Contrary to what some people would call “open source”, Google has announced that they are officially delaying the release of Android 3.0′s (Honeycomb) source code. The reasoning — Android 3.0 was rushed to make the XOOM’s targeted launch date and as such isn’t yet ready for other devices, namely non-tablet devices like smartphones. The ramifications are simple. People who aren’t commercially involved with Google will have to wait...
Back on January 7th, we told you about VLC’s own Rémi Denis-Courmont and his letter to Apple which called out the VLC iOS app and it’s “infringement” of sorts against GNU licenses. Apple complied relatively quickly after the letter was sent. But today, VLC iOS app developer Applidium, responded to questions of 9to5Mac, highlighting their surprise and confusion over Denis-Courmont’s actions and proposed infringements… Specifically:...
In what has to be one of the quickest turn-arounds, Microsoft has gone from basically saying they’d actively seek out and sue individuals who hack the Xbox 360 Kinect gaming accessory, to now claiming that they’re “inspired”. The specific quotes and head scratching good time are after the break… First, we had the “sue ‘em all approach”: MICROSOFT: “Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a company...
It wasn’t long ago that we saw the first images from a freshly cracked and hacked Microsoft Kinect gaining multi-touch support. But now that we’ve had a solid week to let the developer community really explore the Kinect’s open source driver, some really interesting things should start trickling out. Take for example the image above which shows a Macbook Pro, Kinect, and iPad all playing nice together. The onscreen model grows larger or smaller depending...
The fall of the Kinect has to be one of the fastest break-ins in gadget history (excluding pre-release iOS jailbreaks of course). A mere 4 days after Microsoft launched the Kinect, hackers had already cracked it, albiet with rather simple tricks. And now but a few days after that, the Kinect underground scene is already proving to be a quickly evolving network of talent. Hacker Florian Echtler has whipped up some pretty awesome multi-touch demoes that more or less look...
