Decade Archive

  • fidipidi: a Facebook app for sending real greeting cards

    fidipidi: a Facebook app for sending real greeting cards

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Adobe decries Apple’s ‘walled garden,’ yet pledges ‘best tools’ for HTML5

    Adobe decries Apple’s ‘walled garden,’ yet pledges ‘best tools’ for HTML5

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch says Flash works just fine on the Apple iPhone, thank you very much -- and he thinks that's exactly why Apple keeps on denying it access. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he explained his belief that by eliminating Flash, Cupertino is forcing developers to build apps natively for iPhone OS rather than one of Adobe's cross-platform solutions, and thus creating a "walled garden" of applications that users must flock to an iDevice to be able to use. Lynch compared Apple's control over development formats to 19th century railroad lines that competed for customers by using differently sized rails, and pledged that Adobe would not be part of such a competition. "It's not HTML vs. Flash -- they've been co-existing for over a decade," he said, adding, "We're going to try and make the best tools in the world for HTML5." So, what do you think about that, Steve?

    Adobe decries Apple's 'walled garden,' yet pledges 'best tools' for HTML5 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 19:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Tech world mourns the loss of Jerome York

    Tech world mourns the loss of Jerome York

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Jerome York - Jerry to the folks at Apple - joined the Apple board in 1997, the board that voted Steve Jobs back into the CEO position after a decade in the wilderness. York died of an aneurysm. Apple dedicated their entire front page to his memory:
    Jerry joined Apple's Board in 1997 when most doubted the company's future. He has been a pillar of financial and business expertise and insight on our Board for over a dozen years. It's been a privilege to know and work with Jerry, and I'm going to miss him a lot.

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  • Infinity Ward vs. Activision: Whose side are you on?

    Infinity Ward vs. Activision: Whose side are you on?

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I’m sorry, but I’m absolutely loving this Infinity Ward-Activision brouhaha. Here you have one of the most respected developers out there at odds with a publisher that must seriously have no idea what it’s doing. If Activision thinks it can slap the Call of Duty name on any ol’ game, made by any ol’ developer, [...]

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  • Garmin-Asus announces Android-powered nuvifone A50

    Garmin-Asus announces Android-powered nuvifone A50

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    After building their own operating system for the Garmin nuvifone G60 caused the handset to take roughly a decade (in smart phone years, that is) to come out, it's no surprise that Garmin-Asus is steering clear of that route. They announced back in June of last year that they'd be bring Android into the mix, and this latest handset reflects that.

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  • Happy New Year from CrunchGear

    Happy New Year from CrunchGear

    Posted on January 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Welcome to 2010, friends, and thanks for reading. Here’s to the coming decade of great technology, amazing insights, and fun gadgets. Thanks to StupidInventor for his totally dumb confetti popping thinger.

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  • Daily Crunch: Blue Moon Edition

    Daily Crunch: Blue Moon Edition

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    PSA: Watch for the blue moon this New Year’s Eve TenYears: The best console games of the decade The courts say don’t blame Apple if your iPod caused you to go deaf

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  • Ten gadgets that defined the decade

    Ten gadgets that defined the decade

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Ten_gadgets_that_defined_the_decade'; As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It's arguable that if this wasn't the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets -- one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and personal technology has come into its own in a way never before seen. It's a decade that's been marked the ubiquity of the internet, the downfall of the desktop, and the series finale of Friends, but we've boiled it down to the ten devices we've loved the most and worked the hardest over the past ten years. We even had some of our friends in the tech community chime in with their picks on what they thought was the gadget or tech of the decade -- so join us for a look back at the best (gadget) years ever!

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    Ten gadgets that defined the decade originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • So, what’d you get?

    So, what’d you get?

    Posted on December 25, 2009 | No Comments
    It's the final Christmas morning of the decade, and considering that there are only two or three of these left before the world ends, we certainly hope an exuberant Santa Claus dropped off a fairly swank stash of gadgetry overnight. 'Course, today just wouldn't be today without pigging out on calorie-infested foods and spending copious quantities of time with folks you dearly love and desperately loathe, but frankly -- we're just interested in learning what kind of gizmos entered your life this morning for the first time. Tell us what you did (or didn't) get in comments below, and be sure to tell us if you reacted similarly to the kids posted up after the break (no fibbing -- Sir Kringle is already making his list for next year, don'tcha know?).

    When you're done, check out what people got excited about in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.

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    So, what'd you get? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Super Smash Bros. hits Wii Virtual Console

    Super Smash Bros. hits Wii Virtual Console

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    For those of you who have graduated from college in the past decade, you may want to relive the glory days of playing Super Smash Bros. until 4AM, except this time you’ll just skip an entire day of work instead of a morning class or two. On the plus side, at least you live in a marginally cleaner apartment now.

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  • Volvo to bring C30 plug-in concept to the North American International Auto Show

    Volvo to bring C30 plug-in concept to the North American International Auto Show

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Just as tablets will be all over CES, nearly every auto manufacturer will probably have a plug-in hybrid or fully-electric car at the NAIAS. Of course there are the already-known models from GM, Toyota, Fisker, and Honda. But Volvo announced today that it will also a C30 electric concept to show off.

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  • Motorola Backflip / Enzo bringing Android contortions to AT&T

    Motorola Backflip / Enzo bringing Android contortions to AT&T

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Just when we though this decade had run short on phone form factors, Motorola comes along to blow our minds with this new Backflip / Enzo / Motus device. Amazingly, the most interesting part of this device might not even be the reverse hinge design, which flips the keyboard back behind the screen and faces out when not in use, but the fact that there's a clear-as-day AT&T logo on it -- something we'd heard rumored, but dared not believe until we saw it with our own eyes. The rest of the leaked photos go on to corroborate earlier rumors: there's a touchpad on the back of the keyboard to aid in no-look scrolling, it's running Blur on top of Android 1.5 (with a few AT&T apps, Yahoo search and no Gmail), and it runs the same 528MHz processor as the CLIQ. Hard to believe this very same company builds the Droid.

    [Thanks, Jeff B.]

    Motorola Backflip / Enzo bringing Android contortions to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The PC is dead, long live the PC!

    The PC is dead, long live the PC!

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    If you've been paying any attention to computing technology for more than a couple of years, chances are strong that you've noticed some trends. The trade rags and industry analysts make their money predicting these trends -- or trying to, at any rate -- but it's pretty easy to see for yourself how many of these trends develop. The hot technology when I was a wee Desktop Technician was thin client computing. Dumb terminals on desks would connect to servers in the back room where all the actual computing would occur. To read the trade rags, you'd think my job security was in danger! Obviously thin client computing didn't completely change the face of computing in general. Nor will many of the other trends being predicted by industry experts.

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  • Daily Crunch: Cat People Edition

    Daily Crunch: Cat People Edition

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Boxee and D-Link present the Boxee Box Sonorasaurus, dinosaur DJ of the Cretaceous Period. Now on your iPhone! The 10 best Sci-Fi movies of the past decade

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  • Palm Treo 650 boots into Android, lives a fulfilling life (video)

    Palm Treo 650 boots into Android, lives a fulfilling life (video)

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments

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    It may be half a decade old, but don't lie -- you still whip your Treo 650 out from time to time, toss on some jean shorts and pretend that the size of your stub is synonymous with the big times. If we just rung your bell, you owe it to yourself to have a peek at the video past the break. There are no step-by-step instructions to accompany it (they're out there, trust us), but man, you can just see the life seeping back into it as the code scrolls down and Android grows seconds closer to booting. It's glorious, really.

    [Thanks, Andrew]

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    Palm Treo 650 boots into Android, lives a fulfilling life (video) originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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