From PC World: For PC users more interested in the practical side of Microsoft's Kinect, a Windows version is now available for $250.

Microsoft is also launching the Kinect for Windows commercial software development kit today. An SDK was previously available for academics and...

From CNET News.com: The decade-old OS has slowly been losing more users to Windows 7, but January marked a small resurgence in its grip on the market, according to stats out today from NetApplications.

For the month, Windows XP grabbed 47.19 percent of all OS users, inching up from...

From DailyTech: Nikon has tossed a load of new cameras on the market today. The first of the new cameras is the L810 that sports a 16.1-megapixel CCD image sensor and has a massive 26x optical zoom lens. That gives the camera and broad range of 22.5 to 585 mm giving the camera a wide...

From DailyTech: Amazon released its fourth-quarter earnings from 2011 today, showing off its massive holiday success with e-readers and its Kindle Fire tablet, yet still missing previous estimates.

Amazon reported a 35 percent increase in net sales from $12.95 billion in Q4 2010 to...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to further improve its competitive positions on the market of high-end graphics cards, Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday began selling a cut-down version of its high-end code-named Tahiti graphics chip. The new Radeon HD 7950 promises slightly better...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate on Tuesday reported financial results for the quarter ended December 30, 2011. Shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) dropped only 3.1% in terms of units, but at the same time the Seagate's earnings increased by 18.5%, whereas the company's profitability rose...

From PC World: IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

Worklight, which is based in Israel...

From CNET News.com: Kim DotCom and MegaUpload helped fill out the cyberlocker's video library in 2006 by snatching videos from the then-fledgling YouTube, the U.S. government alleges.

The U.S. Justice Department is trying to extradite DotCom and three other MegaUpload managers from...

From DailyTech: There has been a lot of confusion on the changes that Google plans to make to its privacy policy. Today, Google offered up a few clarifications on its policy what the changes mean.

Specifically, the search giant is pointing out that it is changing its privacy...

From DailyTech: Europe has been a focal battleground in the international patent dispute between Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930) and Apple, Inc. (AAPL). Of late, justices in EU member states seem to be growing tired of the discourse and have been throwing the cases out...