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Hacking the Kinect Leads to Very Cool Things
Recently, Microsoft launched the Kinect for Xbox. A stereographic camera set capable of detecting and tracking movement in the room—something to help combat the extreme popularity of the Wii as a motion-sensing controller device. The Kinect has exploded onto the scene with a giant number of titles, but really where it’s shining today is how ...
Google Docs Now Going Mobile
Looks like Google Docs just got better: they’re rolling out a mobile editing platform for people on-the-go. The web platform will enable mobile devices to read and modify Google Docs on the fly. Good for anyone who happens to own a smartphone or tablet who sometimes gets the itch to fix something up and they’re ...
Comcast Defends NBC Universal Merger Against Senatorial Criticism
In a statement Tuesday, Comcast responded to criticism from Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont-I) about their upcoming takeover of NBC Universal. The senator sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to block the merger on the grounds that it would be too close to a monopoly and that this would limit diversity and increase ...
Google Android Rolling Out Near-Field Communications
Yesterday, in some coverage of the Web 2.0 Summit, we spoke about Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned the upcoming Android OS, Gingerbread—one element of this new OS will be an API for a new wireless-wallet concept called Near-Field Communications (NFC). In part, this technology has applications beyond financial transactions, but the driving force behind it ...
Web 2.0 Summit Brings Gingerbread, Patience for Chrome OS, and Adobe
Google must have a lot up their sleeve these days with lots of products—mostly on the software front for Web 2.0—to titillate the audience with. They cover, most importantly, developments in the Google Android operating system and the much awaited Chrome OS. Just in time for Thanksgiving and not missing out on Halloween, the next ...
Palm Pre Developer Starved, Killed by Sprint
Once released by Sprint with much fanfare, the Palm Pre heralded what Palm thought would be their best effort to unseat iPhone as preeminent smartphone—but now it has fallen so far behind that Sprint is axing the line and removing it from their stores. Speculation as to the reason why the device eventually failed surmise ...
AT&T Windows Phone 7 Devices Require Special MicroSD Cards
In a statement Friday, AT&T warned users that the Windows Phone 7 devices are not compatible with ordinary market microSDHC cards. They must instead by specialized Microsoft certified microSDHC cards, otherwise they will cause the devices to run unacceptably slow and build up data corruption. An article from the Inquisitr gives us the scoop, According ...
A Tutorial for Hadoop and Map Reduce in Java
Hadoop has become an extremely big name here at SiliconANGLE, being one of the premiere open source cloud-storage and -computing projects. If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t had a chance to take a test drive with it, there’s a very easy tutorial up by Carlo Scarioni covering Hadoop basics. Hadoop is an open ...
Ubisoft Comes to Market with Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
The first Assassin’s Creed came to the unsuspecting gaming public in 2007 and it hasn’t left the gamer consciousness since. This November, in the wake of the recent release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Ubisoft is going to come to market with the most recent full-game in this series. An interesting move especially because ...
Comcast Xfinity TV App for iPad, Feds to Rule on NBC Acquisition
Looks like Comcast is making a lot of news today with the announced release of their Xfinity TV app for the iPad also the company continues nail-biting as they wait for the FCC and the Justice Department to finish reviewing their purchase of NBC Universal. Finally, the merger and the release of the iPad app, ...