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Gestures Are Coming To Business Apps

| Larry Seltzer | February 07, 2012 12:01 AM

Kinect is famous as the Xbox feature that lets you dance and gesticulate at the device in order to play a game. But Microsoft has been showing business applications of the technology for a while now.

The vision may seem a little wacky and futuristic, but 10 years ago touchscreen tablets probably did too. The possibilities are fascinating.

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Category: Peripherals
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Halliburton Adopts iPhone, Casts BlackBerry Aside

| Jacob Lopez, BYTE | February 07, 2012 12:22 PM
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A big and important, long-time customer abandons RIM's BlackBerry in order to standardize on iPhones for employees. Read More >>

Category: Smartphones
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Kinect For Windows: Beyond Games And Gorilla Arms

| Todd Ogasawara, BYTE | February 07, 2012 12:01 AM
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Interact with your PC as you do your XBox. Check out Kinect for Windows PC in this informative introduction to this game changing technology. Read More >>

Category: Peripherals
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iPad Gets Better Access To Enterprise Documents

| Larry Seltzer, BYTE | February 07, 2012 12:01 AM
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ionGrid's Nexus is a client-and-server product for distributing enterprise documents to the iPad--with high security, performance, and document... Read More >>

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Windows Phone 8 Bodes Well For Customers

| Dino Londis, BYTE | February 06, 2012 01:31 PM
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The next version of Windows Phone will be based on the same kernel as Windows 8. This is good news for everyone. Read More >>

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iPad, Take A Note: PaperPort Notes Adds Speech Recognition

| Todd Ogasawara, BYTE | February 06, 2012 01:00 AM
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Unlike other note-taking apps for iOS, PaperPort Notes allows dictation and some commands by voice. Read More >>

Category: Tablets
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Google's Bouncer Ejects Malware From Android Market

| David Chernicoff, BYTE | February 03, 2012 06:27 PM
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Meet Bouncer, a technology Google has been using to continuously scan and test apps in the Android Market for malicious behavior. Read More >>

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KDE Plans Open Source Linux 'Spark' Tablet

| Serdar Yegulalp, BYTE | February 03, 2012 04:11 PM
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Unlike the Kindle Fire and iPad, this hacker-oriented device was built to be customized by the end user. Read More >>

Category: Tablets
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It's Browser Version Madness!

| Larry Seltzer, BYTE | February 03, 2012 11:56 AM
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Major versions of a major program used to be a major event. Thanks to Google and Mozilla they are downright commonplace, but still as disruptive... Read More >>

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ZipKord: A Better Car Charger

| Larry Seltzer, BYTE | February 02, 2012 12:22 PM
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It's a mundane product category, but car chargers can be important and some are better than others. Read More >>

Reviews

Cool, Ad-Hoc Photo Postcards From Your Smart Phone

| Larry Seltzer, BYTE | February 02, 2012 11:49 AM
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Want to send a great, cheap valentine? Take an appropriate photo with your phone, write a note, and send it as a fragrant postcard. Read More >>

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How To Do Cloud Apps With Microsoft

| Todd Ogasawara, BYTE | February 01, 2012 06:00 PM
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Microsoft's Office cloud apps and storage are one of the Web's best-kept secrets. Why settle for Google Docs? Read More >>

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"Liars and Outliers" by Bruce Schneier

| Matt Sarrel, BYTE | February 01, 2012 11:52 AM
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Society runs on trust and would collapse without it. The interconnectedness of the modern world creates new and dangerous risks to trust. Read More >>

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Microsoft, Please Don't 'Touch' Office 15

| Serdar Yegulalp, BYTE | January 31, 2012 03:00 PM
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Will Microsoft's attempt to revamp Office with a touch interface leave behind its core users? Read More >>

Category: Tablets
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E-publishing Part 2: Kindle Nation

| F. Paul Wilson, BYTE | January 31, 2012 02:55 PM
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Readers like their Kindles, but authors love them. E-publishing gave new life to Wilson's old books and it's easy money. Read More >>

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New Industry Alliance Targets Phishing And Spam

| Larry Seltzer, BYTE | January 31, 2012 01:23 PM
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DMARC can help fight bogus emails--but only if everyone agrees to use its DKIM and SPF authentication rules. Read More >>

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