Month: December 2013

Zillow is now available for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Use it to shop for houses while you’re out on the town.

New online experience is more than just a way to track Santa on Dec. 24. Immerse yourself with a nostalgic, 3D Claymation recreation of Santa’s village that you can explore throughout the month to discover new games, music, videos and more.

David and Katharine Lowrie recently became the first spouses to run the length of South America together, but they didn’t do it just to set a record. They did it to raise money for three environmental groups, and they used Skype to help spread the word about their undertaking, raising nearly $10,000 in the process, writes Thomas Kohnstamm on Skype’s Play Blog.

Gartner reports on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded business in the “great, burgeoning industry of the Internet of Things,” writes Kevin Dallas, general manager for Windows Embedded, in a blog post.

Mary Helen and her sister Betty live more than 1,500 miles apart. Finances and health issues kept them from seeing one another, though they occasionally chatted over the phone. Mary Helen had never met her sister’s children, which was one of her dearest wishes in addition to seeing her sister again.