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Bing Search Java SDK

The Microsoft Bing APIs, powered by AI and the Bing Knowledge Graph, enable developers to pull information about places, entities, people, and businesses, into their sites and apps. The new Bing Search Java SDK with open source samples is now...

News|20 November 2018

Microsoft Cognitive Services: Computer Vision API

Introduction In the last article, we looked at the Face API and explored some of the rich functionality it offers, and we have also seen how the ride sharing firm Uber implemented and deployed a solution built on this technology...

Blog|15 November 2018

The Microsoft Bing Maps announcements at Ignite 2018

The aim with the Bing Maps APIs for developers is to try and offer ‘everything you can do with maps from soup to nuts’ says senior program manager Justine Coates. The new Local Search API (initiallly available in the US)...

Blog|13 November 2018

Microsoft Ignite 2018 Bing Maps APIs session recordings now available

The Microsoft Bing Maps team has made their recent Ignite 2018 sessions available for viewing. There are two sessions, “Solutions Built for the Enterprise”, and “Fleet Management Tools”. Solutions Built for the Enterprise Session synopsis: An overview of the Microsoft...

News|13 November 2018

Is humanitarian action leading the development of Microsoft's AI?

AI is often in the news for scare stories about how many jobs it might replace, or for problems where machine learning systems replicate and amplify bias, but it can also be used to build powerful tools to improve the...

Blog|13 November 2018

Staying secure? IoT for field service

As the Internet of Things becomes more pervasive, going into embedded devices like air conditioning and microwave ovens that haven’t been connected before, it becomes increasingly important to secure and service IoT devices, and to handle those IoT devices through...

Blog|12 November 2018

What you need to know about Cosmos DB news from Ignite 2018

Multi-master replication and multiple models and APIs make Cosmos DB the ideal home for intelligent cloud applications Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s multi-model distributed database service, was designed to match the key features of cloud computing by being globally distributed, elastically scalable...

Blog|12 November 2018

How Azure ML uses machine learning to help developers build their own machine learning systems

The gap between using a pre-built machine learning API like the various Azure Cognitive Services and building your own machine learning system from scratch, even using cloud services like Azure Machine Learning that give you pre-implemented versions of common algorithms,...

Blog|9 November 2018

Which Office tools are being powered by AI?

Office has been building in AI tools for quite some time, from the Clutter feature in Outlook that uses the newly open source Infer.NET probabilistic framework to learn what kind of email you’re interested in, to the voice recognition Dictate...

Blog|8 November 2018

Almost human? How Azure Cognitive Services speech sounds more like a real person

Speech recognition systems are getting more powerful. They’re most accurate with a good close-up microphone and some advanced knowledge of the vocabulary likely to be used on specific topics – as with the PowerPoint Presentation Translator, which creates a transcription...

Blog|8 November 2018

SQL Server 2019 is SQL for big data

The big news with the SQL Server 2017 release was support for running on Linux and in containers, graph queries, and running machine learning where your data is using R and Python. A year later, the CTP 2.0 preview of...

Blog|7 November 2018

Microsoft drop Office 365 ProPlus support on Windows Server 2019 RDSH

*Please note that Microsoft has since reversed this decision and are continuing to support Windows Server 2016 and 2019. Alongside Windows 10 and 8.1.* Earlier in the year, Microsoft’s preview release of Windows Server 2019 was made available. What was...

News|7 November 2018

Join the Carnival: RAD Studio 10.3 Rio UK Event

Calling all Delphi and C++ Builder developers based in and around the UK, 10.3 Rio is the biggest party this decade with the most significant changes and additional functionality since 2009. Join Grey Matter and Embarcadero on Thursday 29 November...

Blog|7 November 2018

Bing Local Business Search API

Microsoft has announced the Bing Local Business Search API is available in public preview, as the latest addition to their existing Search APIs and Cognitive Services platform. The Bing Search APIs on Cognitive Services provide capabilities to search for web...

News|2 November 2018

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

It’s hard to ignore the surge of artificial intelligence and machine learning developments in recent years. The main players such as Microsoft, Google and IBM have released AI as-a-service, making it easier than before to integrate artificial intelligence into your...

Blog|22 October 2018

Silobreaker has been added to our portfolio

We are happy to announce that we have just signed up as a UK and Ireland Channel Partner for Silobreaker. Silobreaker is a technology company that provides products and services that aggregate, analyse and contextualise open source digital information. We...

News|17 October 2018

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