Microsoft Outlook.com vs hotmail.com

Microsoft Launches New Outlook Website - Business Insider:

Outlook.com overhauls Microsoft's earlier take on personal email (Hotmail) and adds an airy design that matches Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Outlook will eventually replace Hotmail.

Microsoft also packed in some social features, letting you connect your email account to LinkedIn, Facebook, and even Skype. (You can chat on Skype within Outlook.com.) It'll also automatically sort your email.

Microsoft "Build 2012" is sold out

Microsoft Build 2012
October 30 - November 2, 2012, Redmond, Washington, USA

Build 2012 is sold out. Tune in online. | C9Team | Channel 9:

Price (was) about $2000. Expectation is that attendees will get new Surface tablet,
new Nokia Windows 8 phone, and maybe something else (Xbox with Kinect)

Those who attended Google IO 2012, for price of $900, received

The goods	Retail price
Nexus 7 tablet	$199
Nexus Q	$299
Galaxy Nexus phone	$349
Chromebox	$329
Total	$1,176

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Raspberry Pi

"The Raspberry Pi is a $35, full-blown micro computer that runs Linux. Use its video, audio, network, and digital I/O to create media centers, web servers, interfaces to external hardware—you name it. And this book gives you everything you need to get started."