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Want 3D Processing? Oliver Kreylos Shows Two Kinects are Better than One
When last we checked in on Oliver Kreylos he was hacking a single Xbox 360 Kinect device to produce fairly cool 3D streaming visuals. Now, he’s gone a step further and tied the feeds of two Kinect cameras together to give his creation stereoscopic vision. This is the same way how humans perceive depth, with ...
Groupon Buys Ludic Labs, Ponders $6 billion Google Bid
Groupon’s board of directors is meeting today to mull over a $6 billion buyout bid from Google for their crowd sourced coupon service. While waiting, Groupon has decided to make an acquisition of their own; paidContent.org has some coverage of what’s going on, but entire situation is still spotty. They have snapped up Ludic Labs, ...
FCC Votes to Break Open Under-Utilized Television Spectrum for Internet, Mobile
In a 5-0 vote yesterday the Federal Communications Commission made notice of a proposed policy that will lead the way to opening up the broadcast TV spectrum. With the advent of digital TV, much of what analog television broadcasts took up in spectrum is now easier to reach. This decision comes in a long chain ...
FCC Pushes for Information on Comcast-Level 3 Dispute
Cable giant Comcast has locked horns with fiber-based communication services Level 3 Communications over streaming movies over its networks. While Level 3 hasn’t filed a formal complaint with the FCC, enough has happened in the dispute to catch their attention so the administration is looking into the matter. The initial foray will be to uncover ...
Yammer Raises $25 million More from Investors
According to Peter Kafka at All Things D, Yammer—the Twitter for work—is looking at a rising sun this investment cycle, Chatting at work is serious business for Yammer. The two-year-old start-up has raised a $25 million funding round led by U.S. Venture Partners, complementing the $15 million it has already raised to date. Yammer offers ...
Mobclix Visualizes the Android Marketplace
Mobclix has just released their index and an infographic to go along with it. After an extensive survey of Android owners (1,025) across the Mobclix Exchange in October, they’ve come up with these stats for us to enjoy, Key Findings 60% of Android users are under the age of 34 8% of Android users switched ...
EU Launches (Another) Antitrust Probe into Google
The word juggernaut still does an excellent job of encompassing Google’s capability in the information and search markets. They have been a powerful force in the Internet industry and for all appearances will continue to be into the future. As a result, every year someone somewhere takes umbrage at their size and momentum and an ...
Is Facebook About to Integrate With Skype?
An app developer has discovered some API hooks in the Facebook code that would allow for Skype integration. Since this has been spoken about before—i.e., Facebook looking into video teleconference back in 2009—it seems a likely team up. The Next Web is running a story about the discovery and the developer who pointed it out, ...
MIT Hacks Kinect for Gesture-based Browser Navigation Chrome Extension
The Xbox Kinect camera-interface has been the center of a lot of amusing controversy lately and it’s also been the center of a groundswell of amazing innovations. The newest invention to leap out of this little-developed device produced by Microsoft has been a gesture-based navigation extension for the open source Chrome browser. ReadWriteWeb brings us ...
Rumors of Google Acquisition of Groupon Suggest 2.5 Billion Dollar Deal
We have known for a few weeks now that Groupon and Google have been in talks, but not exactly what they’ve been talking about. Now rumors are surfacing of a possible acquisition of Groupon by Google for quite a hefty sum. The critical-mass coupon service which takes advantage of crowd interest to allow businesses to ...