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MSN is holding a global contest that will give the winner $75,000 to produce an original short-form online show to be made up of 12 one-minute episodes.

Microsoft has announced new plans to significantly enhance their cloud services offering in Australia.

Obviously, the app won't work until sometime around 10 am Pacific Time on Tuesday but if you own a Windows Phone 8 device and are interested in watching the next Xbox reveal event, you might want to go ahead and download Live Video player ahead of time.

According to The Verge, Microsoft is doing away with its current Points system to introduce a true currency system very soon.

Microsoft has filed a new trademark for the word "Forzavista." Using our detective-like intuition, we've determined it probably has something to do with the Forza Motorsport series, possibly something that will be revealed during tomorrow's " Xbox Reveal " event.

With Microsoft set to reveal its next Xbox this Tuesday, May 21 at a special event at its Redmond campus, IHS Screen Digest has said the firm must stand out not only from Sony and Nintendo, but also from Apple, Google and Samsung.

The company, working with hardware partners such as Nokia and HTC, plans to become South Africa's No.

Speedfan is a great hardware monitor which can automatically control fan speeds, warn when temperatures are rising in the case, and do a SMART scan of your hard drives.

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Google I/O, which saw the public launch of Google Compute Engine, also spawned a "I know you are, what am I," slapfest between two companies that would like to unseat Amazon Web Services as the king of public cloud.

Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's Windows Phone marketing lead, was grinning from ear to ear when we sat down for an interview earlier this week.

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I suppose it's a bit like that film The Matrix - you realize that you live in an ethereal and closed world only when you actually get to step outside of it.

Interesting new study on the effectiveness of speech-to-text technologies. Nice to see Microsoft beating Google Voice with the Exchange 2010 Voicemail Preview.

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Hewlett-Packard rolled out another Android device this week. This could become a pattern as PC makers hedge against a world that's less about Microsoft and more about Google.

Taking a screenshot from the Apple manual, Microsoft is opening its first full-line retail store at Dadeland Mall on Saturday - though in a different wing, right down the corridor from its competitor.

It's been a slow couple of weeks here through the beginning of May. Everyone, it seems, was saving up to pile all of their announcements at once, leaving us scrambling and our RSS feed spinning.

There are two app updates available in the Windows Store, one update for the Nokia Music app and another update for the Xbox Video app.

Telecommunications giant Telefnica is to deploy Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer across its business to encourage collaboration and standardise the use of software among its 150,000-strong workforce.