Microsoft made available yesterday the Kinect for Windows SDK which will allow .Net developers to write Kinecting apps in C++, C#, or VB. The Kinect for Windows SDK beta includes drivers, rich APIs, installation documents, and resource materials.

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Sony silently hits the music streaming market with the release of an Android app for Music Unlimited online streaming service. The app is availavle for a free trial as well as paid versions.

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Google’s Instant Pages helps to accelerate the search results. It predictively preloads pages before users click on result links. So after inputting the search query, the search result pages will open up faster that before.

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Google Voice Search is also exactly what it sounds like – you can speak your search queries instead of typing them. This feature has been available on Android phones and now Google is bringing it to the desktop as well.

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At the Inside Search event being held at San Francisco, Google has announced a new addition to its search features – Search by Image. The Search by Image feature is something like Google’s image search application for mobile devices – Google Goggles.

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After almost two years of litigation of Nokia and Apple suing and counter suing each other, the patent war between the two companies has come to an end. Nokia and Apple have arrived at a settlement and both of them have agreed to withdraw all their patent lawsuits against each other.

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Apple announced the next version of OS X – Lion – at WWDC last week. Even before the announcement, many of the features of Lion were known or expected. With the final version all set to be available to customers in July, Apple has given developers access to OS X Lion. Restart to Safari It…

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Looks like the Social Networking giant – Facebook.com has started rolling out another new feature where in links to Fan pages and Ads related to the content you share on Facebook are shown in the sidebar.

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Microsoft has released a free tool called Android to Windows Phone API mapping tool that will help Android developers to easily get familiar with WP7 and port their Android apps to the WP7 platform.

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