It’s almost three and a half years late, but today is November 8th, and that means that today’s the first day that Americans will be able to see for themselves what lessons Microsoft has learned from the iPhone’s success and incorporated in their brand new smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7. Although Windows Phone 7 has been out in Europe for a few weeks now, today is the official launch day of the operating system in...

Adafruit’s $2,000 bounty for an open source Kinect driver hack was only offered up late last week and already someone has allegedly delivered, said Adafruit’s Phillip Torrone in an email to us just now. This was inevitable. Microsoft, for its part, offered up the standard boilerplate last week in an email to CNET: “Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a company spokesperson told CNET....

Perhaps you are familiar with the law of computer software bloat, which states that, no matter how fast your computer is, software will always make it run slower than its maximum...

Apple is discontinuing their Xserve line of server computers—they’ll stop selling them on Jan. 31. Folks looking for an Apple server have two options: a Mac Pro or Mac mini configured as servers with OS X Snow Leopard Server. Given that the mini is their “most popular server platform by far,” it’s not too...

Touch screens are allowing us to break free from mouses and cursors and interact with the things we see on our displays more directly. But maybe the mouse just needed an overhaul—here’s how a spherical one could work. This is Axsotic’s 3D-Spheric-Mouse, designed to be used in conjunction with another input device to manipulate three-dimensional objects. 3D modeling is one obvious application for the thing, but as our pals at...