Launched a year ago as a controller-free gaming device for Xbox, Microsoft sold a world-record 8 million Kinect devices in its first 60 days on the market. This made Kinect the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history, according to Guinness World Records.
Beginning today, videos will be sprinkled in among the static photos that appear each day on the home page. Sometimes they’ll be event-driven, while others will appear simply because the Bing team falls in love them, Horstmanshof said. (At first the videos will only be seen by U.S. visitors, though the team will start rolling them out to various international markets over the next several months.)
As part of the program, IBM will conduct a series of training programs with business school faculty concentrating on predictive and business analytics, in 15 major cities throughout the country of India. The faculty members will complete a certification process in analytics at the end of the program.
