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Microsoft envisions Rio de Janeiro as "technology hub"
Fox News
Microsoft aims to create a "technology hub" in Rio de Janeiro, the head of the U.S. software giant's Brazil division said here Thursday, a day after the company announced plans for a 200 million reais ($100 million) research center in a city better ...
Microsoft launches Skype-centered hub for small businesses
PCWorld (blog)
Microsoft has unveiled a commercial networking sitewhere small businesses can promote their products and services and interact with potential customers and partners primarily using Skype. The new website, called Skype in the Workspace (SITW), is free ...
Microsoft Surface More Profitable Than Apple iPad
Motley Fool
By most indications, Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT ) foray into hardware is meeting, if not exceeding, expectations. Of course, you'll never hear that from CEO Steve Ballmer, and by extension the rest of Microsoft's management team. Ballmer is notoriously ...
Microsoft Canada claims HTC 8X, Nokia Lumia 920 ship in earnest to Rogers on ...
Engadget
Microsoft Canada has at last showed its hand: the company's Facebook page briefly showed that Rogers would offer both the HTC Windows Phone 8X and full-scale shipments of the Nokia Lumia 920 on November 12th. While Rogers will only confirm to us ...
These are the Top 25 Microsoft SharePoint Influencers for 2012
Forbes
Microsoft acquired Yammer, built an enterprise app store, has integrated Yammer with Dynamics CRM and looks to be creating a platform that supports information sharing across any device. There's been a lot of change – but did the SharePoint community ...
New Microsoft Windows Supports Hawaiian Language
Maui Now
By Wendy Osher. A new faculty member at the University of Hawai'i Maui College is being credited with helping in the development of software that supports the Hawaiian language. UHMC's Keola Donaghy collaborated with programmers in Microsoft's Local ...

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Microsoft patents spying on you with your TV's camera and fining you if there ...
Boing Boing
But hey, now you know that researchers at Microsoft sit around spitballing ideas like, "Wouldn't it be awesome to spy on our customers in their homes so that we could fine them for having too many people over to watch movies? Wonder if anyone is ...
Verizon Offers New Management Services for Microsoft Lync
Redmondmag.com
Verizon today rolled out unified communications management services for large enterprises in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server 2010. The New York-based telco has enhanced its existing enterprise offerings with a new service called "Managed Unified ...
Microsoft Pranked People with a Live Floor Tile That Knocked Down a Wall in ...
Gizmodo
Microsoft Pranked People with a Live Floor Tile That Knocked Down a Wall in the Middle One of the coolest things about Windows 8 are the Live Tiles, which are like the beautiful love children of widgets and icons. Microsoft thinks so too so they ...
Naked Hires Former Microsoft Exec as Global CEO
AdAge.com
Mr. Dunmall was the New York-based VP in charge of Microsoft's global advertising sales until August, and since then has been commuting between New York and Berlin as chief operating officer of German mobile-advertising startup Madvertise. He was ...

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Halo Invades Liechtenstein
Daily Beast
To understand how badly Microsoft wants you to buy Halo 4, its biggest entertainment launch ever, it helps to understand how I ended up spooling guide-wire through a pyrotechnic minefield in the mountainous heart of Liechtenstein, trailed by a dozen ...

Daily Beast