If you have an opportunity browse through the research projects going on at Microsoft Research. As the site states the research projects are not the ivory tower type but are focused on "turning ideas into reality". The overarching goals of the projects are "to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies".
Here are a couple I found on the [...]
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Semantic Service-Oriented Architectures introduce semantic enhancements to services so that agents can dynamically combine services to satisfy business goal.
It's been a couple of years since Richard wrote about the intersection of OpenGL and mobile devices. And my word—the world has changed, thanks in part to devices such as Apple's iPhone.
To demonstrate how you can use Qt to build a Windows Mobile application, Espen presents an image viewer and internationalizes it for three different languages.
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