Microsoft released (Oct 6 2008) <Microsoft Office Labs: Touchless>. Touchless is a multitouch software that uses a regular webcam to track color based markers (like on a dry erase marker board). It's sort of a low-end version of <Microsoft's Touchwall technology> you may have seen <demo videos> of.
The project has <4 demos and the SDK>. The project is open source (at quick glance it looks to be mostly C#) and isn't a revenue-bearing product. This is a significant change of pace for the maker of proprietary software solutions, although Microsoft has been expressing interest in open source recently. Some people argue that the term 'open source' implies more than just the availability of source code which isn't consistent with the restrictive nature of the <Microsoft Public License> it's released under.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Microsoft's open source multi-touch SDK
Friday, October 10, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Google Project: Obfuscated TCP
From the <Obfuscated TCP Project's Home>,
"Obfuscated TCP is a transport layer protocol that adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet."
View the <quick YouTube explanation>:
[Link] Microsoft programming contest hacked, defaced
iTWire [3 pages] (Oct 6, 2008)
<Microsoft programming contest hacked, defaced>Monday, October 6, 2008
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