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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Decade Archive
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AT&T’s Data Connect overage rates much lower now, still too high
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: ATT
In a perfect world, we'd one day all be guzzling from an endless font of virtually free bandwidth, streaming 1080p video straight to our WXGA handsets with stereo Bluetooth beamed straight to implants in our ear canals. Turning our attention back to reality for a moment, though, and the situation is a little more bleak: carriers are plagued with crappy, overloaded networks, backhaul issues, and a 4G rollout that could easily span a decade. To that end, caps are still firmly in place on US carriers' so-called "unlimited" laptop data plans, and overage rates make the occasional slip-up nasty enough to bankrupt you if you're not offered clemency from customer service. The good news is that AT&T's data overage rates have dropped significantly as of November 6, going from 49 cents per megabyte to 5 cents on the $60 5GB plan and 10 cents on the (nearly useless) $40 200MB plan. That still means you're paying over $50 for each gigabyte of overage -- but as AT&T points out, it's a hell of a lot better than the $500 you were paying before.
[Thanks, Kal]AT&T's Data Connect overage rates much lower now, still too high originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Casio G’zOne Brigade brings whole new level of rugged insanity to the QWERTY clamshell
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Handsets, Verizon Wireless, Casio
We've seen some crazy phones in our day, many of them from Casio, as it turns out, but the G'zOne Brigade really pushes the envelope. It's a ruggedized, weatherproof, Push to Talk QWERTY clamshell, with some of the odder physical protrusions we've seen on a handset this decade. Unfortunately, the QWERTY keyboard, which is populated with large and very clickable keys, is arranged in possibly one of the least sensible layouts conceivable. Software-wise the handset runs the full gamut of V CAST apps and also includes a document viewer for opening Microsoft Office files and PDFs. Price and availability info will be revealed "closer to launch."
Casio G'zOne Brigade brings whole new level of rugged insanity to the QWERTY clamshell originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia sues Apple, says iPhone infringes ten patents
Posted on October 22, 2009 | No CommentsBoom. Nokia's just hit Apple with a patent infringment lawsuit, claiming that "all iPhones models shipped" infringe on ten of Espoo's patents relating to GSM, UMTS, and WiFi. According to Nokia's press release, the patents in question have been licensed by some 40 other companies, "including virtually all the leading mobile device vendors," and Apple's refused to agree to "appropriate" license terms. That's pretty vague, actually -- it could either mean that Apple was willing to license the patents at a price less than what Nokia demanded, or it could mean that Apple refused to pay at all. We'll obviously be covering this one in great detail as it progresses -- stay tuned for a fun decade or so of litigation.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Nokia sues Apple, says iPhone infringes ten patents originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The new Windows 7 commercials: Now we’re tawkin’
Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
Windows 7 is your idea, friends. That's what this new spot - along with some 7 second demos after the jump - is trying to say. It's basically pointing out that Windows 7 is a nice, clean update. Yes, I would agree it's a Vista Service Pack and, in a way, it's kind of like Snow Leopard in that it changes little in the UI but improves quite a bit under the hood. But Windows 7 is Microsoft's big product for 2010 so let's let them have their day in the sun.
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Unsurprising: TI doesn’t approve of calculator hacks
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
It wasn't too long ago that hackers were successful loading custom firmware onto Texas Instruments calculators. This hasn't been sitting well with TI, who have been sending legal threats to the plucky hackers. I'm not surprised, are you?
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Nokia posts first quarterly loss in a decade and why it matters
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No CommentsNokia's shares are down 6.02 percent today on news that Nokia suffered an $834 million loss due to falling handset sales. In this environment it's easy to wave this away as a crisis blip but there may be something more afoot. Nokia blamed the loss on component shortages, a valid concern. Apple has been buying up all the flash it can eat and companies like LG and Samsung are blowing out feature phones to directly compete with Nokia's lower-end models faster than anyone thought possible.
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Nokia posts $834 million quarterly loss, smartphone share down to 35%
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No CommentsRead -- Smartphone slip
Nokia just posted a net loss of 559 million euro (834 million dollars) for the third quarter -- its first quarterly loss in a decade according to the AFP. The loss comes after a reported 20% drop in sales and 1.17 billion euros in write-downs, mostly for impairment charges on Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia also said that its smartphone market share dropped to 35% versus 41% in the previous quarter. With fierce competition from Apple and RIM, and Palm just launching its Pre into Nokia's European stronghold, well, it's a good thing Nokia's branching out into untapped markets like single-core Atom-based netbooks.
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Read -- Nokia Q3 statementNokia posts $834 million quarterly loss, smartphone share down to 35% originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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OLED TV shipments to increase 200% by 2015, but to remain a small niche market
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
You would be hard pressed to find an OLED TV in any brick and mortar retailer besides the Sony Store right now. The technology is amazing, but they just aren't available yet and that might not change soon according to a iSuppli report. The TVs are too small and the prices are too high to gain any real traction. But, as we all know, that will change as the display tech evolves. However, don't expect to see a wall full of OLED because the LCD market isn't slowing down.
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HulloMail Launches Visual Voicemail App For BlackBerry
Posted on September 28, 2009 | No CommentsVoicemail. You hate it. We hate it. Damn near everyone hates it – at least, we all hate it in its current form. It’s an antiquated system desperately hobbling on its last leg in an industry where technology moves forward at a nearly absurd rate. While our phones get bigger and better each and every [...] -
Deep Green, The Pool-Playing Robot
Posted on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
You’ve heard of Deep Blue, the IBM computer that bested Gary Kasparov in a chess match a decade ago. Now, there is Deep Green, a robot that plays pool. And by the looks of this demo video, it can’t lose.
As Delicious founder, and now-Googler, Joshua Schachter points out, it is “only a matter of time before one of these kills a person.”
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How Sony can beat the Kindle, provided it can find its shoes and its glasses after it wakes up
Posted on August 29, 2009 | No Comments
Farhad Manjoo has a nice "what-if" story up on Slate about what Sony can do to beat the Kindle. Sadly, what Manjoo is doing here is akin to helping a little old crazy lady across the street - at best his advice will be ignore and and worst he'll be cursed out.
He basically writes:
Anyone looking to beat the Kindle, then, should look to the iPod: Study everything that Apple's rivals did, and do the opposite.
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OS X drops Palm HotSync support, Newton support next?
Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
iSync 3.1.0, to be shipped with Snow Leopard, has struck another blow against Palm. What is it this time? They've removed Palm HotSync support, relegating thousands of Centro, Treo, Zire, Tungsten, and Palm Pilot users to the darkest corners of Obsoletia. When will this arms race end?
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How Pink Floyd recorded “Money”
Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
This could quite possibly be the first looped beat. Just listen to how they put all this together. I could take or leave Floyd - I didn't smoke enough in high school - but this is just beautiful.
I think the most hilarious thing is that we can all basically do this with Garage Band and a cheap Fender whereas even a decade ago you'd have a hard time recreating this piece of audio.
Video after the jump.
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Rumor: No Palm Eos in 2009?
Posted on August 18, 2009 | No CommentsShortly after we broke the news that Palm was had at work on device to follow the Pre, the details came pouring in: first we got the codename (Pixie), then we got the tentative marketing name (Eos). A few days later, we had a launch window: according to a leaked AT&T slide, the Eos would [...] -
Microsoft admits that it feels threatened by Linux
Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
Microsoft stated publicly in their IRS 10-K filing that they face "strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market." It's important to note that this is the "PC market", not the server market. Microsoft is explicitly stating that their desktop operating system is threatened by Linux. "Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat." I suppose a couple years ago this announcement might have gotten me worked up a bit, but it's 2009 and I'm just like "Yeah, and you're just figuring this out?"