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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 …
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 …
Microsoft Pondering Xbox Streaming Internet-TV Service
Both Google and Apple are working out how they might offer TV subscription services via Internet-based systems and set-top boxes. Not to be left out, Microsoft has been poking around the industry, looking at how they might offer something similar through their …
Play World of Warcraft on the iPad With everyAir
MMO zealots can rejoice, it’s possible to play video games from your desktop on your iPad—although you do have to stream them. And there’s even some suggestion of an app being developed for the iPhone to do the same thing (although that’s …
Policy Lags Behind Technology, the Vanguard of Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare. The stuff of spy novels and giddily spiraling cyberpunk stories by the likes of William Gibson—while we don’t have vat grown ninjas yet, we do have the Information Age and the Internet and that means that information is key. As our …
Nokia Appoints Jerri DeVard to Chief Marketing Officer
With Thanksgiving almost upon us, Nokia has a lot to be thankful about—they’ve just announced the appointment of Jerri DeVard to as its new Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President. As a marketing mogul herself, DeVard should bring a lot of …
Xbox 360 Kinect “Hackers” Need Not Fear Prosecution
English can be a very dangerous language to speak in if you happen to be a politician—or a major corporation. Earlier this month, Microsoft came out fulminating against computer programmers, DIYers, and others who wanted to modify and reuse the hardware and …
Cable-TV Time Warner Seeks Respite from Poor Economy
As the economy continues to flounder and the rift between poor and well-off becomes wider, people have begun to cut back on their luxury expenses. One of those expenses happens to be how much they pay for cable-TV and the industry is …
Spotify Shows its Holes – Record Losses in 2009
Does everybody remember Spotify? They’re the first music streaming service to hit the iPhone with free tunes—but now they’re making electronic broadsheet headlines because people have started to obsess over their 2009 earnings. Music Ally has gone over the financials for the …
Hewlett-Packard Anticipates Market Changes
Strange things are brewing in the market today and Hewlett-Packard appears to have a spyglass trained on it. Market sources at Marketing Intelligence Center report that H-P’s stocks have risen fifty-cents today as their battle with Oracle rumbles and taxes in the …