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First Place Imagine Cup Design for Development Award goes to COSMIC!
07 July 09 02:09 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
This just in from Cairo...a big congratulations to team COSMIC from U niversiti Sains Malaysia ! At tonight’s Imagine Cup closing ceremony staged in front of the Pyramids , Jasy Liew Suet Yan, Loo Wan Koe, Mathew Phiong Yoon Kheong, Ooi Keng Siang were Read More...
Imagine Cup Design for Development Award - Tonight's the Night!
07 July 09 04:01 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
The Imagine Cup finalists for the Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award competed in Cairo yesterday. Early feedback suggests that the judges were deeply impressed by all of the creative thinking and passion that went in to the projects, designed Read More...
VOTE! Imagine Cup People's Choice Award
26 June 09 02:47 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
The People's Choice Award website for this year's Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Cairo is up and running! To make it easy for you to vote, we have published videos from all of our software design finalists online. Every single student who entered the Read More...
Design for Development Finalists Announced!
16 June 09 06:28 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Only two weeks to go until the Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt! Our judges have narrowed the field of entrants for the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award and selected five finalist teams. I would like to thank Read More...
Imagine Cup Students Travel to Redmond
15 June 09 07:05 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Last week, students participating in the Imagine Cup traveled to Microsoft’s Redmond campus to meet with various Microsoft teams as they prepare for the 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt. Team SKAN from India and Team MultiPoint WEB from the U.S. Read More...
How do people engage with PCs for the first time?
02 June 09 02:53 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Given that most of us have encountered PCs from the time we were in school or college, it may be difficult to think of what it was like to discover the PC for the first time! But most adults in countries like India are new to PCs, and usually view it Read More...
Text-Free Interfaces for the Illiterate
26 May 09 09:51 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Most computer applications are difficult to understand for those who are unable to read fluently. The heavy use of text in everything from menus to document content means that those who are illiterate are not able to access functions and services implemented Read More...
Steve Ballmer witnesses how young Indonesian innovators are working to prevent the spread of Malaria
19 May 09 10:17 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
By Bonnie Mamanua, Unlimited Potential Group Business Manager, Microsoft Indonesia Last week we welcomed our CEO, Steve Ballmer, to Indonesia. Steve was here to hold meetings with Microsoft staff as well as political and business leaders, but while he Read More...
Think Beyond Technology!
14 May 09 10:24 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
On my first trip to India, I remember going to visit a rural village near Bhopal, where the Union Carbide chemical disaster happened. The visit was prompted by stories about a large agriculture conglomerate which had placed the first PC in the village Read More...
Social Entrepreneurs in the Making
12 May 09 09:40 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
It is Imagine Cup season! Known as the “Olympics of Technology,” Microsoft Imagine Cup is the preeminent student technology competition in the world. This year, over 300,000 students from 100 countries are vying for a chance to compete in the Worldwide Read More...
U.S. Imagine Cup Winners - Team MultiPoint Web
05 May 09 11:34 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
After three days of intense competition from technology students across the country, the winner of the U.S. software design finalist for this year’s Imagine Cup was announced today. Congratulations to Team MultiPoint Web ! Jimmy, Mark and Luke Dickinson, Read More...
Imagine Cup US Finals - People’s Choice (that means YOU!)
27 April 09 06:33 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Next week some of the brightest – and youngest – minds in America will compete in the US Finals of the Imagine Cup , Microsoft’s worldwide student technology competition. Fifteen student teams were chosen out of thousands to showcase the technology applications Read More...
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Mission Moscow
07 November 08 05:36 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
All eyes are on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) this week as Michael Rawding and a handful of his Unlimited Potential team members tour the region. We’re heading out this morning to check in on Moscow-based iCafe partner Cafémax and will also catch up Read More...
The Rural Innovation Award Finals--Kentaro Toyama, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
08 July 08 09:21 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
This morning, we heard presentations by the five teams in the finals for the Rural Innovation Award at the Imagine Cup 2008 . All five teams did an amazing job, and the enthusiasm and the quality of the work really made me appreciate what the Imagine Read More...
Connecting citizens with government in Indonesia – Team Antarmuka
07 July 08 09:08 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 2 Comments   
The following guest post comes from Antarmuka, a team of finalists for the Imagine Cup Rural Innovation Award from Indonesia. Antarmuka developed a reporting system, Butterfly, which allows users to immediately report environmental problems that they Read More...
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