contests

Microsoft is sponsoring a new Windows Phone contest called “I Need this App!” which lets anyone pitch their Windows Phone 7 app idea for a chance to win $5000 and a free Windows Phone 7. Even better, the winning application will actually be built and then made available as a free download on the…

Have you seen the Microsoft KIN commercials where a girl named Rosa travels around the country to visit her social network in person? Well, now you can have that same opportunity too. On the Facebook page for KIN, anyone who “likes” (aka “fans”) the page will be automatically entered in a new…

Bing is kicking off another photo contest where the winner gets to decorate the Bing.com homepage with their winning image. This time around, though, the contest is limited to students only. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the winning photo will grace the homepage on April 22nd…

Not up for fighting the crowds this holiday season? I feel your pain. If you’d rather do your shopping from the comfort and quiet of your own home, there are a number of sites that can serve you well…and a lot of them are participating merchants on Bing Cashback, the site that pays you back for…

To celebrate the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band, the new game that brings the group’s music to a standalone edition of the popular Rock Band franchise, Microsoft is putting up a special edition Xbox 360 console up for auction. The case for this Xbox is covered with beautiful hand-painted…

There are currently two contests promoting the new Bing “decision engine” going on right now. The first one, the Bing Home Page Photo Contest, is in its final stages. This contest allowed photographers to submit their photos to become the main homepage photo featured on Bing.com. There were a ton…

People seem to really like the daily images that Bing shows as backgrounds. And if you'd like to have Bing.com use one of your photos as a background, you're in luck. Until July 16, you can submit your photos through a Facebook contest where the photo will be judge along with others and…

The Next-Gen PC design competition has been judged and at the top of the stack of very nice entries is this multi-user, multi-interface Napkin PC by Avery Holleman. You can see the rest of the submissions here, last years winners can be found here. Let us know what you think, which ones do you…

For this year's Mother's Day, the Windows Live Team is sponsoring a photo contest called "Portraits of Mom," where you submit a photo of mom from your Windows Live Space and get your friends and family to vote for it. During the contest's run, there are daily prizes, weekly prizes, and…

Now I know all of you Channel 10 viewers are absolute power users who know how to keep their bits and bytes under your every control. But just in case there's someone out there who needs help getting it all sorted out, the Media Center team is running a contest for the chance to win a complete…