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July 23, 2013

Skype users are demonstrating their mastery of a different kind of artistry: emoticons. These works of art may never hang in the Louvre, but they will make people :).

July 23, 2013

Following closely on the heels of a new collaboration between Microsoft and Unity announced last month at Build 2013, Microsoft on Monday invited developers to participate in a new game development contest with big cash and prizes for the winners.

July 23, 2013

It comes in orange, yellow, bright green, white and black, has a ginormous 4.7-inch LCD display and is 4G LTE ready. It’s the Nokia Lumia 625.

July 22, 2013

At Comic-Con Expo in San Diego on July 20, the “Dead Rising 3” team showed the “Zombie Apocalypse Evolved: Making of Dead Rising 3″ video during their panel. The video, presented here, is chock full of gems, laugh-out-loud moments, and exclusive game play from the upcoming installment, exclusive for Xbox One.

July 22, 2013

Marc DeFosse, manager of the London-based IT consultant RibbonFish, reports that his company has very good reasons for using Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It’s “one of the most popular CRM systems on the market for good reason,” he says.

July 22, 2013

The annual International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is known for introducing exciting, high-quality innovations. This year, Microsoft will present 19 new research papers, as well as deliver two emerging technology demos to the 20,000 attendees.

July 22, 2013

In the latest Skype Play Blog post we meet Daniel, whose father was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease four years ago. It was a complete shock for Daniel, who didn’t know anything about the inherited genetic condition.

July 22, 2013

In the upcoming Xbox 360 release, “Batman: Arkham Origins,” no less than eight assassins are out to ice the Caped Crusader. And one of them is Copperhead, who has undergone a dramatic transformation from the traditional DC villain, in that he is now a she.

July 22, 2013

Why has Nokia’s Lumia 520 become so popular so fast? For one thing it’s got solid specs, plus it looks great and comes packed with handy Nokia apps like HERE Maps, Drive, and Transit. If price has held you back up to now, note that AT&T just announced the Lumia 520 is coming to the carrier’s prepaid GoPhone lineup starting this Friday for just $99.99.

July 22, 2013

When Nokia announced the 41-megapixel Nokia Lumia 1020 on July 11, phone and camera buffs across the globe double-checked their phone plan upgrade dates. David Chen of the Windows Phone team was lucky enough to get his hands on one and had the perfect venue to test it out: a historic Mudhoney concert atop the Space Needle in Seattle.