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(SUMMARY) Before the last couple of weeks, it s hard to believe I used to hate headsets. Since then, my desk has been covered from anything between three and six headsets at a time supplied by the good folks at Sennheiser and Plantronics. Comparing six...

(SUMMARY) Today Microsoft kicked off the first Microsoft Advertising Story Awards contest to find the world s most innovative digital marketer with the chance to win a trip to the Oscars-of-the-advertising-world, Cannes Lions 2012 . The contest specifies...

(SUMMARY) Even though winning the Imagine Cup 2008 worldwide finals was already a life changing experience for me, I only wish something like this had existed back then. No doubts it would have had a big effect on taking ideas to market. Today at the World...

(SUMMARY) The last time I wrote about some of the cool work the creative agency Razorfish were doing on the Microsoft platform specifically Surface, they were owned by Microsoft. Even though they ve since been sold by Microsoft, it appears they still have a...

(SUMMARY) What does the Caesar Cipher, a picture of a duck, Mayan numbers, King Arthur, 2143909608, 845145127.com, GPS coordinates in Warsaw, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Arizona, California, New Orleans, Miami, Hawaii and Sydney have in common? They re all pieces...

(SUMMARY) It looks like if you can t make your mind up about building a Windows 8 Metro-style application using either C# or HTML5, Skype seems to think you should just hire to build for both and let them fight it out. In either case, Skype seems to be...

(SUMMARY) A couple of years ago I approached Rafael Rivera with an idea bringing XBOX Live-style achievements to the Windows platform. There could be achievements for Windows itself learning keyboard shortcuts like CTRL+ESC for task manager or even BSOD...

(SUMMARY) Like Moore s law, there should also be a law that determines the rate at which display screens at trade shows grow. For it s last year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft flaunted a video wall at its booth that stretched a respectable 70 feet...

(SUMMARY) There s nothing better to kick off a new year with some great hardware freebies from Microsoft Australia. In collaboration with several tech sites including this one, they are running a promotion to give away 2 (two) Microsoft Touch wireless mouse ....

(SUMMARY) Cut the Rope candy! Come to think of it, how cool would it be if there was a leaderboard and the top X number of players got these. Om nom nom nom.