Software development platform aims to continue making programming robots easier and more affordable for hobbyists and professionals alike.
PITTSBURGH — April 9, 2008 — Today, at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition in Pittsburgh, Microsoft Corp. released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools.
Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and testing by …

Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA’s Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving.
“Not all water is fit to drink,” said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover science team who is a biologist at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, began their fifth year on Mars last month, far surpassing their prime missions of three months. Today, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of …

Kuala Lumpur, 19 December2007- In recent years, Malaysia has grown to earn its place on the world map as an emerging information technology (IT) hotspot in the region, ranking in AT Kearney’s recent Global Services Location Index 2007 as the world’s third most popular IT outsourcing hub.
The expansion of the country’s IT industry is largely due to a number of factors including the increased presence of foreign companies in Malaysia and the local government’s vision to elevate Malaysia as an IT hub, producing quality resource and generating intellectual property assets …