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Have an idea for an awesome Windows Phone app? The Developer Movement will help you bring it to life. This is your opportunity to enter a new and growing global market, be recognized as a star among the developer community, and get rewarded for your efforts. Think you can change the app game? Give it a try-it might be easier than you expect! Everyone who publishes an eligible app to Marketplace can earn a reward, so start developing today!

It's about giving students Microsoft professional tools at no charge.

After eating something greasy to get rid of last night's Jello shot-induced hangover, many of you are probably in the middle of writing your New Year's resolutions. Well, here's a good one (especially considering that the tech sector seems to be the only bright spot in a sort of lackluster economy) … Learn to code.

Spyware usually refers to software that is created with the sole purpose of taking partial or complete control of a person's computer without the permission of the owner of the computer. What spyware does is that it uses the resources in your computer to report certain information to someone else that you do not know. Simply put spyware spies on you and on your computer.

Has Apple really partnered up with Facebook? Is the social network really giving away free Apple iPhones and iPads to randomly selected individuals?

An activity created by Peter McAsh for the ICS2O class. Thanks Peter! 

The 2012 Scratch competition has launched, which encourages primary and secondary school students to get involved with computing and software development. Run by the Irish software engineering research centre Lero and supported by the Irish Computer Society, the competition helps students learn how software is built and how it works. It encourages them to be creative with the software and shows what opportunities are available in the technology sector.

Many college students are concerned about finding employment after they graduate but those who major in computer science are "almost certain" to be hired.

This document explains how to connect your Arduino board to the computer and upload your first sketch.

"This is a short Arduino build I did and decided to share with other arduino beginners. This is a complete tutorial to show you how to use a potentiometer to control an LED's brightness with your Arduino microcontroller."

ICT lessons in schools are 'highly unsatisfactory', says Royal Society One of the UK's most eminent scientific institutions says British schools have lost their way in teaching computer science

But with so much growth happening in Apple's ecosystem (let alone the massive Android market), some pivotal changes have occurred in the developer community. You see, mobile platforms are great, but there's a funny disconnect in the way iOS apps are developed, and it differs from the tradition of software development that has spanned the last few decades.

The National Science Foundation, in support of Computer Science Education Week 2011 (CS Ed Week), is proud to announce its rollout of CS Bits & Bytes, a biweekly newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research.

Overnight, websites belonging to the FBI, Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal and others were struck by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

Just change the table to be your own headings and numbers content (you may make more, or less, rows and/or columns). Resultant table is editable. Click any cell to change its value. Then click outside the table and all other charts change dynamically. Interesting way to create dynamic visualizations

8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development

We often have readers ask us questions about specific Facebook applications. Some apps generate an enormous amount of spam and can annoy the heck out of your Facebook friends. Others are outright scams and should be avoided entirely. For example, any application offering to show you who has viewed your profile, who your Facebook stalkers are etc., are guaranteed to be fraudulent. Facebook doesn't allow developers access to the data required to create apps like this.

Diagnosing a Blue Screen of Death Error in Windows For many years now the famous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has been the ultimate indication that something disastrous has happened to make your computer die, but how useful is the information in the BSoD and the respective crash dump file that Windows produces?