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  • Microsoft: App Store Not an Apple Term

    Microsoft: App Store Not an Apple Term

    Microsoft has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to deny a trademark request by Apple, Inc. on the name “App Store.” The Redmond software giant called the term “generic” and thinks “competitors should be able to use it.” The trademark application for “App Store” is currently listed as pending the USPTO’s system; the…

  • Microsoft Surface 2.0

    Microsoft Surface 2.0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_53dvndkcrYVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Microsoft Surface 2 by Samsung (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_53dvndkcrY) Microsoft offered a brief glimpse of its revised Surface earlier this week at the Ballmer keynote. The  Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface has that “2.0 experience” firmware. The screen is gorgeous. I see a future with one in every house much like TV…

  • Hacked Kinect Gets Sign Language Recognition

    Hacked Kinect Gets Sign Language Recognition

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFH5rSzmgFEVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: American Sign Language Recognition using Kinect Skeleton features (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFH5rSzmgFE) You can now use Kinect to help people learn American Sign Language. Researchers at Georgia Tech College of Computing are working on, pairing Microsoft’s oft-hacked motion sensing camera with custom software that before required special colored gloves with wrist-mounted, 3-axis…