Exmovere Holdings announces plans to release Exmobaby, a vital sign monitoring onesie the CEO says fosters an ‘emotional umbilical cord’ between mother and child.
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The quantum computer is still ranking pretty high up there on the vaporware charts, somewhere between Duke Nukem Forever and a Steorn in-home power generator. Eventually we’ll get there, and theoretical physicists at the University of Bristol are helping with a quantum cooling system. It is effectively a means for two qubits to cool a third, with the outer two cooled by lasers and absorbing energy from the third, which is heated to its excited state. Unsurprisingly this is all rather theoretical at this point, but the team does plan to actually such a quantum refrigerator in the not too distant future. Then, we figure, they’ll host the first quantum kegger.Quantum refrigerator could cool your quantum computer, allow for quantum overclocking originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | PhysOrg | Email this | Comments
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An increasing number of Euroland news outlets are reporting an eye-watering set of prices for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. Although still unofficial and therefore not yet to be trusted, the values we’re hearing are €699 ($890) in France and €799 ($1,020) in Germany. Those presumably represent the cost of the 16GB and 32GB Tab, respectively, and align perfectly with Apple’s iPad WiFi + 3G pricing — aside from the fact the iPads have double the storage at each price point. Oops! That does make us wary to believe these numbers just yet, but if you want a laugh, why not check out UK importer Expansys today, which is offering a cracking deal for the 16GB Galaxy Tab at £680 ($1,050). And with only a 39-day wait!
[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]
Update: So we’re hearing some conflicting information here. Samsung itself is telling us at IFA that no pricing has been announced and that any prices floating around are speculation — but it seems the company has already announced a suggested retail prices of SEK 9,000 in Sweden including VAT, which works out to about $1,240 (or $930 without VAT). In other words, even after taxes have been removed from the equation, you’re looking at a pretty pricey option for an unsubsidized device here. Let’s hope we see some steep discounts on contract, eh? Thanks, Rasmus!
Update 2: O2 Germany’s official Twitter account informs us that the Galaxy Tab will cost the Bundesrepublik roughly €759 (about $972) in all — a €99 ($127) deposit to start off and then €27.50 ($35) a month likely over two years.Samsung Galaxy Tab reported to retail at ?699 and ?799 in Europe (update: O2 Germany pricing) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | ARMdevices.net, Journal du Geek, Expansys, Chip.de | Email this | Comments
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If your current WindBox is growing a bit long in the tooth, MSI has a newcomer with somewhat more respectable internals. Since it’s a fanless machine designed to live on the rear of your LCD, you won’t be ordering one with a Core i7, but the included Core 2 Duo chip is certainly a step above what’s been offered in the past. It’s designed primarily to be used as an ultra-low power solution for folks needing to handle the simplest of simple tasks, though the integrated graphics are purportedly capable of HD playback (on a good day). It’s packing DVI, VGA and HDMI outputs, six USB 2.0 sockets, a pair of mini-PCIe slots, inbuilt 802.11b/g/n WiFi and a Bluetooth module, but your guess is as good as ours when it comes to price or availability.MSI WindBox III gets a bit more oomph, still lives on your LCD originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | MSI | Email this | Comments
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Yesterday, Apple launched iTunes Ping, their new music social network. Part of that launch was a very basic implementation of Facebook Connect, simply to hook in and find out which of your Facebook friends were also using Ping. I tried it yesterday and it worked fine. But this morning the option vanished and everyone was left wondering what happened?
Well, it vanished because Facebook started blocking iTunes Ping from accessing their API, we’ve heard (just as AllThingsD and New York Times have as well). Obviously, there’s no point in having a feature that doesn’t work — so Apple simply removed it.
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An information security company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for security threats. The first version of X1 works with SAP business platforms, said Mariano Nuñez Di Croce, director of research and development for Onapsis. The company eventually plans to add modules for Siebel, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP applications, he said.
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Oooooh, there’s a new Android on the market, this time from Dell. I’m so excited I could, well, fall asleep.
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Networking giant to augment its IP-based communications tech with planned purchase of start-up Arch Rock, which makes wireless sensors for buildings, data centers, and utility networks.
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We just got to handle the Folio 100, after witnessing it bolted to a wall earlier, and we have to admit that it’s lighter and thinner than it looks at first glance. Unfortunately, it still feels pretty cheap, and we’re not sure how much we trust ourselves one-handing something this large and fragile seeming. Our brief glimpse of Toshiba’s custom skin on here was most depressing — it’s not final, but we’re not sure why Toshiba is even bothering showing anything in this abysmal state. The bits we’ve seen of Toshiba’s market (for music, apps, e-books and so forth) look a bit better, but as far as we know there’s no official Android Market on this thing — a kiss of death for almost any Android device. Toshiba’s biggest failure here, however, is probably the LCD it sourced for this tablet — the screen looks as cheap and low res as could be, and while a €399 list price is decent for a tablet this size, it hardly seems a good excuse to stoop to KIRF-level components. Hit up the gallery for all the angles, along with some comparison shots with the mind share monopolizing iPad. Gallery: Toshiba Folio 100 previewToshiba Folio 100 preview originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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If you know what this is and where it’s located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
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When it bowed out of the JavaOne conference this year, Google cited Oracle’s lawsuit over Java use in Google Android. But one Google technologist suggests a second possible reason for Google’s reticence: Oracle’s lack of focus on developers.
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We’ll admit, we’d kinda figured that HTC’s venture into the seedy underworld of dumbphones with the introduction of the Smart earlier this year was a non-starter and that it’d quietly fade into the night before 2010 was out, but apparently not — at least, not if you ask AT&T. We’ve been slid a couple shots of a new handset from HTC for Ma Bell going by the model number F8181 (it’ll have a fancy name like “Bacon,” “Double Rainbow,” or “Nilay Patel” by the time it launches, obviously) that runs the Brew MP platform Qualcomm has been pushing this year for the sub-smartphone category; of course, it seems to us that smartphone hardware is getting cheap enough to push through nearly every price segment, but if we can expect this to be free on contract, we suppose there might be a market here. No word on dollars or dates just yet, but naturally, we’ll keep you in the loop.
Gallery: Exclusive: HTC F8181 is AT&T’s BrewMP-equipped dumbphoneExclusive: HTC F8181 is AT&T’s Brew MP-equipped dumbphone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Apple has just revealed its 6th generation iPod nano, which has been outfitted with just about the boldest redesign the portable media player has experienced yet. Gone is the clickwheel, to be replaced with a touchscreen interface and a shuffle-esque square form factor. It’s now 46 percent smaller and 42 percent lighter. Hard volume buttons on the side and a clip on the back provide the minimal hardware accouterments to that multitouch touchscreen, while the inside provides enough juice for 24 hours of audio playback. Seven total color variants will be up for grabs, including a Product RED option, with prices set at $149 for 8GB of storage or $179 for 16GB and pre-orders being taken today.
P.S. — If you were looking for that awesome camera the nano used to have, stop. It ain’t there anymore. We’ve also noted that there’s no video playback to be found anymore, either. Gallery: iPod nano gets a major overhaulGallery: Apple iPod nano (2010) press imagesContinue reading iPod nano redesigned: smaller, lighter, better and costing $149 for 8GB or $179 for 16GBiPod nano redesigned: smaller, lighter, better and costing $149 for 8GB or $179 for 16GB originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Apple Store | Email this | Comments
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Microsoft on Tuesday again abstained from naming which of its Windows programs, if any, contain bugs that could lead to widespread “DLL load hijacking” attacks. Also on Tuesday, the company published an automated tool to make it easier for users to block attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in a host of Windows applications.
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When it bowed out of the JavaOne conference this year, Google cited Oracle’s lawsuit over Java use in Google Android. But one Google technologist suggests a second possible reason for Google’s reticence: Oracle’s lack of focus on developers.
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Great news for Europeans and those few U.S. users of music streaming service Spotify. Sonos, creator of the super cool (my descripton) S5 music player, is announcing today that users will soon be able to listen to streaming Spotify music through their Sonos devices. That means users will now be able to listen to music files stored on any computer in their home as well as Spotify, Rhapsody, Napster, Deezer, Pandora and other services.
U.S. users still have to wait for Spotify to launch here, of course, or find another way to access the service. On the upside, Sonos says their iPad controller app will be hitting iTunes sometime soon. So they’ve got that going for them, which is nice.
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For the seventh consecutive year, fake e-mails are filling up in-boxes around the world warning that on August 27, Mars will approach Earth and grow to the size of a full moon.
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Apple has just revealed its 6th generation iPod nano, which has been outfitted with just about the boldest redesign the portable media player has experienced yet. Gone is the clickwheel, to be replaced with a touchscreen interface and a shuffle-esque square form factor. It’s now 46 percent smaller and 42 percent lighter. Hard volume buttons on the side and a clip on the back provide the minimal hardware accouterments to that multitouch touchscreen, while the inside provides enough juice for 24 hours of audio playback. Seven total color variants will be up for grabs, including a Product RED option, with prices set at $149 for 8GB of storage or $179 for 16GB and pre-orders being taken today.
P.S. — If you were looking for that awesome camera the nano used to have, stop. It ain’t there anymore. We’ve also noted that there’s no video playback to be found anymore, either. Gallery: iPod nano gets a major overhaulGallery: Apple iPod nano (2010) press imagesContinue reading iPod nano redesigned: smaller, lighter, better and costing $149 for 8GB or $179 for 16GBiPod nano redesigned: smaller, lighter, better and costing $149 for 8GB or $179 for 16GB originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Apple Store | Email this | Comments
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The proposed offshore wind farm in Massachusetts wins a legal victory that clears one of the last permitting hurdles for Cape Wind. However, another looms next week.
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Be clear on this, Canon’s XF105 and XF100 camcorders are for professional videographers. Sure, they’re compact enough to temp any new father… just as long as he’s interested in recording his princess’ first steps to hot-swappable Compact Flash cards in either 1080/60i/30p/24p or 720/60p/30p/24p using Canon’s MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps XF codec. Although crowned Canon’s smallest professional camcorders, both manage to feature infrared and stereoscopic 3-D shooting capabilities (using OIS Lens Shift to optically align a pair of XF105 or XF100 shooters), a DIGIC DV III Image Processor, and a Full HD CMOS sensor for native 1920 x 1080 HD video. The two models differ only in support for HD-SDI output: the XF105 has it, the XF100 doesn’t. Look for them at retail sometime in the first quarter of 2011.Continue reading XF105 and XF100: Canon’s smallest professional camcorders yetXF105 and XF100: Canon’s smallest professional camcorders yet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Canon | Email this | Comments
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We know, it feels like it was just a few months ago that the new Envy 14 and 17 hit the market, but HP isn’t quite finished tinkering with its aluminum laptops. First up is the new Envy 14 Beats edition, which just like the previous Envy 15 Beats has a totally different black and red design than the rest of the Envy line along with a a pretty awesome red backlit keyboard. Apart from the different aesthetics and bundled Beats headphones, it’s essentially the same as the regular Envy 14, although the $1249 starting price is for big fans of beats or Dr. Dre only. The Envy 17 gets the most interesting update, though: it’ll be available sometimes this holiday season with a 17.3-inch 3D Ultra BrightView display and active shutter glasses. Powered by AMD’s 3D technology, the Envy 17 will also support 3D Blu-ray discs, and by that we mean Avatar when it finally hits in November. We got a chance to check it out a few weeks ago and the 3D content looked pretty, well… three-dimensional. HP says the rig will be priced south of $2,000 and claims it’s been working very hard on improving viewing angles.
On the much-more-thin-and-light end of the spectrum, HP’s also unveiling the improved Pavilion dm3. Starting at $549, the 13.3-inch dm3 will be available with Intel Core i3 and i5 processors and boasts HP’s new CoolSense technology, which the company says combines hardware and software to keep the entire chassis cool. Beyond all that, the laptop is less than an inch thick and has been given a major makeover — it has a very soft-to-the-touch lid and the same chiclet keyboard and ClickPad as the Pavilion dm4. We’re planning to review a few of these, but until then head below to check out some hands-on shots and the full press release after the break. Gallery: HP Envy 14 Beats, Envy 17 3D and Pavilion dm3 hands-on Gallery: HP Envy 14 Beats, Envy 17 3D, Pavilion dm3 press shotsContinue reading HP unleashes Envy 17 3D, HP Envy 14 Beats edition and specially-cooled Pavilion dm3HP unleashes Envy 17 3D, HP Envy 14 Beats edition and specially-cooled Pavilion dm3 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Autodesk is bringing its popular engineering program back to the Mac after long absence and is launching mobile versions for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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As apps like Foursquare and Facebook Places permeate the mainstream, one ski resort operator is hoping that it can use similar tech to its advantage.
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The Windows DLL library loading vulnerability is gaining hacker attention. Although no one can accurately predict the next “big one,” malicious cyber fiends are likely to use this exploit method against innocent computer users.
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Smartphones are getting ever smarter and batteries ever better, but it seems that the poor things can just never catch up. It’s a thankless, tireless job powering your gadgets, and sometimes those cells need a little help. That’s where external batteries come in to lend a hand, giving your gadget those few precious extra hours of life — enough for you to find your way home after that impromptu third encore sing-along that seemed like it would never end. The $40 Primo Battery Cube from PhoneSuit is one of the latest, a 1,000mAh reserve tank for your thirsty mobile. But is it worth making room in your pocket for? Read on to find out.
Gallery: PhoneSuit Primo Battery CubeContinue reading PhoneSuit Primo Battery Cube reviewPhoneSuit Primo Battery Cube review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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EMC VMware on Tuesday is introducing its cloud computing platform for Java development, which relies on technologies from the company’s SpringSource division. The VMware Cloud Application Platform leverages the popular Spring Framework for Java development and the newly branded vFabric product set, which features pre-existing SpringSource products offering capabilities such as data management, messaging, and dynamic load balancing. The 2.5 million users of Spring will be eyed as initial users of the platform.
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iPod and iPhone users still more likely to spend money on music than on apps, a study shows. But for how much longer?
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PogoPlug keeps getting better and better. Today they’re announcing that wireless printing, first mentioned earlier this summer, is now available. Users can print from iPads, iPhones, Androids and pretty much any other Internet-connected device. While you’re vacationing in Rio, you can print off instructions for your buddy who’s house sitting for you! Or you can print off a stack of vacation photos while still on vacation! Also announced today is that the PogoPlug Biz and the PogoPlug WiFi Adapter are both shipping.
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Are you the warden of a small-town prison, or perhaps an irate movie theater usher who’s sick of ungrateful patrons interrupting Step Up 3D because they can’t be bothered to turn of their handsets? Cellphone jamming is, for the most part, still out of the question, so Berkeley Varitronics has introduced a little something called the Wolfhound. Previously known as the Bloodhound, the device lets you hone in on RF signals, which means it won’t help you if phones are powered down, but if your perp has one on standby, or if they’re talking, texting, or surfing the web, you’re golden. Interested? Of course you are! Hit the company up for a price quote — but not before checking the video after the break.Continue reading Wolfhound sniffs out inmates’ cellphones much better than an actual wolfhound would (video)Wolfhound sniffs out inmates’ cellphones much better than an actual wolfhound would (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Gearlog | BV Systems | Email this | Comments
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“Digg v4 is not a redesign, not a reskin, it is a 100% rewrite. It?s completely new design, code, architecture, and infrastructure. It has almost no relationship to the v3 system whatsoever.”
Social news site Digg is currently in the particularly bloody throes of its fifth user revolt, and unlike revolts one through four, we’ve heard that Digg is absolutely positively not capitulating to users on this one.
Has Kevin Rose finally decided to heed our advice? It’s not so cut and dry according to former Digg engineer Ian Eure who wrote “They Can?t Go Back” on his personal blog earlier today. One reason they can’t move backward? Talent, Eure emphasizes.
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Playing catch-up with rival email services such as Gmail, Microsoft Hotmail now does Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), which means mobile users can have their email, calendar, and contacts from Hotmail accounts pushed to their
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A report from Cenzic as well as the exploitation of Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer during the recent Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest underscore the need to keep bolstering browser security.Web browser developers have responded by tightening security in te face of continued vulnerability to Web exploits….
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If you know who this is and where she’s located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge.
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As apps like Foursquare and Facebook Places permeate the mainstream, one ski resort operator is hoping that it can use similar tech to its advantage.
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The European Commission has started legal action against Britain, claiming the country is allowing Internet service providers to target users by letting the companies use technology that accesses personal data….
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This, dear friends, is a sad, sad day. ATI, the name of hope for all PC gamers who were sick and tired of NVIDIA rebadging the same GPU over the past couple of years, is to be no more. The callous souls over at AMD have decided that our little consumer brains aren’t sophisticated enough to handle two awesome brands, so they’re just axing the use of the ATI moniker from here on out. Product line names will be retained, with the Radeon and FirePro branding still intact, but ATI Eyefinity will now be known as AMD Eyefinity. The first graphics cards to, erm, benefit from the new nomenclature will ship “later this year,” and the whole thing is said to have been motivated by AMD’s move to Fusion APUs — hybrid CPU and GPU chips — where it’s considered beneficial to have a unified branding strategy. Great, but did anyone consider the fact that the graphics wars will now be fought between two teams wearing green jerseys?Continue reading AMD kills ATI brand, you can look forward to blood-stained RadeonsAMD kills ATI brand, you can look forward to blood-stained Radeons originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Tech Report | Email this | Comments
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Microsoft’s big plan is to launch the public beta of Internet Explorer 9 on Sept. 15, at a high-profile event in San Francisco. While the browser’s features–including speedier browser performance, greater compatibility and compliance with standards, and enhanced HTML5 support–are well-known among the developer community by this point, there’s been precious little info about how IE 9 will actually look.
Until now, perhaps. That’s because a Microsoft Russia site might have accidentally posted a screenshot of IE 9’s interface. Mary Jo Foley over at All About Microsoft seems to have spotted the image first, before a site administrator yanked it down, and posted it on her blog along with a machine translation of the accompanying text:
If the image is authentic, and that text a reflection of the final product, then IE 9 will include a streamlined navigation panel with a merged search/address bar, as well as Firefox-style tabs that can “rip away” to become new windows. To me, at least, the interface feels quite a bit like Google Chrome.
What do you think?
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Looking for a good reason to camp out a Sprint store overnight? Then you won’t find a much better one these days than the Samsung Epic 4G, which is launching on the carrier tomorrow for $249.99 on a two-year contract (in case you needed a reminder). According to Sprint, most stores will be opening at 8 a.m. sharp, which still leaves you plenty of time to read (or re-read) our review of the phone.
Reminder: Samsung Epic 4G launching on Sprint tomorrow originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Mobile Burn | Sprint | Email this | Comments
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Solar power can be a pricey project for your house, but tech advances are making it possible to fit just a few panels in a tight space, bringing upfront costs down.
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What is your company doing to collect all those emails, PDFs, and other documents that never get printed? Regulators want to know….
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We know, half of you aren’t even going to read past the headline before you start angrily banging away about Apple’s admitted antenna gaff and the still-not-totally-fixed proximity sensor, but we’re urging you to look deeper. Think harder. Critique your criticisms. In all seriousness, Apple’s iPhone 4 garnered more attention (negative or otherwise) than any other phone released this calendar year, and for good reason — in fact, Apple itself had to hold an emergency press event just to announce what could’ve been announced in a PR blast: everyone’s getting a free case. That said, Cupertino has still managed to move millions of units in just a few months, and that demand doesn’t seem to be dropping off at any significant rate. If you’re one of the lucky (or unlucky) ones that have managed to procure Apple’s latest iPhone, we’re overly anxious to hear your thoughts on changing it. How would you have addressed the antenna issue? Would you have preferred a less drastic departure from the 3GS form factor? Would you have offered more colors than white and black? Thrown in Bluetooth 3.0 for kicks? Go ahead, the floor’s yours — just don’t abuse it, cool?How would you change Apple’s iPhone 4? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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The nerds over at Mobile Geek Inc did a nifty investigative piece revealing more details about Nokia’s mid-level C6-01 candybar. After making an awkward early appearance on Nokia’s Dutch online storefront, more pics along with the user agent profile have been located thus confirming its lack of QWERTY, 8 megapixel camera, and Symbian^3 OS. A nice alternative to the 5 megapixel C6-00 slider shackled to S60 5th. Look for the new C6 to get official with a very nice price either at, or around, Nokia World 2010 which kicks off September 14th in London. One more front-side pic after the break.Continue reading Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 touchscreen candybar with 8 megapixel camera?Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 touchscreen candybar with 8 megapixel camera? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Mobile Geek Inc, Mobile Bulgaria | Email this | Comments
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This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube, although he did at one point hold the Mayorship of their San Bruno headquarters.
Have you noticed ?Off the Grid? [OTG] appearing in your Foursquare feed recently? No, it?s not the latest trendy West Hollywood club or SF food cart. OTG is Foursquare?s ?privacy? feature where you check in to a location but don?t disclose it to your friends (while gaining any applicable points, badges, etc). What purpose does it serve to notify your friends that you?re out on the town but to hide the location? And what does it tell us about the future of location-based services & privacy? This was the question I set out to answer by surveying nearly 500 Foursquare users.
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The transformation is now complete. Our favorite random video chat site Chatroulette has gone through a redesign over the past week and is now back up, in what founder Andrei Ternovskiy and those who believe in second chances hope will be a more nudity-free i.e. more monetizable version.
The “renewed and updated” Chatroulette is one of many recent efforts at shaking the Chatroulette penis stigma and hopefully improving the site’s advertising and investment prospects.
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It’s been a few blissful months since we’ve thought about or had to interact with the Joojoo, but the court case Michael Arrington and TechCrunch filed against Fusion Garage just reached a significant milestone: the judge threw out several of Arrington’s claims while importantly holding that TechCrunch and Fusion Garage were in fact business partners with legal obligations to each other. Here’s the basic timeline so far: since there was (unbelievably) never a contract between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage to develop the CrunchPad / Joojoo, TechCrunch had to rely on a variety of alternative arguments in its initial complaint, which reached a zenith of optimistic fabrication in something called “misappropriation of business ideas.” (We ran down the whole list way back in December, and also broke down Fusion Garage’s subsequent motion to dismiss in February.)
The court didn’t buy most of those arguments and dismissed everything but the breach of fiduciary duty claim in this latest ruling, which is both a significant loss and a significant win for TechCrunch: breach of fiduciary duty has always struck us as TechCrunch’s strongest argument, and the court’s now effectively ruled that Fusion Garage and TechCrunch were indeed involved in a joint business venture with legal obligations to protect each others’ interests. That’s not a bad position from which to proceed — although TechCrunch now has to prove that Fusion Garage actually violated its duty by releasing the Joojoo on its own, which is a whole new fight. (The court also gave TechCrunch 20 days to try and amend some of its other claims, but “misappropriation of business ideas” was basically thrown out the window entirely.) So what’s next? We’re guessing another few months of cheerfully hostile motions accusing the opposing party of thwarting discovery and some firecracker depositions, all culminating in a matched pair of snippy motions for summary judgment. The suits, they dine well tonight.
P.S.- How or why either company continues to pay for all these legal bills is beyond us, but we’ve actually heard rumors of a Joojoo 2, so things could get even crazier. And potentially even less responsive to touch-based events.Joojoo lawsuit shocker! Court rules Fusion Garage and TechCrunch were business partners, tosses most everything else originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Daring Fireball | Ruling (Scribd) | Email this | Comments
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Rice University students spend their summer in Morocco engineering volleyball-net-like structures to harness potable water from fog in nearby Atlas Mountains.
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As I was writing this, news of the HP / Dell bidding war for 3PAR broke on the front page of Yahoo. This made me laugh, as it typified just how crazy this story has become?few things outside of a bidding war will make a storage acquisition sexy enough to make mainstream news.
At $30, HP?s current offer is the sixth bid, a 200 percent premium over 3PAR?s previous $10 share price. Not only is this insane, but it?s also nearly unprecedented in M&A history. And since 3PAR is trading above $32 the market thinks Dell will bid even higher.
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Well, it looks like you can finally get rid of that less-than-stable pre-alpha release of Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) for Android — Mozillla has just released the full alpha release for not only Android (2.0 and later), but the Nokia N900 as well. The big news with this release is an increase in “performance and responsiveness to user actions” (always a good thing), as well as two new features dubbed “Electrolysis” and “Layers,” the former of which lets the browser interface run in a separate process from the one rendering web content, while the latter promises to “greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video.” You’ll also get full support for add-ons, and Firefox Sync built into the browser to let you have a continuous experience as you move between devices. Hit up the link below for the download link, and for a quick video overview of what’s in store.Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | The Mozilla Blog | Email this | Comments
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Amazon’s third major iteration of its flagship reading device, the Kindle, comes out of the gate looking strong: the new graphite finish (just like its big brother, the Kindle DX) with a slimmer, lighter form factor, plus a bumped refresh rate for its E Ink screen. Best of all, the WiFi only and 3G readers have newly lowered prices (though they’re still not exactly bargain basement level). We’ve spent the past few days putting the tinier Kindle through the paces to see just how much Amazon’s improved it. Though the market is increasingly flooded with cheap readers, the Kindle is arguably still the leading name in the field, and Amazon is already touting the third model as its bestselling ever — even though there are still no sales figures to be had. So, is this the best Kindle ever? Read on to find out.
Gallery: Amazon Kindle unboxing and hands-onContinue reading Amazon Kindle review (2010)Amazon Kindle review (2010) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Google has added new functionality to its real-time search engine, and moved it from an obscure feature buried in the options on the left pane of the standard Google search, to its own website. The new Google Realtime can be a powerful tool for businesses that know how to use it.
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Chemists say breakthrough could one day lead to device for collecting electricity from the atmosphere for energy use, prevention of lightning.
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We’ve already published a pretty exhaustive review of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 some five months ago, but it’s taken until this month for it to reach AT&T’s network and retail chain. A lot’s changed in the mobile phone market since then — the iPhone 4, the EVO 4G, Dell Streak, numerous Verizon Droids, and so on. Does the X10 still compete? Read on to find out.Continue reading Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for AT&T reviewSony Ericsson Xperia X10 for AT&T review originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Sounds Beginnings lets pregnant women wrap waterproof speakers in a fabric band around their bellies and play voices and music right into the womb.
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Yesterday, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. To kick things off, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to talk a bit about the history of Facebook. Notably, he focused on Facebook Photos as being a key catalyst that led to everything the social network is today.
He noted that when they launched the product, they didn’t have all of the features that their competitors did. For example, they didn’t have high-resolution photos and you couldn’t print them. But one thing they did have was the social element — and this changed everything.
“Those features by themselves were more important than anything else combined,” Zuckerberg said of the social elements of Facebook Photos. He then dropped the competitor bomb. “The photo product that we have is maybe five or six times more used than every other product on the web — combined,” Zuckerberg stated.
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Think of it as an autonomous, swarming, photovoltaic legion of seagoing Roombas (or don’t, if you’re easily upset). The Seaswarm project at MIT takes a thin, hydrophobic material and drags it behind a robot outfitted with GPS and WiFi for determining its location and communicating within a swarm. When deployed, the group finds the outer edges of an oil spill, and works its way into the center, coordinating the cleanup with minimal human interference. The material itself can take on twenty times its weight in oil. And yes, the whole thing is re-usable. According to researchers, 5,000 of these relatively low cost devices could have cleaned up the BP oil disaster in a month — which is more than we can say for Kevin Costner! See it in action after the break.Continue reading MIT Seaswarm autonomous robots coming soon to an oil spill near you (video)MIT Seaswarm autonomous robots coming soon to an oil spill near you (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Switched | MIT | Email this | Comments
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Microsoft didn’t bother to send me one of the Windows Phone 7 prototypes they’ve been circulating to media over the past week–which is OK, because I had my hands full reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S–but I’m hoping they’ll see the light over the next couple of days, if only so I can jump into the review fray.A lot of those reviews seem very polite. There’s some praise for the Windows Phone 7 operating system, which attempts to aggregate Web content and applications into subject-specific Hubs, as opposed to arranging individual apps on a grid-like home screen. And then there’s Galen Gruman, who basically went nuclear.”Microsoft needs to kill Windows Phone 7 and avoid further embarrassing itself by shipping this throwback,” Gruman wrote in a July 15 posting on InfoWorld’s Mobile Edge blog. “It’s not a question of whether Windows Phone 7 will fail–it will–but how long it will take Microsoft to admit the failure. For the company’s sake, the earlier it fesses up, the better.”According to Gruman, Windows Phone 7’s sins include an “awkward and unsophisticated” UI that “recalls Microsoft’s history of clunky design” and use of “inexcusably old technology” such as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft, he says, has come up with “an imperfect copy of an old iPhone.”Gruman predicts that Windows Phone 7 devices will find their way to the carriers’ remainder bins by “in January 2011.”I’m not so sure that’s the case here. I haven’t had the chance to dropkick a Windows Phone 7 device of my very own (you truly never know how well a smartphone can suit your needs until you test whether it can survive a stray boot), but I have seen it in action, in a very limited way. Based off that limited interaction, the user interface seemed intuitive, and certainly nothing like the iPhone circa 2007.The bigger question–and this will affect its rate of consumer adoption–is how versatile the UI proves in handling people’s lives and apps. If it’s a snap to add new apps, or update information for a particular Hub, then Windows Phone 7 could prove sticky in the marketplace. If it’s a pain, then users will shy away.If anything’s going to kill Windows Phone 7, it’s the Windows Phone Marketplace. I’ve said this before: if third-party developers don’t get onboard with their apps and games, then this platform will die–but that death will be gradual, certainly not the “$25 bin by President’s Day” demise predicted by Gruman.At this point, the developer front seems a toss-up. On one hand, Microsoft is pushing very hard (and even offering cash, rumor has it) for developers to port their wares on Windows Phone 7. On the other, I’ve been hearing a lot of angry rumblings from Windows Mobile developers–who could be the natural core group for Phone 7 development–grumbling about how Microsoft’s attempt at a smartphone “reset” has left them with a.) no easy upgrade path for their existing apps to the new platform, and b.) needing to adapt to the all-new requirements of building for Phone 7. And at least one of those developers is a pretty major-sized entity.So we shall see. If Microsoft mismanages the launch–I’ve listed some of the things they need to do to succeed, here–then they’re in very big trouble. But I think they could have the platform to make it work, or at least halt their slide in smartphone market share.What do you all think?
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Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Nikhyl Singhal, the co-founder and CEO of voice-application startup SayNow.
Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face extinction?
Just ask Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this year, when asked if Facebook would be around in 100 years, as long as Ma Bell has been around, Zuckerberg responded, ?I don?t know. But I don?t know how long telephones will be around for.? Will they be around for ten more years? I?ll go even further. It may not even take 5 years for the phone service, as we know it, to meet its demise.
Who?s going to lead the charge? Voice on Gmail and Skype are just the beginning. What are Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft doing? As AT&T, Verizon, Apple and Google spent this summer hashing out plans for world domination, it seems that Facebook is best positioned to strike the fatal blow against our beloved carriers. And it starts with those phone digits.
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MIT researchers have created solar-powered bots that collect oil floating on water after a spill. The Seaswarm bots use a nanofiber that absorbs up to 20 times their weight in oil.
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Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo, a producer and distributor of premium video content.
Last week, Erick posted an article on TechCrunch titled ?Industry Insiders Say Online Video Advertising Is Reaching A ?Frenzy Point.’” It was a surefire way to get online video entrepreneurs excited, right? Not so fast.
The article quoted two CEOs of large online video businesses?namely Keith Richman of Break Media and Jason Glickman of Tremor Media?whose basic argument was as follows: It very well may just be the big ad networks and properties like Hulu that are seeing the vast majority of new ad dollars.
While one might think that the top 10 firms in a given industry will prevail, it?s important to think of legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch’s rule that a company should be either No. 1 or No. 2 in a particular industry, or else leave it completely. Online video frequently draws comparisons to search, which today has become a two-horse race between Google and Microsoft. Considering that the high-profile and defunct Veoh was a perennial top-10 competitor in video, one wonders: is anything other than No. 1 or No. 2 in video really a winning a strategy?
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Twitter has been open about its desire for advertising to be a pillar of its revenue strategy. The company has launched a number of experiments with advertising on the site, rolling out Promoted Tweets, which serves up ads based on keywords in Twitter search queries; and Promoted Trends. But Twitter cracked down on in-stream advertising on third-party clients; which was thought to be a direct attack on some of the Twitter ad networks in the space, such as 140 Proof, Ad.ly and others (it turned out that the new TOS didn’t kill these companies). However, now it looks like Twitter is actually partnering with Twitter ad networks to sell its inventory on Promoted Tweets.
We’ve learned that Twitter has ‘informally’ partnered with 140 Proof, a Twitter-based ad network that launched earlier this year, to allow the ad network to sell ad inventory for Promoted Tweets along side 140Proof’s own inventory. 140 Proof allows 3rd-party Twitter clients, like Echofon, Hootsuite and UberTwitter, to sell space on the network to advertisers.
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Oooooh, there’s a new Android on the market, this time from Dell. I’m so excited I could, well, fall asleep.
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The hybrid supermini, to debut at the Paris Motor Show, will borrow most of its propulsion technology from its Honda Insight big brother. Originally posted at Crave
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Explaining the differences between DRAM and non-volatile storage is about to get that little bit harder, thanks to Viking Modular. The company’s decided to “borrow” the DIMM form factor for its latest enterprise SSD offering, equipping it with a 240-pin array to draw power from your spare memory slots. Of course, you’ll still need to hook up a SATA cable to get data flowing to this SSD — at a very respectable 260MBps for both read and write — but we must admit we’re in love with the very idea of it. This new design offers another option for consolidating storage right onto the motherboard and should help case modders yearning for ever-slimmer enclosures. Alas, the SATADIMM is only available to enterprise and OEM clients for now, but we can’t think of any reason why it won’t test the consumer waters as well — if not by Viking, maybe someone else?
[Thanks, David]Continue reading Viking Modular’s SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slotViking Modular’s SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Gizmag | Viking Modular | Email this | Comments
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Recently Nike — a shoe company that seems to enjoy a side dish of tech from time to time — challenged 78 artists to “hack” its shoes and come up with something decidedly different than your typical Air Force Ones. Now, a lot of the projects were more art and less tech, but that can’t be said for entrant Nick Marsh’s contribution to the experiment. The designer fused the internals of a Wii Balance Board with a pair of Air Maxes to create a gaming experience that may not be nuanced, but certainly seems capable of making you break a sweat. According to Nick, games are played exactly as they would have been previously, but since you can’t step of the board, you’re required to lift your foot or sit down when you need to back off on the pressure. Nick finished the project in April, but it sounds like a slightly more polished version could be in the offing. Check out a quick video of the shoes in action after the break, and hit the source for a slew of pics.Continue reading Nike Air Maxes get a Wii Balance Board infusionNike Air Maxes get a Wii Balance Board infusion originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink DVICE | Nick Marsh | Email this | Comments
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More than a decade of work in Canada and Sweden leads to the successful implants of artificial corneas in 10 Swedish patients with advanced keratoconus, or central corneal scarring.
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Looking to broaden access to its security practices for software development, Microsoft plans to shift the licensing for its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) documentation to the more accessible Creative Commons License, the company said on Thursday. SDL is Microsoft’s blueprint for incorporating security into applications. It has been available under an exclusive Microsoft license.
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Remember this classic from way back at CES in January? We had such high hopes for the ASUS NX90 Jq. The 18.4-inch multimedia laptop boasts dual large touchpads and was designed by Bang & Olufsen’s chief designer… and that shows. This beauty also has (in case you forgot) B&O ICEpower speakers, a Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 334M graphics, and can house up to 1280GB of storage. Now, we knew this thing wasn’t going to be cheap from the first time we touched it — $2,500. However, we didn’t really expect to have to wait quite so long for it to hit retail. Well, if you don’t mind purchasing things on the “internet,” it looks like you can actually get one at a few retailers now for about that $2,500 price. Hit up the source link if you’re ready to put down some cash or if you just like to window shop.ASUS NX90Jq now available… sort of originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Laptoping | Google Product Search | Email this | Comments
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What is your company doing to collect all those emails, PDFs, and other documents that never get printed? Regulators want to know….
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A child-size humanoid bot with a face inspired by comics is being used to teach interaction skills to kids who may lack an instinctive understanding of social cues.
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SAP and Sybase officials gathered in Boston on Thursday to reveal how they plan to bring together their respective technologies in the areas of mobility, analytics, and enterprise information management.
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Just as we thought, HTC’s Droid Incredible for Verizon is getting boosted from Android 2.1 to 2.2 today, which should make plenty of owners (and plenty of non-owners who’ve been unable to find any stock for the past couple months) happy as a clam. Major features include pre-installed Flash 10.1, 720p video recording, mobile hotspot support as first introduced for Verizon on the Droid X, and naturally, all the other standard greatness you’ve come to expect with Froyo. We imagine this update will take a couple weeks to roll out to everyone, so show some patience, Droid Incredible owners — or, you know, do like we do and search frantically for an update.zip to get posted somewhere.
[Thanks, Ryan]Verizon confirms Android 2.2 update for Droid Incredible hits today originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | @VZWSupport (Twitter) | Email this | Comments
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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, to friends) is responsible for a good many innovations that the denizens of the year 2030 take for granted, and the new i³Space certainly won’t tarnish the institute’s record. Built on the foundation of AIST’s own GyroCubeSensuous for tactile feedback, the i³Space tracks the motion of the operator’s two index fingers in 3D space, and sends back “illusionary tactile and kinesthetic sense” through the controllers. Details are still a little thin, but AIST plans to show the full rig off at CEDEC next week, with eyes on reducing the size of the system of courting gaming, design, and medical applications in the near future. Hopefully they throw in this Earth-prodding simulator for free, we always wanted to have a good go at Greenland.AIST’s i3Space tactile 3D interface: destroyer of (virtual) worlds originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink DVICE | Tech-On! | Email this | Comments
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Microsoft didn’t bother to send me one of the Windows Phone 7 prototypes they’ve been circulating to media over the past week–which is OK, because I had my hands full reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S–but I’m hoping they’ll see the light over the next couple of days, if only so I can jump into the review fray.A lot of those reviews seem very polite. There’s some praise for the Windows Phone 7 operating system, which attempts to aggregate Web content and applications into subject-specific Hubs, as opposed to arranging individual apps on a grid-like home screen. And then there’s Galen Gruman, who basically went nuclear.”Microsoft needs to kill Windows Phone 7 and avoid further embarrassing itself by shipping this throwback,” Gruman wrote in a July 15 posting on InfoWorld’s Mobile Edge blog. “It’s not a question of whether Windows Phone 7 will fail–it will–but how long it will take Microsoft to admit the failure. For the company’s sake, the earlier it fesses up, the better.”According to Gruman, Windows Phone 7’s sins include an “awkward and unsophisticated” UI that “recalls Microsoft’s history of clunky design” and use of “inexcusably old technology” such as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft, he says, has come up with “an imperfect copy of an old iPhone.”Gruman predicts that Windows Phone 7 devices will find their way to the carriers’ remainder bins by “in January 2011.”I’m not so sure that’s the case here. I haven’t had the chance to dropkick a Windows Phone 7 device of my very own (you truly never know how well a smartphone can suit your needs until you test whether it can survive a stray boot), but I have seen it in action, in a very limited way. Based off that limited interaction, the user interface seemed intuitive, and certainly nothing like the iPhone circa 2007.The bigger question–and this will affect its rate of consumer adoption–is how versatile the UI proves in handling people’s lives and apps. If it’s a snap to add new apps, or update information for a particular Hub, then Windows Phone 7 could prove sticky in the marketplace. If it’s a pain, then users will shy away.If anything’s going to kill Windows Phone 7, it’s the Windows Phone Marketplace. I’ve said this before: if third-party developers don’t get onboard with their apps and games, then this platform will die–but that death will be gradual, certainly not the “$25 bin by President’s Day” demise predicted by Gruman.At this point, the developer front seems a toss-up. On one hand, Microsoft is pushing very hard (and even offering cash, rumor has it) for developers to port their wares on Windows Phone 7. On the other, I’ve been hearing a lot of angry rumblings from Windows Mobile developers–who could be the natural core group for Phone 7 development–grumbling about how Microsoft’s attempt at a smartphone “reset” has left them with a.) no easy upgrade path for their existing apps to the new platform, and b.) needing to adapt to the all-new requirements of building for Phone 7. And at least one of those developers is a pretty major-sized entity.So we shall see. If Microsoft mismanages the launch–I’ve listed some of the things they need to do to succeed, here–then they’re in very big trouble. But I think they could have the platform to make it work, or at least halt their slide in smartphone market share.What do you all think?
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The same day it demonstrated its 787 Dreamliner simulator and customer training center, Boeing announced another delivery delay for the aircraft.
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What is your company doing to collect all those emails, PDFs, and other documents that never get printed? Regulators want to know….
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As a bona fide lover of Red Vines*, I found the Red Vines World of Sharing social media promotion quite intruiging. Essentially you go to the site, gain access by logging in or connecting with Facebook, and you then leave a note about Red Vines or sharing or kittens or whatever. After every few notes they run a contest to give away licorice or a similar prize and the stated goal is to cover the world in Red Vines, at least symbolically. Aside from the “shilling for licorice” angle, it seems they did a good job of mixing a few important aspects of social media marketing including, but not limited to, offering prizes and accepting the risk of a flood of penis jokes if 4chan gets ahold of their site.
Candy manufacturers have it hard. You really can’t say much more about Red Vines than has been already passed down through generations by word of mouth. They also know that this cohort of parents is pretty down on candy and that these same parents also flails around on Facebook a lot. Putting two and two together, you see, makes a social media marketing plan and that’s what Red Vines did. By attempting this goofy, odd stunt, they reminded me, at least, to go buy some Red Vines.
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Nilay’s out of town, but you can still have 2/3rds the fun for the same low price of nothing when today’s podcast starts rolling somewhere in the vicinity of 6:30PM EST. The chat and show can be found after the break.
P.S. And don’t forget that Ustream has Android and iPhone clients as well, if you out and about and you can’t join in on the Flash-based fun below.
Update: It’s over, thanks for tuning in! If you missed the live stream watch out for the download sometime tomorrow.
The Engadget Podcast, live at 6:30PM EST! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Hulu Plus is more than just extra content, it’s an iOS, game console and TV-based app that streams in HD, but if programming is indeed your primary concern, you might be disappointed with what’s included in your $10 monthly fee. Research firm One Touch Intelligence decided to catalog each and every episode on Hulu and Hulu Plus, and discovered the paid service had 28,418 full-length episodes — only 14 percent more than regular Hulu’s 24,854 — during one week of testing in August. Looking at the sample chart immediately above, it’s plain to see you’re getting your money’s worth if you’re a Supernanny or Law & Order fan, but Hulu’s got a content deal or three to make if it wants Hulu Plus to leapfrog its existing ad-supported service.
Continue reading Hulu Plus has 14 percent more content than Hulu, 2,840 percent more Family GuyHulu Plus has 14 percent more content than Hulu, 2,840 percent more Family Guy originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Gizmodo | | Email this | Comments
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The astronauts’ “wake-up songs” for the final two space shuttle missions have been put to a poll. 4chan may want to be aware that they can’t write in Rick Astley.
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Gripe Line reader Scott recently sent out a challenge to find out what’s going on with all those pesky Adobe Reader updates. “The frequency of these updates is getting quite ridiculous,” he laments. “This is worse than Microsoft ever was before they started their monthly updates. Can someone please find out why they are sending out so many updates lately?”
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When a beloved console like the Sega Dreamcast rises from the ashes it’s not a huge surprise, but we never thought we’d see the day when the homebrew community would unearth Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. Behold: the Flashboy Plus, the second of two flash carts developed specifically to spur development for Nintendo’s original stereoscopic system, featuring a new backup battery (unlike the 2007 original) and a full 16Mbit of memory, reportedly enough to fit any one of the system’s 22 commercially released games. Since the battery only keeps one save state stored at a time and there’s no way to read the battery-backed memory, you’ll still have to finish one game before you start another, but at least this way you don’t lose your progress every time you shut the system off. Believe it or not, the first batch of 50 units has already been spoken for, but you haven’t necessarily missed out yet; €90 (about $113) is your ticket to an elite (read: tiny) virtual utopia of piracy and homebrew when the second set ships at year’s end.Flashboy Plus revives Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, literally one game at a time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Technabob | Planet VirtualBoy | Email this | Comments
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Berkeley Lab scientists using PhyloChip analysis say a previously undiscovered species of ocean microbe is aggressively gobbling oil plumes from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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In the mood for a good Ma Bell camera phone (emphasis on the camera more than phone)? Sony Ericsson and AT&T have just now decided to bring the Symbian S60-packing Vivaz stateside, still touting a 720p autofocus HD video mode and a 8.1 megapixel camera. Price of entry is $80 on contract (after $50 mail-in rebate) and according to the press release will hit retail September 5th in Galaxy Blue — or should you like a more specified celestial color, a Venus Ruby option will be offered online for a limited time. Just don’t forget it’s a resistive screen; lose the stylus or you’ll be keeping a fingernail long for about two birthdays. Press release after the break.Continue reading Sony Ericsson Vivaz coming September 5th to AT&TSony Ericsson Vivaz coming September 5th to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Apple makes it official: the much-talked about music, iPod, iTunes, and possible Apple TV event takes place in San Francisco next Wednesday. Originally posted at Circuit Breaker
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We’ve seen some extremely DIY auto-lacing sneakers, but it looks like the big boys — Nike — have thought about getting in on the game as well. Patent filings which occurred in early through late 2009 show off an automatic lacing system that is pretty reminiscent of Marty McFly’s invention in Back to the Future, and we can tell you that from the looks of it, it’s a future we’d definitely like to inhabit. The shoes appear to boast a charging system and lights in addition to the lacing component, and while so few patent apps ever lead to a real retail product, we’re really rooting for this one. One more image below.Continue reading Nike files patent for auto-lacing sneakers, Marty McFly doth protestNike files patent for auto-lacing sneakers, Marty McFly doth protest originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Nice Kicks | World Intellectual Property Organization | Email this | Comments
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Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of “concepts, techniques, know-how and best practices for developing successful and distinctive social games”. Zynga’s playbook has entered the realm of legend and was even the subject of a lawsuit.
SCVNGR, which makes a mobile game with real-world challenges, has a playdeck. It is a deck of cards listing nearly 50 different game mechanics that can be mixed and matched to create the foundation for different types of games. I’ve republished the accompanying document below, which should be interesting to anybody trying to inject a gaming dimension into their products.
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Acknowledging a reported hacking of its new Android Market licensing server, Google maintained this week that the licensing service represents a “significant step forward in terms of protection.”
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The current smartphone playing field looks amazingly familiar. In fact, I think I’ve seen this movie before. The names have changed, but the roles remain the same. The players today are RIM, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Twenty years ago it was IBM, Apple, Microsoft, and Novell.
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Windows 95 marks its 15-year anniversary this week. Reading through the online reminiscences, I realized I’d forgotten the sheer size of Microsoft’s marketing blitz behind the operating system: the Empire State Building lit up in company’s colors, the gazillion dollars reportedly shelled out for the Stones’ “Start Me Up,” and even a “cyber sitcom” starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry.(I’d embed the YouTube clip for that last one, but I don’t want to be responsible when its sheer mind-numbing awfulness drives you to leap from the nearest roof.)Originally codenamed Chicago, Windows 95 introduced the Start menu, taskbar, and limited multimedia support. Its system requirements seem quaint in retrospect: PC with 386DX or higher processor (486 recommended), 4MB of memory, one 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive, VGA or higher screen resolution.The operating system also developed into a platform for Microsoft’s push onto the Internet–although Windows 95 didn’t come bundled with Internet Explorer upon its initial release, the company included the browser with its Windows 95 Plus! Pack. The conjoining of Windows with Internet Explorer, of course, would eventually help trigger Microsoft’s antitrust headache.With those elements (and more) in place, Windows 95’s interface was far more user-friendly than the clunkier Windows 3.1x, helping accelerate its adoption even without the $300 million marketing campaign.Microsoft eventually declared Windows 95 obsolete in 2001. Even so, the operating system established the template for later Windows versions–including Windows 7, which Microsoft claims has sold 175 million licenses since its October 2009 release. The question is, having spent 15 years hewing so close to a certain model for its operating systems, where does Microsoft go from here? The cloud, and the attendant paradigm-shift, looms ever closer.
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In the mood for a good Ma Bell camera phone (emphasis on the camera more than phone)? Sony Ericsson and AT&T have just now decided to bring the Symbian S60-packing Vivaz stateside, still touting a 720p autofocus HD video mode and a 8.1 megapixel camera. Price of entry is $80 on contract (after $50 mail-in rebate) and according to the press release will hit retail September 5th in Galaxy Blue — or should you like a more specified celestial color, a Venus Ruby option will be offered online for a limited time. Just don’t forget it’s a resistive screen; lose the stylus or you’ll be keeping a fingernail long for about two birthdays. Press release after the break.Continue reading Sony Ericsson Vivaz coming September 5th to AT&TSony Ericsson Vivaz coming September 5th to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Oracle’s lawsuit against Google has uncovered an interesting fact: Before last week, not many people knew what Android was, exactly.
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It’s on like “Donkey Kong,” as the kids say.
Days after Microsoft’s lead attorney opened fire (rhetorically speaking) on Yahoo Japan’s selection of Google for its search and search ad technology, Microsoft announced it would take more concrete steps to scuttle the deal.
“We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining why we believe that this deal is substantially more harmful to competition than Google’s deal with Yahoo in 2008 that the U.S. Dept. of Justice found to be illegal,” a Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK in an e-mail July 30.
In a July 27 statement e-mailed to eWEEK, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith argued that the Yahoo Japan deal “gives Google virtually 100 percent of all searches in Japan, both paid and unpaid.” For its part, Yahoo Japan has insisted that Google’s Japanese-language services currently outpace those of Microsoft.
Bing currently powers Yahoo’s back-end search in 59 countries, and Microsoft no doubt hopes that the major components of its search-and-advertising deal with the Web portal company–which will see Bing power search for all of Yahoo’s online properties, while Yahoo takes over worldwide sales force duties for both companies’ search advertisers–will be in place by the end of 2010.
But Yahoo only owns 35 percent of Yahoo Japan (according to Bloomberg), meaning the subsidiary can choose its vendors without mother-ship interference. Now, ordinarily, I’d caveat that statement with “in theory,” but Yahoo Japan CEO Masahiro Inoue seems determined to go his own road on this one; if the U.S. Yahoo tried to apply leverage before this situation erupted, it evidently didn’t work.
As I mentioned in my previous post on this, the brouhaha suggests that Microsoft may face a decidedly heavy battle in some markets as it tries to expand Bing’s international reach. The latest twist suggests that Microsoft is willing to use the tools at its disposal, including an army of lawyers, to make that happen; it’ll be interesting to see what happens when Redmond tries to face down an opponent with equally substantive cash flow and leverage.
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We specifically told you guys not to tell your friends at Sony about a certain “feature” of EA Sports whereby the player is charged $10 to unlock online content and multiplayer functionality. And what do we have here? It looks like someone spilled the beans, because GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that Sony Computer Entertainment head Andrew House has been giving the matter some serious thought. “On the principle of making online portions of the game available or unlocked from the disc-based release for a fee,” he said, “we’re broadly supportive… and we’re exploring actively the same option for our own content.” Of course, this runs counter the free and democratic nature of PlayStation Network, but you know how strategies can change once someone gets dollar signs in their eyes.Sony ponders charging for ‘online pass’ game functionality originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Engadget Spanish, Joystiq | GameIndustry.biz | Email this | Comments
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We specifically told you guys not to tell your friends at Sony about a certain “feature” of EA Sports whereby the player is charged $10 to unlock online content and multiplayer functionality. And what do we have here? It looks like someone spilled the beans, because GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that Sony Computer Entertainment head Andrew House has been giving the matter some serious thought. “On the principle of making online portions of the game available or unlocked from the disc-based release for a fee,” he said, “we’re broadly supportive… and we’re exploring actively the same option for our own content.” Of course, this runs counter the free and democratic nature of PlayStation Network, but you know how strategies can change once someone gets dollar signs in their eyes.Sony ponders charging for ‘online pass’ game functionality originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Engadget Spanish, Joystiq | GameIndustry.biz | Email this | Comments
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Qilroy, a Qualcomm Service Labs-incubated project, launches today as a platform that groups tweets and other status updates by location. Like “calling a payphone at the mall,” Qilroy introduces a concept called peer-to-place communication, which enables multi-platform conversations to take place from anywhere in the world.
The name is a Qualcomm take-off of “Kilroy Was Here and the service lets users share their location with others and also see a visual of all the conversations happening around any location. Users can type in any zip code or place like “The Eiffel Tower” or “Athens, Greece” for instance and interact through the Qilroy platform, Facebook, or Twitter with anyone in that location who is sending open updates from Twitter, Foursquare, or Gowalla.
Like, “I’m near [insert closeby restaurant here]. What’s the wait like?”
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Look who’s back. The LCD plus digitizer combo that we first laid eyes on last month seems to have leaked out again, still claiming it’ll be part of Apple’s upcoming (unannounced, but popular knowledge anyway) iPod touch 4th generation refresh. It continues to insist it’ll have a front-facing camera, pointing to the rounded hole in its forehead as evidence, and we’re now inclined to trust it that little bit more given the leaking site’s prior record. A visual inspection reveals it to have the same fused design as on the iPhone 4, which naturally invites speculation that the retina display will be pulling some PMP duty as well. Skip past the break to see the new screen side-by-side with Apple’s latest phone display and third-gen iPod touch hardware.Continue reading Possible iPod touch LCD and digitizer assembly compared to older gen, iPhone 4 (video)Possible iPod touch LCD and digitizer assembly compared to older gen, iPhone 4 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink NowhereElse.fr | SmartPhoneMedic (YouTube) | Email this | Comments
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Some more interesting stuff on the Chrome OS hardware front has started to pop up courtesy of Google’s own Chromium OS bug reports. Multiple references have been made to a mysterious Acer ZGA machine, which we have on good authority is also referred to generically as Google’s “dogfood device” in bug reports — dogfood referring to the practice of using your own products before you unleash them on the world. Even more interesting, someone actually managed to post a syslog of the machine, which is running an Atom N455 processor, has a 8GB SanDisk pSSD-S2 drive, sports a webcam, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, an ambient light sensor (for screen dimming, or possibly a backlit keyboard), and a Synaptics touchpad. Synaptics makes all sorts of touchpads, but is best known for its higher-end innovations, such as the MacBook-style clickpads found in the HP Envy series. Of course, all of these specs could change, or this machine could be merely in as a test bed for Chrome OS, and not planned for market — like Microsoft is using its ASUS prototype with Windows Phone 7 — but a July 26th mention of a “PVT run” (Product Verification Test) could point to this machine being almost ready for actual production.
[Thanks, Mark P]Acer ‘ZGA’ Chrome OS netbook starts popping up in Google bug reports originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | macles | Email this | Comments
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If you know what this is and where it’s located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
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If an iPhone does appear on Verizon, don’t expect Apple to change its antenna design, an expert said today. “The antenna could care less what the modulation technique is,” said Spencer Webb, an antenna engineer with nearly a dozen patents to his credit, and the president of AntennaSys , a mobile device antenna design and consulting firm.
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The Bluetooth SIG has a long history of promoting its members’ “special interests” by leaking valuable tidbits about their handsets before they’re announced. The recently unearthed LG C900 is the latest of these, being pegged for a launch date “around” September 28th by the SIG’s detail page on the phone. The QWERTY slider, which is referred to in C900N, C900k, and C900B versions, will be available in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Phone Arena conjectures that the launch date lines up with AT&T’s marketing materials timing and the slated Q4 launch of Windows Phone 7, so the C900 probably has a decent chance of being the first Windows Phone 7 phones to market if LG’s own GW910 or some more secretive set doesn’t beat it to the punch. Still, September is a bit earlier than any of the launch windows Microsoft has managed to let slip, and as far as we know Microsoft won’t even be accepting apps in the Marketplace before October.LG C900 due to bring Windows Phone 7 to market near September 28th, according to Bluetooth SIG originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Phone Arena | Bluetooth SIG | Email this | Comments
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Mint is a new floor-cleaning robot that can wipe down hard surfaces with dust cloths. How does it stack up to iRobot’s Scooba?
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Even if you can look beyond the SIM lock and the aging Android 1.6 OS on the Dell Streak, there’s still one irksome problem: the lack of a mini or micro-USB port (Dell clearly missed the USB party last summer). Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, John from Linux Slate decided to build an adapter for his tabletphone’s dock connector, which he confirmed to be PDMI instead of a proprietary design. The procedure was simple: John cut up his Streak’s cable plug, soldered a mini USB socket onto the board, and housed the new assembly within the Streak’s cable clip. Voilà! Until third-party USB-to-PDMI cables start to show up in the stores, it’s either this mod or cough up $20 for a spare cable from Dell. See the adapter in action after the break.Continue reading Dell Streak procures a hacked-up mini USB adapter, gets friendly with your dusty cablesDell Streak procures a hacked-up mini USB adapter, gets friendly with your dusty cables originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Streak Smart | Linux Slate | Email this | Comments
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Microsoft is touting the fact that it’s had about 300,000 downloads of its development tools for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile OS, which is expected to
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Road Trip 2010: For several weeks and over 5,266 miles, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman sought the best of the Northeast.
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Organizations seeking a reliable ally to help defend the network should seriously consider enlisting Wireshark, a free, open source network protocol analyzer that has been around since 1998. Created by Gerald Combs and worked on by hundreds of contributing developers, this tool has been the go-to soldier in the trenches for tens of millions of network troubleshooters and the envy of almost every other open source program.
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Road Trip 2010: It wouldn’t be possible to tackle weeks’ worth of reporting spread over 13 states without a good car, and for that, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman got the chance to drive 5,000 miles in Porsche’s Panamera.
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WePay, a Y Combinator backed startup that aims to take the hassle out of group paying, is making its platform more social today with the launch of two Facebook apps that help users collect money for events and groups.
WePay?s Sell Tickets app allows users to sell tickets for any Facebook Event and lets users create an event directly from the app itself. Similarly, the Collect Money app gives users the ability to collect money from members of any Facebook Group. All payments that take place are redirected to WePay’s site, ensuring security for credit card and bank account payments.
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The federally funded home weatherization program aimed at low-income families is no longer just about caulk and insulation.
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Microsoft has known since at least February that dozens of Windows applications, including many of its own, harbor bugs that hackers can exploit to seize control of computers, an academic researcher said Sunday. At least 19 of the bugs can be exploited remotely, Taeho Kwon, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California Davis, said in a paper he published in February and presented last month at an international conference.
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All hot and bothered this summer? You could do worse than visiting Kori no Suizokukan, where hundreds of fish look like they’re swimming through solid ice.
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You could well be a pro at getting virtual headshots, but without a decent internet connection, your shooting is just as good as a baby weeing aimlessly at the ceiling. As such, Demon — which may or may not be a hint about the operator — reckons some obsessed gamers wouldn’t mind switching over to its £21.99 ($34.19) per month Game Pro service, in return for a low latency ADSL2+ broadband connection of up to 20Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. Sure, this is hardly a bargain compared to other 20Mbps offerings, but with traffic prioritization, a static IP address, and 24-hour support all in the box, you might actually start winning for a change.Continue reading Demon aims to please British gamers with ‘very low latency,’ traffic-prioritizing broadband serviceDemon aims to please British gamers with ‘very low latency,’ traffic-prioritizing broadband service originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Slashdot | Demon | Email this | Comments
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With apologies to AOL and Frank Gruber, few big tech hits have come out of Washington DC. Which is strange, because on paper, DC has those ?ingredients? for a high-tech ecosystem that so-called experts love to tout.
It has money, it has universities, it has AOL which could theoretically spin smart coders off, it has a big, honking, recession-proof customer right there in the form of the government. And there are a ton of smart tech people in the city. On the book tour for Sarah’s last book, nearly 400 people came to the DC event where she did a signing?a record on the 15-city tour.
But for all these attributes, DC has struggled to define its tech scene as more than just AOL. That may be changing. There is a cadre of smart, young techies pulled in by the Obama campaign and its social-media-can-win-elections-after-all aftermath. A lot of those people are spinning into companies that hope to use SMS, Twitter and other basic social media tactics to do more than just win elections?to change the world.
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Sure, the Samsung Vibrant’s a T-Mobile device and the Samsung Captivate belongs to AT&T, but there’s no longer any reason you can’t swap them around — all you need is a simple script and a USB cable to completely unlock your phone. A cracker-jack team at XDA-Developers discovered that Galaxy S unlock codes aren’t kept in a secure remote server, but merely stored in a .BAK file on the device itself, which you find with a hex editor and key right in when inserting a new SIM card of your choice. We tested it out on both Vibrant and Captivate and were up and running in less than five minutes each time, and wonder of wonders, the Vibrant gave us a 3G data connection (with 2Mbps down) using an AT&T SIM. Sadly, we can’t say the inverse for the Captivate, which pulled down standard EDGE speeds on T-Mobile, but this is already far more than the hacking community could have hoped for. The best part? None of this requires you to actually root the phone, and if you’re worried about warranty you can re-lock the handset with the very same code.
[Thanks, Brad]
Myriam Joire contributed to this report.Confirmed: Galaxy S unlock codes are stored in your phone, Vibrant capable of AT&T 3G originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | XDA-Developers | Email this | Comments
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Road Trip 2010: It wouldn’t be possible to tackle weeks’ worth of reporting spread over 13 states without a good car, and for that, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman got the chance to drive 5,000 miles in Porsche’s Panamera.
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Road Trip 2010: It wouldn’t be possible to tackle weeks’ worth of reporting spread over 13 states without a good car, and for that, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman got the chance to drive 5,000 miles in Porsche’s Panamera.
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Asustek Computer plans to launch its first tablet device with Google’s Android mobile operating system in March, the company’s CEO said Friday. The Android tablet will be the third in the Eee Pad family and will cost less than $399, said Jerry Shen, CEO of Asustek, speaking to reporters after the company’s second quarter earnings conference.
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Chris Anderson is a brilliant man. Here at InfoWorld, we are devotees of his Long Tail theory, which posits that unpopular content is just as valuable as popular content. That just seems to work incredibly well for us. As for his endorsement of all things “free” — well, are you paying to read this?
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Prices for energy efficient and long-lasting LEDs inch downward. Home Depot is now offering a downlight made by Cree for under $50 online.
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HTML5, with its promises of plug-in free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, would seem to spell the end of proprietary RIA (rich Internet application) platforms. But the reports of the death of Flash and Silverlight, as the saying goes, have been greatly exaggerated.
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Whereas AT&T’s move to tiered smartphone data pricing signaled “the end of unlimited” to some, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA has just defied that notion with an all-you-can-eat broadband buffet priced at $40 per month. First reported by IntoMobile and confirmed today on the carrier’s Facebook page, the plan will replace existing $20, $40 and $60 monthly offerings that currently top out at just 5GB, so only those accustomed to paying $20 a month (for 300MB) won’t get a totally sweet deal. As you can see above, the $10 for 100MB over 10 days plan will still stay pat, so you can still choose whether to sip or gulp down Sprint network packets when the plans purportedly go into effect on August 24th.Virgin Mobile USA fortells unlimited prepaid mobile broadband for $40 a month originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | IntoMobile | Email this | Comments
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Smartphones and modems are about to get faster mobile broadband connections — 14.4Mbps and 42Mbps, repectively — using HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access).
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Ocean Renewable Power Company’s underwater tide turbine has surpassed power supply predictions, and the company expects a commercial grid connection as soon as 2011.
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The Japanese company is bringing its expertise in Web browsers to the Apple device. Will iLunascape, which incorporates tabbed browsing and bottom-of-screen controls, challenge Safari? Originally posted at Software, Interrupted
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Starting Sunday, GRIP project to get close-up view of tropical cyclones to learn how they become hurricanes and help people better forecast and prepare for such disasters.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the next generation of Droid has entered the building. Verizon officially took the wraps off its Motorola Droid 2 Tuesday morning, and now it is available at a store near you.
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Researchers in the United Kingdom find that sports bras that both lift and compress large breasts to prevent them from swaying greatly improve comfort during exercise.
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Hey, did something radical happen on the site this week? Maybe some tech news, too? And did you say that we’ll have special guest Myriam Joire from Engadget Mobile on the show today as well? Sounds like this is on Engadget Podcast you don’t want to miss. We’ll be live at 3:45PM EST to hash it out — but the chat room below is open now, so get comfy.
P.S. And don’t forget that Ustream has Android and iPhone clients as well, if you out and about and you can’t join in on the Flash-based fun below.
Update: It’s over — but don’t worry if you missed it, our regular podcast post will be up tomorrow.The Engadget Podcast, live at 3:45PM EST! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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After two years of inflated prices, NAND flash memory prices are expected to dip down to a key $1 per gigabyte level, according to a new report by research firm iSuppli.
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Hewlett-Packard announced its third-quarter financial results on Thursday and insisted it was “looking forward, not back” following the surprise departure two weeks ago of Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd. Cathie Lesjak, HP’s CFO who was also made interim CEO after Hurd’s departure, told reporters that HP’s strategy is unlikely to change when it appoints a new, permanent CEO.
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Apple’s retail stores won’t have a challenger from Microsoft, at least in the short term.
That was one of the nuggets pulled from an Aug. 10 talk at the Oppenheimer Annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference by Bill Koefoed, Microsoft’s general manager of investor relations. Near the end of that event, an analyst in the audience asked a question about Microsoft’s retail stores, which have been opening over the past year in cities such as Denver and San Diego.
“I think we have six open today, or we’ve announced six,” Koefoed told the audience, according to a transcript released by Microsoft. “We think stores are important. We think they’re important to give the end customer the experience of our products in an environment that we think we can optimize.”
That being said, Koefoed added, “We’ve got to get the model right, and I think [Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's] been pretty clear that the stores need to make money.” To that end, “We’re continuing to grow at a prudent pace, one that we’re learning from, and one that we’re going to continue to learn from [to] make sure that we’re making the right investments in the right places.”
After months of Microsoft executives trumpeting that they were preparing to challenge Apple’s retail experience head-on (and hiring George Blankenship, the former Gap executive who helped launch Apple’s retail arm in 2001, to assist in the effort), the company opened stores in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mission Viejo, Calif., in late 2009.
Since then, Microsoft has seemed content to dip its toes in the water: a store opening here, another one there. The company could be reluctant to challenge big-box stores such as Best Buy that already sell Microsoft products and would doubtlessly be irritated if Redmond tried to seize a major chunk of their electronics revenue. But this could also be a more generalized feeling-out of the retail space; no sense in spending hundreds of millions on invading strip malls across the country if your company lacks the institutional knowledge to make such a strategy work.
In any case, Microsoft likely won’t be challenging Apple store-for-store any time soon–but based on Koefoed’s comments, the company obviously sees value in continuing the retail effort.
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Nikon’s new projector-equipped camera has broken cover today and we’ve naturally had a little play around with it. Regrettably, the Japanese DSLR dominator had pretty early firmware on board and refused to let us take any sample pictures or video, but we were able to compile a few impressions anyhow. Firstly, as to the S1100pj’s body, it’s your typical compact affair — feeling sturdy and light, it’s basically fit for its intended purpose, but no more or less than that. We found accessing the compartment for the battery and memory card a pain, as it doesn’t auto-lock when you close it, requiring an unnecessary bit of finger adroitness, and removing and replacing batteries can also be a fiddly affair. There’s not much good to say about the built-in “tilt stand” at the bottom, either — it only alters the angle of projection slightly and feels too plasticky — but at least it gives you an extra option.
On the plus side of things, the battery is a generous 1,050 mAh unit, and there’s a pleasingly instant access scheme for the camera’s most regularly used functions. Video recording has a dedicated button, as does switching to projector mode. Both seem to work quite well too, with the 720p video looking smooth and buttery, but then on-camera playback can be deceiving. We got to check out those 14 lumens of projection power in a dimly lit room, and came away with a pair of impressions. Firstly, you should be able to squeeze out a decent-ish 40-inch image out of this shooter if you set the right mood with your lighting, and secondly, focusing is a relative cinch with the included controls on top. All in all, given that it’s intended as a quickie display station at parties, we think the S1100pj does what it promises. We rarely praise compact camera software here, but we’d be remiss not to note the saturation adjustment tool on this touchscreen shooter. It was a particular highlight for us and something we could definitely see ourselves getting creative with.
We also spent some time with the S5100, which surprised us with its quick autofocus and generally snappy execution of instructions. Its 720p movie mode also looked competent, but bear in mind that it doesn’t allow you to zoom while recording video. Ah well, such is the fate of budget shooters, we suppose. Hit up the galleries for the hands-on imagery or skip past the break for video of the S1100pj’s projector in action.
Gallery: Nikon Coolpix S1100pj hands-onGallery: Nikon Coolpix S5100 hands-onContinue reading Nikon Coolpix S1100pj and S5100 hands-onNikon Coolpix S1100pj and S5100 hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Remember Apple’s “Get A Mac” ads? They featured Justin Long as a Mac, and John Hodgman as a PC. Throughout a variety of 30-second spots, Mac demonstrated his superiority over fussy, buggy, increasingly frustrated PC:
During the late and unlamented Windows Vista era, those ads forced Microsoft on the defensive; not until the economic recession compelled PC buyers to give serious thought to cheaper devices (allowing Microsoft to score points with a series of ads emphasizing PCs’ ostensible cost-effectiveness), and Windows 7 negated many of the arguments about buggy Microsoft operating systems, did Redmond seem to find its public footing again. The last few “Get A Mac” ads, one of which tried to launch a broadside at Windows 7, were also the series’ weakest:
Now Microsoft’s reviving that old rivalry somewhat, with its PC vs. Mac Website. Some of the information presented here is accurate: Windows PCs really do have more gaming options than Macs, and there are some security advantages.
In other areas, however, Microsoft’s arguments are more subjective. “While some may say Macs are easy, the reality is that they can come with a learning curve,” insists one section. “PCs running Windows 7 look and work more like the computers you’re familiar with, so you can get up and running quickly.”
There are obvious differences between the respective user interfaces of Mac OS X and Windows 7, but anyone who uses one can learn the other fairly quickly. Does it take time? Sure. But I’ve also known technologically inept individuals who, having spent their working lives on Windows machines, were able to make the leap to Mac versatility in an afternoon. I use both operating systems, often side by side, for hours a day; the differences aren’t even close to insurmountably vast.
That aside, Microsoft shoots itself in the foot when it comes to the Website’s Compatibility section. “Apple’s productivity suite file formats won’t open in Microsoft Office on PCs,” this part claims. “This can be a real hassle for Mac users sharing work documents with PC users.”
I suppose that was true a decade ago. And maybe iWork has some compatibility issues, despite Apple’s insistence to the contrary, but I also don’t know a single Mac user who relies on it; everyone in that category uses either Office for Mac or Google Docs. By suggesting that documents created on a Mac are incompatible with a PC, Microsoft seems to be implicitly denigrating its own work in creating Apple software–but given how the company stands to profit more if someone purchases a Windows 7-equipped PC, as opposed to a Mac running Office, I’m sure that position was regarded as the lesser of two corporate evils.
In its public-facing communications, Microsoft likes to emphasize how consumers have a choice. For its part, Apple has a Webpage where it touts the benefits of Macs over PCs. Either way, I’m happy to see the discourse between the two companies has elevated itself above a kindergarten level.
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Prices for energy efficient and long-lasting LEDs inch downward. Home Depot is now offering a downlight made by Cree for under $50 online.
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In the market for a Sony shooter or two? The company’s upcoming lineup can’t seem to stay off the internet, which lucky for you serves as a great source for planning holiday gift plans. First up the Alpha A55, pictured above with an apparent articulating display. According to the DChome forums, there’s a 16.7 megapixel APS CMOS sensor, a translucent mirror, 15-point AF, 1080 / 60i video, 10fps continuous shooting, an ISO range of 100 to 25,600, dual memory card slots (we’d guess SD and MemoryStick), and an eventual retail price of $900 to $1,000. Also pictured on the site is the A33 — with an unmoving display — spec’d at a reported 14 megapixels, ISO range of 100 to 12,800, and 1080i video. The expected launch is August 24th, but bear in mind this all is just a rumor for now — keep your wallet and check and don’t do anything rash, k?Sony Alpha A55 makes articulating cameo, A33 and some rumored specs tag along originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Sony Alpha Rumors | DChome (1), (2) | Email this | Comments
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No, they aren’t wasting your favorite vice: The butanol fuel is made from whiskey by-products that would otherwise be discarded.
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Gevo seeks to scale up its process of using plants to make isobutanol, a renewable hydrocarbon that can be used to make chemicals and liquid fuels, including jet fuel.
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Yahoo Japan has apparently agreed to use Google for its back-end search and advertising system, according to online reports. For Microsoft, the news must be something of an unexpected blow, considering that its 10-year search-and-advertising agreement with Yahoo is currently in the midst of implementation; although Yahoo’s U.S. corporate mother ship only owns about 35 percent of Yahoo Japan (says Bloomberg), you’d think that the sheer magnitude of the agreement would be enough to sway even the most recalcitrant franchise into preemptively jumping onboard the Bing wagon, right? Right?
Wrong, I guess.
“At the present time, we feel there are quite a few areas where Microsoft is not yet ready,” Yahoo Japan Chief Executive Masahiro Inoue told the media during a news conference in Tokyo, according to The New York Times. “Google is one step ahead in Japanese-language services.”
For its part, Microsoft seems furious.
“This agreement is even more anti-competitive than Google’s deal with Yahoo in the United States and Canada that the Department of Justice found to be illegal,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, said in a statement currently drifting around the Web. “The 2008 deal would have locked up 90 percent of paid search advertising. This deal gives Google virtually 100 percent of all searches in Japan, both paid and unpaid.”
Under the terms of the search-and-advertising agreement, Bing will power back-end search for Yahoo’s online properties, while Yahoo takes over worldwide sales force duties for both companies’ search advertisers. Microsoft’s AdCenter platform will power search advertising for Yahoo, as well. Both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission cleared the agreement in February.
Microsoft likely hopes that the deal will result in Yahoo’s search-engine market share porting over to Bing with relatively little attrition. But this brouhaha with Yahoo Japan suggests two things: a.) Yahoo’s global presence is too fractured, with too many other players possibly owning their own little pieces, to make such a transition uniform, and b.) Microsoft may face a very steep uphill battle as it tries to increase Bing’s market presence into new international markets.
Fear Godzilla’s mighty roar!
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At Facebook’s Places event earlier tonight, they noted that their iPhone app would be updated tonight with the new check-in functionality. Sure enough, here it is. Though the App Store update alert hasn’t kicked in yet, if you go to the actual page and redownload it, it should be the latest version (version 3.2).
As you can see, the new Places area is front and center in the app. Clicking on it brings up a list of your friends who have recently checked in to various places. Clicking on those friends shows more details about the place they are at.
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Gevo seeks to scale up its process of using plants to make isobutanol, a renewable hydrocarbon that can be used to make chemicals and liquid fuels, including jet fuel.
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Loaning out your precious DSLR to a friend who doesn’t know shutter from aperture? Got a classroom full of trainee photographers whose lesson requires they be set to a particular mode? Canon’s hoping you’ll drop an extra $129 on a version of the critically-acclaimed EOS 7D that lets you control how your lackeys fire off shots. The $1,829 EOS 7D Studio Version adds four tiers of password-protected locking controls, plus an optional barcode and data transfer kit (to organize and commit large photo sessions to databases) using a custom version of the company’s WFT-E5A wireless transmitter for just $770 more. We can’t say we know anyone who’d use these features, but hey — if enough corporations spring for the advanced model, perhaps the original will drop in price. PR after the break.Continue reading Canon’s EOS 7D ‘Studio Version’ features parental controls, barcode modeCanon’s EOS 7D ‘Studio Version’ features parental controls, barcode mode originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink WIRED | | Email this | Comments
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Researchers in Japan are developing a wheelchair whose camera and laser sensor enable it to track–and follow–the person next to it.
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If anyone’s still in the market for a Kin phone, you’re officially out of luck: Verizon Wireless will no longer carry the devices, 19 days after Microsoft decided to pull the plug due to anemic sales. Dustbin of history (or at least dead tech), here they come.”Verizon Wireless will no longer sell the Kin One or Kin Two in our company-owned stores,” Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney told the blog Phone Scoop on July 19. “Existing customers should not be impacted. There are no current plans to change any of the services associated with either the phone or the customers’ services.”Right before the end, Verizon had slashed the price of the stubby Kin One from $49.99 to $29.99 with a two-year plan; the more rectangular Kin Two was also given a price-tag haircut, from $99.99 to $49.99. But the carrier did nothing to lower the price of the devices’ calling/data plan, which many pundits found excessive.The Kin devices had one cool feature, and that was their ability to seamlessly port users’ photos and other content to a cloud repository–I’m testing a number of upcoming smartphones right now, for a set of reviews, and I sorely wish (with some of them) that it was easier to lift photos and video from the device and into the digital stratosphere. But everything else about Kin was pretty much half-baked, from the social-network updates to the conspicuous absence of games and third-party applications.Given the phones’ narrow target demographic (teenagers and young adults), and lack of true smartphone functionality, I’m not sure there are many lessons that Microsoft can draw from this fiasco, except maybe don’t try it again.
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NASA’s Athlete prototype rover is designed to roll on the moon or Mars. Things got slightly funky at a recent test-drive on Earth.
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Johns Hopkins, Boeing, and Iridium team up on a system called AMPERE that’s meant to provide better monitoring of solar activity that could disrupt electronics on Earth.
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Microsoft didn’t bother to send me one of the Windows Phone 7 prototypes they’ve been circulating to media over the past week–which is OK, because I had my hands full reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S–but I’m hoping they’ll see the light over the next couple of days, if only so I can jump into the review fray.A lot of those reviews seem very polite. There’s some praise for the Windows Phone 7 operating system, which attempts to aggregate Web content and applications into subject-specific Hubs, as opposed to arranging individual apps on a grid-like home screen. And then there’s Galen Gruman, who basically went nuclear.”Microsoft needs to kill Windows Phone 7 and avoid further embarrassing itself by shipping this throwback,” Gruman wrote in a July 15 posting on InfoWorld’s Mobile Edge blog. “It’s not a question of whether Windows Phone 7 will fail–it will–but how long it will take Microsoft to admit the failure. For the company’s sake, the earlier it fesses up, the better.”According to Gruman, Windows Phone 7’s sins include an “awkward and unsophisticated” UI that “recalls Microsoft’s history of clunky design” and use of “inexcusably old technology” such as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft, he says, has come up with “an imperfect copy of an old iPhone.”Gruman predicts that Windows Phone 7 devices will find their way to the carriers’ remainder bins by “in January 2011.”I’m not so sure that’s the case here. I haven’t had the chance to dropkick a Windows Phone 7 device of my very own (you truly never know how well a smartphone can suit your needs until you test whether it can survive a stray boot), but I have seen it in action, in a very limited way. Based off that limited interaction, the user interface seemed intuitive, and certainly nothing like the iPhone circa 2007.The bigger question–and this will affect its rate of consumer adoption–is how versatile the UI proves in handling people’s lives and apps. If it’s a snap to add new apps, or update information for a particular Hub, then Windows Phone 7 could prove sticky in the marketplace. If it’s a pain, then users will shy away.If anything’s going to kill Windows Phone 7, it’s the Windows Phone Marketplace. I’ve said this before: if third-party developers don’t get onboard with their apps and games, then this platform will die–but that death will be gradual, certainly not the “$25 bin by President’s Day” demise predicted by Gruman.At this point, the developer front seems a toss-up. On one hand, Microsoft is pushing very hard (and even offering cash, rumor has it) for developers to port their wares on Windows Phone 7. On the other, I’ve been hearing a lot of angry rumblings from Windows Mobile developers–who could be the natural core group for Phone 7 development–grumbling about how Microsoft’s attempt at a smartphone “reset” has left them with a.) no easy upgrade path for their existing apps to the new platform, and b.) needing to adapt to the all-new requirements of building for Phone 7. And at least one of those developers is a pretty major-sized entity.So we shall see. If Microsoft mismanages the launch–I’ve listed some of the things they need to do to succeed, here–then they’re in very big trouble. But I think they could have the platform to make it work, or at least halt their slide in smartphone market share.What do you all think?
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Aperture and iPhoto now can handle raw photos from new cameras from Panasonic, Olympus, Sony, and Pentax that are compact but have interchangeable lenses. Originally posted at Deep Tech
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer turns 15 years old this week. It’s hard to think of a software application that’s found itself at the center of more sector-changing drama: in addition to the seemingly never-ending browser wars, remember (how could we forget?) that the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows was the fulcrum for the landmark United States v. Microsoft antitrust case.Given its outsized position in peoples’ Web lives–despite strong challenges from Firefox and Google Chrome, IE retains a lion’s share of the browser market–it’s easy to forget the browser’s tiny stature upon its release in August 1995. At 1MB in size, and incapable of displaying graphics or newsgroups, Internet Explorer 1.0 could be forgiven for seeming like an afterthought; it came installed as part of the Internet Jumpstart Kit (subsequently Internet Connection Wizard), itself part of the Windows 95 Plus! Pack.IE descended from an early Web browser named Mosaic, whose source code Microsoft licensed from a small company named Spyglass–which later filed a lawsuit over loss of royalties, once Redmond started giving away IE for free.From that point on, though, the browser grew in complexity. The final version of IE 2.0, released in November 1995, supported newsgroups, cookies, Javascript, frames and the SSL (Secure Socket Layer). A little under a year later, Internet Explorer 3 featured support for .gifs and .jpg files, as well as MIDI sound files and streaming audio. By the time Internet Explorer 4 rolled around in 1997, the browser included another layer of multimedia features (Web Publishing Wizard, where are you now?)In 1998, Microsoft found itself faced with antitrust action over the bundling of its Web browser with Windows. Microsoft argued that browser and operating system were mutually dependent, and eventually reached a settlement with the Department of Justice in 2001. But the case’s effects continue to reverberate, in subtle ways; Microsoft executives’ continual use of the word “choice” when describing any new initiative (“we realize customers have a choice”) is one of those, I suspect.Even with the publicity surrounding antitrust case, though, Internet Explorer continued to hold a dominant market position (Netscape had been thoroughly pulverized by that point). It was only until the rise of Firefox, along with challenges from Google Chrome and other browsers, that IE’s share has been seriously threatened.Then again, not that threatened–at least, not yet. Net Applications estimated IE’s July market share at 60.74 percent, an increase from June’s 60.32 percent. At the same time, the analysis firm estimated Firefox’s share at 22.91 percent, Chrome at 7.16 percent, Safari at 5.09 percent, and Opera at 2.45 percent.If IE’s own history proves anything, though, it’s that things change. Microsoft will launch its public beta of Internet Explorer 9 on Sept. 15, in a high-profile event in San Francisco; their hope is that the browser’s improvements–which reportedly include speedier browser performance, greater compatibility and compliance with standards, and enhanced HTML5 support–will allow it to retain that market share for some time to come.
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You’re probably heard about the Russian spies lurking around American suburbia, doing their best impersonations of Joe and Jane Six-Pack while stealing U.S. intelligence secrets with all the professionalism and grace of the Keystone Kops on a hefty dose of Thorazine. What you probably didn’t know–until today, at least, when the story found its way into seemingly every newspaper in the western world–was that one of the alleged spies worked for a few months as an entry-level software tester at Microsoft.
The suspected spook’s name is Alexey V. Karetnikov, and his Facebook page can be found here. He has 40 friends (sad!), lists his current city as Redmond (but at this point it should say, “Back in the (former) U.S.S.R.”), and features Microsoft and a company called Neobit among his employers. According to Bloomberg, via The Wall Street Journal, Neobit is a software company that lists the Russian Ministry of Defense and the FSB among its partners (warning sign, anyone?)
For Microsoft, this is a prime opportunity. No longer does the company need to endure the humiliation of saying it discontinued the Kin due to poor sales–now they can say the phones’ inglorious demise was the result of sabotage from the inside! That sounds a lot better. And best of all, Karetnikov’s not exactly going to say anything about it, because it’s probably a good bet he’s halfway to Siberia by this point.
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Dear Internet, please stop clicking on the damn Twifficiency link. In case you’re unaware by now given the 4,000 tweets in your tweet stream, it’s not the coolest app ever, it just automatically tweets out your results.
Yes, it alerts you that it will do this with some tiny red text at the bottom of the page, but clearly no one is reading this. According to Twitter Search, a new sucker is born almost every second.
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NASA regularly opens up challenges to foster development of new and exciting space technology, and it looks like it’s come up with a particularly challenging one recently — it’s asking interested parties to develop a solar-powered “Night Rover” that can store up enough energy during the day to continue to work throughout the night. That’s as opposed to the more recent crop of rovers that must do most of their work during the day, which NASA says forces them to pick and choose what tasks the rovers perform, thereby greatly reducing the chance for discoveries. It also notes that simply adding more batteries isn’t an option, since every tiny weight increase significantly adds to the cost of sending something into space. Think you’ve got what it takes? There’s a $1.5 million dollar prize in store for the winner.NASA challenge searches for a solar-powered ‘Night Rover’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Space.com | NASA | Email this | Comments
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While most economists tiptoe nervously around the D word, Dr Paul Kedrosky has no inhibitions about throwing this verbal grenade around in public. We?re in an economic depression, Kedrosky told me when the San Diego based CNBC business pundit came into the TechCrunch.TV studio last week. ?As bad as 1929?, Dr Kedrosky described a situation in which all the governments in the world might have to ?collectively default? if we are avert economic catastrophe.
And it?s not just the world economy that, according to Kaufmann Foundation Senior Fellow, might be dying. While Dr Kedrosky?s doctorate is in economics rather than medicine, death seems to be a major preoccupation on his mind. Whether it?s the death of big venture capital, the death of American airline industry, the death of market fundamentalism, the death of American welfare capitalism or the death of the global economy, Kedrosky ? the author of the Infectious Greed blog – is at his most provocative when announcing the demise of a significant idea or institution.
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Microsoft didn’t bother to send me one of the Windows Phone 7 prototypes they’ve been circulating to media over the past week–which is OK, because I had my hands full reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S–but I’m hoping they’ll see the light over the next couple of days, if only so I can jump into the review fray.A lot of those reviews seem very polite. There’s some praise for the Windows Phone 7 operating system, which attempts to aggregate Web content and applications into subject-specific Hubs, as opposed to arranging individual apps on a grid-like home screen. And then there’s Galen Gruman, who basically went nuclear.”Microsoft needs to kill Windows Phone 7 and avoid further embarrassing itself by shipping this throwback,” Gruman wrote in a July 15 posting on InfoWorld’s Mobile Edge blog. “It’s not a question of whether Windows Phone 7 will fail–it will–but how long it will take Microsoft to admit the failure. For the company’s sake, the earlier it fesses up, the better.”According to Gruman, Windows Phone 7’s sins include an “awkward and unsophisticated” UI that “recalls Microsoft’s history of clunky design” and use of “inexcusably old technology” such as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft, he says, has come up with “an imperfect copy of an old iPhone.”Gruman predicts that Windows Phone 7 devices will find their way to the carriers’ remainder bins by “in January 2011.”I’m not so sure that’s the case here. I haven’t had the chance to dropkick a Windows Phone 7 device of my very own (you truly never know how well a smartphone can suit your needs until you test whether it can survive a stray boot), but I have seen it in action, in a very limited way. Based off that limited interaction, the user interface seemed intuitive, and certainly nothing like the iPhone circa 2007.The bigger question–and this will affect its rate of consumer adoption–is how versatile the UI proves in handling people’s lives and apps. If it’s a snap to add new apps, or update information for a particular Hub, then Windows Phone 7 could prove sticky in the marketplace. If it’s a pain, then users will shy away.If anything’s going to kill Windows Phone 7, it’s the Windows Phone Marketplace. I’ve said this before: if third-party developers don’t get onboard with their apps and games, then this platform will die–but that death will be gradual, certainly not the “$25 bin by President’s Day” demise predicted by Gruman.At this point, the developer front seems a toss-up. On one hand, Microsoft is pushing very hard (and even offering cash, rumor has it) for developers to port their wares on Windows Phone 7. On the other, I’ve been hearing a lot of angry rumblings from Windows Mobile developers–who could be the natural core group for Phone 7 development–grumbling about how Microsoft’s attempt at a smartphone “reset” has left them with a.) no easy upgrade path for their existing apps to the new platform, and b.) needing to adapt to the all-new requirements of building for Phone 7. And at least one of those developers is a pretty major-sized entity.So we shall see. If Microsoft mismanages the launch–I’ve listed some of the things they need to do to succeed, here–then they’re in very big trouble. But I think they could have the platform to make it work, or at least halt their slide in smartphone market share.What do you all think?
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Been waiting for evidence that the iPad will dent the netbook market? If you believe ASUS, that’s already happened, with the Eee PC vendor reporting fewer sales in the second quarter relative to the first and downgrading expectations for the usual peak season of Q3. Apple’s prodigious tablet is specifically named by ASUS CEO Jerry Shen as an invader that is “crowding out” netbook demand, though he remains firmly committed to the small and affordable laptop market. All the same, Shen does also point a finger to the horizon, where a trifecta of Eee Pads marches ever nearer with the intent to do battle with the iPad. So while netbooks aren’t going away in a hurry, these latest numbers seem to suggest they’re set to at least share the lower-end spotlight with touch-friendly slates, or rather Pads.ASUS downgrades Eee PC shipment forecast, blames iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Electronista | DigiTimes | Email this | Comments
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Because August is just that awesome, the Engadget Show is back in a big way next Friday, August 27th at 8pm! You’ve read it right, we’re talking about double Engadget Show! Thrill as Josh sits down with Samsung Chief Strategy Officer Omar Khan to chat up the company’s recent Android sprint, chill as Engadget investigative correspondent Rick Karr scales a skyscraper to check up on an AT&T team tasked with improving New York’s data infrastructure, groove as the Show welcomes Harmonix’s Rock Band 3 team for an exclusive live demo, bask in the infinite wisdom of the round table with Josh, Paul, and a special guest, and rock out to mind numbing chiptunes music in an encore performance from Zen Albatross with visuals from invaderbacca! As usual, we’ll be doing tons of giveaways at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times Center in person. If you’re geographically incapable of joining us in New York City, just tune into the stream at right here on Engadget.
The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint, and will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues (see map after the break). Tickets are — as always — free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served… so get there early! Here’s all the info you need:
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Continue reading The Engadget Show returns next Friday, August 27th with Samsung CSO Omar Khan, Rock Band 3, and much more!The Engadget Show returns next Friday, August 27th with Samsung CSO Omar Khan, Rock Band 3, and much more! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Twinbird sure loves its little waterproof displays — and you might too, if you spend a lot of time watching TV perilously close to water (that is, in the tub or doing dishes). Like its successors, the latest Link Zabady refresh comes with a 7-inch display, base station (with multiple A/V and S-video inputs), and remote. The device also boasts a new and improved waterproof body and an SD card reader for up to 16GB storage on the unit itself. MSRP is open, although Akihabara thinks you’ll spend about ¥60,000 ($700) on one of these bad boys. Now, say “Twinbird Link Zabady” out loud five times fast.Twinbird’s Link Zabady gets SD card reader, the love of TV addicts everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Akihabara News | Twinbird | Email this | Comments
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Zivity is a great site for women and photographers who aren’t afraid to get a little racy to express themselves and potentially be discovered. That said, they obviously don’t have the reach of something like Playboy. But thanks to a new partnership between the two, interested women can potentially get the best of both worlds.
Playboy will host a series of contests on Zivity, the winners of which will get to appear on Playboy.com. The Playboy community will choose themes for each of these contests. Here are some of the ones already being thrown out there: ?Hottest Super Heroes,? ?Show Your Lady Gaga,? ?Suits and Stockings,? ?Glistening Lips,? ?Babes in Boots,? ?Downy Hairs,? ?Girls with Glasses? — you get the idea.
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Now, two of our favorite things in the world just so happen to be ice cream and robots. So combining the two could only lead to awesome things, right? Well, that’s Yaskawa-kun is: a robot that vends ice cream. And yes, it’s super fantastic. Currently working a Tokyo Summerland, Yaskawa-kun has a touchscreen ordering panel, and you can even watch him make your treat for you. While the video below is pretty impressive, this is one thing we just need to see for ourselves.Continue reading Robot sells ice cream, we love him for itRobot sells ice cream, we love him for it originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink CrunchGear | Robonoble | Email this | Comments
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AllThingsD says the annual Apple music and iPod event might hit a little later than usual. Originally posted at Circuit Breaker
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Last we’d heard from Newegg, the major online electronics retailer, was when the company filed for a $175 million IPO back in September 2009.
Now we hear former President Tally Liu, who took over the CEO role from founder and chairman Fred Chang a little over two years ago, is out. Details are scarce for the moment, but Chang will apparently be resuming his previous role as the global CEO of Newegg, while S.C. Lee, the company’s executive vice president and director since 2005, has been appointed as the acting President of Newegg North America.
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Expert paper airplane builder John Collins shares his secrets to building the best flyers–landing gear, nacelle engine housings, and all.
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It’s probably in large part due to the design, but the Entourage Edge never has taken off the way Barnes & Noble’s Nook or Amazon’s Kindle has. But now, that all has a chance to change. The dual-screen e-reader has finally had its very own root canal, and it’s probably the easiest root process we’ve ever seen. The crafty folks over at Android Police were able to tap into the Edge’s inner workings by entering a simple code into the Debug menu, and from there, it’s a few short steps to installing Superuser. The purpose? To restart the imagination of owners, and to snag Android 2.2, the Android Market and a couple of overclocking opportunities if they’re lucky. Head on past the break for a quick video, and then dart to the source link if you’re itching to replicate this on your own device.Continue reading Entourage Edge gets rooted with ease, may get a bit more excitingEntourage Edge gets rooted with ease, may get a bit more exciting originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Android Police | Email this | Comments
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Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform. Oracle’s lawsuit is a disappointing and “baseless” attack not only against Google but also against the open-source Java community, Google spokesman Aaron Zamost said on Friday.
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If you thought you could crawl in a corner and wait for this 3D onslaught to pass, you may be camped out for some time to come. Panasonic is following up on its CES introductions with a new pair of 3D plasmas for the gaming set, the Viera 3D GT25 range. Said series is debuting with a pair to choose from, the 50-inch TC-P50GT25 and the 42-inch TC-P42G25. The latter is Panny’s first-ever 42-inch Full HD 3D plasma, and as you’d expect, both of these guys will require active shutter glasses in order to operate. As for specs? You’re looking at a 1080p panel, 600Hz sub-field drive, 24p playback and (a company first) 2D-to-3D conversion that may or may not be the answer to all of life’s problems. Or maybe they’ll just do what Sony and Samsung have already been doing. The duo should be on retail shelves by the end of this month, with the little guy going for $1,699.95 and the big(ger) guy for $2,099.95.Continue reading Panasonic intros 42- and 50-inch 3D Viera GT25 plasma sets, its first with 2D-to-3D conversionPanasonic intros 42- and 50-inch 3D Viera GT25 plasma sets, its first with 2D-to-3D conversion originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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Hulu is testing the waters for an IPO, hoping to get a valuation of $2 billion, according to the New York Times. A Hulu IPO would be a pure play on the transition of TV to the Web. While the company has not yet filed with the SEC, in the past it claimed to have 2009 revenues of $100 million, and is perhaps on track to double that this year.
It is not clear how profitable Hulu can be, or how viable its long-term survival will be. Hulu already has to fork over as much as half or more of its advertising revenues to its TV network partners/backers (Fox, NBC, and ABC). But it is not a complete experience. You can’t watch CBS shows on Hulu, and earlier this year Viacom decided to pull its most popular shows from Comedy Central. And NBC’s new owner Comcast has its own plans for streaming TV on the Web. It is not clear how long it will continue to support Hulu.
Until we see it’s actual SEC filing with audited financials, investors won’t be able to make an informed decision one way or another. Maybe I’ll be blown away by the numbers and they will change my mind. But from what I know right now, I’d say Hulu still has some proving to do.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the next generation of Droid has entered the building. Verizon officially took the wraps off its Motorola Droid 2 Tuesday morning, and now it is available at a store near you.
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The European Commission has started legal action against Britain, claiming the country is allowing Internet service providers to target users by letting the companies use technology that accesses personal data….
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The company launches volume purchase program for its App Store. Schools can buy 20 or more apps at the same time with purchase vouchers. Originally posted at The Digital Home
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Road Trip 2010: At Celebration V, the founders of the global fan club centered around high-quality Galactic Empire costumery talked about their labor of love.
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Poor Apple. The company just can’t catch a break these days. On Wednesday, Apple Japan began offering customers iPod nano replacements, giving in to local government demands to better address an overheating battery issue affecting Apple’s first generation iPod nano players. Then Friday morning (making the English-language press only now) a busy rush-hour commuter train was stopped in Tokyo to investigate a smell. According to a spokesman, “When a member of staff went to investigate inside the train, a passenger came over showing him that the iPod she was listening to had burst apart.” No injuries were reported and the exact iPod model is still unknown. However, we can be certain that the eight minute delay on Japan’s notoriously timely railway system caused many commuters to question their ability to go on.
[Image courtesy of Maruhachi-kotsu]Overheating iPod delays rush-hour train in Tokyo originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink 9to5Mac | Reuters | Email this | Comments
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Minutes after Apple issued a security update Wednesday, the maker of a 10-day-old jailbreak exploit released code that others could put to use hijacking iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.
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The battle over who will control your smartphone — the business or the user — is already ending. The winner: Both. As more and more companies accept users bringing in their own smartphones (more than half do aready, according to Forrester Research) and IT gives up on the ideas of making everyone use a BlackBerry for business purposes, a profound shift has begun.
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The Droid’s slated for a second helping of Froyo, the Droid 2 came with one, the Droid X will see Android 2.2 by early September — when’s Droid number four getting its due? According to Mashable’s anonymous sources, August 18th will be the day Verizon begins the Droid Incredible’s OTA rollout — which lines up pretty well with what we heard a couple weeks back, not to mention the fact that HTC just released the handset’s Android 2.2 source code. As always, dates slip and Verizon often dishes out small batches at a time, but now you’ve got a ballpark estimate to assuage your troubled mind. And hey, you can always go shoot something in 720p if you get tired of waiting.Droid Incredible getting a spoonful of Froyo on August 18th? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Mashable | Email this | Comments
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The humanoid robot set to join the STS-133 mission on the space shuttle Discovery will be enclosed in specially constructed packaging called Sleepr (Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut).
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Dell on Friday refuted accusations that it was withholding evidence in connection with a long-running case charging the PC maker of willingly selling faulty PCs. Web hosting service provider Advanced Internet Technologies Thursday filed a motion accusing Dell of withholding evidence and failing to produce documents in its possession, according to a court filing. AIT’s motion sought sanctions against Dell.
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Some of you may recall back in 2009 when there was not one, but two Twitpocalypses. As a quick refresher, it was an issue with the unique identity number for tweets and the 32-bit signed and unsigned integer limits. Twitter recommended developers switch over to 64-bit, which they did, and now we’re a long ways away from another issue like that (I’m told something like 316,887,646 years, in fact). But a new issue is much closer: OAuthpocalypse!
Starting on Tuesday, Twitter is going to begin phasing out the Basic Auth support that third-party developers have been using for a long time. Beginning on August 31, they will no longer be able to use it at all to connect third-party apps to Twitter. Instead, they’re being asked to use OAuth, the more secure version of authentication.
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Because standard hues and anachronistic science fiction designs simply won’t mesh, Microsoft will be releasing this kingly limited edition Fable III Xbox 360 controller designed after the in-game Crown of Albion. Street date is October 5th, three weeks before the game itself decides to rear its royal head, and comes with a token for downloading an exclusive in-game tattoo. Look for it priced at $59.99, or about 15 boxes of Lucky Charms depending on your grocery store preferences. Video showcase after the break.Continue reading Fable III’s special edition Xbox 360 controller, morally ambiguous and goldFable III’s special edition Xbox 360 controller, morally ambiguous and gold originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Joystiq | Kotaku | Email this | Comments
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Some of you may recall back in 2009 when there was not one, but two Twitpocalypses. As a quick refresher, it was an issue with the unique identity number for tweets and the 32-bit signed and unsigned integer limits. Twitter recommended developers switch over to 64-bit, which they did, and now we’re a long ways away from another issue like that (I’m told something like 316,887,646 years, in fact). But a new issue is much closer: OAuthpocalypse!
Starting on Tuesday, Twitter is going to begin phasing out the Basic Auth support that third-party developers have been using for a long time. Beginning on August 31, they will no longer be able to use it at all to connect third-party apps to Twitter. Instead, they’re being asked to use OAuth, the more secure version of authentication.
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Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman figured kids were getting hooked on George Lucas’ sci-fi universe through video games and books, but it seems the ‘Star Wars’ movies are still dominant.
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We’ve already heard how Verizon expects to hit the ground running on LTE, starting this November with a launch in 30 markets — New York, LA, Philadelphia, and so forth. Now it looks like you can add San Francisco to that aggressive list, if Boy Genius Report’s leak proves true. Will it beat WiMAX to the region? Your move, Sprint.San Francisco in Verizon’s initial 30-market LTE rollout? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Boy Genius Report | Email this | Comments
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If you know what this is and where it’s located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
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The first prototype of a Nao robot that can develop emotions as it interacts with a human caregiver has been completed. A team across Europe was led by Dr. Lola Cañamero of the University of Herefordshire in the UK to develop the bot, which differs in several significant ways from those that came before it. These robots develop over time in much the way that a child does, learning to interact with and respond to the human beings around them. Modeled after human and chimpanzee childhood development paths, they are programmed to be highly adaptable to the people around them, and to become attached to whatever person is most suited to its needs and ‘personality’ profile. Over time, the more they interact, the more they learn and bond to the human being. These little ones, moreover, are capable of expressing a wide range of emotions, including anger, frustration, fear and happiness. The next steps are to research the bots’ emotional and non-linguistic behavior, and to move toward combining linguistic and non-linguistic communication to become further attached and adapted to them. Yes, we want one.Prototype of robot that develops emotions on interacting with humans officially complete originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | University of Herefordshire | Email this | Comments
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In an interview with CNET, Ford’s K. Venkatesh Prasad talks about how the car is being transformed by, and is itself transforming, the Internet.
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A few trips to India ago, I wrote a piece on Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip.com, an Indian online travel company that I guessed would be the first big Indian ecommerce IPO. Yesterday, the company made good on that?listing on Nasdaq and surging nearly 90%. It fell 5% today, but that’s not bad considering yesterday was the best one-day pop of any American IPO since 2007.
Does that mean a flood of Indian Internet IPOs will follow? Not necessarily. MakeMyTrip is a rare company in India, where Internet penetration is low and more money has been lost than made hoping it would take off faster. Here?s what Indian entrepreneurs should learn from what Kalra did right.
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Asustek Computer plans to launch its first tablet device with Google’s Android mobile operating system in March, the company’s CEO said Friday. The Android tablet will be the third in the Eee Pad family and will cost less than $399, said Jerry Shen, CEO of Asustek, speaking to reporters after the company’s second quarter earnings conference.
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A report from Cenzic as well as the exploitation of Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer during the recent Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest underscore the need to keep bolstering browser security.Web browser developers have responded by tightening security in te face of continued vulnerability to Web exploits….
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Organizations hoping to streamline their deployments of Linux got two new options this week for running the open source OS remotely. In the new version of its VDI (Virtual Desk Infrastructure) software, Oracle has included the ability to run various Linux distributions on thin-client devices. And Novell has announced that Amazon will start offering cloud-based versions of Novell’s SUSE Linux OS on its Elastic Compute Cloud service.
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Nuance strikes deal with Ricoh, other network multifunction printer (MFP) makers to create paper-to-PDF solution for non-programmers….
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Microsoft released its fourth and final Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9 for developers Aug. 4, as part of its ramp-up towards the browser’s September beta release. This Preview features native JavaScript integration and fully hardware-accelerated HTML5, among other features.After previewing IE9 at the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft has released preview versions of IE9 to developers roughly every eight weeks; the three previous Platform Previews have been downloaded more than 2.5 million times, according to Microsoft. The newest preview can be downloaded from this site.”The fourth Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now, shows the opportunity of fully hardware-accelerated HTML5,” Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, wrote in an Aug. 4 posting on the Windows Internet Explorer Weblog. “You can run new test drive samples that show modern SVG and native JavaScript integration in action… With this installment, you will find more performance and more support for the same markup.” By integrating the JavaScript engine directly into the browser, apparently, IE9 achieves speeds greater than its predecessors.Microsoft also contributed 519 new tests to the standards bodies with Platform Preview 4, bringing the total number of tests contributed during IE9 development to 2,138.Despite a strong challenge from rival browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, Internet Explorer has managed to make incremental gains with regard to overall users. Net Applications estimated Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market at 60.74 percent (a slightly increase from June’s 60.32 percent), followed by Firefox with 22.91 percent, Chrome with 7.16 percent, Safari with 5.09 percent, and Opera with 2.45 percent.User adoption of Internet Explorer 8 has been on the rise, even as the respective shares for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 continue their decline. Over the past few months, Microsoft executives have positioned the latter two versions’ slide as a natural trend they encourage. Despite that, Microsoft currently intends to support Internet Explorer 6 through April 2014, despite concerns from some quarters over its security and relevance.But Internet Explorer’s privacy policies have also raised some users’ hackles–particularly after an Aug. 1 article in The Wall Street Journal that alleged company executives had killed the Internet Explorer team’s initiative to create software that counteracts common tracking tools; the concern, apparently, was that such programming would interfere with the company’s online-ad selling operation.In response to that controversy, Microsoft issued an Aug. 1 posting on The Windows Internet Explorer Weblog, insisting that “browsing the Web is fundamentally an information exchange” and that “your Web browser offers information in order to get information.” That posting also called attention to Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Filtering, which allows users to regulate their privacy settings.
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Microsoft released its fourth and final Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9 for developers Aug. 4, as part of its ramp-up towards the browser’s September beta release. This Preview features native JavaScript integration and fully hardware-accelerated HTML5, among other features.After previewing IE9 at the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft has released preview versions of IE9 to developers roughly every eight weeks; the three previous Platform Previews have been downloaded more than 2.5 million times, according to Microsoft. The newest preview can be downloaded from this site.”The fourth Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now, shows the opportunity of fully hardware-accelerated HTML5,” Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, wrote in an Aug. 4 posting on the Windows Internet Explorer Weblog. “You can run new test drive samples that show modern SVG and native JavaScript integration in action… With this installment, you will find more performance and more support for the same markup.” By integrating the JavaScript engine directly into the browser, apparently, IE9 achieves speeds greater than its predecessors.Microsoft also contributed 519 new tests to the standards bodies with Platform Preview 4, bringing the total number of tests contributed during IE9 development to 2,138.Despite a strong challenge from rival browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, Internet Explorer has managed to make incremental gains with regard to overall users. Net Applications estimated Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market at 60.74 percent (a slightly increase from June’s 60.32 percent), followed by Firefox with 22.91 percent, Chrome with 7.16 percent, Safari with 5.09 percent, and Opera with 2.45 percent.User adoption of Internet Explorer 8 has been on the rise, even as the respective shares for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 continue their decline. Over the past few months, Microsoft executives have positioned the latter two versions’ slide as a natural trend they encourage. Despite that, Microsoft currently intends to support Internet Explorer 6 through April 2014, despite concerns from some quarters over its security and relevance.But Internet Explorer’s privacy policies have also raised some users’ hackles–particularly after an Aug. 1 article in The Wall Street Journal that alleged company executives had killed the Internet Explorer team’s initiative to create software that counteracts common tracking tools; the concern, apparently, was that such programming would interfere with the company’s online-ad selling operation.In response to that controversy, Microsoft issued an Aug. 1 posting on The Windows Internet Explorer Weblog, insisting that “browsing the Web is fundamentally an information exchange” and that “your Web browser offers information in order to get information.” That posting also called attention to Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Filtering, which allows users to regulate their privacy settings.
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Road Trip 2010: Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1937 masterpiece still wows hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. Some call it the best home ever built in the U.S. Either way, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman finds it beyond impressive.
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DRS’ latest ARMOR tablet hasn’t quite gotten with the times; the new X10gx sports the same 10.4-inch resistive display, a similar 1.2GHz processor and lags behind consumer products in RAM (2GB) and storage (64GB) almost as badly as predecessors two years prior. The badass quotient, however, has gone through the roof… as this magnesium-shelled puppy is now MIL-STD-810G, IP67 and UL1604 certified. To translate that in layman terms, you can (and they did) drop this 4.7 pound Windows 7 tablet from four feet dozens of times, throw it in a meter-deep pool of water and subject it to sub-freezing, sweltering and potentially explosive environments, all while still accepting standard-height 2.5-inch hard drives. Other features for worthy warriors include integrated GPS, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, optional Gobi broadband and the ability to attach external antennas to each, plus hot-swappable 2400mAh batteries to minimize downtime. Smart card, TPM module and fingerprint scanners come standard, of course, and in a singular gesture to the consumer world, there is one HDMI port. No word on price, but given the construction of these machines, we’re not going to pry — it had just better be competitive with Panasonic’s $3,400 device.Continue reading DRS Armor X10gx gets a handle on military-grade tablet technology, specs it slightly shyDRS Armor X10gx gets a handle on military-grade tablet technology, specs it slightly shy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Laptoping | DRS Armor | Email this | Comments
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Despite a high degree of opposition, Google is defending its net neutrality proposal co-authored with broadband and wireless provider Verizon. The search giant on Thursday issued counterarguments on six points (Google calls them myths) that the company believes have been misunderstood about its proposal.
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An international team of scientists is putting the final touches on a robot to explore mysterious air shafts leading from the queen’s chamber.
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Microsoft announced it will release a public beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Sept. 15, a little less than five weeks from now.
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