To help develop the possibilites that the Kinect enables, Microsoft is launching the first-ever Kinect Accelerator program in Seattle in May, inviting teams from around the world to encourage this innovation.

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But Mr Rutte may be open to inviting Mr Wilders to join a three-way government of the right.

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The feds may not even think of inviting Raj to the party anyway, they seem to have a lot of evidence that worries Gupta enough to have it thrown out.

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To be clear, inviting controversial and provocative comments with which one may disagree is entirely appropriate at an education conference.

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The banks have started the process of writing to people who they think may have been mis-sold PPI, inviting them to make a claim.

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In inviting the New Komeito into the coalition, Mr Obuchi may find he has more on his hands than the couple of dozen upper-house votes he bargained for.

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