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Xbox Smartglass 10 minute hands-on demo!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/E0FKWcJO6lY/ “Betanews have posted to 9.5 minute hands-on video of the SmartGlass application running on Windows Phone ( a Nokia Lumia 900) and also a Windows tablet. The video demoes both game play and music control, and it is interesting … Continue reading

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Callisto, a toolkit of sorts for XAML Metro style apps.

Something for your Metro style app building utility belt, the Callisto toolkit | Coding4Fun Blog | Channel 9

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Integrating Bing Maps With WPF — Visual Studio Magazine

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2012/04/01/Map-Your-Apps.aspx?Page=3

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Microsoft Translator Hub

http://hub.microsofttranslator.com/SignIn?returnURL=/Home/Index Microsoft Translator Hub empowers businesses and communities to build, improve, and deploy customized automatic language translation systems—bringing better and specialized translation quality to established languages, as well as the many native languages of the world that are not yet … Continue reading

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Interacting without touching – Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchless/default.aspx Theme: Interacting without touching Understanding the properties, challenges and social consequences of touchless body-based interactions Through our bodily relationship and actions with objects, places, and each other, we are able to express and create a rich variety of meaning … Continue reading

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FetchClimate – Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/groups/science/tools/fetchclimate/default.htm FetchClimate is a fast, free, intelligent climate data retrieval service that operates over the cloud to return only the climate data you need. FetchClimate can be accessed either through a simple web interface, or via a few lines of … Continue reading

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Tools | new tools for new science

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/groups/science/tools/default.html

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Announcing Windows Azure price reduction for storage and extra small compute

We are pleased to announce that effective March 8, 2012, we are lowering the monthly cost of Windows Azure storage from $0.1793 per GB to $0.1601 per GB, a savings of over 10%. Last month we announced a new billing … Continue reading

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Microsoft releases Robotics Developer Studio 4, bring your own Kinect!

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/10/microsoft-releases-robotics-developer-studio-4-bring-your-own-k/ “It’s been available in beta for a few months, but Microsoft has now made the final version of its Robotics Developer Studio 4 toolkit available for download. As before, it remains completely free, and it’s also now compatible with … Continue reading

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Dallas Developers Do Demos (with Kinect!

http://usergroup.tv/videos/dallas-kinect-for-developers-demos “Today’s inspirational 16 minute video is a overview of what 50 developers created in a 8 hour Kinect hack-a-thon. There are a number of interesting projects demo’d in this video. I think my favorite is the dog demo, but … Continue reading

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