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June 5, 2014

Yum! Marmalade Software Development Kit 7.3 for Windows is free, has new features

Marmalade, a Windows platform middleware partner, has released a new and free version of its popular Software Development Kit (SDK) that lets developers deploy code across multiple platforms and devices from a single code base.

June 5, 2014

Survey shows that most small businesses feel the need to keep up with technology, but many have yet to adopt the cloud

Eighty-six percent of small businesses say keeping up with technology is important to their business, but 60 percent surveyed do not use cloud technologies. The survey, commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, also said 60 percent of these smaller businesses attribute increased revenue to technology, but 10 percent are not even familiar with the cloud.

June 5, 2014

Cincinnati Country Day School is first school to choose Surface Pro 3 as its 1:1 student computing device

Cincinnati Country Day School in Ohio, one of the premier schools in the U.S. and a pioneer in the use of mobile computing in education, is the first school to adopt Surface Pro 3 as its 1:1 student computing device, writes Jacqueline Russell, Microsoft Surface Education Manager.

June 5, 2014

Find out which teams are going to the Imagine Cup 2014 World finals

A global judging panel has finished evaluating more than 170 student projects from 76 countries in the Imagine Cup’s World Semifinals round and has chosen the top 35 teams that Microsoft will fly to Seattle at the end of July for the 2014 World Finals.

June 5, 2014

Microsoft Azure cloud platform now available in Brazil

“In Brazil, and our other regions around the world, we’ve seen incredible demand for a global enterprise public cloud offering,” writes Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, in a blog post. “Globally, more than 1,000 new customers join Azure every day, and revenue grew more than 150 percent in the last quarter.”

June 5, 2014

Microsoft’s life science partners explain why they rely on SharePoint

In a recently released white paper, Microsoft’s partners offer first-person accounts of what the SharePoint experience has been like for them and their customers over the years. They also explain why they rely on SharePoint as their go-to platform for their life sciences applications.

June 5, 2014

Staff App Pick: Attention, air travelers! LiveATC now available in the Windows Phone Store

The LiveATC network is a massive network of streaming audio feeds focused solely on aviation, and currently covers more than 700 airports around the world with more than 1,000 different audio feeds. And it’s growing daily.

June 5, 2014

5 tips on how to enjoy the world’s premier soccer tournament using Skype and Xbox One

If you aren’t going to be in Brazil to watch the world’s premier soccer tournament, and don’t feel like planting yourself at a bar with a noisy crowd as you follow along on TV, the folks at Skype have five suggestions for you about how to enjoy the event using Xbox One.

June 5, 2014

Uncover what lurks beneath the fairy-tale scenery in ‘BADLAND’ on Windows Phone

Side-scrolling action adventure game “BADLAND” is set in a gorgeous forest full of flowers, trees and fascinating inhabitants – but there’s something sinister lurking in this fairy-tale setting.

June 5, 2014

New Ventyx Mobile Worker and Mobile Inspector apps designed for Windows 8.1

Ventyx has announced the availability of Mobile Worker and Mobile Inspector, mobile apps for managing maintenance work in the field, as apps designed and created for Windows 8.1. This follows recent news that the company’s Asset Performance Management software is available in Microsoft Azure.