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June 5, 2014

Skype hosts call with BMX rider Chad Kerley at ESPN’s X Games in Austin this weekend

Skype will be back in Austin, Texas for ESPN’s X Games June 6-8, and will host a call with top BMX rider Chad Kerley, who will chat live with some lucky fans from the practice track.

June 4, 2014

Watch favorite telenovelas and shows from Univision’s UVideos, now in the Windows Store

Univision brings thousands of hours of Hispanic television content, including full-length episodes of popular telenovelas and dramas, to you through the free UVideos app for Windows PCs and tablets.

June 4, 2014

Load up your new Lumia 630 with free apps

If you’ve just picked up a brand new Lumia 630 – the first Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone to hit the market – you’ll want to load it up with free apps. The Conversations blog has a round-up that includes personalized music, photo-and-video sharing and fitness tracking.

June 4, 2014

Solve your own murder in ‘Murdered: Soul Suspect’ now out for Xbox One and Xbox 360

Police detective Ronan O’Connor has his life brought to a brutal end by a masked killer. Caught in the purgatorial afterlife world of Dusk, O’Connor has to combine his investigative skills with powerful supernatural abilities to uncover the link between his own death and a series of killings terrifying the town he was tasked with protecting as a cop.

June 4, 2014

Watch your favorite VH1 shows now on Windows Phone, tablets and PCs

The new VH1 app is now available for Windows Phone, PCs and tablets. Use it to get the latest pop culture news and info, fashion updates and musician interviews.

June 4, 2014

Put your Lumia water-related photos on Instagram and you could win a Lumia surprise pack

Entries can be anything water-related, “from puddlegrams to water droplets, beaches, water balloons and rain,” writes Anna Kurkijärvi in a blog post. “Previously Instagrammed pics qualify, too, as long as they’ve been taken with a Lumia and you tag them #LumiaWater.”

June 4, 2014

Create art on Windows Phone using Doodle Buddy

Instead of messy finger painting, you can now use your Windows Phone device to create original art with the free Doodle Buddy app. (Erasing is so much easier this way, as you perfect your masterpiece.)

June 4, 2014

University of Washington and Microsoft Research collaborate on software that can diagnose critical illnesses automatically from electronic medical records

Electronic medical records can be especially useful in the diagnosis of pneumonia, which often appears after a patient has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU). Currently, such diagnoses are made by consensus, after a time-consuming, resource-driven chart review of the patient’s medical tests and clinical notes.

June 4, 2014

Work Wonders Project shows how Office 365 helps music artist manager

As he explains on Office Blogs, on any given day he might be in the studio or on a photo shoot or in the office. “Regardless of where I am physically, access to my contacts, documents and media is critical to review contracts, approve licenses, sign-off on merchandise designs and adjust schedules.

June 4, 2014

Developers: Learn how to extend Exchange, Outlook and OWA across platforms and devices with new app model

In the new video, Jeremy Chapman is joined by Jason Henderson from the Exchange engineering team, and the two explain not only how mail apps work, but also how to build and preview them using Visual Studio, as well as how apps can insert data directly from a Web service into the body of an email.