• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Pictures

Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

Pictures of the year: Technology

A look at the year's best science and technology photos.   Slideshow 

    Microsoft launches video on Messenger

    LONDON
    Mon May 12, 2008 12:38pm EDT
    A woman uses Microsoft's Messenger software with new video capabilities in an undated handout photo released to Reuters on May 12, 2008. REUTERS/Microsoft/Handout

    LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has launched a new online service in 20 countries which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger.

    Entertainment  |  Technology  |  Stocks  |  Global Markets

    The new service called Messenger TV will offer a range of clips on MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony BMG.

    The firm hopes the ability to watch clips with friends on different computers will create a new social experience and attract users who already spend hours on social networks.

    "Online video has exploded in popularity over the last year, but to date it has been something people watch on their own. Messenger TV is set to change all that," said John Mangelaars, the vice-president, EMEA, of consumer and online for Microsoft.

    "Watching video online can now be a social experience, as people watch videos together, make comments and share reactions."

    The service will launch in 20 countries including many European countries, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico but not the United States.

    (Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Quentin Bryar)
    Entertainment
    Technology
    Stocks
    Global Markets


    More from Reuters

    Afghan suicide blast kills eight U.S. civilians

    KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed eight American civilians in an attack at a military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, one of the highest foreign civilian death tolls in an insurgent strike in the eight-year war.

    » More Top News
    A security camera sits on a building in New York City March 6, 2008. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

    Trial run in Times Square

    Critics say the Sept. 11 trials will endanger America's most populated city. Will a $75-million New Year's Eve plan hold up as New York's security template?  Full Article 

    U.S.
    People walk past a branch of Bank of America in New York's financial district April 28, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
    Rolfe Winkler:

    Move your money

    Boycotting "too big to fail" banks is a great idea -- so long as investors remember that banks aren't the only ones responsible for the crisis.  Full Article 

      Commentary