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Microsoft Sign on German campus
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Microsoft unveils fitness gadget, health tracking
STL Today
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is releasing a $199 fitness band that also checks your email and even pays for coffee as the software company seeks to challenge Apple and others in the still-infant market for wearable devices. | The Microsoft Band will work with the company's new Microsoft Health system...
The Xbox One is on display at a Best Buy store on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013., in Evanston, Ill
(photo: AP / Nam Y. Huh)
Xbox Entertainment officially closed by Microsoft
Digital Spy
Xbox Entertainment has been officially closed by Microsoft. | Earlier this year, the Xbox TV division was earmarked for closure as part of the biggest cutbacks in the firm's 39-year history. | © Microsoft | However, the company was believed to be in talks with the likes of Warner to salvage a n...
Today is when Microsoft stops selling Windows 8 and Windows 7
Atlanta Journal
Today is when retail sales of consumer editions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 stops. From today, original equipment manufacturers will no longer be able to bundle Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate editions as well as Windows 8 with PCs. Th...
Week in Tech: Week in tech: a Tidal wave of Microsoft Bands, Fitbits and Apple Pay naysayers
Atlanta Journal
While everybody's getting excited about Halloween ghosts and ghouls, we've been thinking about something much more terrifying: getting fit. Microsoft is the latest firm to climb onto the fitness tracking bandwagon with its Microsoft Band, but there a...
Microsoft unveils fitness gadget
The Japan News
The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is releasing a $199 fitness band that also checks your e-mail and even pays for coffee as the software company seeks to challenge Apple and others in the still-infant market for wearable devices. | The...
The Apple Watch Just Got the Perfect Rival: Microsoft's Band
Atlanta Journal
If Microsoft wanted to grab a slice of the impending Apple Watch audience, it couldn’t have crafted a better plan than with its just-released Microsoft Band. To that end, the company spent a tremendous amount of resources to develop a product thatâ...
This photo taken July 3, 2014 shows the Microsoft Corp. logo outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash.
AP / Ted S. Warren
Microsoft Boss Nadella Nets $84.3m Package
Orange News
21 October 2014, 9:49 | Microsoft Boss Nadella Nets $84.3m Package | Tweet | It has emerged that Microsoft has awarded its new chief executive a pay package worth $84.3m (£52.2m). ...
Satya Nadella
AP / Eric Risberg
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella launches diversity effort
Canberra Times
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he's determined to increase the number of women and minorities at the tech giant. Photo: MCT | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is launching a diversity...
Microsoft Sign on German campus.jpg
Public Domain / Johannes Hemmerlein
Microsoft is about to jump into the smartwatch fray
PC World
Apple’s got a smartwatch. A number of Google’s Android hardware partners have smartwatches too. Now Microsoft wants a piece of the action, if a new report is any indication. | ...
Microsoft Is Rising Again
Atlanta Journal
Disclosure: I own shares of MSFT After remaining in the shadows of Apple, Google, and other rising technology companies for several years, Microsoft is rising again, as evidenced by the release of new products and improving financials. Today, the com...
In depth: Microsoft Band: 5 things you need to know
Atlanta Journal
Microsoft has officially entered the wearables space. In a move not many saw coming, the company known for the Xbox One just announced the release of the Microsoft Band, its very first smart band. Microsoft Health platform Along with the Band, Micros...
Microsoft Band Isn’t a Fitness Tracker, It’s a Trojan Horse for Software
Wall Street Journal
At first glance, Microsoft’s fitness-tracking device looks like another hardware foray for a company with a much stronger track record in software. ...
Science
FILIPINO - SLEEPING -  SLEEP APNEA - SLEEPING DISORDER
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Blame your sleep apnea for forgetting where you parked your car
The Siasat Daily
Washington, October 30: | Scientists have revealed that sleep apnea may affect people's ability to form new spatial memories, such as remembering where they have parked their car. | Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center conclude people took longer to complete a 3D maze when sleep apnea disrupted the REM stage of sleep. | The study has found tha...
Technology
Apple CEO Honor
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Apple's Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay'
Sun Sentinel
(Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Thursday became the most prominent American corporate leader to come out as gay, saying he was trading his closely guarded privacy for the chance to help move civil rights forward. | The 53-year-old Alabama native and self-described "son of the South", who has spoken out against discrimination of lesb...



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