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Xbox 360 Accounted For More than 40 Percent of Sales in November
It is well known by now that after Microsoft released the Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 during November that they managed to move 2.5 million units in just 15 days. It also turns out, for the same month, that the Xbox 360 managed a massively popular showing and took the cake of the console ...
Kinect and RC Car, Xbox Peripheral One Step Closer to Driving Itself to the Store
And the hacks keep coming. The ever-versatile Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 continues to wow everyone after the drivers were cracked and ported to Linux. Now, we’ve seen almost everything. Michael Schweitzer and Michael Himmelsbach at the University of Bundeswehr Munich have combined an XPS laptop with the Kinect sensor and a RC car ...
Kinect Finally Brings Us Minority Report
Well, it’s finally happened. I’ve been repeating this one ever since I saw the first shadow puppet-show done with the Kinect camera, but the technology displayed on Minority Report’s gesture-based user interface has always been coming to mind with each new development. Now, student-hackers at MIT have finally brought this one into reality. The video-game ...
Warner Bros. Changes Tack on Internet Piracy, Seeks to Make More Customers
Copyright infringement has actually been a mainstay of all media ever since the concept of copyright was introduced—way back about the time of the printing press. Now, people only notice because large media corporations have been painting giant bulls-eyes on their very own customer base for trading in their content (copying it) without permission. This ...
Generation Mobile Forum on Teens and Technology Being Held by the FCC in Washington, D.C.
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous across every aspect of American society; they are so prevalent that the now-cliché commercial vision of a family sitting down for dinner with at least one teen texting on their phone is not uncommon. The Federal Communications Commission has announced this week their plans to hold a forum at a ...
Google’s Cloud-based Postini Service Offering Exchange Safety Net
Google has been generating a lot of cloud-based services news lately, but this one really shows some interesting business logic on their end. Google Message Continuity will provide a service that will permit offices to continue working with Microsoft Exchange even when their servers have gone down for the count—either due to an actual hard ...
Facebook, Twitter Kill Accounts Belonging to pro-WikiLeaks Hackers
In the wake of the WikiLeaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables a lot of political fallout has been occurring, and no less in the world of cyberspace. Amid the first to cast out WikiLeaks was the Internet retail giant Amazon.com, who leased them cloud-storage space, then financial institutions such as Visa and Paypal discontinued their ...
Snapstick Brings the Web Video to Your TV with a Flick of the Wrist
The mysterious Snapstick is coming to bring web video from your laptop, iPhone, or other web-enabled device to your television set. I say mysterious, because this startup intends to produce a product that will compete with Apple TV and Google TV and it hasn’t taken a distinct form yet. It’s not a set-top box and ...
Google, Microsoft Executives Scathe Over Mobile Code
Andy Rubin and Joe Belfiore—Google’s Android chief and Microsoft’s VP for the Windows Phone Program respectively—verbally sparred over the state of mobile software at the All Things Digital: Dive Into Mobile Conference. However, after reading the quote-by-blow report from Wall Street Journal it seems that they’re actually talking about slightly different things. While Mr. Rubin ...
Tweets About Places About to Become Searchable
Some months ago, Twitter enabled the ability to pin a place to tweets—in this case the location the user happened to be at—but there were rumors circulating about a capability called “Points of Interest”. Now they’re rolling out an API enhancement that will permit people to search those place tags to reveal tweets sent about ...