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  • .canon: Canon wants to establish its own top-level domain

    .canon: Canon wants to establish its own top-level domain

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Megalomania or genius marketing move? Canon seriously takes aim at becoming the world's first company with its own generic top-level domain (gTLD), namely ".canon". The new domain would join the likes of .com, .edu, .gov, .org, etc. (Wikipedia has the full list). The Japanese electronics giant announced [press release in English] its plan to acquire the rights for the domain from ICANN today.

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  • Daily Crunch: Unboxing Dots Edition

    Daily Crunch: Unboxing Dots Edition

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Why software costs so much: It’s the packaging! Corduroy: not just on your trousers any more Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel Magnetic quantum dots Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)

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  • Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel

    Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Major Japanese oil wholesaler Nippon Oil and Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Plant Technologies are developing a technology that's supposed to make it possible to mass-produce eco-friendly jet fuel from Euglena, single-celled organisms that live in ponds and lakes. To be more exact, both companies are cooperating with and acquired shares in a Tokyo-based venture called Euglena, Inc., which is trying to find a way to extract oil from these organisms to produce fuel.

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  • Fujifilm and IBM develop magnetic tape that stores 35TB

    Fujifilm and IBM develop magnetic tape that stores 35TB

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Fujifilm and IBM today announced they jointly developed a technology that makes it possible to store 35TB of data on a single magnetic tape. The companies say the tape can store the "text of 35 million books, which would require 248 miles (399 km) of bookshelves". 35TB is about 44 times as much as previously possible.

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  • Samsung keeps rolling with Corby line, adds low-end Corby POP

    Samsung keeps rolling with Corby line, adds low-end Corby POP

    Posted on December 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Samsung's Corby handsets are already targeted toward the lower end of the market -- relatively new territory for full-touch devices -- but they're looking to aim even lower with the new Corby POP, it seems. Having recently popped up on Samsung Mobile's official India site as coming soon, it should feature a 2.8-inch display, integrated FM radio (a must in the Indian market), and a weaksauce 1.3 megapixel cam (down from the Corby's 2 megapixel unit) for an extremely reasonable 7,000 rupees (about $151) unsubsidized. We're not likely to see this one in the States, but seriously -- wouldn't this make a great prepaid phone or backup?

    Samsung keeps rolling with Corby line, adds low-end Corby POP originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Klausner takes aim at RIM, Motorola over visual voicemail patents

    Klausner takes aim at RIM, Motorola over visual voicemail patents

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    It's been quite a few months since we've heard anything from Klausner Technologies, but it looks like the company has finally decided on its next set of targets that are allegedly infringing on its now infamous visual voicemail patents. As announced in a pair of expectedly terse press releases, Klausner says that both RIM and Motorola have now crossed into lawsuit territory with the Blackberry Bold 9700 and Motorola CLIQ, although it isn't specifying what sort of result it's looking for, or exactly how the two devices are infringing on its patents (at least some other RIM and Motorola devices are apparently covered under licenses granted to mobile operators). If the company's past track record with Apple, Verizon, LG, and Google is any indication, however, we wouldn't bet against a settlement.

    Klausner takes aim at RIM, Motorola over visual voicemail patents originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Here are the HTC commercials 95% of YOU will see in the next 6 months anyway

    Here are the HTC commercials 95% of YOU will see in the next 6 months anyway

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    mocoNews ran an interesting article this morning about the massive marketing campaign HTC is plotting. Apparently, the Taiwanese mobile handset maker is about to launch a multi-million dollar advertising campaign over the next 6 months with the aim of becoming a household name in the United States. The company's Executive Director of Marketing, Steven Seto, formerly head of Starbucks’ global brand strategy, tells mocoNews that the campaign is designed to put the HTC brand will be in front of 95 percent of adult cellphone owners in the U.S.

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  • They now use solar technology to propel satellites

    They now use solar technology to propel satellites

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan is getting more active in the solar energy field in recent months, and now, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed a plan under which solar photons will be used to propel satellites in outer space [JP, PDF]. The aim is to make satellites in general more energy-efficient.

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  • Video: Sporty robot Taizou wants the elderly to exercise

    Video: Sporty robot Taizou wants the elderly to exercise

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Another week, another healthcare robot coming put of Japan (and this is generally a good thing). This new model, named Taizou [JP], is developed by the country's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and was unveiled today. Its purpose is to motivate the elderly to exercise more in order to prevent diseases and stay young mentally.

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  • New projector houses a DVD player and is cheap, but pretty ugly

    New projector houses a DVD player and is cheap, but pretty ugly

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Yokohama-based electronics company Kumazaki-Aim has announced a "portable" LED video projector [JP] (size: 268×295×92mm, weight: 2.5kg) that won't win any design awards but houses a DVD player. Buyers also get a screen (132×25×980mm) for their money.

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  • About time: Japan wants to mass-produce electric buses

    About time: Japan wants to mass-produce electric buses

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    We now have "green" cars, bicycles and even trains - so why shouldn't we get electric buses? And apparently Japan asked the same question, as a number of local companies and institutions launched a collaborative project with the aim of developing an eco-friendly, large-size bus.

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  • Hint: Only wear the Wink Glasses when in the comfort of fellow nerds

    Hint: Only wear the Wink Glasses when in the comfort of fellow nerds

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm guessing most of us have experienced the sensation of our eyes glossing over and and losing the ability to focus on the computer screen. It feels like your looking at Magic Eye art, almost like you're looking through the screen. It usually happens after staring at the computer screen for endless hours during an all-nighter LAN party or while sitting in a cubical, mindlessly calling people to refi their mortgage with you. (experience talking there) These Wink Glasses aim to solve that issue by forcing your eye blink. Neat.

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  • Netgear and OpenDNS to filter traffic, replace parents

    Netgear and OpenDNS to filter traffic, replace parents

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm guessing that a lot of households utilize filters on computers to, well, keep the kiddies away from, you know, the Internet sites you look at. Netgear and OpenDNS aim to take that task away from the individual computer and start filtering at the router. That way, every device connected to the Internet through that router - including iPod touches, game consoles, and every computer - will be subject to filtering.

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  • Video: This is what Sweden’s Pirate Party is all about

    Video: This is what Sweden’s Pirate Party is all about

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Probably the name needs to change, but Sweden's Pirate Party has its heart in the right place. It doesn't aim to give everyone the right to download the latest Modest Mouse album from privatetorrents.com all willy nilly (as the Huffington Post implies), but rather to reform copyright laws so that they accurately reflect the 21st century. And as you may already know, the party had its first European MP elected in the most recent elections.

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  • Leaked: T-Mobile Samsung T559 Comeback Specs

    Leaked: T-Mobile Samsung T559 Comeback Specs

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Man, these leakers are cutting it close. The T559 Comeback is purportedly launching tomorrow, but it took up until yesterday for the information to really start pouring out - not that we’re complaining. Yesterday morning gave us product shots, but now we’ve got some specs to roll with. PhoneArena managed to dig up the goods in [...]

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