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October 28, 2013

TipRanks Windows Phone app helps you find financial analysts you can trust

If you have a Windows Phone 8 device, then the free TipRanks app may be just what you need, by showing you the track record and measured performance of any analyst you come across.

October 28, 2013

Announcing Windows Azure HDInsight: Where big data meets the cloud

Windows Azure HDInsight – Microsoft’s cloud-based distribution of Hadoop – is now generally available on Windows Azure. The GA of HDInsight is an important milestone for Microsoft, as its part of our broader strategy to bring big data to a billion people.

October 26, 2013

University grads and students: Test your Microsoft IQ with this job recruiting poster

Microsoft is looking for the best talent in the business and that may include you. Whether you’re a recent college grad or working your way toward your degree, you might be a perfect fit for our many, many services and devices.

October 26, 2013

Rich editing in Internet Explorer 11 will make developers purr with delight

With Internet Explorer 11, Web developers will be able to easily work with whatever images strike their fancy, thanks to new rich editing capabilities that allow users to paste images from a variety of input sources. Rich editing in IE11 also makes it a snap to copy and paste lists to HTML while preserving the formatting, and to “undo” editing more easily.

October 25, 2013

Skype brings children from California and New Zealand together for a special meeting

It’s not every day that children from a classroom in California and those from another in Auckland, New Zealand get to talk to each other, really talk, all while seeing each other’s shy smiles. But that’s the power of Skype, and it was used recently to bring the two groups together.

October 25, 2013

Sony VAIO Tap tablets give you portability and power on the go

Sony’s new VAIO Tap 11 tablet is a small wonder with some large features. It’s got a full HD touchscreen, includes a detachable, wireless keyboard and a pressure-sensitive Active Pen. Its bigger sibling, the VAIO Tap 21, has an impressive 21.5-inch screen, and uses an Intel Core i5 processor, with up to 16 GB of storage.

October 25, 2013

You’ll ‘Flip’ when you see this new Sony VAIO

As the Windows Experience Blog reports, the aptly-named VAIO | Flip PC “maintains the full functionality of a conventional notebook PC with the ability to switch between laptop, tablet and viewer modes.”

October 25, 2013

Electronic Arts Mobile Experience Collection brings together 30 classic and recent Xbox games for Windows Phone

Mobile gaming wouldn’t be the same without Electronic Arts, known for hits like “Bejeweled Live +,” “The Sims Freeplay” and “Contre Jour.” Now, we’ve brought more than 30 of those classic and cutting-edge Xbox games for Windows Phone together in one place in The EA Mobile Experience Collection.

October 25, 2013

Get geared up for the big race at the official Forza Motorsport Store

The official Forza Motorsport Store has launched, giving fans of the popular series of racing games the chance to get geared up right and proper and show their love of the game.

October 25, 2013

Students develop analytics engine for the Lab of Things

Shortly after the July release of the Lab of Things — a research platform that makes it easy to deploy interconnected devices in multiple homes, then share individual research data with other investigators, turning it into a large-scale study — a group of students from University College London (UCL) started poking around the code. Read about the results.