Exciting News Archive

  • Plex for Mac OS X adds hardware h.264 video decoding

    Plex for Mac OS X adds hardware h.264 video decoding

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Exciting news from Plex, the media center for Mac OS X that won my heart a long time ago. The devs have announced that they've integrated Apple's new video decode acceleration framework into the latest build. In English, that means all h.264-encoded video—and there's a lot of it out there—can be sent to your GPU for decoding, giving your CPU a bit more breathing room. It should make for significantly better 1080p video performance.

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  • Jabra announces white version of their Stone headset

    Jabra announces white version of their Stone headset

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    When Jabra announced the Stone headset last year (and tormented Matt), we really liked it. John dug the design, and Jabra's headset's never lack in the quality department. What they were lacking was color. Well good news, if you've been holding out because you wanted a headset that matched your earbuds, Jabra is ready to help you out.

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  • The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

    The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Exciting news about Apple's iTunes LP: apparently it's a bit of a bust! The fine folks at GigaOM had the foresight to talk to people in the music industry to ask them, six months on, how's iTunes LP doing? Not so great, is the answer. What went wrong?

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  • Remeber that post about the wire shoe thing?

    Remeber that post about the wire shoe thing?

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Exciting news, friends. I've just come back from the future, and I have some news to share. In the year 2050, the United Nations will hold a "Remember Blogging?" panel, and it will be chaired by the encapsulated head, à la Futurama, of Cory Doctorow. There will come a time in the panel when Doctorow's head turns and says, "Now, blogging wasn't all shits and giggles. Some of it was truly dreadful. Par example..." This will all be done in Mandarin Chinese, of course, which replaced English as the lingua franca of the world in 2035. Anyhow, Doctoro's head will say, "You see, I seem to remember a post on reasonably popular tech blog CrunchGear that described some sort of wire-frame shoe. It was rubbish."

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  • Spider-Man 4 production halted, series will be re-boot in 2012; World of Warcraft could be director’s new project

    Spider-Man 4 production halted, series will be re-boot in 2012; World of Warcraft could be director’s new project

    Posted on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
    It looks like production on Spider-Man 4 original story title has all but fallen apart, with director Sam Raimi pulling out, Sony freaking out and re-booting the franchise, and World of Warcraft fans wondering what to expect next. This is very exciting news!

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  • Gogo internet to be available on Continental Airlines flights soon

    Gogo internet to be available on Continental Airlines flights soon

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    The airline WiFi roll-out continues! Next up is Continental installing Gogo service in 21 of its 757-300 planes by the second quarter of 2010. Prices will start at $4.95, but depending on the flight's length, can cost a bit more. This is clearly the most exciting news of the day.

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  • Ericsson trials HSPA-LTE interoperability, we count 7 Gs in total

    Ericsson trials HSPA-LTE interoperability, we count 7 Gs in total

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Since it'll be eons until we enjoy the kind of 4G coverage that we've grown used to on 2G (and to a lesser extent, 3G), manufacturers and carriers are hard at work making sure that we've got a reliable way to interoperate for the foreseeable future -- TeliaSonera, for instance, wants to swap out its customers' modems for LTE / HSPA dual-mode versions once they're available next year. To that end, Ericsson and ST-Ericsson are trumpeting that they've become the first to establish "LTE and HSPA mobility" in accordance with 3GPP's Release 8 specification, which dictates this sort of stuff in a way everyone can agree on (that's a good thing). Verizon's naturally more interested in the CDMA handoffs that have already gone down, but for AT&T and most of the rest of the world, this is exciting news indeed.

    Ericsson trials HSPA-LTE interoperability, we count 7 Gs in total originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Left-handed? New underwear to save precious seconds at the urinal

    Left-handed? New underwear to save precious seconds at the urinal

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Of all the times for me to not live in the UK, THIS IS THE WORST! Reuters is reporting that lefties across the pond will soon be getting special undergarments designed specifically so that they “can finally go to the bathroom as quickly and efficiently as their right-handed colleagues.”

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  • FLO TV partners with Rentrak to launch first mobile TV analytics system in U.S.

    FLO TV partners with Rentrak to launch first mobile TV analytics system in U.S.

    Posted on August 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Late last week, FLO TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of mobile chip juggernaut Qualcomm, announced that it has joined forces with Rentrak to create the “first comprehensive audience measurement and reporting system for multicast mobile TV in the U.S.” Think Nielsen Ratings, but specifically for TV piped to and viewed exclusively on mobile devices. According to [...]

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