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The hunt for the perfect computer headset
Before the last couple of weeks, it’s hard to believe I used to hate headsets. Since then, my desk has been covered from anything between three and six headsets at a time supplied by the good folks at Sennheiser and Plantronics. Comparing six different headsets at a time wasn’t easy and I owe many thanks to those who sat with me on Skype while I swapped from headset to headset, plugging and unplugging any one of the six identical USB plugs.

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Geek-girl Felicia Day kicks off inaugural Microsoft Advertising Story Awards
Today Microsoft kicked off the first Microsoft Advertising Story Awards contest to find the world’s most innovative digital marketer with the chance to win a trip to the Oscars-of-the-advertising-world, Cannes Lions 2012 . The contest specifies “entries will be judged on how effectively your campaign plan uses Microsoft Advertising solutions”. Essentially, this is a promotion to get more advertisers to explore and use Microsoft’s broad set of advertising properties which include but is not limited to MSN, mobile, Skype and XBOX
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Geek-girl Felicia Day kicks off inaugural Microsoft Advertising Story Awards
Geek-girl Felicia Day kicks off inaugural Microsoft Advertising Story Awards
Today Microsoft kicked off the first Microsoft Advertising Story Awards contest to find the world’s most innovative digital marketer with the chance to win a trip to the Oscars-of-the-advertising-world, Cannes Lions 2012 . The contest specifies “entries will be judged on how effectively your campaign plan uses Microsoft Advertising solutions”
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Microsoft supports Imagine Cup 2011 student projects with $75,000 grants
Even though winning the Imagine Cup 2008 worldwide finals was already a life changing experience for me, I only wish something like this had existed back then.

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Razorfish raises the bar for Microsoft-based connected retail experience
The last time I wrote about some of the cool work the creative agency Razorfish were doing on the Microsoft platform – specifically Surface, they were owned by Microsoft. Even though they’ve since been sold by Microsoft, it appears they still have a soft spot for Microsoft platforms. Yesterday, Razorfish announced a beta version of its Retail Experience Platform codenamed “5D” at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York
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“Cicada 3301″ cryptographic puzzle game played out on 4chan & reddit: best job hire in disguise?
What does the Caesar Cipher, a picture of a duck, Mayan numbers, King Arthur, 2143909608, 845145127.com, GPS coordinates in Warsaw, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Arizona, California, New Orleans, Miami, Hawaii and Sydney have in common?

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“Cicada 3301″ cryptographic puzzle game played out on 4chan & reddit: best job hire in disguise?
Skype hiring both C# and HTML5 devs for Windows 8 Metro app
It looks like if you can’t make your mind up about building a Windows 8 Metro-style application using either C# or HTML5, Skype seems to think you should just hire to build for both and let them fight it out. In either case, Skype seems to be readying a Windows 8 app for launch day.

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Channel9′s Visual Studio Achievements now available
A couple of years ago I approached Rafael Rivera with an idea – bringing XBOX Live-style achievements to the Windows platform. There could be achievements for Windows itself – learning keyboard shortcuts like CTRL+ESC for task manager or even BSOD misfortunes.

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Behind the Microsoft CES 2012 video wall
Like Moore’s law, there should also be a law that determines the rate at which display screens at trade shows grow. For it’s last year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft flaunted a video wall at its booth that stretched a respectable 70 feet (21 meters) long. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to power such a system, you’re in luck
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Win one of two Microsoft Touch Mouse & Microsoft LifeCam Studio
There’s nothing better to kick off a new year with some great hardware freebies from Microsoft Australia. In collaboration with several tech sites including this one, they are running a promotion to give away 2 (two) Microsoft Touch wireless mouse . And because I’m so nice and generous, they’re also throwing in an extra Microsoft LifeCam Studio HD webcam as a bonus
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Win one of two Microsoft Touch Mouse & Microsoft LifeCam Studio

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