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  • Is the Android Market down for you? (update: it’s back)

    Is the Android Market down for you? (update: it’s back)

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    As I began the process of tearing into our brand new Droid X review unit, I ran through the nearly endless mental laundry list of all my favorite Android apps. “I’m totally going to install all of these“, I thought. Only one problem: The Android Market wasn’t showing any apps. None. No Yammers, no Yelps, [...]

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  • SlingPlayer for Android now available for $30

    SlingPlayer for Android now available for $30

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Got a Slingbox? Got an Android phone? Time to put’em together and have some good ol’ fashion place-shifting, remote-television-viewing fun! After a good solid year’s worth of work and a few months of private beta, the Slingbox application for Android just went live in the Market for their standard price of $30 a pop. Like [...]

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  • doubleTwist Launches A Slick Media Player For Android Devices

    doubleTwist Launches A Slick Media Player For Android Devices

    Posted on June 3, 2010 | No Comments
    doubleTwist, the 'iTunes for Android' software that lets you sync your media files with dozens of devices, including Android phones, is one step closer to being a full-fledged solution for media sync on Android. The company has released a native Android application, available on Android Market for free, which offers users a polished media player capable of playing both audio and video. Android is notorious for coming with a clunky default media player, and doubleTwist easily bests it, sporting a much cleaner interface, the ability to import iTunes playlists, and support for audio/video podcasts. That said, there are already plenty of third party solutions that also beat the stock Android player. So what makes doubleTwist different?

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  • The top seven iPad knockoffs

    The top seven iPad knockoffs

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Either you lead or follow and Chinese manufacturing houses have been chasing Apple's designs for years. The iPad is just their latest victim. You can't blame them, really. It's the hottest device since the rotary phone. We've seen a steady stream of clones flowing onto the web for months. Here's the seven best starting with the just-found iPed.

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  • Drumroll, please: Android 2.1 now (finally) available for the Sprint Hero

    Drumroll, please: Android 2.1 now (finally) available for the Sprint Hero

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Never again! Never again do we have to write about Android 2.1 coming to the Sprint Hero. Why? Because it’s here. Though never officially given a date, the Hero 2.1 update was pinned on dozens of leaked purported dates — all of which were either false or missed due to delays. At long last, all that [...]

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  • BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider coming next month as an AT&T exclusive?

    BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider coming next month as an AT&T exclusive?

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    We've still got thousands of unanswered questions (well, maybe not thousands, but definitely dozens) about RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 6 platform -- and it's starting to look like we might be answering those questions at retail by way of this Bold 9800 slider that's been making the rounds lately. BGR claims that the handset is lining up for a mid- to late-June release on AT&T, with the carrier having placed a substantial million-plus unit order to lock it up as an exclusive for some undetermined length of time (much as Verizon has managed to do both with the Storm and the Storm2). We hate to point out the obvious, but from a PR perspective, June's not the best month to be announcing and / or releasing anything that isn't an iPhone -- and when you look at the 9800's form factor and the baby steps that BlackBerry 6 seems to make toward boosting consumer appeal, we don't think you can make an argument that this is a sufficiently different market segment the same way you could with, say, the 9700. In other words: we wouldn't be shocked to see this date slip a bit, assuming the rumor pans out.

    BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider coming next month as an AT&T exclusive? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 13:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • SlingPlayer for Android sneaks into private Beta

    SlingPlayer for Android sneaks into private Beta

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’re the proud owner of both an Android handset and a Slingbox, you might be a bit bummed out right now — and rightly so. While almost every single other smartphone platform around has been slingboxin’ video content freshly piped from a remote TV for years now, Android has, thus far, been left out [...]

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  • Remember the college iPad ban? Yeah, not so much

    Remember the college iPad ban? Yeah, not so much

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Steve “The Animal” Wildstrom posted a follow-up to the story that colleges were banning the iPad because of some problem with connectivity? Well, they aren’t. They’re “examining” the iPad and telling students that they may not work under their networks, but they’re not banning them outright. Steve writes: As the story made the rounds, problems became outright [...]

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  • Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've seen a teenager in the last two years, then you've seen a teenager texting. Seriously, I can't think of a situation in the last couple of years where I saw a teenager without a cell phone. The teenagers in my extended family send text messages seemingly all day long, every day. Now the Pew Internet and American Life project has released a pretty comprehensive analysis of teen texting behavior.

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  • Don’t worry: The Halo movie is still gonna happen

    Don’t worry: The Halo movie is still gonna happen

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Whew, I was worried there for a minute. Microsoft has confirmed that the Halo movie is still in development, putting at ease dozens of people around the world.

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  • Breakthrough? New spreadable electrode may pave way for cheaper LCDs

    Breakthrough? New spreadable electrode may pave way for cheaper LCDs

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    A research team from Japan-based Mitsui Mining & Smelting and Tohoku University says it managed to develop a spreadable electrode that may lead to lower prices for LCD panels in the future. The key element of the technology are indium tin oxide particles of 5-10 nanometers in diameter (pictured) the team has created.

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  • E-E-book readers for kids. The first “E” stands for educational.

    E-E-book readers for kids. The first “E” stands for educational.

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    With all the flaws that e-book readers have, they don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. VTech, makers of fine educational electronics, are rolling out the Flip animated e-book reader, so now, your kids can get in on the action too. I always loved to read as a kid, so on family trips I’d bring [...]

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  • TwitBit: Better than Tweetie, Boxcar and TweetDeck on the iPhone

    TwitBit: Better than Tweetie, Boxcar and TweetDeck on the iPhone

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    TwitBit [iTunes link] is a fantastic Twitter client on the iPhone. With dozens of apps from which to Tweet, competition is stiff. Moreover, once you find a Twitter client you like, it’s even harder to understand why you should switch. TwitBit, a Twitter client from High Order Bit, has finally made me change my ways [...]

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  • Review: Iomega ix4-200d

    Review: Iomega ix4-200d

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Short version: Iomega has been making storage devices for years, and it shows. I’m a fan of NAS hardware and technology, and Iomega has created a product that not only stores data, but has enough value add to make it stand out from the dozens of other black boxes for storing your data. Features: Dual gigabit [...]

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