September 8, 2010 8:54 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
Kinect
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Microsoft)
Microsoft plans to offer a Kinect bundle for $400 when its motion-gaming peripheral launches on November 4.
The bundle includes a 250GB
Xbox 360 Slim, the Kinect peripheral, and video game Kinect Adventures. Microsoft plans to release the bundle on November 4, the same day it [...]
September 7, 2010 8:58 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
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Microsoft)
Feeding speculation that Amazon.com is planning a gaming push, the company has snagged Microsoft’s director of game platform strategy.
Andre Vrignaud announced his departure Friday on his personal blog. “Can’t really talk about details at this point, but it’ll become pretty evident soon enough…and [...]
August 25, 2010 10:11 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
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Microsoft)
Microsoft plans to offer gamers the opportunity to play with each other in real time from either a console or a
Windows Phone 7 device, a manager revealed at Microsoft’s X10 conference in Toronto this week.
“We are working on real-time phone-to-console, likely initially through Wi-Fi,” [...]
August 24, 2010 9:23 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
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Bungie Studios)
Those who have downloaded the recently leaked Halo: Reach and plan to play it on
Xbox Live should beware: Microsoft will act swiftly to remove you from the online gaming service.
According to Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s director of Policy Enforcement for Xbox Live, Microsoft will [...]
August 5, 2010 12:45 PM PDT
by Don Reisinger
The National Football League’s desire to bring technology to the game may be exciting to techie sports fans, but a recent report claiming that the league wants to put microchips into its footballs to increase referee accuracy could cause significant debate between the purists [...]
August 2, 2010 4:26 PM PDT
by Don Reisinger
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Electronic Arts)
A former football player is suing Electronic Arts on behalf of about 6,000 retired National Football League players who claim their likenesses were included in Madden NFL 09, but they weren’t paid for it.
The complaint (PDF), filed in U.S. District Court [...]
July 23, 2010 2:37 PM PDT
by Don Reisinger
Internet Explorer's SmartScreen Filter
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Microsoft)
Internet Explorer 8, with the help of its SmartScreen Filter, has “blocked 1 billion attempts to download malware,” Microsoft product manager James Pratt said in a blog post Friday.
The SmartScreen Filter evaluates URLs and their associated servers. If the software recognizes [...]
July 16, 2010 1:38 PM PDT
by Don Reisinger
Kinect is coming to Macy's.
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Microsoft)
If you just can’t wait to see how Microsoft Kinect works, be sure to run down to select Macy’s stores nationwide over the next few months to try it out.
According to the retail company, it will be giving customers the [...]
July 14, 2010 6:31 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
A 12th alleged Russian spy recently identified by the U.S. government has a tech connection: he worked for Microsoft.
Alexey Karetnikov has been deported to Russia because federal investigators believe he was “in the early stages” of alleged espionage, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The [...]
July 13, 2010 9:51 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
Can Kinect generate billions?
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Microsoft)
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-gaming device could generate $1 billion for the company in just its first year, an analyst said in a research note.
Sandeep Aggarwal of Caris & Co. wrote Monday that Kinect could help the industrywide gaming market generate $2 [...]