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Here’s How Microsoft Is Adding Voice Control and Gestures to the Xbox (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 4, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Michael Suraci, Xbox’s director of marketing, demonstrates the new features, which will roll out in a massive free software update, available Tuesday.

Hot for “Bad Teacher”: Sony Spikes Sales With Early Offers on iTunes, Amazon

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

You want to rent, but Hollywood wants you to buy. And a Sony experiment sounds promising for the studios.

A Mac on Windows?

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on September 7, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on whether a Mac operating system can run on a Windows PC, and more.

Ways to Make Web Watching More Like TV, Less Like a PC

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm PT

Walt reviews three set-top boxes that make it easy to bring Internet content to your TV, minus the wires, mice and keyboards.

How Media Companies Play With Steve Jobs’s New Rules: Give In, Go Around or Compromise

Peter Kafka in Media on August 10, 2011 at 11:57 am PT

How Apple’s subscriptions terms are forcing everyone from Amazon to The Wall Street Journal to make touch choices.

WSJ.Com's "Digits": Is Wal-Mart's Future Bright With Kosmix?

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

Yesterday, from the back of the official All Things Digital minivan, BoomTown donned the official ATD Ray-Ban Aviators to talk on WSJ.com’s “Digits” online news show about the $300 million acquisition of Kosmix by Wal-Mart announced earlier this week. Can the retail giant, which has tried a number of digital moves in years past (to negligible impact), get social and mobile this time?

Retailers' Video, Music Services Spin Wheels

Miguel Bustillo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 28, 2011 at 3:40 pm PT

Big retail chains keep trying to sell or rent music and movies online as sales of CDs and DVDs decline, but these ventures have done little to dent the market share of industry leaders Netflix Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.

Sam's Club to Use Wi-Fi to Push TVs

Ann Zimmerman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 10, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

This holiday season, Sam’s Club is making a big bet on Internet-connected television sets—and hopes that providing free Wi-Fi in its stores will help draw customers to the new technology. The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. membership warehouse chain’s more than 500 clubs will be outfitted with Wi-Fi by November.

Google TV Matters More Than You Think, Forrester Contends

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on June 10, 2010 at 1:19 pm PT

Google TV could change the way people watch television. Really. Forrester analyst James McQuivey asserts in a blog post today that Google TV has a chance to succeed at redefining the consumer television experience in a way in which Apple TV, Roku, Vudu, Boxee and various other combatants have not been able to do.

Weekend Update 02.27.10–”Get to High Ground” Edition

Drake Martinet in News on February 27, 2010 at 2:14 pm PT

If you’re reading this, it’s likely you have come down from your tsunami perch. Grab some soup, put the furniture back on the floor and pull up a chair to catch up with your tech news this week. Better get it in before the aftershocks.