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Australian Imagine Cup Finals 2008

We have a winner! The Australian Imagine Cup Software Design finals were successfully held @ Remix...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/29/2008

Demos Happen {Here} Competition

Are you worthy of the title Australian Demo God 2008? Do you have what it takes to demonstrate...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/01/2008

QUT MSPs attract massive numbers to student event!

Recently 3 Microsoft Student Partners (www.student-partners.com) from Queensland's University of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/16/2008

Students with an ICT degree can enjoy a seller’s market!

Businesses are actively targeting students through career days, intense advertising campaigns and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/02/2008

Store and Share 5GB worth of data - free - from Windows Live Skydrive

The Windows Live lineup continues to grow... this time with Skydrive increasing it's storage limit...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2008

Freeze! Free tech software offered to all students globally

News just in, Microsoft has released DREAM SPARK, a student program designed to offer...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/19/2008

New Awards announced for Imagine Cup

Even more reasons to join Imagine Cup... In addition to the recently announced Software Design...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/13/2008

Good beginners resource for building Xbox games in XNA Games Studio

The ground swell of interest in XNA Games Studio never ceases to amaze me - it's truly an...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2008

Microsoft US Internships Again On Offer For Australia Students

EDIT - 7/2/08: Information below has been edited from it's original form to reflect updated...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2008

Calling Aussie Popfly Users...

The fabulous MR. Nick Hodge has asked me to put out a casting call to Aussie Popfly users. When...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/05/2008

Vista First Year Vulnerability report released.

Aaaah, that's the stuff!... I'm back and blogging. Do you know when you haven't blogged in a while,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2008

'Deakin defies drop in uni applications'

From the Australian Newspaper website this morning: " AN aggressive marketing campaign by Deakin...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/10/2008

Finding Imagine Cup teammates through Facebook

Cross Posted from my Imagine Cup blog Imagine Cup is the world's premier technology competition just...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/09/2008

Bill Gates' last day at work

OK, so it's not necessarily 'academic' related, and by now you may have seen this - it's just one of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/07/2008

Aussie Imagine Cup site is now live...

Yes, the Australian Imagine Cup website is now live, and it looks AWESOME! I worked with Wunderman...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2007

New Victorian Government advertisement on greenhouse gas reductions

Cross posting from my Imagine Cup Australia blog: You may very well have already seen this advert...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/03/2007

'Lecturer-only giveaway' - free 2 day Microsoft Expression training course for lecturers / teachers

For those of you who haven't heard, Expression Studio is Microsoft's new web design tool offering....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/03/2007

Student's and Lecturer's Guide to Free Microsoft Software

If you're a student or an educator, you shouldn't have to pay for Microsoft software. It's that...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/02/2007

Visual Studio 2008 is now available in MSDNAA

Visual Studio 2008 is now available for MSDNAA subscribers. Please contact your universitie's MSDNAA...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/21/2007

QUT's '60Sox' - linking young talent and industry.

This is one for the Aussie web / multimedia / digital arts students. 60sox is a (relatively) new web...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/12/2007

XNA Games Studio events in Sydney and Melbourne

Probably shouldn't be blogging this because it could cannibalise my 'Mix On Campus' events which...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/12/2007

News just in - Aussie Imagine Cup entrants can win a job...

Cross posting from my Imagine Cup Australia blog: BIG news for Imagine Cup 2008 - Software Design...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/07/2007

Sidebar Gadget competition winners - "Sidebar Named Desire"

Ever thrown one of those parties where you feel like you've completely failed and no one RSVP'd and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/02/2007

Free web developer event in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney

Long time readers of this blog will know that 'Mix On Campus' has been talked about for quite some...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/01/2007

'Mix On Campus' is go!!

Every year, students and lecturers ask for tickets to Tech.Ed and Remix, and we sadly don't have...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/24/2007

Just read about Ruckus at Drive:Activated blog. Pretty interesting to see - I'm using last.fm for my...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/23/2007

It's an amazing figure, but true, according to an IDC paper released yesterday. The whitepaper,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/21/2007

Popfly goes into Public Beta

As of about 2am this morning Aussie time, Popfly has been releases to public beta (what is popfly?)....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/18/2007

Microsoft judged to be OSD compliant?

Two of our (i.e. Microsoft's) Shared Source licenses - Microsoft Public License and Microsoft...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/17/2007

Students, get Office Ultimate for AU$75 - save around $1100

Normally, Microsoft Office 2007 wouldn't find it's way onto my blog. Not that it's not a good...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2007

Imagine Cup Australia Update - register now for IC08

I run Imagine Cup each year in Australia. It's (primarily) a software design competition, and is...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/04/2007

Source code for Microsoft .NET framework libraries to be released

As some of you might have noticed already, there's news straight out of Redmond that some .NET...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/03/2007

Luke Drumm presents XNA Games Studio at UNSW

Luke Drumm's a great guy. And he's also a senior consultant for Readify, who just so happen to be...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/03/2007

Live Search Engine Updated

Knowing that a handful of ex-RMIT academic staff have helped work on the Live Search engine at...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/02/2007

Microsoft Student Group on Facebook

Can't believe I didn't pick this one up earlier... https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204598839...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/16/2007

Students, get your resume on 'roids - join Microsoft Student Partners.

One for the students... Statistics show, employers prefer graduates who display (amongst other...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2007

Microsoft Research request for proposals for 'Cellphone as a Platform for Healthcare'

Microsoft Research has announced a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Cellphone as a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/09/2007

Silverlight 1.0 RTW and Silverlight for Linux - "Moonlight"

Great Silverlight news coming out of Microsoft Press Pass A) "Microsoft Corp. today released to the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/04/2007

Expression Studio now available in MSDN-AA

2 major recent changes with MSDN AA First up, there is now a second MSDN AA subscription called...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/29/2007

So what are young I.T grads really worth?

I'd like to think the answer is "ALOT". Here's proof - 18 of the 100 entries in BRW's 2006 Young...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/28/2007

Announcing XNA Games Studio 2.0

In my travels to various universities, a few people (students and academics alike) have commented on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/24/2007

Microsoft Live Search's principal development manager presenting at RMIT

Lock this one in your diaries.... Hugh Williams was an RMIT associate professor. He is now Live...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/22/2007

Windows OS Kernel for Australian Academics

I have in my hot little hands around 30 copies of the "Windows Academic Program" CD. It's a special...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/16/2007

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