Tu Nguyen always believed in the promise of document management. After winning the Microsoft 2003 Imagine Cup programming competition, a lot changed for him. Inspired while working in his parents' Vietnamese restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, Nguyen developed an application designed to bridge the language gap between English-speaking waiters and ...

You’ve got mail. From anywhere, at any time. And not just email—we’re talking about postal mail. It’s all going online, if Earth Class Mail has anything to do with it. Founded in 2004, the company wants to change how postal mail is delivered, for the betterment of individuals, businesses, national post offices, and, most importantly, the ...

Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here. There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues is influenced by partners. How to start partnering with Microsoft Become a partner. The first step is ...

Me.dium is a web browser plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer that turns web browsing into a social experience. It gives you a personalized map of the Internet showing where you are, and what web sites your friends are visiting in real time. You can use it to discover new people and places that are relevant just to you. It also allows you ...

Founded in 2005, DiVitas Networks has rapidly become a leader in Mobile Unified Communications. DiVitas offers the first solution to mobilize corporate voice and messaging (desk phone, contacts, IM, presence and push-to-talk) applications for business by unifying them onto a smartphone. DiVitas “seamless roaming’” enables its solution to operate ...

This week, Microsoft is hosting a week-long event that supports startups and students at the Microsoft Technology Center in Silicon Valley. You can view the progress in action at the Incubation Week Facebook site. Participants receive one day of training and three days of active prototyping and development time on their chosen application. The ...

Experticity, the Seattle based sales closing platform currently part of the MS Accelerator Program is, well, accelerating, in market traction and customer adoption. Experticity enables service businesses (retail, banking, other) to deliver live, on-screen sales-closing and support agents, to customers in-store, on-line and on-the-go ...

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (or PDC) is a conference for software developers, normally Windows developers. It covers new and upcoming technology from Microsoft, and so only occurs in the years when there is something new to talk about. The wait is over! The public PDC2008 site just went live, and you can now register for the ...

Email has rapidly become the mission-critical application for today’s businesses. And Mimosa Systems says it is revolutionizing email archiving with the industry’s most scalable grid architecture for Microsoft Exchange environments, scaling across hundreds of thousands of mailboxes. The company’s solution unifies content archiving, eDiscovery, ...

StoreXperience is an innovative company  I have discussed in previous blogs that’s building a Personal Mobile shopping assistant application for consumers with mobile phones and devices. Their technology is based 100% on Microsoft’s technologies, leveraging platform products like Microsoft Performance Point, Dynamics, SQL Server among others. ...