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October 10, 2013
Mirror, mirror on the wall (at the Seattle Art Museum)

In this episode of “On the Whiteboard,” Editor Pamela Woon takes you to a permanent video art installation at the Seattle Art Museum. Powered by Windows Server, it gives onlookers a constantly changing reflection of the city around them through pre-recorded video scenes of the urban landscape.

October 10, 2013
PhoneGap devs take their apps to a new level on Windows Phone

More and more developers are discovering that publishing on the Windows Phone platform is an easy way to expand their market – and a fast-growing market at that. A group of PhoneGap developers recently learned this firsthand when they accepted the challenge to take their existing apps (already published on other platforms) and port them to Windows Phone 8.

October 10, 2013
Microsoft researcher tunes into social media metrics by interviewing musicians

In a paper published Monday, Microsoft Research’s Nancy Baym focuses on musicians and the “big difference between massive amounts of data being available, thanks to new media, and being well-equipped to manage and interpret data. It’s important because, these days, people are putting a lot of faith in big data, often harvested from social media, as a purveyor of truth.”

October 10, 2013
Microsoft forms new 4Afrika Advisory Council

The new council’s main mission is to ensure that the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative always remains relevant for Africans and does in fact help the continent become and remain globally competitive for the benefit of the African people.