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Azure Mobile Services Now Supports Windows Phone 8

Windows Azure Mobile Services will now support Windows Phone 8. The news came in the keynote at the Microsoft Build conference where focus is all about Azure, the Microsoft cloud infrastructure. The new addition means Windows Phone 8 can use the Windows Azure backend engine for push notifications. According to a blog post, Windows Phone 8 can use a single framework that supports multiple formats while allowing the apps to be distributed broadly through the Windows Store.

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Google

Google Earth 7 Brings Tour Guide Feature

Google Earth 7 for the desktop landed yesterday with features familiar to anyone who has used the mobile version recently, including new 3D imagery and a virtual tour guide designed to highlight interesting places around the world. Virtual tours are available for more than 11,000 sites around the world, including popular attractions like the Grand Canyon, Eiffel Tower, and St. Peter's Basilica.

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Mobile

Google's Nexus 10 Goes for the iPad's Jugular

On paper, at least, Google's Nexus 10 is a remarkable-sounding tablet that challenges the iPad on key hardware metrics. Those metrics would include size, weight, and display. Not to mention price. Google's high-end 32GB Nexus 10 model is priced at $499 ($399 with 16GB). By comparison, Apple's 32GB Wi-Fi iPad is $599.

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Mobile

iPad Mini vs. Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire HD

After dominating the larger tablet market it popularized, Apple has turned its attention to the slightly smaller screen. The 7.9-inch iPad Mini has Apple's attention to style and detail behind it, but it certainly isn't the only slate of this stature that's worth considering, especially with the Mini's stepped-down processor and screen resolution.


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Adobe

Adobe Launches Marketing Cloud

Adobe Marketing Cloud is a service that includes everything digital marketers need to get ahead. Adobe Marketing Cloud gives you a complete set of analytics, social, advertising, targeting and web experience management solutions and a real-time dashboard that brings together everything you need to know about your marketing campaigns. So you can get from data to insights to action, faster and smarter than ever.

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Apple

Apple Issues Final Cut Pro Update

Apple has released an update that adds some nice enhancements to the package. Some notable additions to the software are its support for dual viewers that have separate scope displays which allow you to better match aspects of frames. The program also now provides flexible clip connections which keeps your various connected clips and snippets together when you move them around in the storyline.

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Microsoft

Windows 8: The Complete New PC Launch List

Dozen of new PCs are launching alongside Windows 8. Some are inventive new designs with sliding keyboards and removable screens, others are simple retreads of existing products, occasionally augmented by a new touch screen. Here you'll find all the major new Windows 8 hardware being released this holiday season, sorted by brand. Many of these systems are available to preorder now, and most will ship when Windows 8 launches tomorrow.

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Microsoft

SmartGlass Fully Launches on Windows 8

Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that its Xbox SmartGlass companion app will launch with full functionality on Windows 8. The app will be built-in to the "Games" section on Windows 8 and RT PCs and tablets, which are launching on October 26th. Microsoft released an updated version of SmartGlass this week, alongside an updated Xbox Music app that offers free streaming and a Pandora-like Radio DJ feature. The apps come as Microsoft begins pushing out its updated dashboard, which is slated to roll out across the world.

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Social Networking

For Windows 8, Skype Gets a Full Makeover

Acquired by Microsoft in October 2011, Skype has been hard at work for several months integrating the communication software with the latest version of Windows. Yesterday the company announced that Skype for Windows 8 will be available Friday and on new Windows 8 devices; you can download it from the Windows store. Skype has received a complete makeover, with features that take advantage of both the Windows 8 Start menu and the use of a touch screen.

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Google

Google to Unveil Android 4.2

The search giant is set to debut the latest version of its Android operating system, known as Android 4.2, at an event scheduled for October 29 in New York. Rather than the rumored Key Lime Pie, it will be known as Android 4.2+, or an updated version of Jelly Bean, according to a person familiar with the announcement. Google will also be showing off the first devices to run on Android 4.2, including a high-end tablet, the Nexus 10, from Samsung Electronics, and LG Electronics's first Nexus phone, the Nexus 4. Also shown off will be an updated version of the Nexus 7 tablet which debuted in July.

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