To listen to the interview, click on this MP3 file link DISCUSSION: Interview Time Index (MM:SS) and Topic :00:48: Since we last talked I understand that you are a new director on the Global Industry Council. Can you talk about that briefly? "....I'm very excited to be part of that group and part of that dialogue as they discuss setting international standards for technology education and...

James Maurer is a science and technical publishing professional and entrepreneur. Upon completion of his M.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he relocated to New York, where he took on the position of Managing Editor for Charles Scribner's Sons 16-volume reference publication, Dictionary of Scientific Biography. At Scribner's, Maurer also published The Album of Science series and...

John is CTO for SAS UK and Ireland. John's role is to advise and counsel CxOs, Directors and business managers on the capabilities and value of new methods and technologies in providing business enhancing services. John capitalizes on using practical enterprise architecture approaches to create and implement large-scale solutions and transformations for a number of Blue Chip companies. John's...

What do they have in common – appearing in the amazing CES pre-show opening keynote this week: http://live.cnet.com/Event/CES_2013_Qualcomm_keynote_live_blog?Page=0

It’s a New Year and the start of new beginnings. So what better time than now to try out something new? We’re trying out a new way to connect with you and your teams, a new way to provide you with the information you need and that you think is important. We’re introducing Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) “Office Hours” as a way to participate in a live, online discussion...

Wishing you a happy and rewarding 2013! I was in LA, Irvine, Long Beach, Claremont in Southern California in December meeting with senior executives from an accelerator, foundation, universities and Maria Klawe of HM college. One common theme was MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and it’s worth looking into them such as from Courseara . This week, leaving Sunday January 6th, I’m off to the CES...

Eliezer Manor is a businessman engaged in hi-tech entrepreneurship and venture capital globally. His activities are carried out through his wholly-owned company — Shirat Enterprises Ltd., registered in Israel: http://www.shirat-enterprises.com/news . Shirat holds a portfolio of private investments and in parallel, acts as a management company with offices in Israel and in China. In addition...

The Developer Movement Challenge builds on our successful incentive program for building apps. Here’s how it works: An app builder publishes Windows 8 apps from December 6th to December 31st and gets a chance to win a Microsoft 64 GB Surface. With every qualifying app they publish they automatically get an entry into the draw. Check out the challenge here .

David Foote, Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Research Officer David Foote is an IT industry research pioneer, innovator, and one of the most quoted industry authorities on global IT workforce and compensation trends and multiple facets of the human side of technology value creation. His two decades of ground-breaking deep research and analysis on IT/business cross-skilling and the integration of technology...

Event Date Thursday Dec 13, 2012 - 9 to 5 PM Friday Dec 14, 2011 - 9 to 5 PM Event Location Live Stream You can register for the live stream here , then just point your browser to Channel 9 or to our registration site on the day of the event.  You can also tune in at the Verge to watch the live stream. Join the Big Nerd Ranch and Microsoft for this free, two-day training designed to jumpstart...

A recognized industry leader, Rob has over twenty-five years' experience as an enterprise software executive with demonstrated leadership success at startup companies to large companies, including Symantec and Axent Technologies. An internet security pioneer and innovator, he is credited with the creation of the first commercial intrusion detection system, and led the business unit that developed and...

There are some important support changes coming up for Microsoft SQL Server, per Microsoft’s Support Lifecycle policy . Being aware of these changes means the ability to potentially avoid the risk of running unsupported products and more importantly, being able to choose the right version of SQL Server for your business. SQL Server 2000. On April 9‚ 2013, Extended Support for SQL...

Workshop Description What if you could build Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2013 productivity solutions using standard web technologies and distribute them worldwide from the Office Store on Office.com? Well, you can! The all new cloud app extensibility model for Office and SharePoint 2013 enables building a whole new class of productivity solutions for Office and SharePoint. And the new Office Store...

Good Video Source… (Source: TechNet Flash Newsletter - Volume 14, Issue 26 | November 28, 2012 ) Video: Windows 8 - enabling flexible workstyles (episode 1) Episode one of this series features Jane Boulware, General Manager of the U.S. Windows Client team, discussing the unique value Windows 8 offers to businesses. Over the next few months, this series will provide step-by-step scenarios to help you...

This is the final interview in a four-part interview series where we explored Maria's considerable history from her early years and into her professional life of notable distinction, significant outstanding contributions in a number of fields including societal causes. In future interviews, we will continue to follow Maria's outstanding work impacting business, industry, governments, education, and...

Check out the video interview with Grant Skinner at FITC Vancouver. During the video interview, Grant answers the question “What does an interactive developer/designer do?” and he takes us through his perspective on Web Standards, Flash, HTML, CSS, Canvas and suites of JavaScript library goodness.

Marios Damianides is a partner with Ernst & Young in the Risk Advisory Services division in New York. At Ernst & Young Mr. Damianides has worked with numerous Fortune 100 companies designing and implementing security management systems. Mr. Damianides is a member of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and served as its international president from 2003 to 2005 and is also...

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Microsoft Learning is thrilled to announce a new Jump Start for developers focused on building apps for Windows Phone 8. This special live online course is scheduled for two full days of fast-paced, demo-rich sessions led by Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Andy Wigley , and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Strategist, Rob Tiffany . Andy and Rob are two of the most respected experts in mobile app development...

November 23-25, 2012 Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University Windows 8: Pure Imagination Where developers, designers, game builders, start-ups and students unite to explore the possibilities of Windows 8. You’ll be encouraged to look beyond the features… to what can be accomplished when inspiration and technology intersect. In less than 40 hours you’ll get everything you need to help make...

Graham Jones , as a top engineer created many innovations and more recently led the Canadian user group VANTUG to a No.1 work ranking. In addition, Graham was a founder and long time Chairman of the largest international user group federation, GITCA, which is HQed in Canada. We met recently where he shared his useful insights into Windows 8: Windows 8 has been designed to cater to both the mobile and...

November 23-25, 2012 Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University Windows 8: Pure Imagination Where developers, designers, game builders, start-ups and students unite to explore the possibilities of Windows 8. You’ll be encouraged to look beyond the features… to what can be accomplished when inspiration and technology intersect. In less than 40 hours you’ll get everything you need to help make...

Learn all about Microsoft Private Cloud with: Free evaluations (trials) of Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Microsoft Virtual Academy courses on Windows Server, System Center and the Private Cloud Guided labs focused on the Microsoft Private Cloud Each one you complete gives you another chance to win the grand prize of $5,000.  And if you hurry and complete the steps by November 30 th...

Microsoft Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language. The breakthrough is patterned after deep neural networks and significantly reduces errors in spoken as well as written translation. http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft-research...

IT is the largest driver for the economy and prosperity. Rob Atkinson, founding president of the IT Innovation Foundation, a Washington DC think tank, in his recent World Computer Congress presentation talked about: “in large U.S. firms, every dollar of ICT capital is associated with $25 of market value. $1 of non-ICT capital is associated with only $1 of market value.” And by 2020, “The Internet economy...