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The Commercial Birth of Natural Computing
Imagine talking to your next-gen TV with the same tone and sentence structure you would use with a friend.
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Israel’s eyeSight Raises $4.2 Million in Funding for Gesture Recognition Technology
Israel’s eyeSight Mobile Technologies, whose gesture recognition technology is being used in smartphones, announced Tuesday it has raised $4.2 million in Series B funding from investors including chipmaker CEVA and Japan’s Mitsui & Co. Global Investment.Twitter for the iPad Says Hello!
BoomTown does not plan to get into the endless so-and-so launches an Apple iPad app news cycle, because it is not really news, except to the more breathless fanboy tech bloggers. But Twitter’s intro of one tonight in the App Store is probably more important than most. “Twitter for iPad,” said the company, “makes it even easier for people to explore Tweets and discover new content and accounts on Twitter.” We’ll reserve judgement on that.
Full D8 Demo: Microsoft's Project Natal (Now Called Kinect)
As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Today is our final video post, and the honor goes to Microsoft for its innovative Project Natal, which has recently been renamed Kinect. The new gesture-based controller for the Xbox requires that consumer use hands, arms, legs and even heads to interact with the game, but nothing else.
Liveblogging Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (Afternoon Session): Hey, Steve Ballmer is All In!
BoomTown is in Redmond, Wash. today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeeting, where top execs from the software giant have been taking the stage to talk about All Things Microsoft. I liveblogged this morning’s sessions here, and now the afternoon confab, which opened with CEO Steve Ballmer, who seemed was confidently strutting around after delivering record results last week for the fourth quarter. But can we turn around its lackluster stock?
New iPhone Keeps Apple Top of Class
Walt calls the iPhone 4 a major leap over its already-excellent predecessor, the iPhone 3GS.
Kinect Embodies Gates’s Goal of Peripherals With Vision
Microsoft’s new Kinect motion control system has been squarely targeted at the gaming market, but the company has far greater plans for it: To bring to fruition a vision that Chairman Bill Gates has been talking about since early in the decade–a “disappearing computer” at the heart of the “digital home.”
Full D8 Tech Demo Video: Microsoft's Project Natal
Since Microsoft will be officially unveiling its Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming show next week in Los Angeles, take a preview gander of it in action at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference recently. At E3, the software giant will give the innovative gesture-based controller for the Xbox a spanking new name and will likely announce other related features.
In the Kno: Kakai to Demo Student-Focused Tablet at D8
Recently, BoomTown uncloaked one of Silicon Valley’s hotter “stealth” start-ups, called Kakai, which I said was working on an advanced tablet device and related service aimed at students. Today, Kakai is taking another step out of the shadows by changing its name to Kno, which is short for knowledge. And you can see exactly what the company has come up with at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference, where it will be demoing the Kno for the first time in public.
In the Kno: Kakai to Demo Student-Focused Tablet at D8
Recently, BoomTown uncloaked one of Silicon Valley’s hotter “stealth” start-ups, called Kakai, which I said was working on an advanced tablet device and related service aimed at students. Today, Kakai is taking another step out of the shadows by changing its name to Kno, which is short for knowledge. And you can see exactly what the company has come up with at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference, where it will be demoing the Kno for the first time in public.