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Microsoft’s annual student competition that seeks to solve the worlds problems is on again, and this time finalists will be heading to Poland to compete. The theme this year is the same as last year, the UN Millennium goals. So you can either continue the project that you started last year, or choose from one of the many problems that…
This Friday (19th June) Microsoft is running a competition where anyone in Australia could win $10,000! The premise is that the first person to find the treasure on a specific webpage (using the provided clues) will win the $10,000, however you will only find it using the new Internet Explorer 8. To get started, head to the website and read…
We’ve seen the US laptop hunter ads, and now the Windows team have brought them to Australia, and made them even better. If you listen to Nova 969 (or for our Melbourne readers, Nova 100) in the mornings from 8:30am, you will get clues to find the “Laptop Hunter” in the city. (more clues on the website) Find the Laptop…
As I announced recently, the annual Dream Build Play XNA game development competition is running again this year, with up to $75,000 in cash prizes to grab. As of writing the competition has been open to registrations for a little over a week, so I hope everyone has gone and registered, and started developing their winning game using the free…
It’s on again, the annual XNA game creation competition, Dream Build Play was announced for 2009 at GDC in San Francisco. DBP is a competition where individuals or teams compete against each other to create the best game they possibly can for the Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio. This year the competition will open registration on the 6th of…
To all students, The registrations for Imagine Cup for 2009 are now open. Register for Imagine Cup 2009 NOW! (Or Albert will bite! ;_;) Imagine Cup is an international competition run by Microsoft open to all students (both full and part time, undergrad and postgrad) about developing solutions to real issues affecting our society today. This year’s…