Category: Opinion
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Microsoft does Linux (sort of)
Historically very anti-Linux (to the point of litigation), Microsoft has begun to embrace the open source OS, in its own way, out of pure necessity – the cloud computing boom has completely altered the requirements for back-end servers and software, requirements that typical MS Windows products aren’t built to support. Personally, though I realize this is…
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Tonight’s augmented & virtual reality tech demo
One of Boston’s many great, local interest groups – Boston Virtual Reality – held a tech demo meetup this evening featuring two hardware developers in the burgeoning fields of augmented & virtual reality – Meta and Leap Motion. Before I tell you more, a quick sidenote to define these fields: virtual reality (VR) has, of course, been around in various incarnations for…
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My first 24 hours with the Moto 360 and Android Wear for iOS
Following up on my recent post, Wearable tech, Google finally released an iOS-native version of its Android Wear app on Monday, enabling iPhone users to use smartwatches like the Moto 360. Of course, I grabbed the app the instant it became available and my first impressions are basically, “Wow. This is great – I’ve got…