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  • Video: Toshiba’s AC100 Tegra netbook runs on Android 2.1

    Video: Toshiba’s AC100 Tegra netbook runs on Android 2.1

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of the W100 dual touchscreen tablet, Toshiba also unveiled the AC100 today, a 10.1-inch netbook that runs on Android 2.1. One of the big selling points of the AC100, which is the company's first Android machine, is that it can remain in standby mode for up to seven days (the eight hours of battery life aren't too shabby either).

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  • iPhone 4 hits T-Mobile Germany in June, three Canadian carriers in July

    iPhone 4 hits T-Mobile Germany in June, three Canadian carriers in July

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of a three-way UK celebration, Deutche Telekom's reportedly managed to continue its coup -- if the company's Twitter account is to be believed, German exclusivity of the iPhone 4 will go to T-Mobile this June. Meanwhile, the English (and French) speaking world is still rolling out iPhone launch dates, as Canada's Rogers, Telus and Bell Mobility have all quietly announced the new superphone will be available "in the coming weeks" or "coming soon." Americans at Engadget HQ are supremely jealous of your choices, Canada... and rest assured that we feel Germany's pain, too.

    iPhone 4 hits T-Mobile Germany in June, three Canadian carriers in July originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Evernote coming to Canon scanners

    Evernote coming to Canon scanners

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    The Evernote news just doesn't stop, does it? Hot on the heels of Evernote integration with Lexmark printers and Fujitsu scanners comes word that Evernote will be integrating with the new P-150 scanners from Canon.

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  • U.S. Cellular to get exclusive Android-powered Samsung Acclaim

    U.S. Cellular to get exclusive Android-powered Samsung Acclaim

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of the full-QWERTY LG Ally, U.S. Cellular today posted on their Facebook wall the news that they will be launching their own full-QWERTY Android device in July: the Samsung Acclaim. The device will run Android 2.1, have a 3.2″ 480×320 screen, and the previously mentioned full QWERTY keyboard, which will put it [...]

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  • Huzzah! The iPhone 4G gets a Chinese clone [update: now with video!]

    Huzzah! The iPhone 4G gets a Chinese clone [update: now with video!]

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    How many Shanzai does it take to clone the new iPhone? Apparently one and he doesn’t need very long to do it, either. Hot on the heels of the iPhone leak Chinese cloners are already producing iPhone-alikes that look just like the iPhone HD/4G/XXX/]I[. Shenzhai makers in Shenzhen that have the most acute business sense took [...]

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  • Nostalgia week continues with Apple ][, Pascal, and old-fashioned newsletters!

    Nostalgia week continues with Apple ][, Pascal, and old-fashioned newsletters!

    Posted on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of our celebration of the BBS, here's a pair of retro stories to ease your transition into the weekend. First up is "Pascal Spoken Here", by Ian Bogost about the subtle shift over the years in how we view computers. Back in 1977 the advertising clearly identified the connection between using, exploring, and learning a computer in ways that you simply don't see any more. Next up is a blast from the past on Slashdot with a wonderful scan of a computing newsletter from the 1980s.

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  • More DRM-free Sierra titles (Space Quest!) added to GOG.com

    More DRM-free Sierra titles (Space Quest!) added to GOG.com

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of GOG.com’s recent deal with Activision to sell DRM-free classic games, a handful of additional Sierra titles are now available alongside Gabriel Knight.

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  • Engadget now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)!

    Engadget now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)!

    Posted on January 1, 2010 | No Comments
    That's right folks. Hot on the heels of our iPhone app release (which has since skyrocketed up the App Store charts to #1 in News), the webOS version has officially landed. You'll see that the experience is shockingly, wonderfully similar to the iPhone / iPod touch version, but of course there are a couple of webOS flourishes to be found. You can download the application right from your Pre or Pixi by simply popping open the App Catalog and, you know... downloading the thing. This is the 1000th application in the Catalog -- a piece of info we feel pretty psyched about. We've got even more on the way (like BlackBerry and Android versions), so keep it tuned here, but for now... webOS fans, go get your fix!

    Engadget now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Nuance Launches Voice-powered Dragon Search App For iPhone

    Nuance Launches Voice-powered Dragon Search App For iPhone

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of the launch of their Dragon Dictation app (and a short-lived and mostly overblown privacy scandal), Nuance has just launched a second iPhone application: Dragon Search. Heralded by Nuance as the "fast, accurate, and smart way to search online content on your iPhone", Dragon Search allows iPhone users to search across Google, Yahoo!, Bing, iTunes, Twitter, Wiki, or YouTube by speaking their search terms.

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  • Motorola Motus specs leaked, headed for AT&T?

    Motorola Motus specs leaked, headed for AT&T?

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Slowly but surely, the Motorola Motus is coming into focus -- sort of. Hot on the heels of that super blurry shot we saw yesterday, BGR has some specs for the mid-range Android set, which seem to indicate this one's not much more than an AT&T-oriented variant of the Cliq: 850 / 1900 / 2100MHz 7.2Mbps HSDPA, 3.1-inch capacitive 480 x 320 display, microSD expansion, MOTOBLUR, and a Qualcomm MSM 7201A CPU, which will undoubtedly be clocked at 528MHz. Unfortunately, there's no word on what version of Android is on this thing, but we've got the sinking feeling it'll be 1.6, given the last-gen hardware and Blur UI. Not the most impressive first Android set for AT&T -- let's hope there's a better surprise in store.

    Motorola Motus specs leaked, headed for AT&T? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Quick Look: Chumby One

    Quick Look: Chumby One

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Ladies and germs: the Chumby One. Hot on the heels of its soft, leathery older brother, the Chumby One goes for a more non-nonsense aesthetic with hard edges and a more clock-radio feel. As you recall, the device costs $99.95 and allows you to play back little widgets on a tiny touchscreen. It is at once banal in its simplicity and amazingly unfettered in the amount of content you can stream to the device. Our Chumby One came pre-installed with a few widgets including our own news feed and Twitter, which lets you view your Tweets whenever the widget rolls around. I'm going to place this thing on my desk and treat it like a third screen in order to really test the value of this wee fellow. More soon.

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  • Verizon chief says offering the iPhone is Apple’s call

    Verizon chief says offering the iPhone is Apple’s call

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments

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    Remember how in grade school, you usually made fun of the people you had crushes on? Verizon -- hot on the heels of some surgically strategic anti-iPhone marketing to promote its upcoming Android line -- is singing a very different tune in the corporate boardroom, with CEO Ivan Seidenberg (who has a storied reputation for running his mouth) saying during the company's earnings call today that the company "obviously would be interested at any point in the future that they would be interested in having us as a partner." He went on to say that the decision to bring the iPhone to Verizon is "exclusively in Apple's court," though we doubt that's entirely true -- Verizon has a reputation for putting manufacturers and devices through the wringer, and if any carrier in the world were to spike the iPhone for failing acceptance testing or throw its gargantuan weight and reputation around to put pressure on the contract, it'd be Big Red. Either way, though, it's an olive branch and a potential start to the near-constant cries of "if only the iPhone were on Verizon" that we've been hearing for the past two years; we're still having an awful hard time picturing a CDMA-equipped version ever happening, but with Verizon's LTE network progressively lighting up over the next few years, it might just be the perfect opportunity for these wayward souls to finally find common ground, especially with the tune AT&T's singing these days.

    Verizon chief says offering the iPhone is Apple's call originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Kindle DX is going international as well

    The Kindle DX is going international as well

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon has confirmed that they are making the Kindle DX international as well. No word on pricing or availability but you can expect it sometime next year.

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  • Nokia smartbook in the works?

    Nokia smartbook in the works?

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    nokiaHot on the heels of the recently-reported Nokia Booklet 3G netbook, word on the street is that Nokia's also planning an ARM-based smartbook as well (not pictured above).

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  • Linux is big business

    Linux is big business

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    linux developmentHot on the heels of the news of UNIX's 40th anniversary comes a Linux Foundation report entitled Who Writes Linux. This report investigates who is contributing to the Linux kernel, and how much: "Since 2005, over 5000 individual developers from nearly 500 different companies have contributed to the kernel. The Linux kernel, thus, has become a common resource developed on a massive scale by companies which are fierce competitors in other areas." Wow! Click through to see who's been contributing.

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