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Playing to the Crowd: Gamecasting Goes Mainstream

Eric Johnson in Media on April 9 at 1:46 pm PT

Video games have always been social, but now they’re getting hooked up to the social Web.

Aviary Brings Photo-Editing Tools to Windows 8 Developers

Mike Isaac in Mobile on March 18 at 5:00 am PT

Good news for Windows software enthusiasts could spell good news for Microsoft, too.

Automakers Open Their In-Car Platforms: First Up, Ford, and Soon, GM

Liz Gannes in News on January 7 at 2:00 pm PT

It’s not just Pandora in your car anymore.

Kamcord Gets Backing From Top Investors to Record Mobile Game Play

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 19, 2012 at 4:30 am PT

Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Tencent are just three of the investors backing a small San Francisco start-up called Kamcord.

Voices

All I Want for Christmas Is My Apple TV

Jeremy Allaire, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Brightcove in Voices on December 17, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

It’s all about the apps.

Going the Extra Mile Now that Google Maps Have Returned to iOS

Tricia Duryee in Mobile on December 16, 2012 at 4:24 pm PT

Some complaints about Google’s new iOS Maps app are simply out of its control.

News Byte

RIM’s BlackBerry 10 SDK Goes Gold

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 11, 2012 at 9:24 am PT

Research In Motion has passed another important milestone on the way to debuting BlackBerry 10. On Tuesday morning, the company released the gold version of the developer toolkit for its next-generation mobile platform. This final build includes all the tools and components devs need to prep their apps for BlackBerry 10’s scheduled release early next year.

Is Dropbox Pulling a Honey Badger on the App Store?

Mike Isaac in Mobile on May 2, 2012 at 3:26 pm PT

Apple catches Dropbox’s hand in the App Store cookie jar, smacks them down.

Kinect Not Just for Gamers — Microsoft Wants Geeks to Play With It, Too

Ina Fried in News on June 16, 2011 at 10:38 am PT

The Kinect may have been designed as an easy and fun way to control the Xbox, but from the moment it was introduced, hackers have found other uses. Microsoft decided to embrace the interest and on Thursday released a set of software tools that will let developers come up with all manner of other uses for the motion-sensing camera.

Microsoft Has Big Plans for Kinect's Future

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 22, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Though the Kinect is best known as an accessory for gaming on the XBox 360, showed how its own researchers–and others–are using the Kinect for things other than games.