Review: Kinect Sports on XBox 360

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the key selling points of Microsoft's Kinect controller is that it offers a true exercise benefit that, provided you put in the time and effort, will get your heart racing and have you working up a decent sweat in no time. Kinect Sports is a launch title that's focused on the competitive aspect of such games as bowling boxing, table tennis, track and field and beach volleyball and puts the Kinect controller as well as players to the test.

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SourceCode: Ode to Palm, Nokia on the cusp of a big transition

Updated on Friday, February 11, 2011 at 8:20AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia and Microsoft are formally teaming up and not just in the smartphone space. Looks like Nokia will drop Symbian in favour of Windows Phone 7 and will not only be a handset manufacturer for Microsoft but will partner in search with Bing, Maps and Location as well as use its Ovi Store payment infrastructure for Windows Phone. 

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CES 2011: Windows Phone 7 video from Microsoft's Keynote

CES 2011: Press Day Highlights

Las Vegas - The CES pre-show yesterday revealed a lot of surprises. From Samsung's new Galaxy S inspired media player and the announcement of a Wi-Fi only Galaxy Tab to Motorola Mobility stunning new dual processor-powered Android Atrix smartphone (coming to Bell in Canada "sometime soon") to the unveiling of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the dual-core and Honeycomb slathered Xoom Tablet, to Microsoft's Kinect and Windows 8 running on SoC (Systems on a Chip). 

Motorola Xoom: The first Honeycomb powered Android tablet is also te first generation of dual-processor challengers to the iPad

New Cliq- Motorola Mobility proves it is in it to win it with a host of new phones including the new and improved Cliq 2

Showstopper: Motorola's Atrix pushed the boundaries of smartphone specs and came with a cool dock that doubles as a notebook which is powered by the super smartphone

 Tablets in all shapes and forms: This folding tablet from Samsung runs desktop variety Windows 7Resurface: Microsoft's Surface 2 is made of millions of tiny cameras that can scan and interact with anything they come into contact with. Part of the demo was a cool RBC app for banking customersThe incredible shrinking motherboard: A tiny System on a Chip motherboard (extreme left) poses next to a full-sized mobo and offers similar performance but way less power consumption. Perfect for tablets and smartphones

Microsoft obsoletes the remote control: Kinect now controls movies, music, Netflix and Hulu with voice and gestures.Going strong: Windows Phone 7 has 5,500 apps, not bad for a two month old OS. Copy and paste plus multitasking said to be coming soon