Open Kinect project angers Microsoft

Microsoft has launched its new Wireless Desktop 2000, a keyboard and mouse combo with advanced security features. The combo, which can be purchased from the official Microsoft site, is currently priced at $40 and it is compatible...

Kinect modder Shantanu Goel has managed to run Microsoft's motion sensing gaming peripheral on rival Sony's PlayStation 3 console. Goel has developed a code that allows him to control the PS3 XMB menu using Kinect's motion...

The first hack enabling Sony's PlayStation 3 to be controlled with Microsoft's motion-sensing controller Kinect has appeared in the form of a YouTube video. The five-minuted clip shows a chap by the name of Shantanu Goel...

Sony looks set to unveil plans to bring its PlayStation Move motion controller to PCs at the upcoming Games Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this March.According to information on the GDC website, Sony Computer...

Microsoft could be preparing to launch a software development kit to bring the Kinect motion gaming device to its Windows operating system. According to sources cited by WinRumors, Microsoft is preparing software drivers and...

Limited availability as well as strong customer interest has convinced Carphone Warehouse to postpone the launch of the Google Nexus S, the smartphone manufactured by Samsung, by two days, until Wednesday 22nd. Microsoft is...

Microsoft's Kinect 3D sensing platform, originally designed as an add-on for the company's Xbox 360 games console, is proving popular in hacker circles - and the company behind the device is doing its bit to help.While early...

If the porn industry has been the engine driving the internet revolution, as many claim, then it sounds like the revolution is about to hit your home console. The Kinect hack has put the necessary hardware in the hyperactive...

Microsoft has claimed that its Kinect motion gaming peripheral was left open by design.Previously, the company had released a statement in which it criticised the open source implementation of Kinect and said it was planning to...

With open source Kinect drivers now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the cat is truly out of the bag for Microsoft's 3D-sensing console add-on - and despite earlier threats to the contrary, the company has confirmed it...

Microsoft has reacted angrily to the recent hack of it's Kinect Device for the Xbox 360 that allows users to access it's functions on a PC.  Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware manufacturer originally offered to...

Microsoft's Kinect 3D sensor platform, developed as an add-on to the company's Xbox 360 gaming console, is now an open source device - even if the company doesn't want it to be.The Open Kinect project was launched by hardware...

Is the PC circling the drain? In an interesting think piece, Internet veteran and TNL.net blogger Tristan Louis suggests that within a decade, most people will no longer have a PC and that the PC's demise was already on the...

Microsoft's Kinect motion sensing gaming peripheral may have been already hacked for use with a PC, if a video is to be believed.Adafruit Industries initially offered a $2,000 reward to anyone who successfully hacks a Kinect...

A modder by the name of AlexP claims to have hacked Microsoft's waggly controller, Kinect, and get it to work under Windows.In a post on the NuiGroup forum, Alex said he undertook the project purely as "research", and says he...