Allegations are surfacing that Microsoft the technology behind Kinect from Colombian inventor Carlos Anzola. Anzola is said to have developed a similar technology, which he called the Human interface Electronic Decive (HiE-D), in 2007.

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Microsoft is planning to launch its very own social networking website called SOCL.com. This project is currently called “Tulalip” internally within Microsoft.

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Apple has brought about same changes in the pricing of all applications in its iTunes and the mac app store. Prices are reported to have gone up by as high as 20% for some apps.

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In today’s quarterly earnings call, Google CEO, Larry Page, has revealed for the first time details regarding the user adoption of its new social networking platform Google+.

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According to a survey conducted by Retrevo, a third of the iPhone 4 owners believe that their phone supports 4G wireless technology.

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Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, has been publishing his own estimates about the number of Google+ users on Google+ itself. According to his new estimate there are now more than 10 million users today. This can make Google+ the fastest growing web product.

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Today Google has announced an update to the Android Market which brings about a complete overhaul in the looks. With the update, the Android Market looks much much better – although comparison will be drawn with the Metro UI of Windows Phone 7.

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Chris DiBona, who is the Open Source Manager at Google, has said that Android is the Linux dream come true. He described Android as “the ultimate success story of Linux”.

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A few days back, we reported that Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites. Today James Kim, the General Manager of CO.CC, has taken to the Google Webmaster Forum saying that Google made a mistake because 99.99% of the co.cc websites are clean. He also commented that Google ought to remove Blogspot and Facebook if they want to be fair.

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