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Microsoft buys Perceptive Pixel

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Kathleen Maher

The giant touch screen technology popularized by CNN will join the Office division. Microsoft announced it is buying New York ...

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Shaking through the mobile phone shakeout

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Jon Peddie

There is computer industry hype, and then there is mobile phone industry hype. Jon Peddie looks at the coming shakeout ...

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Tablet wars, oh this is going to be good!

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Kathleen Maher

Google introduces the Nexus Tablet and Q and plays yet another variation on the theme of mobile device computing and entertainment.

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Can Microsoft Surface win a me-too tablet war?

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Randall Newton

The new Surface tablet has some unique characteristics. But iPad is a monstrous success because of supply chain genius as ...

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Khronos turns 12 with 15 APIs and counting

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Jon Peddie

The mobile industry has come to rely on Khronos’ APIs as much as the graphics industry. The future is rosy ...

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Kinect hack wizards vie for TechStars fame

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Randall Newton

Eleven start-ups are now using Microsoft office space and a $20,000 grant to take their amazing Kinect-based projects to the ...

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Adobe the toolmaker listens to its customers, kills Flash for Mobile

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Randall Newton

Tools built for old paradigms rarely fit new situations. Mobile app development is still searching for its Pulaski Tool. It ...

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Modding the Xbox Kinect to gather 3D streaming data

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Randall Newton

In less than a year after its release, a flood of researchers and tinkerers are finding ways to re-purpose the ...

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WebGL: kill it before it grows?

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Jon Peddie

The recent suggestion that WebGL 1.0 has security holes launches the wrong set of fears. Jon Peddie takes a closer ...

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Just how many Windows are coming?

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Jon Peddie

Intel is wasting no time in talking about the future of its CPUs and Microsoft Windows. Microsoft wishes Intel would ...