September 29, 2014
Bill Gates praises work of Imagine Cup team that developed anemia-screening app

Two medical students from Australia, who won Microsoft’s Imagine Cup and $50,000, have also received major props from Bill Gates for their app, Eyenaemia, which lets people use their mobile phone to screen for anemia by taking a photo of the eyes, then analyzing and calculating the risk for the condition.

September 29, 2014
Advertising Week 2014’s stories include Microsoft’s Garage

Besides more than 10 speaking sessions, there will be an all-new hands-on space in Times Center: “The Garage.” There, attendees can check out Ability Eye Gaze, which uses Surface 3, Kinect and other Microsoft technologies to enable people confined to a wheelchair to be independent.

September 29, 2014
You’ll be a sharp dresser in ‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’

Accessorizing your assassin isn’t new to the “Assassin’s Creed” series, but cloaking your killer in gear that makes him look good – while simultaneously improving his abilities – is a new feature in “Assassin’s Creed Unity,” coming Nov. 11 for Xbox One.

September 29, 2014
Customers benefit from running Oracle solutions on Azure

A year after the announcement of a partnership between Microsoft and Oracle, customers are running Oracle solutions on Azure that account for millions of hours per month. Oracle customers are able to run their enterprise applications in a globally available cloud platform and get the economic and agility benefits that come with it.