Meet Healthfundr: Equity-Based Crowdfunding For Health Startups
When Marshall McLuhan said that the medium is the message in the 1960s, it’s amazing to think about how much that idea still applies in present culture. What he meant is that new forms of media (technology) transform our experience and is ultimately more important than the content that is shared. In other words, technology [...]... Read More
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Microsoft Store Will Open In St. Louis In 2013
BY: Kathryn HoughIf you were afraid that the temporary Microsoft kiosk at the St. Louis Galleria would pack it in and head back to Washington after the holidays, fear not. St. Louis is one of the cities in the U.S. that has hosted a temporary store that will transition to a permanent retail location in 2013.
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Microsoft Makes Email Sexy With New Outlook.com
BY: Edward DomainPresented by Outlook.com. Outlook.com is a preview of modern email from Microsoft. It has a fresh and intuitive design, it connects your email to useful information from Facebook and Twitter, and it gives you a smarter inbox with the power of Office and SkyDrive. Visit Outlookpreview.com to learn more and connect with us at @outlook [...]
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Microsoft Vs. Apple: A Tale of Two Stores
BY: Kathryn HoughLast weekend, I wandered into the Microsoft store with my husband and a friend to witness the fanfare of the Windows 8 release on Microsoft’s home turf. What I found was unexpected.
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Kinesis Brings Gesture Control To App Developers
BY: Jon ChristianIndian startup Kinesis is working to build a native framework to bring gesture and depth-based modeling developers, on the Kinect and likely soon other platforms.
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Microsoft Awards Creative Hackers In BlueHat Competition
BY: Corey CummingsThis past week Microsoft awarded creative hackers with more than $250,000 in prizes in its first annual BlueHat Prize competition.
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Prepare For The Mars Rover Landing With NASA’s Free Kinect Game
BY: Corey CummingsThis week NASA and Microsoft teamed up to release a free-to-play Kinect title based around the “seven minutes of terror” of the latest mission to Mars.
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Custom Logic Turns Kinect Into A Complex Motion Controlled Instrument
BY: Corey CummingsNew Zealand design company Custom Logic’s details the challenges of building an ambitious motion-controlled Kinect instrument.
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Microsoft Lauches Rolling Startup Incubator ‘Bing Fund’
BY: Corey CummingsMicrosoft’s newest Bing incubator program surfaced today with the launch of Bing Fund. The new angel investment fund will be a rolling incubator program for startups focusing on either mobile or web experiences.
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Microsoft Translator Hub Will Save Languages From Extinction
BY: Corey CummingsThis week Microsoft announced a new language translation hub that will enable users to create entirely customizable translation engines, providing a much-needed resource for preserving languages in danger of extinction.
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Hardware That Translates Sign Language Into Speech Wins International Imagine Cup
BY: Corey CummingsThe long road to the Imagine Cup 2012 finals ended this week in Sydney, Australia. The 10th annual international competition saw entrants from over 75 different countries, all vying for first place in the software and game design competitions.
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Art School Student Spends Three Days Rebranding Microsoft
BY: Corey CummingsIn a three day experiment, graphic designer Andrew Kim flipped Microsoft’s branding on its head, turning the company’s play-it-safe image into a campaign that could give Apple a run for its money.
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Microsoft Turns Culprits In March Zbot Attack Over To FBI
BY: Corey CummingsFollowing the Zeus (Zbot) cyber attacks earlier this year, Microsoft has identified and turned over the names of two suspects to the FBI this week.
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