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June 18, 2014

Crowd-sourced Moovit app helps you navigate public transit

With Moovit, new to the Windows Phone Store, commuters help each other with real-time public transit updates.

June 18, 2014

Skype 4.3 for Linux is now available for download

If you use Linux, you’ll be happy to know there’s a new Skype for Linux version 4.3 that includes an updated user interface, new cloud-based Group Chat experience and more reliable file transfer support when you’re using multiple devices at once.

June 18, 2014

Meet the doctor who created the fun, free Clipr photo app for Windows Phone

Venu Kumar is a medical doctor who created his first app – a medical study and quiz guide – to help him prepare for the entrance exam to get into a neurosurgery program. But he also came up with a fun and popular free photo-clipping app, Clipr, that lets you “clip” one part of a photo and add it to another photo by tracing an image with a finger and moving it.

June 18, 2014

Microsoft carbon fee program architect honored with environmental award

Tamara “TJ” DiCaprio, senior director of environmental sustainability at Microsoft, was awarded the 2014 C.K. Prahalad Award from the Corporate Eco Forum for her work as the chief architect and driving force behind Microsoft’s internal carbon fee program.

June 18, 2014

New sample code helps companies integrate Yammer with Salesforce.com

With this solution, companies can work like a network to track the progress of accounts, opportunities, leads and campaigns within Salesforce and collaborate with coworkers from any department using Yammer.

June 18, 2014

Conclusion of three-part Microsoft Dynamics AX series looks at what’s next with contractor compliance and agility

In the last of a three-part series, Elliott Ichimura, Microsoft Global Industry Director, Services, explains how the Microsoft GovCon Alliance will apply a new level of rigor to the company’s engagement in the government contractor market, “across our products, partner relationships and customer audiences.”

June 18, 2014

2014 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award winners announced

The awards were presented Tuesday at the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) 50th annual meeting in San Diego. They emphasize the achievements of life sciences companies that have streamlined processes to help speed therapeutic breakthroughs for serious health ailments using Microsoft products and technologies.

June 18, 2014

Tips to have a successful experience at the Worldwide Partner Conference

From her past experience at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Kris Fuehr, partner community manager at Microsoft, took away tips that she wants to pass along to incoming participants.

June 18, 2014

With ‘Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved,’ you’ll be getting your tunes up on YouTube

Harmonix, known for the get-you-moving “Rock Band” and “Dance Central,” is making a different kind of move with “Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved,” which is powered by Xbox One’s Kinect 2.0 technology.

June 18, 2014

Anime fans: New ‘Gargantia: Sky Courier’ shows off the modern Web using IE

Internet Explorer, together with Japanese anime studio Production I.G, launched “Gargantia: Sky Courier” Tuesday. It’s a brand new game experience that’s “fast, beautiful and perfect for touch with the modern Web,” writes Justin Garrett, IE group product manager, in a blog post.