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Official Kinect Drivers & SDK Coming Soon From Microsoft [Rumors]


We have now been hearing about rumors that Microsoft is possibly developing drivers and a software development kit in order to allow developers to build applications leveraging the power of the Kinect. This would essentially lead to the creation of software that would let users hook a kinect onto a Windows PC and start gaming right away.

 Microsoft   News  

By Debjit
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5 New Features Coming Soon To Google Tasks


5 New Features Coming Soon To Google Tasks

If you are one of those heavy users of the Google Tasks (that appears inside GMail), then there is some good news for you. The GMail team is soon going to incorporate 5 new useful features into the Google Tasks service. We feel that the features will be actually good as these are among the ones suggested by users themselves to Google!

 Digitizor   Google   News  

By Debjit

Google Apps Bug Lets You Make Free Voice Calls To the US [UPDATED]


While Google is busy squashing bugs on Chrome, they have also introduced some in Google Apps! Recently there has been a lot of updates by Google Apps team. In the most recent update on Google Apps, they have integrated nearly all the Google services with Google Apps.

However, this one is about a bug in the Google Apps services that actually lets you make free voice calls to the US from some other country. (India in our case)

 Google   News  

By Debjit

Google Translate For Android Does Real Time Speech Translation Now


Google has pushed an update for the Google Translate app for Android in the market. The app has a UI overhaul to make it cleaner and easier to use. However, the main talking point of the update is the new feature – Conversation Mode. Conversation Mode is currently in the alpha stage. What it does…

 Android   Google   News  

By Ricky
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Youtube In 2010: 3X Rise In Mobile Traffic; 200M Daily Video Views!


Youtube In 2010: 3X Rise In Mobile Traffic; 200M Daily Video Views!

Youtube has released some pretty interesting stats about the traffic the website received from mobile devices. The video social network clocked up to 200 million daily video views from mobile devices, taking the overall traffic to as high as three times just from mobile viewers. Also, users can now see official music videos of various artistes directly on Youtube.

 Google   links  

By Debjit

5 Tips For Using Google URL Shortener, goo.gl, More Effectively


Google’s URL shortener is not new. It was launched in late 2009 and now it has become one of the best URL shortening service, rivaling Bit.ly. It is also one of the fastest URL shortening service. In this post we will tell you five tips, so that you can use the goo.gl service more effectively. 1. Web…

 General   Google  

By Ricky

Google Drops H.264 Codec Support In Chrome To Focus On Open Codecs


The video codec H.264 is in the news again. Earlier when HTML5 video was the new rage, Firefox and Opera decided to not to support H.264 because of it is a proprietary codec. Instead they decided to support the open Ogg Theora. Safari and Chrome choosed to support H.264 because Theora’s performance was deemed unsatisfactory. Chrome supported…

 Google   News  

By Ricky

Google Updates Goggles – Solves Sudoku Now!


Google updates Goggles - Now solves Sudoku

Google has released an update to its image recognition app – Google Goggles. The new update (version 1.3) brings a lot of improvements and a really cool feature – the app can now solve the popular number based puzzle Sudoku.

 Android   Google   News  

By Ricky

Microsoft Explains The New Years Day Hotmail Outage


Microsoft Explains The New Years Day Hotmail Outage

To test the health of the email service, Microsoft creates different user accounts with different configurations and uses scripts to simulate a normal user behavior and to report problems. After the test, the accounts are again deleted – this was where the problem arised

 General   Microsoft  

By Ricky

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