Makemedia were last night celebrating after being awarded the Presagis ‘Best Visualisation Application’ at the worlds largest simulation, training and education conference – I/ITSEC, in Orlando Florida.
Presagis, who provide off the shelf VR & simulation software, recognised Makemedia for the fantastic 3D work the team have been producing recently. Quoting the Presagis website “The company [...]
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Makemedia win Best Visualisation Application award!
December 1, 2009 – 2:44 pm
Makemedia launch www.writing-skills.com
November 19, 2009 – 1:20 pm
Makemedia is proud to announce the launch of the new website www.writing-skills.com. Emphasis is a specialist business-writing consultancy that trains clients to write clearly and effectively.
The main objective of the new site is to promote the company as a high-quality resource for business writing and training. It does this effectively with its clean, professional and [...]
Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics
November 19, 2009 – 9:04 am
I was scouting round on New Scientist when I came across this interesting article about prototype technology that embeds a display device into a contact lens!
“One of the limitations of current head-up displays is their limited field of view. A contact lens display can have a much wider field of view. “Our hope is to [...]
Makemedia launch Insurance Buyers Guide
September 25, 2009 – 11:26 am
Makemedia are pleased to announce a recent site launch – Insurance Buyers Guide. Insurance Buyers Guide (affectionately known as IBG) is a classified advert site aimed specifically at the Insurance Broker market. Avoiding the consumer insurance market, the founding principle of IBG is to provide a highly cost effective resource through which brokers can publish [...]
Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
August 28, 2009 – 4:41 pm
Scientists are developing new ’sentiment analysis tools’ to mine the increasing mountain of data being generated by Social Media sites. By using such tools companies can benefit by gaining direct feedback from customers that would otherwise be lost in the ether, interesting…
“An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the [...]
Microsoft Taps Wolfram to Make Bing Geekier Than Google
August 28, 2009 – 4:20 pm
Rumour has it that Microsoft is harnessing the power of the still-in-alpha knowledge engine “Wolfram” for its own search services. This could result in some very geeky search results!
Read the original here…
Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest
August 12, 2009 – 10:25 am
After leaving much of the creation of a new version of HTML to Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla, Microsoft has begun sinking its teeth into the Web standard.
Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration
August 9, 2009 – 8:12 pm
This article struck me as interesting becuase the concept is not that new. I’ll be interested to see how it gains traction over the next couple of years.
“Normally, virtual worlds are the setting of many online games and entertainment applications, but now they’re becoming a place for scientific collaboration and outreach, as well…..the organization conducts [...]
Touchable holograms!
August 9, 2009 – 8:10 pm
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed 3D holograms that can be touched with bare hands.