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Among what makes a good fit for visually-driven folks: a 20-megapixel PureView camera and a front-facing 1.2-megapixel wide-angle camera, optical image stabilization and six-lens ZEISS optics. It can also capture video in full HD (1,920 x 1,080). It’s also got four high-performance omni-directional microphones and imaging apps such as Nokia Camera and Storyteller.

The latest issue of US Partner News Online is now available, and it includes any last-minute news you might need for the Worldwide Partner Conference 2014, July 13-17 in Washington, D.C.

Fighting game enthusiasts from around the world will be in Las Vegas July 11-13 for the Evolution Championship Series, the largest such tournament in the world. If you’re not in Vegas for the tourney, you can watch it via the Twitch-hosted broadcast.

The all-new “Microsoft Jigsaw” is available for Windows PCs and tablets for those who get a kick out of how the big picture comes together from so many smaller ones. You’ll find hundreds of puzzles in three game modes: Classic Jigsaw, Jigsaw Jam and Daily Challenges.

Windows Apportals, a Windows 8.1 app that can integrate an enterprise’s entire Line of Business stack into a single touch-based experience, launched Friday on Microsoft.com.

The game is due out in November. Watch and listen to the video here to get a sense of what your senses will experience with “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.”

On the Microsoft in Government blog, the CityNext Team just published a post featuring a Q-and-A with James McConnell, the assistant commissioner for Strategic Data at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, that discusses the agency’s new big data solution.

In a new Office 365 developer podcast, Thorsten Hans talks about Office 365 APIs and JavaScript development using ShareCoffee, an open source JavaScript framework.

“Our customers tell us that business continuity – the ability to backup, replicate and quickly recover data and applications in case of a system failure – is incredibly important,” wrote Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft corporate vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing.