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Microsoft Says Yes To Kinect Hacking


Microsoft Says Yes To Kinect Hacking

With new cool hacks for Kinect coming up every other day, Microsoft has taken an u-turn from their earlier decision. Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they condone it. Update: Two more amazing kinect hacks

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By Ricky
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IE9 Preview 7 Now Available For Download: Real World Site Performance


To make user experience better, the IE team has been tuning the JavaScript engine for real world sites over the last few weeks. Based on this, an updated platform preview build (Version 7) for IE9 has been released for you to try.

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By Debjit

Did Internet Explorer 9 Cheat In The SunSpider Benchmark?


Did Internet Explorer 9 Cheat In The SunSpider Benchmark?

A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers.

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By Ricky

$2000 Bounty For Open Source Drivers For Kinect


$2000 Bounty For Open Source Drivers For Kinect

Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware developer, has announced an X prize style $2000 bounty to the whoever can first develop open source drivers for Kinetic.

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By Ricky
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Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Is As Good As Symantec’s Norton: Says Study


Almost a year ago when Microsoft was busy developing it’s free to use anti-virus – “Morro” there was a lot of speculation about it in the tech industry. Someone from Norton even said that Microsoft is two to four years behind Symantec in the Anti-virus products. Now after one year, tests have proved that Microsoft is finally catching up with the Anti-virus industry leader – Symantec.

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By Debjit

Microsoft Starts A FUD Campaign Against OpenOffice.org


It seems like OpenOffice.org is really giving Microsoft nightmares, so much so that that they have put up a video in YouTube doing what they do best – spread FUD against OpenOffice.org (and open-source in general). Unlike Microsoft’s Office Suite, which can cost even above $400, OpenOffice.org is completely free to download and use.

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By Ricky

Windows Phone 7 To Have 1000+ Apps For The European Launch


Windows Phone 7 To Have 1000+ Apps For The European Launch

Microsoft has plans of adding over as much as 1000 applications to the marketplace before the Windows Phone 7 Europe Launch which is expected to take place on October 21. Microsoft is urging the developers to submit their apps early to the new App Hub.

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By Debjit

SyncFriend – Free Plugin To Backup & Synchronize Your Microsoft Outlook Contacts Online


SyncFriend – Free Plugin To Backup & Synchronize Your Microsoft Outlook Contacts Online

In this article we will tell you about SyncFriend – a free plugin that synchronizes your Outlook contacts automatically with your SyncFriend account and also indirectly with your phone.

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By Debjit

Hotmail Gets Hotter With 5: Facebook, Videos, Parcel, Photos & Folders!


Hotmail Gets Hotter With 5: Facebook, Videos, Parcel, Photos & Folders!

Windows Live Hotmail is definitely getting hotter day by day. Just a couple of months back Microsoft rejuvenated it with a new UI and features. Hotmail has now introduced 5 more features to make your e-mail experience even better!

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By Debjit

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