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Kinect for Windows will arrive in style to China and other new markets starting October 8th, sporting a brand new SDK. The new developer kit will add features like color camera settings and extended depth data, as well as more tools and samples like a UI demo based on Kinect‘s so-called human interface guidelines. Chinese users won’t be the only ones waving hello for the first time this fall though, as Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, and Poland have also been added to the list. All told, 38 countries will be able to tinker with the Kinect by the end of the year, and Microsoft envisions an era “where we’ll be able to interact intuitively and naturally” with our computers. Some of Redmond’s userbase may want it to start somewhere else with that quest.

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Kinect for Windows SDK to add new features, markets originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sprint may have played slightly fast and loose with its definition of a 15-city LTE launch this month — some of those areas were mighty close to each other — but it’s taking that expansion a little further down the road with its next stage. Hand-in-hand with its second quarter results, the pin-drop network has outlined plans to revisit its 4G hometown in Baltimore as well Gainesville in Georgia, the Junction City-Manhattan area in Kansas and the Denison-Sherman region in Texas, giving them all LTE by Labor Day. The expansion will certainly please Georgian Galaxy S III owners; unfortunately, it still leaves many major cities fending with EV-DO 3G until later in the year, if not 2013. Maybe Sprint’s Hitchcock-inspired nightmares are to blame.

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Sprint LTE spreads its wings to four more areas by Labor Day originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The long wait for LTE in the UK has already brought new levels of cynicism to a once earnest and optimistic nation, but now, finally, Ofcom has set itself a deadline for auctioning off the prized 4G spectrum to telecoms companies. In a major report published today, it declared that the sale is “set to get underway by the end of 2012” and will be “80 percent bigger” than the last spectrum-grab of this type — the £22 billion flogging of 3G back in 2000. Bidding should be completed by early 2013, so long as at least four wholesalers show interest, and then the rollout itself should begin in the middle of that blessed year. The regulator also promised that 4G mobile broadband will reach 98 percent of people in “villages, towns and cities” across the UK. Unless, of course, it gets sued by operators before the process even starts.

Continue reading Yet another Ofcom report promises UK LTE spectrum sale within five months, rollout in mid-2013

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Yet another Ofcom report promises UK LTE spectrum sale within five months, rollout in mid-2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rogers’ LTE network is old enough to mark its first birthday. Unless you happened to live in one of the seven largest cities in Canada during that time, however, you’ve largely been left out — that status indicator on the Rogers version of the One X may as well have been a subtle form of mockery. To the delight of our friends up North, the carrier has detailed a much more aggressive LTE rollout for the rest of the year: a total of 28 more cities will get that sweet 4G nectar in the next few months. Most of these expansions will blanket the southern half of Ontario, but major cities in the Prairies, Quebec and the Maritimes will all get their fair share. Arguably, the most important upgrade is coming to RIM’s home base of Waterloo; when the company is virtually betting its future on likely LTE-ready BlackBerry 10 devices, having widescale LTE to test against is a slightly important prerequisite. The full city list is available after the break.

Continue reading Rogers details 28-city LTE upgrade for rest of 2012, RIM’s hometown included

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Rogers details 28-city LTE upgrade for rest of 2012, RIM’s hometown included originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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