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Over 8 Million Kinect Units Sold Since Release, or Shipped?
The Microsoft Kinect has been explosively popular, certainly to the tune of 2.5 million sold outright in the first month of its debut, and that was before the shopping holidays rolled around. I am emphasizing the word “sold” for a reason here, and that’s because last night Ballmer provided some figures on Kinect sales that ...
Citrix: 2010 in Review
It’s been an entire year of Citrix developments and the writers over at their blog want to celebrate the new year by rolling over their achievements. It’s been a huge year for them, with the revolution in virtualization and cloud-storage and computing. Companies everywhere have been moving their systems off traditional systems and putting them ...
Becoming the Controller, Understanding How Kinect Understands You
Right before New Years, I stumbled on a post on the Xbox blog about the Kinect and how it does what it does. The brilliant magic camera that sits atop the television and changes me into the controller—it’s almost like the Eye of Sauron. Now, the actual inner workings on the Kinect aren’t that mystical, ...
MIPS Reveals New Chip at CES with Android Expectations
Perhaps people have been noticing that a lot more commercials are arriving to tout Internet TV set-top boxes, driving video through handheld devices, and other amazing innovations. As the war for eyeballs and dollars heats up, the technology that underlies also needs to gear up to prove itself. MIPS Technologies, a chip design firm, produces ...
The Ascension of the Smartphone as Digital Wallet, Powered by Google
As with all good science fiction we have a glimpse into what we might develop in the future, or at least get the scrim of an outline of how we could interact using technology. When Google Android began to implement hardware that uses Near-Field Communications enabling a lot of transactions between smartphones and other devices ...
Sprint Building 4G Device Announcements in Preparation for CES
It looks like Sprint has been champing at the bit for quite a while now to tout how badly it wants to jump into the 4G scene with their slowly blooming LTE networks. Among the scattering of announcements we’ve seen an HTC smartphone. All Things D has a short article on the details of Sprint’s ...
Korean Firm Enspert, Looking to Rival Samsung Galaxy Tab in Power, Cost
The Korean technology firm, Enspert, has taken aim at the Samsung Galaxy Tab and media smartphones by producing a more powerful product, which will be delivered to the public a little bit cheaper. They have also announced the release of a home-media phone that will connect with the tablet that will allow users to control ...
Play World of Warcraft with Kinect and FAAST
Researchers at the Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California have decided that they’d like to meld work and play by hacking the Kinect system alongside their developing software in order to play World of Warcraft. They’ve put together a video where the presenters, Evan A. Suma, Belinda Lange, Skip Rizzo, David Krum, ...
Tablet Takeover: CES 2011 Rumors
With tablets being introduced as the expected bridge between palm-sized smartphones and clunky laptops they have exploded in popularity and afforded themselves a niche that puts powerful computing and communication within mobile reach. With CES 2011 right around the corner the predictions are already stacking like cordwood and we have been picking through them for ...
Nintendo Warns about 3D Game Playing and Young Children
Young children, those under the age of six, may suffer developmental issues with their eyes if they play too many 3D games, warns Nintendo Co. in a recent statement. This caution comes along with the development of their Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the disclaimer, "For children ...
