5. McDonalds (MCD) ($66.5 B)6. Apple ($66.1 B)7. China Mobile ($61.2 B)8. GE ($59.7 B)9. Vodafone ($53.7 B)10. Marlboro ($49.4 B)11. Walmart (WMT) ($41 B)12. ICBC ($35 B)13. Nokia (NOK) ($35.1 B)14. Toyota (TM) ($29.9 B)15. UPS ($27.8 B)16. Blackberry (RIMM) ($27.4 B)17. HP (HPQ) ($26.7 B)18. BMW ($23.9 B)19. SAP ($23.6 B)20. Disney (DIS) ($23.1 B)21. Tesco (TESO) ($22.9 B)22. Gillete ($22.9 B)23. Intel (INTC) ($22.8 B)24. China Construction Bank ($22.8 B)25. Oracle (ORCL) ($21.4 B)

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Microsoft (MSFT) has announced the private beta launch of Microsoft Vine,

This is the biggest change i was waiting to see in micosoft i hope it will change the game now that yahoo is out of the game i belive that it's can bring big change to the new media who are base in more open minds and pure social networking wich today news are done worldwide by blogs websites. and good repoeters that bringing the news via social networking blogs.

It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine -- a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle -could be a contender.

Google is the main player of all this with out google this not going to work,

microsoft technology do ahve what is take to be leader in the internet social medai and search engine the only need to put it togther after all the created windows that 90% of the world use why not to play leading role in the movie of our life call internet, search, media, and social networking.

Story by Emil Cohen Emilcohen.com

see more about micosoft launch vine.

Welcome to Microsoft Vine
The Microsoft Vine Beta connects you to the people and places you care about most, when it matters. Stay in touch with family and friends, be informed when someone needs help. Get involved to create great communities. Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved. Microsoft Vine is currently a beta service, which means we need your feedback and ideas to make it great. Watch the videos to learn more, then, provide your e-mail address to request an invitation.

About Microsoft Vine
Use the dashboard to know what’s happening. Information associated with the places you have chosen will appear on your map, including articles from 20,000 news and public safety sources. Information from people you care about, such as alerts and reports, will appear on the dashboard too. Send and receive alerts. Organize people into groups - the sports team you coach, people who live nearby, family far away, special friends, and emergency contacts. Each person defines how they want to receive alerts – through e-mail, a text message, or on their computer. Reach them quickly using alerts. Post reports. You decide what you want to share with whom, and then the information is sent directly to their personal dashboard. Check in safe and well to let your family know you are okay, let trusted neighbors know you’re headed out of town, keep people informed of situations that matter, or share general information like the team practice schedule for the week.

Press Info
Microsoft Vine in the news
"It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine -- a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle -- could be a contender." Seattle Times
Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids -- Seattle Times
Microsoft 'Vine' to link Facebook, other tools into system of alerts -- TechFlash
Microsoft announces Vine, a location-based service for emergencies -- VentureBeat
Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits -- TechCrunch
Meet Vine, Microsoft's superhero software -- CNET
Microsoft's Vine: Emergency Social Networking – PCWorld
Microsoft Goes Social (& Local) With Vine -- Search Engine Land
For the media
For media inquiries: please contact Rapid Response Team, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, (503) 443-7000, .

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It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine -- a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle -- could be a contender.

About Microsoft Vine
Use the dashboard to know what’s happening. Information associated with the places you have chosen will appear on your map, including articles from 20,000 news and public safety sources. Information from people you care about, such as alerts and reports, will appear on the dashboard too. Send and receive alerts. Organize people into groups - the sports team you coach, people who live nearby, family far away, special friends, and emergency contacts. Each person defines how they want to receive alerts – through e-mail, a text message, or on their computer. Reach them quickly using alerts. Post reports. You decide what you want to share with whom, and then the information is sent directly to their personal dashboard. Check in safe and well to let your family know you are okay, let trusted neighbors know you’re headed out of town, keep people informed of situations that matter, or share general information like the team practice schedule for the week.

Press Info
Microsoft Vine in the news
"It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine -- a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle -- could be a contender." Seattle Times
Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids -- Seattle Times
Microsoft 'Vine' to link Facebook, other tools into system of alerts -- TechFlash
Microsoft announces Vine, a location-based service for emergencies -- VentureBeat
Microsoft Vine To Connect Family, Friends When Crisis Hits -- TechCrunch
Meet Vine, Microsoft's superhero software -- CNET
Microsoft's Vine: Emergency Social Networking – PCWorld
Microsoft Goes Social (& Local) With Vine -- Search Engine Land

Resources
Invitation postcard (PDF)
Print this postcard and use it to invite people to join you on Microsoft Vine.
Emergency card (PDF)
Print this wallet-sized card and keep it with you; it contains instructions for sending an alert to your emergency contacts through e-mail and text messaging.
Share your stories and ideas
Microsoft Vine is currently a beta service, which means we need your stories and ideas to make it great. We hope to hear how you use it, why it matters and what you’d like to be able to do with it in the future. Click here to share a story or an idea.

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