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Hackers toy with Microsoft Kinect

Hackers toy with Microsoft Kinect

...leg. But beyond its function as a controller for the Xbox 360 games console, technology enthusiasts have been putting the Microsoft peripheral to some futuristic... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

The Games Console of the Future

Hi Since rumours that the Xbox 720 is projected for 2012/13* (My guess is Christmas 2012), I wish to point out a flaw... Read more

25 June, 2011

BBC brings Kinect-controlled iPlayer to Xbox 360

The BBC iPlayer service is now available on the Xbox 360 games console, bringing with it the option of voice or gesture control. The... Read more

20 March, 2012

Microsoft starts pitching Kinect for business use

...consumer hit with its Kinect add-on controller for the Xbox 360 games console, and it was rapidly adopted by hobbyists, academics and researchers working... Read more

31 October, 2011

Motorola files suit over Microsoft Xbox patents

...International Trade Commission over Microsoft's use of patents in the Xbox games console Read more

23 November, 2010 by Josh Lowensohn
Toshiba Portégé R830-138

Toshiba Portégé R830-138

Toshiba has updated the Portégé R700 with new components but retained the old chassis design. We'd prefer a more solid lid section, but the R830 is an impressively portable notebook. Battery life is good, but the cost remains high. Read more

29 June, 2011 by Sandra Vogel
Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

...the 65C816 — that did well at the heart of Nintendo's SNES games console, and once again there are embedded variants that continue to sell... Read more

4 December, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

PC not dead: Microsoft's results better than expected

...210 million profit last year. Microsoft blamed this reversal on a weak games console market, though the division also includes mobile phones. Online services, which... Read more

19 April, 2012

Remembering Jack Tramiel, father of the Commodore 64

Jack Tramiel, who has died aged 83, was a remarkable man, especially in the context of the computer industry. Those of... Read more

12 April, 2012

The Weekly Round-Up: Daredevils with mobile phones, and naughty techies

...busy modern lives, at once our diary, photo album, contacts book, TV, games console, social media hub and occasionally telephone. According to the survey, one... Read more

11 November, 2011 by The Round-Up

Xbox will get Metro as Microsoft integrates platforms

...from Windows Phones and the forthcoming Windows 8 -- to its Xbox 360 games console. Metro's key feature is that it replaces dumb icons with... Read more

9 November, 2011

Amazon due to change the tablet world on Wednesday

...even at a loss. This is the most common approach in video games console market, where new titles are relatively expensive. However, it is the... Read more

26 September, 2011

Smartphones and tablets replacing single-task devices

...FM radio, tape recorder, personal organiser (PDA), personal navigation device (PND), handheld games console, and maybe other things as well. (I'm sure I'm... Read more

29 July, 2011

Servers and Office drive Microsoft to $70bn revenue

...growth was down to healthy sales of Xbox 360 — the top-selling games console in the US over the past year — as well as the... Read more

22 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Staying Safe when you Open the Door to the Cloud

...a security breach. If you’ve ever bought anything online, played a games console, or used an online bank, your data is under attack. Several... Read more

20 July, 2011

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
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