On Monday, Shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), lost -0.59% to $48.01.
Ex-BioWare veteran Casey Hudson has joined Microsoft as a creative director to work on “HoloLens, Xbox, and other awesome projects.”, according to CNET
Hudson, who was project director on the Mass Effect series and worked on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, will be reporting directly to Kudo Tsunoda.
He will also be relocating from Edmonton, Canada to Redmond, Washington.
According to Hudson, he will be primarily working on HoloLense, Microsoft’s augmented reality technology, which he is “particularly excited about.”, CNET Reports
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The company’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.
Shares of Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR), declined -1.42% to $5.56, during its last trading session.
Frontier Communications Corporation, declared that it has invested nearly $473 million in its New York operations since 2011, counting about $146.8 million in 2014.
Noteworthy funding supported engineering initiatives to enhance broadband speeds and improve network infrastructure for residential and commercial customers throughout Frontier’s 38-county New York service area.
2014 highlights in New York comprise:
- Leveraging the company’s own capital and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Connect America Fund (CAF), Frontier upgraded 181 remote access nodes to an IP (Internet Protocol) platform, resulting in faster broadband speeds.
- Expanding the Ethernet network within the company’s rural territories, Frontier enabled 38 switching offices with premium Metro Ethernet services that provide customers access to speeds up to 1 Gbps. Customers located in Fulton, Montgomery, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Chenango, Madison, Delaware and Clinton counties will benefit from the build-out.
- Within the Rochester market, Frontier accomplished a major next-generation IP network enhancement. The IP network is dedicated to providing premium Internet services to both residential and business customers and will provide capacity to meet our customers’ ever growing demand for broadband bandwidth.
- Providing leading-edge Ethernet services to the Rochester market for the last decade, Frontier upgraded Rochester’s Metro Ethernet network to a much larger core ring with significantly larger Internet connections and a thorough re-design of the entire topology. This upgrade resulted in greater network capacity and redundancy, ultimately providing a better product for business customers, counting point-to-point and dedicated Internet access.
- Partnering with Hamilton County, Frontier was awarded Phase 2 of a New York State broadband grant to upgrade 17 remote access nodes to Internet speed capabilities up to 40 Mbps. This initiative is planned to be accomplished by summer 2015 and will provide about 2,500 households in rural Hamilton County with access to premium broadband services.
Frontier Communications Corporation, a communications company, provides regulated and unregulated voice, data, and video services to residential, business, and wholesale customers in the United States. The company offers residential services, such as fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-node broadband, video, and voice over Internet protocol products, in addition to traditional copper-based broadband products; and commercial services, counting Ethernet, dedicated Internet, multiprotocol label switching, time division multiplexing, data transport services, and optical transport services.
At the end of Monday’s trade, Shares of Altera Corp. (NASDAQ:ALTR), gained 5.65% to $46.93, hitting its highest level.
Altera Corporation, declared the availability of the latest version of its Industrial Functional Safety Data Package (Ver. 3), for systems designers using Altera field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The safety pack provides TUV Rheinland-certified toolflows, IP and devices counting Cyclone V FPGAs, enabling faster time for market for industrial safety solutions to IEC 61508 up to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3).
Under industrial safety mandates, industrial equipment must be certified to ensure electrical, electronic or programmable electronic systems that carry out safety functions meet industry-standard safety guidelines. Generally, such products must fulfill requirements of the IEC 61508 standard to safety integrity level 3 (SIL 3), and meet the ISO 13849 standard to performance level category 4 (PL e Cat 4.)
Altera Corporation, a semiconductor company, designs and sells programmable logic devices (PLDs), HardCopy application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) devices, power system-on-chip devices (PowerSoCs), pre-defined design building blocks, and associated development tools.
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