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Not just popular for the homebrew front, Kinect has hit the heart of gamer households to the tune of 2.5 million units sold since its release only 27 days ago. It’s already seen its share of controversial press, some homebrew hacking to …
Verizon Launching “4G” Network December 7th
We’ve been hearing about this for a while now, but no solid dates have fallen out of Verizon’s plans to roll out their Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology infrastructure and put their customers on 4G. Well, here it is: it’s coming December 7th, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …