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Adapter kit allows Kinect for Xbox One sensors to work with Windows 8 Summary:  Microsoft has a $49 adapter kit that will allow Xbox One sensors to work with Windows 8 and 8.1 PCs and tablets. Microsoft is making available a $49 adapter kit that will allow Kinect for Xbox One sensors available for use with Windows 8/8.1 PCs and tablets. Microsoft also is enabling developers to make their Kinect apps available in the Windows Store for the first time, officials said on October 22. The first of those commercially available apps are available today, including Nayi Disha, a series of interactive apps for early childhood education; YAKiT, a 2D/3D character design app; and Microsoft's own 3D Builder, which allows users to scan people or objects and create a 3D print of that model. The new Kinect Adapter for Windows requires a USB 3.0 port and won't work with the Kinect sensor for Xbox 360. It is available for purchase in more than three dozen countries starting...

Best business phones? Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry Summary : There are some outstanding smartphones available for the business user and in this article we identify the best ones running iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. There are a few common features across smartphone operating systems that business users typically look for in a device. These include long battery life, solid hardware design, reliability, fast performance, ample storage capacity, good communications performance, and availability of key applications. Each major smartphone platform offers several good candidates for the business user, but in this list we'll take a closer look at what I think is the top phone from each OS. They are arranged in order of current smartphone market share, not necessarily in order of my own personal preference. Android 4.4: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is starting to ship to consumers in...

The new digital workplace: How enterprises are preparing for the future of work Summary:  As innovation in computing devices, apps, and potent new techniques for applying them proliferate in the consumer world, companies are struggling to close the gap. That the average employee today has better information technology at home than at work has become a standard refrain in discussions of IT modernization. The consumer world of bleeding-edge smart mobile devices, jam-packed app stores, wearables of every description, a constellation of game-changing sharing economy services  ala  Uber and Airbnb -- even the rise of 3D printing -- has decidedly made the typical enterprise look like a rather staid "slow follower" of technology trends. Now, however, a confluence of trends is providing impetus for organizations to become much more digital than they have until recently. One key reason: The growing dominance of millennial workers as a share of the workfo...

Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion in Android patent-licensing royalties in 2013 Summary:  A newly unsealed legal document indicates that Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion in Android patent-licensing royalties in 2013 alone. So we knew Microsoft's Android-patent-licensing business was big. But it's even bigger than many had estimated. Thanks to a filing unsealed on October 3 in the Microsoft vs. Samsung U.S. District Court patent-royalty case filed in early August 2014, we now know that Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion in 2013 for a single year's worth of patent-licensing royalties. Samsung  agreed in 2011 to pay Microsoft a then-undisclosed amount  for licensing patents upon which Android allegedly infringed. That agreement was structured as a cross-licensing and business-collaboration agreement. According to the unsealed filing, Microsoft is contending that "(U)nder the License Agreement, Samsung agreed to make patent royalty payment to M...

Microsoft's Windows 10: More on the 'under the covers' security, Store features Summary:  Microsoft's Windows 10 will include more than just user interface tweaks. Here are some of the expected security, manageability and Store changes coming to the next version of Windows client. Now that the Windows 10 preview bits are available for any interested parties to test, many -- but not all -- of the coming new features in the operating system have come to light. On October 1, Microsoft officials blogged in a fairly vague way about  some of the coming features of potential interest to enterprise users . But these "under the covers" features were not explained or analyzed in detail -- at least up until now. A quick aside, because I've been asked this question a few times: Microsoft made two different preview versions of Windows 10 available for download this week: The Technical Preview and the Technical Preview for Enterprise. The latter i...