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Imagine Cup 2010 for Singapore closes on May 26. Find out how these students worked on solving the world’s toughest problems with the power of technology. Root for the young innovators who will represent Singapore in the world wide finals, join us at an exclusive technology extravaganza. This year, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Singapore, Steve Ballmer will be presenting the prizes to the winners. Make sure you don’t miss this event! Register to Imagine Cup 2010 Award Ceremony Here!

Last April 21, Code::Xtreme was launched in SMU. Code::Xtreme is a 24-hour competition organized by ITSC to create awareness on the use and value of standards in programming. To find out more about CodeXtreme and how you can join, you can check out this site. This year, Microsoft Singapore is participating as a technology partner through Project Nimbus. Project Nimbus is an “information marketplace” that allows developers to access hosted Singapore data. It also allows content providers to host their data in a structured manner. To find out more about Project Nimbus and how you can start accessing public data, check out this site. We will be running technical sessions to prepare participants for the competition. To find out more about these, sign up in the Code::Xtreme link above. Hope to see you there! ...

The Photo 360 Challenge Kick Off was just held last Saturday at the Microsoft Office. If you don’t know what the Photo 360 Challenge is take a look at the Photo 360 Challenge Contest Page. The day was filled with technology and fun. Everybody got to try out the Microsoft Surface and Xbox 360. It’s quite interesting to see young kids and their dads playing with the Surface games, creating music, looking at DNA and all other things. The event started with some magic 3d eye contest. Until now I still don’t know how they saw those images. ...