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A new interface for XBox 360 game console users allows you to use your voice to navigate through the games, TV shows, movies and music. Steve Ballmer showed off this technology back in September, but starting this Tuesday, this becomes reality. It adds not only remote gesture control, but also remote voice commands. Therefore, if you don't have a Kinect
EA, one of the most popular game makers, has been in the mobile market for some time now. Thanks to a deal with some handset makers, like Motorola, preview editions of their games come pre-installed. That's great but, of course, to get the whole game you have to pay up. Also, in some cases the games are not even an
Wireless expert WDS is reporting that high failure rates in Android handsets are costing mobile network operators as much as $2 billion per year in dealing with repairs and returns. Reviewing the four leading mobile operating systems, its study found that Android-based devices seemed more prone to failure as 14% of technical support calls on Android were for hardware, versus
ZDNet is reporting that Canonical is intending to make the next release of Ubuntu, 12.04, a LTS (Long Term Support) release with intention of then expanding Ubuntu beyond desktops and laptops into smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, with a target of 2014 for an all-platform release. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, in an interview said, "This is a natural expansion of
Recently Microsoft rep Steven Sinofsky has been blogging about the next version of their OS, Windows 8. He has announced and documented extensively the changes and benefits we can expect. He showed off the Explorer ribbon interface and improving file management, to name two things. Yesterday, however, Sinofsky wrote about the future of Windows start-up times. If you are interested
Like a lot of people, I purchased the Lion upgrade on the first day of availability from the Apple App store. I upgraded two late-model Mac Minis along with an older 17” MacBook Pro. The Lion upgrade solved a freezing problem on the Mac Mini I use as an HD-DVR. However, it created a number of serious problems on the
A few days ago we received the sad news that HP was discontinuing webOS devices. The only good news out of that was for gadget lovers - HP has slashed prices on the recently released TouchPad (it's already out-of-stock at Walmart online). The bad news for HP, beyond the bad press and bad stock prices, was that Microsoft leaped on