Business software vendor Infor has revealed Infor10 Motion, its cloud-based platform for mobile applications that integrate with Infor's ERP software.

Microsoft has confirmed that special optimised hardware will be available for Kinect when the Windows-based version is released early next year.

Microsoft has released a Kinect for Windows software development kit - but it's only for non-commercial use at this stage.

A fair few people have been fiddling with the Kinect since it was launched, finding ways of putting it to work with hardware other than the Xbox 360. Microsoft is now preparing to release an official Kinect for Windows SDK.

Microsoft’s next update to its Windows Phone 7 platform is codenamed “Mango”, where Microsoft presumably hopes that the man, and the woman, will go and get a Windows Phone 7.

First announced last September, the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform has now gone into beta testing. BBM Social Platform allows app developers to create software that takes advantage of the social connectivity infrastructure RIM built for BlackBerry Messenger.

A fresh round of controversy has exploded concerning the way Apple forbids third-party developers from using private APIs in iPhone OS.

It might not lead to a gold rush like we saw with Apple's App Store, but Amazon has announced an SDK for developers wishing to create 'active content' for the Kindle.

25 mice controlling one application sounds like a recipe for disaster, but Microsoft thinks its MultiPoint platform has a role to play in the classroom.

Facebook is arguably the king of social networking right now and Microsoft-based software developers can now leverage the Facebook user base via the same technologies they are accustomed to.