Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

Yesterday I saw a bit of news that flashed across Twitter that caught my eye immediately. If true, it would have meant that Microsoft was making a really ground-breaking move that would catch a lot of ...

The race to claim the bounty offered by Adafruit for open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect has been run and won. The winner is hacker Hector Martin whose achievement of producing drivers to pull ...

Two weeks ago, an industrious software engineer created open-source drivers, which allowed the Kinect camera to be used with a PC. At the time, Microsoft responded with some legal saber-rattling, ...

The Kinect device drivers are open source, which means that all the details necessary to control the Kinect are available to the public -- and any enterprising developer. According to the video demo, ...

A hacker won a contest on Wednesday to be the first person to successfully create an open-source driver for Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensitive controller. Last week, open-source hardware developers ...

Kinect's role as a tinker toy for garage developers signals a change in how Microsoft is approaching openness in an otherwise closed gaming ecosystem. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...