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Dream Chasers: Winners of 2011 Imagine Cup Announced in New York City

By Guest PostJuly 13, 2011Technology9th annual imagine cup, aine conaghan, azure, Bangladesh, bill and melinda gates, brazil, calum cawley, denmark, dream chasers, embedded development contest, eva longoria, fernanda fonteles, france, game design, geekologic, Greece, imagine cup, ireland, james mcnamara, jean sebastien duchene, korea, lincoln center, Microsoft, microsoft technologies, mike bloomberg, new york, new york city, new york city mayor, newkrean, northwestern irish city, nthucs, onebeep, poland, romania, silverlight, sligo, sql server, taiwan, team hermes, team rapture, thirdeye, winners of 2011 imagine cup, xbox category

*Teams from Ireland, Taiwan, France, Poland, Brazil, Greece, Korea, Denmark and Romania today took home the nine top awards at Microsoft’s 9th annual Imagine Cup. Microsoft also announced a $3 million grant program to help Imagine Cup participants solve the world’s toughest challenges.*

NEW YORK CITY – July 13, 2011 – Student projects that tackle global problems such as improving road and fire safety, eradicating poverty, and creating a more sustainable environment took top honors at the Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals in New York on Wednesday.

Ireland’s Team Hermes won the competition’s premier Software Design category and $25,000 (U.S.) with their project that combined embedded technology, mobile devices and cloud computing technology to change driving habits and reduce road deaths. (more…)

Students Get First Preview of Windows Phone 7 Devices

By Guest PostJuly 9, 2010Education, Technologyadvanced technologies academy, anand Iyer, barbara kudrycka, christian hood, eric lo, hypo team, imagine cup, indonesia, jon perera, las vegas, malaysia, Microsoft, microsoft education, rock star, silverlight, tar college, team beastware, tselina, windows phone 7, windows phone developer, xbox, xna frameworks, zune

WARSAW, Poland – July 9, 2010 – Christian Hood and Eric Lo already knew that they had won the contest to see who had built the best application for the new Windows Phone 7, so they didn’t think it would be any big deal when they walked on stage to get their prize.

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NASDAQ MarketSite Evolves Stock Ticker With Microsoft’s Silverlight Technology

By Guest PostJuly 2, 20101 commentTechnology43rd street, bob sues, broadway, east region developer and platform evangelism, expression engine 4, marketsite, Microsoft, microsoft silverlight, microsoft silverlight 4, nasdaq, nasdaq omx, new york, silverlight, Technology, times square

REDMOND, Wash., and NEW YORK — NASDAQ’s popular stock ticker display — seen by hundreds of thousands of investors daily at the NASDAQ MarketSite^® in Times Square and used as the backdrop for its television broadcast to a variety of broadcast outlets worldwide — is getting a hi-definition redesign with Microsoft Silverlight.

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Microsoft Brings Developers and Designers Closer Together With Expression Studio 4 Release

By Guest PostJune 7, 2010Technologyanvil digital, blend and sketchflow, copia, cynergy, designers, developer division, developers, ereaders, expression studio 4, h.264, internet week, Microsoft, microsoft .net, microsoft corp., microsoft expression blend, miguel carrasco, new york 2010, s. soma somasegar, silverlight, vc-1, visual studio, windows® phone 7

Today at Internet Week New York 2010, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of Microsoft Expression Studio 4. The newest version of Microsoft’s professional suite of design tools, Expression 4 distinguishes itself by enabling designers and developers to collaborate and create dynamic applications using their existing skills and current toolset.

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Dream Chasers: Winners of 2011 Imagine Cup Announced in New York City

Students Get First Preview of Windows Phone 7 Devices

NASDAQ MarketSite Evolves Stock Ticker With Microsoft’s Silverlight Technology

Microsoft Brings Developers and Designers Closer Together With Expression Studio 4 Release