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The awesome Kinect object scanning is missing from all incoming titles, as well as of any hardware controller support.
This might be taking the Facebook madness a little too far, but reports are going around that General Motors’ in-car system system OnStar could be receiving a software update that would allow Facebook integration as early as this month. If this rumor does turn out to be true, the system will offer a speech-to-text function, allowing you to post an update directly to Facebook.
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Clifford Nass is a Stanford professor specializing in computer interaction. In this excerpt from his new book, The Man Who Lied To His Laptop , he talks about how he made Clippy lovable
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Microsoft has tonight officially revealed a new Xbox 360 hardware bundle, almost a month to the day it was inadvertently leaked via some packaging shots . More
Although Microsoft is invested in HTML5 technologies and is building its desktop browsers on HTML5, the company is saying that its multimedia-rch Silverlight plugin can take the web into deeper places than HTML5. Silverlight technology, like Flash, has not received a lot of attention lately with the rising impetus behind HTML5, but for Microsoft, Silverlight still is able to extend the web far beyond what HTML5 is capable of.
It was previously speculated that Amazon could be planning on getting in on the gaming business and now it seems that the company has taken a significant step forward in that direction. Word is out that the online retailing giant has snagged Microsoft’s director of game platform strategy, Andre Vrignaud
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The ingredients that went into Origin’s Big O monster are decidedly prime: six-core Xeon 5680 processor, overclocking up to 4.3GHz, crazy graphics power. And the cherry on top is an integrated, liquid-cooled Xbox 360 slim in every rig. That’s nasty
Bad news for Microsoft Kinect fans who don’t speak English, in a recent interview, Microsoft’s PR and Event Manager has said that the Kinect will not support voice control in all regions when it’s launched this November. Voice control will only be available in the US, UK, Mexico, and Japan.
Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet says that Microsoft could be working on a new Zune HD model, which isn’t really that good timing considering the new iPod touch has just been announced earlier this morning. If it were to debut sometime next year, then we wish Microsoft all the best, and hope that the hardware as well as software support and services available are able to be ahead of what Apple currently offers so that it will not be rendered obsolete when Apple rolls out yet another generation of iDevices. It was speculated that the Zune HD might just be powered by an ARM processor of sorts, featuring several UI changes that will clearly take its cues from the upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system.
Microsoft has let the world know that their exciting, new Windows Phone 7 operating system has finally arrived at the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) stage, with a note stating, “The operating system has been finalized and is being delivered to partners around the world who will continue the work of integrating software with their hardware and networks to create amazing devices for customers by holiday season 2010.” To add further backing to the solidity of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Phone Engineering, Terry Myerson, did mentioned that Windows Phone 7 is “the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes. We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback
