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Polycom and Microsoft Lync provide content sharing applications

Polycom and Microsoft Lync deliver top notch video solutions and content sharing applications. How does it sound like to have swift communications across work environments? Be it on the go, home and work offices, conference rooms and immersive theatres, you can now work across all these platforms thanks to integration between Polycom and Microsoft Lync. Read the full article…

Asset management for web games

Web-based and mobile games are on the rise. But even with increasingly faster data connections, inefficient use of online assets and offline browser capabilities might result in a poor user experience. Games targeting hardcore gamers have traditionally relied on storing data in high-density media (DVDs) and pushing graphics with powerful graphics processing units. But with Read the full article…

Microsoft’s Outlook.com gains 1.5M new users in 12 hours

Microsoft’s Outlook.com gained more than 1.5 million new users in the first 12 hours after official launch Microsoft recently announced that its new webmail service Outlook.com is now available for all after months of beta testing. It will also start to transition its huge Hotmail user base over its new interface and platform. That transition is expected to run in Read the full article…

Microsoft’s HTML5 game Contre Jour back with 20 new levels, pushes new Internet Explorer 10

Who can resist an adorable one-eyed creature roaming around trying to find his one true love, who happens to be a rose? And how else to show its latest Internet Explorer 10 off globally but to feature two new game worlds exclusive to only the web browser? Have you met Petit? Last October, Microsoft introduced a Read the full article…

No license transfers for Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013: one license for one machine. Many of us who buy a new computer go through the ritual of looking for installation disks or downloading installers for the programs we have been using on the older machine. However, there is one major software title that cannot go through re-installation: Microsoft Office 2013. Looks like Read the full article…

MyCLOUD is a new generation Chinese learning tool for students

Learning Chinese gets easier with MyCLOUD, and four more Singapore primary schools will be using the platform by 2014. Learning Chinese has always been a problem for some children and to address this issue, MyCLOUD is launched as an interactive platform that supports new generation teaching methods and bringing the learning of Chinese beyond classroom Read the full article…

Google could pay Apple US$1B to be default iOS search engine

Leading search engine Google will reportedly pay US$1 billion in 2014 to remain as the default search engine on iOS. According to a recent report by Morgan Stanley, Mountain-View based search giant Google could pay a large sum of money — costing around US$1 billion in 2014 — to remain as default search engine on Read the full article…