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Xbox 360 Kinect “Hackers” Need Not Fear Prosecution
English can be a very dangerous language to speak in if you happen to be a politician—or a major corporation. Earlier this month, Microsoft came out fulminating against computer programmers, DIYers, and others who wanted to modify and reuse the hardware and software of their newly released Kinect motion-capture system for the Xbox 360. The ...
Cable-TV Time Warner Seeks Respite from Poor Economy
As the economy continues to flounder and the rift between poor and well-off becomes wider, people have begun to cut back on their luxury expenses. One of those expenses happens to be how much they pay for cable-TV and the industry is feeling the bite. To draw back some of the subscribers it’s beginning to ...
Spotify Shows its Holes – Record Losses in 2009
Does everybody remember Spotify? They’re the first music streaming service to hit the iPhone with free tunes—but now they’re making electronic broadsheet headlines because people have started to obsess over their 2009 earnings. Music Ally has gone over the financials for the company in the past year and found some glaring losses: about $26.5 million ...
Hewlett-Packard Anticipates Market Changes
Strange things are brewing in the market today and Hewlett-Packard appears to have a spyglass trained on it. Market sources at Marketing Intelligence Center report that H-P’s stocks have risen fifty-cents today as their battle with Oracle rumbles and taxes in the UK might change their investments there. On Ireland, H-P and Microsoft have teamed ...
Kinect Homebrew Hackers Continue to Wow
As we’ve previously covered on SiliconANGLE (hackers and drivers), the moment Microsoft came out with the Xbox 360 Kinect they apparently fashioned a Pandora’s Box. The homebrew, MAKEr community have really risen to the challenge of the strange enchantment of the hidden capabilities of the Kinect camera. Not to disappoint, Engadget is running a story ...
The “Internet of Things” Coming, Embedded SIM Chips Will Lead the Way
A taskforce of major players in the telecommunication technology industry are getting together under the umbra of the GSMA (the GSM Association) to front a charge into getting every device mobile. This taskforce includes experts from all the major operators such as AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Orange, KT, NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, ...
Google Brings the Cloud to Legacy Microsoft Office with Cloud Connect
Google Docs just got better for users of Microsoft Office when they released a plug-in for the popular office suite that connects Office to Google’s cloud. The plug-in, called Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, will allow users to sync and share documents with Google Docs. According to a ZDNet article, the documents will not ...
iOS 4.2 Update Comes to iPads: Multitasking, AirPrint, and AirPlay
A new software update is coming to iPad, bringing it a multitude of new features and improvements. As the Wall Street Journal’s Bits blog tells the story about the iOS update, it will affect a multitude of systems: multitasking, AirPrint, AirPlay, word processing, and more. The update, called iOS 4.2, was expected before year-end after ...
Tumblr Hits Stratospheric Windfall, Value to Exceed $100 Million
It looks like Tumblr’s value is about to hit the stratosphere with their newest round of funding. The company expects to exceed $100 million. The mini-blogging platform has long become a fun location to post quick jots and become part of an interconnected community of bloggers who share and share alike everything from short anecdotes ...
Cox Launches Mobile Service With Money Back Offer
Want to earn up to $20 back for not using all of your plan minutes from your wireless carrier? Well, perhaps it’s time to look into the newly launching Cox plan that does just that. Reuters is running a story right now about the intrepid new offering, After a year of testing, Atlanta-based Cox opens ...