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  • The Sennheiser EZX60 is just another Bluetooth headset

    The Sennheiser EZX60 is just another Bluetooth headset

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    There doesn't seem to be anything particularly wrong with the EZX60 headset. The $79 wireless headset has a digital noise and echo cancellation processor and a battery that will last 12.5 days on standby or 7.5 hours of talk time. All that seems about right these days. The EZX60 is available now if you're in the market.

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  • Garmin-Asus Echoes the Nuvifone A50 With Their Second Android Phone, The A10

    Garmin-Asus Echoes the Nuvifone A50 With Their Second Android Phone, The A10

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Garmin-Asus today announced their second Android-powered phone, the A10 (for reasons unknown, they're seemingly not calling it a nuvifone). Just like the nuvifone A50, the device aims to be a pedestrian navigation device (as in, for pedestrians, not a boring navigation device), and will come with Garmin's navigation software and maps pre-loaded.

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  • Google, Verizon team up to throw support behind FCC’s net neutrality push

    Google, Verizon team up to throw support behind FCC’s net neutrality push

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments

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    Google and [insert any wireless carrier here] are the last two entities in the world that we'd expect to issue a joint statement on net neutrality, seeing how Google firmly believes the FCC should enforce it regardless of medium while carriers generally want to be exempted -- but Verizon and The Goog have put their differences aside for just one day to put together a thoughtful, lengthy piece on the subject. There aren't any surprises in the piece other than the fact that CEOs Lowell McAdam and Eric Schmidt are personally attributed to the statement, but it echoes what most ISPs have been saying since new FCC chair Julius Genachowski came into play: they generally acknowledge that a free, unhindered internet has led to a better world and that it's in everyone's best interest to make sure that it continues to be that way. They go on to say that "there will be disagreements along the way" -- Google and Verizon don't see eye-to-eye on the finer points, for example -- but that they're all looking forward to a spirited debate with the folks over in Washington. Ultimately, the FCC's ability to effectively police true neutrality on wireless networks ties in deeply with its ability to free up a lot more spectrum -- something the CTIA's been pushing for lately -- and Genachowski recently mentioned that they'd be looking into it, so this could all end up working out without any broken hearts or black eyes.

    Google, Verizon team up to throw support behind FCC's net neutrality push originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Happy Birthday App Store. It’s Been a Good Year

    Happy Birthday App Store. It’s Been a Good Year

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems a lot longer than a year ago that Apple first opened the door of the iTunes App Store, but a year it is, and a lot has happened since real third party applications came to the iPhone and iPod Touch. In that time, the App Store has shifted one and a half billion applications [...]

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  • AT&T Denies Rumors of MMS Delays, Tethering Costs for iPhone

    AT&T Denies Rumors of MMS Delays, Tethering Costs for iPhone

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Without citing a source (not even an anonymous one), blog AppModo claims AT&T will be delaying multimedia-messaging support for iPhone customers until September. The blog also echoes a rumor that a tethering plan will cost an extra $55 per month for iPhone customers. AT&T has denied both these claims. In an e-mail to Wired.com, an AT&T [...]

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