Loading ...Hey, look at this: Kinect on a laptop. OK, so there we go. According to The Daily, companies are well on their way to making laptops–or, at least, laptop prototypes–running Windows 8 and equipped with Kinect motion camera hardware instead of standard webcams. The Daily got to see some of this technology first hand on [...]
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The Apple iPhone 4S’ super-tough A5 processor has had hard-working hackers stumped. After 10 months of efforts, however, they’ve released a free jailbreaking download. The Chronic Dev Team, a group of iOS hackers, has unveiled its GreenPois0n toolkit, a free download enabling Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners to jailbreak their devices. The download [...]
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Netbook sales have been declining, with major vendors deciding to leave the netbook market entirely. That hasn’t stopped Intel from launching a new family of processors designed for small and cheap laptops. The new chips are the Atom N2600 and N2800, based on the Intel’s third-generation Atom architecture, codenamed Cedarview. The Cedar Trail-M platform pairs [...]
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Windows-based tablets haven’t been treated kindly by the test of time. Those released in the Windows XP era relied on wonky, stylus-based data entry, and even modern, touch-based tablets running Windows 7 are poor performers. Indeed, Microsoft has a troubled tablet history that the public isn’t soon to forget. This November, Forrester released a study [...]
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For the past few days, I’ve been trying out Amazon’s Kindle Fire and I’ve generally enjoyed the experience. It’s not an iPad, but on its own terms, it provides great access to books, movies, music, and more at a very reasonable price. Amazon is clearly making this a platform for buying and consuming content it [...]
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The iPod once acounted for as much as 60 percent of Apple’s revenues. Rumors have it that Apple’s iPod powerhouse money making device which previously accounted for as much as 60 percent of Apple’s revenue now only makes up 6 percent of their revenue. Does this mean that Apple is planning to kill off the [...]
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It has been a long time coming, but Microsoft has decided to stop creating new iterations of its Zune media player due to sub-par sales, according to an inside source. Instead, the company will shift its focus towards other devices. The last model of the series that Microsoft released was the Zune HD in 2009, [...]
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When Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, heard about the capabilities of Microsoft’s new Kinect gaming device, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. “I dropped everything, rode my bike to the closest game store and bought one,” he said. But he had no interest in playing video games with the Kinect, which is [...]
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Apple was recently granted a patent that shows an interesting new application that looks eerily similar to the iPhone’s SMS feature. There are some big differences that set it apart, though. It includes new methods for interacting with ongoing conversations, including a word predictor. This could be the eagerly-hoped-for native instant messenger app. Apple first [...]
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