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  • ShopRunner Announces Launch of New Mobile App

    Posted on July 19, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Poll: is your iPhone 4 retina display seeing yellow spots? (update: losing bars in the hand?)

    Poll: is your iPhone 4 retina display seeing yellow spots? (update: losing bars in the hand?)

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two: why, then, 'tis time to do 't. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! Reports are coming in from some of those lucky early iPhone 4 users that there may exist a not-so-lucky yellow coloration in the bottom right corner of the IPS LCD. We haven't seen this ourselves on any new iPhones, but maybe you've had different experiences. Tell us, is your iPhone 4 seeing yellow?

    Update: As a number of readers have pointed out, there seems to be an issue with how many bars are displayed on screen -- perhaps even a correlation to how it's being held in the hand. According to Walt Mossberg's review, Apple has acknowledged the issue as something that has to do with "the way the bars are presented, not the actual ability to make a call," and that a fix is forthcoming. Indeed, as noted in our review, we've had "far, far fewer dropped calls than we experienced on our 3GS." We're not seeing very many videos showing more dropped call, but the bar change is interesting. Still, to be sure, we're adding another poll.

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    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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    Poll: is your iPhone 4 retina display seeing yellow spots? (update: losing bars in the hand?) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple’s failure is your gain: User iPhone 4 reviews flood the Internet

    Apple’s failure is your gain: User iPhone 4 reviews flood the Internet

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    What’s the difference between a tech pundit and some dude who likes the iPhone? Not much, actually. That’s why I’m glad to see that, thanks to Apple’s inability to release units on the right day this week – it appears FedEx didn’t hold the shipments and basically bombed them out like they would for everyone [...]

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  • Windows Embedded Compact 7 now availale, wins award for most generic name in computing

    Windows Embedded Compact 7 now availale, wins award for most generic name in computing

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Microsoft has made Windows Embedded Compact 7 available for download. You probably have no use for it, unless, I don't know, you've created a homemade tablet in your garage in your spare time.

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  • T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide review

    T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide review

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Like it or not, T-Mobile has now officially turned its myTouch brand into an entire franchise, thanks to the addition of a second model and an entire line of styled accessories -- but it's not just about the hardware. Far from it, in fact: with the myTouch 3G Slide, the carrier has actually built a custom skin on top of HTC's Sense for Android 2.1, and all kidding aside, this phone represents one of the deepest carrier-customized experiences we've ever seen. Seeing how this phone arguably represents the true successor to the G1 -- T-Mobile's (and the world's) first retail Android device -- it's pretty important that they get this right, particularly considering how critical it is for a carrier's bottom line to capitalize on the meaty, profitable midrange of its smartphone lineup. Does the myTouch 3G Slide live up to the G1's good name? Read on.

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    T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all

    Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for allIt was about a year and a half ago that Microsoft decided it could do QR codes better, that any universal coding system needed a dash of color, and launched Tag. Now, the roughly one billion Tags that users have printed have been made a little less illegitimate, with Microsoft bringing the service out of beta and taking the opportunity to toot Tag's trumpet a bit. The codes have appeared in 20 million magazines so far and have recently been deployed to create a sort of tour for geeks in Amsterdam (no word on whether our own international man of mystery is featured). Meanwhile America's cultural hub, the Mall of America, has been similarly bestickered to "enhance customer engagement," but based on our previous experiences at that bastion of commercialism we're thinking scooters and foot massages might have been more effective.

    Microsoft Tag comes out of beta, promises free colorful codes for all originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris getting Android 2.1 any time now

    Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris getting Android 2.1 any time now

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    We'd been hearing rumors lately that HTC's Droid Eris -- a phone that has never quite made it out from under the Droid's shadow -- is in the midst of being discontinued by Verizon, but the imminent launch of an Android 2.1 update might just buy it a new lease on life. In fact, the update makes this phone just about the first Hero variant anywhere in the world to be graced with an upgrade to Google's latest and greatest stuff, beating Sprint's version thanks to a string of delays that have pushed it out to some unidentified period in the second quarter. We've yet to see any reports of folks actually receiving the update notification on their devices, but Verizon's official support Twitter account is tweeting about the upgrade -- which should fix numerous bugs on top of the hotly-anticipated Eclair boost -- so we'd expect it to start hitting the wild shortly. Keep us on top of your experiences in comments, won't you?

    [Thanks, Richard]

    Update: Verizon has now posted the PDF changelog for your perusal while you wait. Thanks, Michael V.!

    Verizon's HTC Droid Eris getting Android 2.1 any time now originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 15:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    While I was recently attending the iCitizen 2010 Symposium, Noora Guldemond, Head of Marketing at Metaio—a company focused on developing Augmented Reality experiences—showed me a few recent AR examples her company developed. This Jurasic Park example curiously doesn’t have the usual black and white “target” that I normally recall seeing in many AR demos. In [...]

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  • HP releases new Pavilion notebooks

    HP releases new Pavilion notebooks

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    If there’s anything better than consumer grade sub-$800 notebooks, God kept it for himself. HP just announced the dm4, dv5, dv6, and dv7 notebooks. All are running the latest processors and the dm4 and dv7 support discrete graphics. The dv6 is a touchscreen laptop, which is great for people who like to touch their screens. Not [...]

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  • Nobody wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down

    Nobody wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like nobody in the TV industry wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down. And who could blame them! ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates are afraid that, if the merger goes down, it'll cause the clouds to darken and the streets to run red with the blood of something or other. Basically, they're scared that the merger will put the in a very bad position indeed.

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  • myDitto NAS designed to be simple, easy to use

    myDitto NAS designed to be simple, easy to use

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Technology can be difficult to use, particularly things like home servers. Dane-Elec plans to make setting up your own home NAS easy, using their myDitto home network server. Installation is intended to be quick and painless, utilizing USB keys to set up the drive rather then the standard CD.

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  • PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

    PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren't addicted at all."

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  • Ribbon Hero for Microsoft Office

    Ribbon Hero for Microsoft Office

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Tired of Guitar Hero, and DJ Hero, and Rock Band Hero, and Flailing Wildly Hero games for your console? Ready to try a fresh new challenge, that might actually provide some real world skills, unlike frantically mashing colored buttons? Try your hand at Ribbon Hero for Microsoft Office!

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  • zForce touchscreens from Neonode

    zForce touchscreens from Neonode

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Anyone remember Neonode? Apparently we do, but not very well. Anyway, these guys are back with a range of touchscreen panels called zForce. These pads range from 5 to 13 in. widescreen models, and are supposed to have plenty of advantages over current resistive and capacitive panel systems. Well that certainly sounds enticing, doesn’t it? And [...]

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  • DIY: Six rotor helicopter

    DIY: Six rotor helicopter

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Adurino seems to be everywhere these days, particularly in the world of DIY. Take for example this helicopter project. Built by a German hobbyist with an inclination for projects related to flight, this 6 rotor helicopter is fast, stable, and extremely responsive. This is obviously not this particular hobbyists first experience with helicopters; he's actually built an 8 rotor version as well.

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