'Weathernews' Launches Windows Vista Compatible Weather Service.Tokyo, Japan, Feb 5, 2007 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - Weathernews Inc. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 4825), the world's largest publicly-traded weather information provider with business bases in 16 countries, is pleased to announce a new service compatible with Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Vista(TM). In addition to providing weather content created using the "MCML MCML Media Center Markup Language (Microsoft) MCML MOS Current Mode Logic MCML Master Consolidated Management List MCML Missile Compartment Middle Level (compartment of a US Navy nuclear submarine) "[1] of Windows Media Center See Media Center Edition. (a standard feature of Windows Vista The current version of Windows for the desktop. It was released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers. Vista adds numerous features, including improved security and advanced multimedia capabilities. ), Weathernews has also begun offering new content at its corporate website that makes use of "WPF See Windows Presentation Foundation. "[2]. The new services were launched on January 30. Windows Vista's WindowsMediaCenter allows users to easily enjoy digital entertainment on their PC or television through the use of a mouse, remote control or similar device. Media Online, one of the features of WindowsMediaCenter, lets users access and view a variety of content online, such as news, music, movies, and entertainment; and Weathernews is now making use of Media Online to provide its weather content service. Weathernews weather content is made up of four channels with 7-day weather forecast, radar imagery Imagery produced by recording radar waves reflected from a given target surface. , cloud imagery, and 5-minute weather forecast. The 7-day weather forecast providesweather information for 11 major cities that includes weather forecasts, high and lowtemperatures, together with comments by meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
The radar imagery channel displays precipitation intensity for the nation according to region, while cloud imagery offers users such features as the ability to track the hourly movement of clouds via animated graphics. No matter how detailed the weather information sought, users can find it on one of Weathernews' channels. And in addition to these four channels, Weathernews has plans to gradually build and expand a channel providing weather information that is more closely tied to users' daily lives. [1] MCML (MediaCenter Markup Language) Weathernews uses MCML, which is a Windows Vista technology, to generate the design frames for its weather contents.MCML is a descriptive, XML-based language that is able to create user interfaces with richly expressive visual and dynamic layouts [2] WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation The user interface subsystem in the Vista version of Windows. Part of the .NET Framework 3.0 programming interface (API) and formerly code named "Avalon," Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) takes advantage of advanced 3D graphics capabilities in modern machines. ) The new presentation technology WPF, standard on Windows Vista, is used for the design of the Weathernews corporate website. WPF is based on the Microsoft software development platform Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition to its expressive capabilities and operability Operability is the ability to keep a system in a functioning and operating condition. In a computing systems environment with multiple systems this includes the ability of products, systems and business processes to work together to accomplish a common task such as finding and , WPF also allows users to connect to both the Internet and various services and to develop safe and superior contents and applications. Corporate Website Currently, the Weathernews corporate website allows users to view an animated map displaying cloud movement over the past six hours. Users can also view the world's climate, both daytime and nighttime, according to region. The corporate website has made it possible to now view the traditional flat weather map as a 3D globe which users can manipulate freely on their computer screens using a mouse, spinning it and zooming in at will. A demonstration of this feature can be viewed here. http://weathernews.com/jp/c/press/2006/img/wpfdemo.avi About Weathernews Weathernews Inc. (TSE: 4825; US: WNWSF) is the world's largest weather service company. Headquartered in Japan, it is the only global weather content maker, and employs over 700 staff (including more than 400 meteorologists) in offices in 40 cities in 16 countries and regions, including United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, India, Nepal and Taiwan. Since its founding in 1986, Weathernews has provided weather-related risk consulting (RC) services to corporations and government entities. In addition, Weathernews is providing high-tech weather content to more than 40 major mobile carriers and has more than 1.5 million mobile subscribers worldwide. For more information, pleae visit www.weathernews.com. Source: Weathernews Contact: Ryosuke Ueyama Weathernews Inc. +81 43 274 5504 sr-corner@wni.com Copyright [c] 2007 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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