Skype for Windows Phone “coming soon”
Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype promised to be a marriage made in an integration heaven — especially for Windows Phones owners — but so far it’s been all talk and no action.
A Skype for Windows Phone application, however, will soon make its debut, Skype vice president of products Rick Osterloh asserted in a recent interview taped at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.
“We’re … working on a Windows Phone product that will be coming … Continue Reading
Review: Kinect Disneyland Adventures is the most unique and most disappointing Kinect game yet
For the better part of five years, I worked as Disney cast member. I spent day after day learning the biggest secrets of a company that protects fiercely and, as a result, I lost what Disney and its fan know as “the magic.” The extraordinary became mundane, and in a weird way, I began to step away. Who knew it would take a virtual trip back to reignite my love?
In that sense, Kinect Disneyland … Continue Reading
Review: Kinect Sports Season 2 feels like a fumble at the goal line
When it was released alongside the Kinect last November, Kinect Sports was one of those easy purchases for a good majority of the peripheral’s early adopters. It was easy to jump in, fun for the whole family and a good display of what the 3D camera motion-sensing system could do. It was also filled with flaws and glitches that affected the game’s visuals and gameplay. Now, one year later, Rare and Microsoft return with Kinect … Continue Reading
Adapteva unveils a 64-core chip for tablets, smartphones and supercomputers
Adapteva has designed a chip with 64 computing brains for smartphones, tablets and super computers. The chip design company calls the new Epiphany IV microprocessor the “most energy efficient microprocessor” in the world.
The Lexington, Mass.-based company announced that its fourth-generation Epiphany chip will have 64 cores on a single chip. The chip can execute 70 gigaflops of computing performance while consuming a single watt of power. That’s actually a lot of power for a … Continue Reading
Oops: Microsoft accidentally reveals secret social project
Microsoft is working on a social/design project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently.
As of Thursday, Microsoft has taken down the splash page and replaced it with a message acknowledging the project.
“Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn’t mean to, honest,” the message states.
While I … Continue Reading
The best games of E3 2011
We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week.
Some of them were pretty awesome.
The trip gave us faith that the video game industry will continue to thrive and satisfy loyal fans for a long time to come, even as disruptive forces from social and mobile games encroach on the time that gamers have available to play.
There are a lot of big games here that are … Continue Reading
Roundup: Everything that didn't happen at WWDC today
We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week.
Some of them were pretty awesome.
The trip gave us faith that the video game industry will continue to thrive and satisfy loyal fans for a long time to come, even as disruptive forces from social and mobile games encroach on the time that gamers have available to play.
There are a lot of big games here that are … Continue Reading
