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October 23, 2013

Strike gold with ‘Rail Rush’ for Nokia Windows Phone 8 devices

Sure, anyone can explore an old mine shaft filled with gold and jewels – but only players with Nokia Windows Phone 8 devices can have that kind of fun at breakneck speeds from a runaway mining cart with the new “Rail Rush” game.

October 23, 2013

Office 365 gets the green light in California for use by law enforcement

A critical milestone was reached this month in the State of California with the Department of Justice and Microsoft jointly signing an agreement confirming that Office 365 helps organizations meet strict federal regulatory requirements around security and privacy.

October 23, 2013

Windows Server for Embedded Systems transforms retail with operational intelligence

In the Windows Embedded blog, Partha Srinivasan, product manager for Windows Embedded Server and SQL Products, writes about how server appliances – preinstalled hardware and software combined with the operating system – generate business intelligence when used in the retail industry as in-store servers.

October 23, 2013

Microsoft Research director shows how artificial intelligence setbacks led to an innovative future

In the article, “How researchers map the future of innovation” by ReadWrite’s Dan Rowinski, Microsoft Research Director Peter Lee explains how setbacks in artificial intelligence led to “raising the fields of machine learning and statistical modeling that are now defining artificial intelligence research.”

October 23, 2013

Here are some recommendations that will help you use the Microsoft Push Notification Service

Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) is a power-efficient way for developers to send data to a Windows Phone app from a cloud service. This blog post by Austin Laugesen, a program manager on the Windows Phone team, gives recommended practices that can help you tune your service to work well with MPNS.

October 23, 2013

Now you can watch PBS on your Xbox 360

Xbox Live Gold members in the United States now can watch PBS shows like “Nova,” “Secrets of the Dead” and American Experience” via their Xbox 360.

October 23, 2013

Winners of Bing’s second Ultimate Bing Experience make homepage decisions, tour Microsoft campus

For the last three years, millions of Bing Rewards members have been able to get all kinds of perks by earning credits for searching the Web, trying out new features or learning tips and tricks to help speed up those searches. While members can redeem credits for an Xbox One, games and gift cards from a bevy of retailers, a select few can also win the Ultimate Bing Experience sweepstakes.

October 23, 2013

Microsoft acquires Apiphany, an API management delivery platform, for Windows Azure

Steven Martin, general manager for Windows Azure Business and Marketing, announced Wednesday that Microsoft has acquired Apiphany, “a leading API management delivery platform.”

October 23, 2013

New Dell mobile workstation blends thin-and-light form, great multi-touch screen, uncompromising performance

Gavin Gear of the Extreme Windows Blog checked out a pre-production unit and came away impressed with the QHD+ 3200 x 1800 screen, the clean design and the compactness of the overall package.

October 23, 2013

Ways to make a Windows app more accessible to the disabled

The Windows App Team writes that based on U.S. census data, about 10 percent of the U.S. population is physically disabled, and 34.7 percent of that population is employed. Making an app more accessible to this group not only helps them, it helps app developers as well, and now there are some tools to do that.