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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.

July 22, 2013

Being good – excellent, even – is no guarantee that a talent will be rewarded with success, writes Duncan J. Watts, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Read the full, thought-provoking article on the correlation between talent and fame at Bloomberg.

July 22, 2013

The need for regular communication between IT professionals and their senior executives that also aligns with business objectives is a takeaway the Trustworthy Computing blog follows up on from a recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute for the IT security firm Tripwire.

July 22, 2013

In this day and age, people’s data needs are growing faster than the storage capacity on their mobile devices. SkyDrive provides a way to have access to all of your files without actually having them take up space on your device.

July 19, 2013

The information security community is responding enthusiastically to Microsoft’s bounty program, announced three weeks ago, and what’s more, the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas will feature some live-action “exploitation” excitement.

July 19, 2013

Microsoft will give away one Xbox One console each day today through Sunday, June 21, to a lucky person who visits Xbox Lounge located in the Manchester Room in the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

July 19, 2013

Last week we reported that Sprint customers would soon finally be able to get their hands on the carrier’s first-ever Windows Phone 8 devices. Today, the wait is over. The first of those devices, the HTC 8XT, is now available for $99.99 (after a $50 rebate and with a two-year contract).

July 19, 2013

In a panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego this week, Microsoft Studios and Crytek gave fans a sneak peek at new story and character details for the upcoming title, “Ryse: Son of Rome.”