Students: On your marks for the Imagine Cup
News The call has gone out for any student programmers who fancy their chances of winning one of a number of prizes in the fifth annual Imagine Cup, which has a prize fund of $170,000. But be warned, your only chance of stepping off with a top prize is...
[November 21, 2006, 16:09]
BT lends student software coders a hand
News Microsoft and BT have announced that the top six winners of the Software Design category of the 2006 Imagine Cup have begun an intensive business training workshop as part of their prize. The Imagine Cup, run by Microsoft, is an annual event that...
[January 16, 2007, 16:29]
UK's programming talent show their wares
News Three students have won the top prize in the UK Imagine Cup, a programming contest run by Microsoft, after writing a worldwide blogging application. Team Bit Shifters consists of Adrian Collier from Bournemouth University, Andrew Webber from City...
[June 23, 2005, 15:35]
Windows Embedded: Seeds of Hope for Student Developers?
Blog Back in 2003 when we all had travel budgets and that sort of thing, Microsoft would fly journalists out to locations like Brazil to cover the finals of its student developer competition which it calls the Imagine Cup.
[June 30, 2009, 9:34]
Seedlings set for Seoul
Blog A team from Hull University beat out nine others to win the UK prize in the fifth annual Imagine Cup Software Design Challenge. The Seedlings’, as they call themselves, will now head for Seoul to represent the UK in the international competition...
[April 3, 2007, 16:15]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Comment I do hope that students thinking about Microsoft's Imagine Cup or even hobbyists looking at Magic Software's competition do some Google searches and pick up on this discussion to arm themselves with a little bit of your shared knowledge.
[April 6, 2009, 10:16]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Back in the days before the ‘global economic slowdown’, Microsoft used to host fancy parties atop London’s Telecom Tower to celebrate its student developer competition known as The Imagine Cup. Henry ‘model-T’ Ford once said that, “Competition is...
[April 6, 2009, 8:01]
Windows Embedded: Seeds of Hope for Student Developers?
Blog Comment They'll certainly learn far more about business by entering the Imagine Cup than they will about coding. The cynic in me never likes to see contests like this, organised by large corporations and taking advantage of young, enthusiastic people to...
[June 30, 2009, 14:22]
Microsoft campaign to take aim at Linux leaders
News So far, Microsoft's response has been to try to shape curriculum and engage student interest with programming contests such as Imagine Cup. Microsoft is refining its "Get the Facts" Linux attack, taking specific aim at Red Hat, Novell and IBM...
[September 16, 2004, 9:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Hell, the kettle will be charging us a little extra per cup for our morning Blue Mountain next. The way technology's going it could happen on our desktops, our DVD players, even our cars -- imagine how happy the Department of Transport would be if...
[May 11, 2001, 16:00]
Xbox price slashed in UK
News Plus, this is great for publishers as our games, such as FIFA World Cup 2002 and the Xbox-exclusive Buffy the Vampire Slayer, now have the potential to reach an even wider audience in Europe. The announcement has been welcomed by both third-party...
[April 18, 2002, 9:02]
Siebel and Ellison: Is this the happy ending?
News He is a well-respected yachtsman who has competed in the America's Cup, won the deadly. Not long ago, an Oracle-Siebel deal was hard to imagine, and if history is a guide, it's still difficult to believe that Tom Siebel will stick around to work...
[September 13, 2005, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The installation team (two lads of sturdy Basildon stock: how come these people never want a cup of coffee or tea any more, but always want to use your loo? No, I couldn't (what do these people imagine we do all day?
[April 18, 1998, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The installation team (two lads of sturdy Basildon stock: how come these people never want a cup of coffee or tea any more, but always want to use your loo? No, I couldn't (what do these people imagine we do all day?
[April 18, 1998, 7:00]
Nuggets: Nikon CoolPix 990 is a top-class challenger
News Switch to manual mode and you can really get some great effects you'd usually associate with an SLR, although be warned, this camera has a mountain of features and to really make them all come together you need to sit, grab a cup of tea and...
[December 22, 2000, 8:03]
