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  • iPhone 5 New York Competition with Smokoo

    Posted on August 22, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Wikileaks not worried post-U.S. Army kerfuffle

    Wikileaks not worried post-U.S. Army kerfuffle

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    A quick update to that Wikileaks story from the other day. The site says that the recent arrest of a U.S. Army analyst who had contributed to the site won't negatively affect the site at all. More importantly, the arrest shouldn't prevent future whistle-blowers from shining the light of truth on humanity's darkest secrets. (That sounds ominous, no?)

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  • Steve Jobs is going to say something at D8 tonight

    Steve Jobs is going to say something at D8 tonight

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    All Things D aka D8 is happening right now and they’re blogging live, describing the exciting things Steve Jobs will say in grave detail. What do you reckon he’ll say? If it’s anything good, I’ll update this post but feel free to posit in comments below. UPDATE – Engadget has some nice coverage as well. Steve [...]

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  • Review: VC Audio Pro recording / audio editing app

    Review: VC Audio Pro recording / audio editing app

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Most recording apps are fairly limited in what you can do with your recording once you’ve made it. VC Audio Pro from VeriCorder is the first multitrack audio editor for the iPlatform and is primarily aimed at journalists making field interviews and whatnot. While the editing and sharing capabilities are pretty powerful, VC Audio Pro [...]

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  • Yet another violent video game debate (but one that doesn’t demonize games per se)

    Yet another violent video game debate (but one that doesn’t demonize games per se)

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    There was another "are violent video games evil?" debate yesterday, this time on BBC Radio in the UK. (We sure do cover a lot of UK-centric news here, don't we?) A group called Mothers Against Violence, whose goal is the complete eradication of violence (OK...), debated games journalists, the radio show hosts, and the video game industry in general. The debate wasn't as silly as you may automatically think, with the anti-violence group coming down on parents rather than violent video games in general. You know, "Be parents for once!"

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  • Microsoft Germany: Sprechen nicht von Apple!

    Microsoft Germany: Sprechen nicht von Apple!

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft’s PR folks in Germany have officially asked journalists not to use or talk about Apple products during their events. Why? Because one journo said his iPhone kicked ass. 9to5 has a translation of the German story which essentially amounts to a Microsoft asking a journalist not to use his Apple products at an event. “While [...]

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  • Ralph de la Vega promises fix for San Francisco and Manhattan coverage, plans to ‘address’ heaviest data users

    Ralph de la Vega promises fix for San Francisco and Manhattan coverage, plans to ‘address’ heaviest data users

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Love that Pandora app? Well, we've got good news and bad news for you. The good news is that AT&T's wireless head honcho Ralph de la Vega says it's hard at work at improving service in San Francisco and Manhattan, where it sees especially high smartphone penetration -- and coincidentally a higher concentration of whiny tech journalists. The bad news, though, is that it might end up hitting you in the pocketbook. Speaking to investors today, de la Vega mentioned that the company is well aware that downtown New Yorkers are suffering, specifically calling out the area for "performing at levels below [its] standards" expressing confidence that it's going to get the problem resolved. In the same breath, though, he assured attendees that independent testing conducted by Global Wireless Solutions shows that a test of over 415 markets (which probably means 416 markets) has AT&T coming out on top for network speed -- something that we found in our testing as well -- and is "within two-tenths of 1 percent of the highest score among major providers" for dropped calls at 1.32 percent averaged nationally. Anyway, about that bad news -- the company has noticed that a huge chunk (some 40 percent) of its broadband is consumed by just 3 percent of smartphone users, and it's suggesting that it'll "address" that through a combination of usage meters (no complaints there) and likely a tiered pricing model that sticks it to the heaviest users "in a way that's consistent with net-neutrality and FCC regulations." At a glance, that sounds "fair" -- we'd rather they not increase data fees across the board to average out a very small number of users -- but the long-lost term "unlimited" still gives us a warm fuzzy that we're hoping to win back sooner or later. When LTE shows up, perhaps?

    Ralph de la Vega promises fix for San Francisco and Manhattan coverage, plans to 'address' heaviest data users originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Tiny spy-friendly Bluetooth earpiece

    Tiny spy-friendly Bluetooth earpiece

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Previously available to law enforcement officials and government agents, you can now get in on the fun as well with the $200 Invisible Bluetooth Earpiece from BrickHouse Security.

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  • In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?

    In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Just hours ago, Apple made an announcement that has developers everywhere dancing down their collective, metaphorical street: In-App Purchase is now good to go in free applications. This, of course, comes just months after Apple essentially told a room full of journalists that such ideas were nonsense – that free apps should always remain absolutely [...]

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  • New restrictions in place for U.S. border laptop searches

    New restrictions in place for U.S. border laptop searches

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    A bit of a corollary to yesterday's story of an ACLU lawsuit designed to ascertain more information about laptop border searches. The Obama Administration has put a whole bunch of new restrictions on the practice, some of which should may the “don't search me” brigade.

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  • The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer

    The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    “Our goal is not to build the most computers. It’s to build the best.” That was Apple COO Tim Cook two days ago during Apple's quarterly earnings call. Sure, it may sound like spin from an executive who doesn't have a better answer as to why Apple isn't competing in the low-end of the market, and thus, gaining market share. But it's not. You need look no further than numbers released today by NPD to understand Apple's strategy. Its revenue share of the "premium" price market — that is, computers over $1,000 — is a staggering 91%. This means that 9 out of every 10 retail dollars that is spent on PCs in that price range, goes to Apple, as Betanews' Joe Wilcox points out. That, for lack of a better word, is insane. Analysts and journalists are often quick to point out Apple's relatively low overall market share (less than 10%). But that completely misses the point of Apple's Mac business. If Apple wanted to make a range of low-end computers, it absolutely could. And such machines would sell like crazy, boosting Apple's market share. But there would have to be some trade-off in quality, and perhaps more importantly to Apple, to its high margins. And as it has proven time and time again, it has no desire to give up either.

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  • SwissMiniGun is World’s Smallest Revolver

    SwissMiniGun is World’s Smallest Revolver

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The SwissMiniGun is officially the smallest gun in the world. Look at the picture on the right and it appears to be just a regular revolver, apart from the “oversized” trigger sticking out the bottom. One glance at the picture on the left, though, shows that it could easily be used as a key fob. But [...]

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