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Microsoft’s Live Labs develops SeaDragon app for the iPhone
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... More on the SeaDragon Mobile release over at TechFlash, where Todd Bishop is working on weekends even without a Yahoo! acquisition rumor to keep him huddled over the keyboard. ...
Microsoft iPhone Apps: Just the Beginning?
Mashable! —
... The aim is to highlight Microsoft’s photo-display tech on mobile devices, explains TechFlash, and we place it firmly in the “cool but not so useful” category. And yet, Microsoft has many, many useful applications: will we see those in the App Store soon? ...
‘Seadragon Mobile’: Microsoft Live Labs’s iPhone app
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“The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a (graphics processing unit),” Daley explained. “Most phones out today don’t have accelerated graphics in them The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do. I couldn’t just pick up a Blackberry or a Nokia off the shelf and build Seadragon for it without GPU support.”
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Microsoft ha llegado al iPhone!
Celularis —
... que permite ver imágenes, explorar las colecciones de Photosynth y todo el contenido de PhotoZoom y Deep Zoom Compositor, además de suscribirse al lector de feeds Deep Zoom RSS, todos productos y servicios de Microsoft Live Labs. Vía TechFlash ...
Linkpost | 12.14.2008
TechBlog —
... - Phasing out the older Windows versions is becoming problematic for Microsoft. • Microsoft's first iPhone app: Live Labs releases Seadragon Mobile viewer - Can be used to view high-resolution photos. Seadragon is the core technology behind ...
Microsoft's first iPhone app: Seadragon Mobile
Geek In Disguise —
[image credit – TechFlash] Todd Bishop at Techflash just noticed that Microsoft’s Live Labs has published our first iPhone app - Seadragon Mobile. It’s terrific to see this innovation coming out but I have to ask myself where is the Windows Mobile version? Surely phones like the Touch HD from HTC would benefit from this too? Anyway, I’m off to check it out on my iPod Touch and you can check it out with the video on the Live Labs site or download from the ...
Microsoft's (MSFT) First iPhone App: Not Office (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... TechFlash: It's designed for zooming smoothly in, out and around photos over the Internet, regardless of bandwidth constraints or image size. Seadragon's technological trick is to store images in multiple resolutions and deliver only the bits needed to present the view a user wants at any given moment. ...
Microsoft releases first iPhone app: Seadragon Mobile
Boy Genius Report —
Yesterday, relatively quietly, Microsoft Live Labs released its first iPhone application. Seadragon Mobile is now available in the app store for free and it represents a pretty big step for the gang in Redmond. As popular as the iPhone is, it was bound to happen sooner or later but Microsoft’s entry into the iPhone app game is interesting on several levels, as is its explanation of the move. But first things first - what’s the app? Seadragon Mobile is essentially a demo of Seadragon photo technology on Apple’s mobile platform. Implemented in ...
SeaDragon Mobile: Microsoft's First Ever iPhone App [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
... he was impressed with the iPhone's superior hardware. The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a (graphics processing unit). Most phones out today don’t have accelerated graphics in them. The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do. I couldn’t just pick up a BlackBerry or a Nokia off the shelf and build Seadragon for it without GPU support. It's the new Ray Ozzie Microsoft, right? [Techflash]
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MSFT to Apple: Yes, your phone is better
mathewingram.com/work —
... , Microsoft’s release of Seadragon for the iPhone — an image-viewing app based on the deep-zoom technology behind the software giant’s Photosynth project — doesn’t just seem like an admission that the iPhone is better than any other mobile out there: Microsoft product manager Alex Daley comes right out and says as much in an interview with Todd Bishop of the blog Tech Flash: ...
Microsoft tests Seadragon on the iPhone because it can’t on Windows Mobile
VentureBeat —
... But Seadragon still requires some amount of graphical processing on the client side, which is why the iPhone, which has its own graphics processing unit (GPU), is a good fit, Microsoft Live Labs group product manager Alex Daley told TechFlash. And that’s the thing, even if it wanted to, Microsoft couldn’t run Seadragon on phone that runs Windows Mobile (its mobile operating system) because there are ...
Seadragon Mobile: Microsoft’s First iPhone App is Released
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... in Silverlight. But no Windows Mobile version, and an iPhone version? Some Microsoft heads might have exploded over that thought. But as Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, told TechFlash :“The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a (graphics processing unit). Most phones out today don’t have accelerated graphics in them The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do. I couldn’t just pick up a Blackberry or a Nokia off the shelf and build Seadragon for it without GPU support.” Curious? Here’s ...
Microsoft offers free gigapixel app, Seadragon, for the iPhone
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... you get on the PC to the mobile platform. Get super-close in on a map or photo, with just a few pinches or taps of your finger. Browse an entire collection of photos from a single screen. You can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or your Photosynth collection (or anybody else's). It also has a video of developer Ben Vanik talking about it. Why the iPhone? Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, told Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog: "The iPhone is the most widely distributed ...
Seadragon: Microsoft's first app for iPhone
PalmAddicts —
... Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs told TechFlash the reason why they decided to give this app to iPhone, instead use it first in Microsoft's own Windows Mobile platform: ...
First Microsoft iPhone App? Seadragon Mobile
ReadWriteWeb —
... But the question remains, why the iPhone? Why not some Windows Mobile device? In a word, hardware. According to Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, the iPhone has a graphics processing unit that enabled the Seadragon team to deliver an app that would have been much more difficult to build on other handsets. ...
Linkpost | 12.15.2008
TechBlog —
... - President-elect Obama's transition site is offered via a Web-based app. • Microsoft's first iPhone app: Live Labs releases Seadragon Mobile viewer - See the ...
Microsoft releases amazing Seadragon Mobile app- for the iPhone [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... So why did Microsoft release this app for the iPhone and not its own Windows Mobile platform? Alex Daly, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs: ...
Microsoft Seadragon Mobile iPhone app
Obsessable News Feed —
... Perhaps more notable than the application itself is that Seadragon Mobile is a Microsoft application released on the iPhone before a comparable version has been made available for Microsoft's own Windows Mobile platform. Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, notes that the reason for this is simply that the iPhone is one of the few phones on the market today with accelerated graphics. ...
Does Microsoft secretly love Apple?
MacBytes.com —
... Mobile platform. Seadragon Mobile, a free application that allows for the deep zooming of online images being browsed using the iPhone, is best known in a non-mobile format as being the power driving Microsoft Photosynth. The reason why Seadragon Mobile has appeared on the iPhone before a Windows Mobile device is intriguing. It would seem that, according to a Microsoft spokesperson, the iPhone is the best device for the application. Microsoft Live Labs Product Manager Alex Daley says "Most phones out today don t have accelerated graphics in them The iPhone does... I couldn ...
Does Microsoft secretly love Apple?
MacBytes.com —
... Mobile platform. Seadragon Mobile, a free application that allows for the deep zooming of online images being browsed using the iPhone, is best known in a non-mobile format as being the power driving Microsoft Photosynth. The reason why Seadragon Mobile has appeared on the iPhone before a Windows Mobile device is intriguing. It would seem that, according to a Microsoft spokesperson, the iPhone is the best device for the application. Microsoft Live Labs Product Manager Alex Daley says "Most phones out today don t have accelerated graphics in them The iPhone does... I couldn ...
Could Seadragon, Zune VideoX be among ‘premium’ Win Mobile services?
All about Microsoft —
... ? The marketplace project supposedly headed up by Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore? I wouldn’t be surprised to see those services/technologies featured prominently in whatever kind of Zune Mobile platform Microsoft ends up fielding. * And what about Seadragon Mobile? After all, Microsoft’s Live Labs team managed to get its Seadragon image-viewing technology ported to the iPhone. In fact, Seadragon Mobile is the first Microsoft app/service that is for sale via the iPhone Store . (An aside: Given problems that the Silverlight and other teams at Microsoft said they have had ...
