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  • Video: Hands-on with the Motorola Droid 2

    Video: Hands-on with the Motorola Droid 2

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    You love Motorola, don't you? You've been rockin' each of their models before even the RAZR was cool. So you've no doubt been excited by the upcoming sequel to the brought-moto-back-from-fiery-doom Droid: the Droid 2. Yes, the Droid 2, not X. I know it's getting a litle confusing remembering which Droid is which, but let me remind you: the Droid 2 has a physical QWERTY, the X doesn't. But anyway, Android and Me have posted the world's first* hands-on video with the device, as well as run the device through a few benchmarks. And what did they find? Follow the read link to find out.

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  • iOS 4 Is Going To Up The Ante For Location-Based Startups

    iOS 4 Is Going To Up The Ante For Location-Based Startups

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Yesterday, Robert Scoble wrote a post about "Foursquare's Yelp problem." It's an interesting read, with some good thoughts about how Foursquare can withstand feature-copying from a much larger rival. He asked for my thoughts, so I figured I'd jot some down here. Most importantly, his post got me thinking about the next phase of location, which I think we're just about to enter. First, Scoble's thought that Foursquare might be in trouble because Yelp copied its check-in badge idea seems a bit premature to me. It was a much bigger deal when they added the whole check-in concept back in January, but the fact that Foursquare has started growing faster than ever since that point shows they have an advantage over Yelp in the realm. That advantage is that they have a social graph built for location, Yelp does not (yet).

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  • Facebook Launches Android SDK

    Facebook Launches Android SDK

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Today, Facebook is releasing its first official SDK for Android, offering developers on Google's mobile OS an easy way to tie their Android native apps to Facebook Platform. As AllFacebook noted last week, this SDK is actually more advanced than the iPhone SDK because it features Facebook's Graph API, which was unveiled at its f8 developer conference last month. According to the post on Facebook's Developer blog, the SDK also uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication and the ability to publish stories to Facebook using Feed forms.

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  • TC Disrupt Startup Alley: Knocking Live has 1.6M users, faster growth than Foursquare, Gowalla

    TC Disrupt Startup Alley: Knocking Live has 1.6M users, faster growth than Foursquare, Gowalla

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Who’s nailed peer-to-peer live streaming video on smartphones such as iPhone and Android? It’s not Qik, Ustream or Justin.tv, it’s Knocking Live, an application by bootstrapped Point Heads Software. Interestingly enough, Knocking Live reached 1 million users faster than Foursquare or Gowalla did (see graph). Pointy Heads released Knocking Live in December in collaboration with Sourcebits, [...]

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  • A graph: How much sense Lost makes

    A graph: How much sense Lost makes

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Last nights Lost episode left me confused, bewildered, and frustrated. I mean, what the hell was that? I was sure I understood 75% of the show's happenings last week, and while I'm still confident I know how it's going to end, last night's episode totally screwed up the show's continuity for me. Anyway, that is all. The graph is the post. It's supposed to be funny and would be if it wasn't true. Click through to supersize.

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  • Palm stock sky rockets thanks to Lenovo buyout rumor

    Palm stock sky rockets thanks to Lenovo buyout rumor

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    The graph above pretty much says it all, but to throw in a bit of context: at around 10:30 EDT this morning, a rumor ripped through Wall Street indicating that Lenovo was considering snatching up Palm. In the roughly 3 hours or so that have passed, Palm stock has surged by just over 70 cents, [...]

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  • iFixit pits the iPhone 3GS against the Nexus One infograph style

    iFixit pits the iPhone 3GS against the Nexus One infograph style

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    iFixit is known for its gadget teardowns and self-help repair services. Now we can add large infographs to the mix as well with this large iPhone 3GS vs Nexus One graph comparing everything from the hardware to the manufacturing cost to sales. Our favorite part, however, is in the middle where the steps required to replace each phone's battery is compared. Well played, iFixit, well played. Click through to embiggen.

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  • Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room

    Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like that's the kind of frontier mentality we're getting again today in the nascent Android landscape. Just a couple weeks after launching, mobile ad clearinghouse AdMob reports that the Motorola Droid is already accounting for a whopping 24 percent of all its Android-based traffic -- no small feat, considering that the then-unreleased device didn't even move the needle in their October report (pictured in the left graph). The HTC Dream -- the world's first retail Android device, you might remember -- still reigns supreme at 36 percent, but it's amazing that the entire Android space is still volatile enough to register nearly a 25 percent shift with the launch of a single new device on a single carrier. For comparison, the CLIQ clocks in with a lowly 6 percent -- proof that Verizon's aggressive advertising has been working some magic. Question is, what'll be the next device to completely screw up this pie chart again?

    Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • First review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii gives the game a 9.2 (and guess from who that number’s from!)

    First review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii gives the game a 9.2 (and guess from who that number’s from!)

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Super Mario Bros. Wii doesn't come out here in North America for another five days, but, for whatever reason, it comes out in Australia in two days! That explains why you can find the world's first review (nearest I can tell) on IGN Australia. The Web site gave the game a 9.2 (I swear, these decimal point reviews are 100 percent absurd), but I think it's safe to conclude that the game is, indeed, fun, which is really all you can ask for.

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  • The Mario family tree

    The Mario family tree

    Posted on July 18, 2009 | No Comments
    I doubt that many of us knew just how vast the Mario family tree was. This infograph, made by a dedicated gamer, clearly shows the 28 year history of the brand. Yes, the graph really isn’t really in true family tree format, but as the creator points out, it’s just a video game and it [...]

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  • Impossible-To-Describe Clock Spins and Points

    Impossible-To-Describe Clock Spins and Points

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    There is more than one way to skin a clock: Our own soft-haired and sensitive Daniel Dumas prefers the indecipherable blipping LEDs of Tokyo Flash watches, I rock an old school Casio calculator watch, and Wired.com editor Dylan Tweney actually measures the hour using the shadows cast by the handsome crags on his perfect face [...]

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  • The ZZZ Checker monitors and analyzes your sleeping behavior

    The ZZZ Checker monitors and analyzes your sleeping behavior

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    A Japanese company called Spec Computer is selling a cool new gadget that makes it possible for insomniacs to get behind the reason for their sleeplessness. The good thing about the so-called ZZZ Checker [JP] is that in contrast to similar devices, it doesn't require you to wear anything on your body, for example a wrist band.

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  • Finally, Zensify’s iPhone app shows key word trends across your social graph

    Finally, Zensify’s iPhone app shows key word trends across your social graph

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Zensify is a new lifestreaming iPhone app which lets you update, discover and track pictures, videos and comments across multiple social networks. Other apps have tried to do similar things. But what sets Zensify apart is that it shows the user trends within your social graph in the form of a tag cloud of key words. In other words it brings a lot more intelligence to your social graph. Suddenly, you can see a big trending topic amongst people you follow. I’ve been wanting something similar for a while and I’m not alone. David Winer recently Tweeted: “Wouldn’t it be cool if “trending topics” were localized to the people who are followed by the people you follow.” Well Zensify does this.

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