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  • Introducing a Major New Version for BLOCCO, the Application Linking System Jointly Developed by GClue and NTT Docomo

    Posted on April 5, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Apple launches ‘Find My iPhone’ app to remotely wipe and find your lost treasure

    Apple launches ‘Find My iPhone’ app to remotely wipe and find your lost treasure

    Posted on June 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Stay with us here because this one isn't obvious. Apple just launched its Find My iPhone app on the iTunes App Store -- a service previously limited to MobileMe's web interface. The App will find your iPhone or iPad or iPod touch should it be lost or stolen. So obviously, you don't install it on your lost/stolen device, you install it on a different iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, yours or somebody else's (try a Starbucks). Panicked owners can then login with their MobileMe account to map their missing property and then remotely lock the device or wipe the data. The App can only be installed on iOS 3.1.3 or later devices and is available now for free.

    [Thanks, Brian M.]

    Apple launches 'Find My iPhone' app to remotely wipe and find your lost treasure originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • LinkPush: Chrome-to-Phone for the rest of us (those not on Android 2.2)

    LinkPush: Chrome-to-Phone for the rest of us (those not on Android 2.2)

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    One of the neat-o features introduced in Android 2.2 (or Froyo) is "Chrome-to-Phone", which gives the ability to take what you're viewing in the Google Chrome browser (on your PC/Mac), and push it straight to your Froyo phone. I've not yet seen this in person, though, because I'm stuck on a pre-Froyo build of Android. Which sucks. But today, that changes: I found someone that -- like me -- was longing for some Chrome-to-Phone action on their Android 2.1 phone. Unlike me, however, they did something about it. And so I introduce to you LinkPush: the Chrome-to-Phone alternative for the rest of us.

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  • DeHood Launches a Foursquare meets Twitter meets Yelp meets Ning for iPhone

    DeHood Launches a Foursquare meets Twitter meets Yelp meets Ning for iPhone

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    When I was a kid, we used to play on the street in front of my house. Yeah, I know – seems like years ago. Nowadays, with children and families spending more time inside watching TV or playing video games; I feel like there’s nobody outside in my neighborhood anymore. In fact, most people don’t [...]

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  • O2’s UK network hung up, just like the Parliament — were you affected? (Updated with O2’s response)

    O2’s UK network hung up, just like the Parliament — were you affected? (Updated with O2’s response)

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    So word has it that O2's network's been a bit dodgy in some parts of the UK this evening. Did Gordon Brown's resignation cause such an outage? Did all the texts about David Cameron's shiny forehead lead to this network overload? We don't know, but our own phone's been running just fine all evening in Central London. Anyhow, let us know if you were affected -- just don't say it's Nick Clegg's fault.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Update: O2's released a statement about the regional outage:
    "We currently have a fault on our network which is affecting voice and data service across parts of the Midlands, South West and Northern Ireland. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Our engineers are on site to fix the fault as soon as possible."
    This certainly matches what we're seeing on Elliott Kember's crowdsourced map, too. [Thanks, danWebb and Scump]

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    O2's UK network hung up, just like the Parliament -- were you affected? (Updated with O2's response) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 18:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Our alien ancestors have returned in their pliers mothership

    Our alien ancestors have returned in their pliers mothership

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    View Larger Map Look up to see their beautiful craft emerging from the heavens. There should be no doubting that aliens helped create the wonders of the world now. Clearly they are masters at simple tools. [via Reddit]

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  • TSA to track your cellphone signal to improve airport security waiting time

    TSA to track your cellphone signal to improve airport security waiting time

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    The Transportation Security Administration, ominously known as the TSA, wants to be able to track your cellphone while you go through airport security. It wants to do so in order to better understand how airport security lines work in order to streamline the process. That's the official reason. We could always jump to conclusions and assume the TSA just wants to know where you are so the government can control your every move. Not even I am that conspiratorial.

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  • Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap

    Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Tired of all that boring ol’ two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the iPhone? Ready for some fancy new gestures to be thrown into the mix? Wish granted. Soon. Maybe. Last night, Apple released a new beta of iPhone OS 3.2 to developers. As is par for the course at this point, people almost instantly began [...]

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  • Indestructible map is indestructible

    Indestructible map is indestructible

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Maps are among the more invaluable travel tools. Android/iPhone apps are nice, but sometimes analog is just the best way to go. Industrial designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso has these Tyvek city maps in the pipes that look like they can handle anything you throw at them. These maps are waterproof, crease-able, crumble-able, and when you’re done reading [...]

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  • AT&T Navigator update shakes things up

    AT&T Navigator update shakes things up

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    The AT&T Navigator app for iPhone got an update recently, and adds an interesting new feature. From any menu screen, simply shake the iPhone to make the app route you to a predefined "home" address. No need to work through the menus: simply shake your phone. That sounds like a convenient feature. More inside.

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  • The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember at CES when all of the companies were like "We'll convert your 2D to 3D?" Yeah, ummm, nah. What will happen is that studios will back-convert some of their old movies - or movies not shot in 3D - to 3D using a time-consuming, partially automated process. Like in love, the first cut is the deepest:
    The first step is to separate the shot into somewhere between two and eight layers of depth. Take, for example, an image of a man standing in front of a brick wall, with a blue sky behind the wall. The graphic artist might separate the shot into three layers: the man, the wall, and the sky. Then, he would take each layer and draw contour lines around any object that appeared there. He'd start by marking depth lines on the man using a computer, turning the image into a sort of topographical map. He'd repeat the process for any objects in the other layers. (If there were a bird in the sky, he'd draw lines there, too.)

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  • iPhone app helps you set up your home theater

    iPhone app helps you set up your home theater

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you totally one of those home theater geeks? Do you have $29.99 to burn? Then get yourself to the appery and buy the SIM2Calc app. The app allows you to tune your high-end projector for ultimate picture quality. This also assumes that your projector is one of the expensive ones from SIM2.

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  • Nokia’s Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets shelved anyway (video)

    Nokia’s Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets shelved anyway (video)

    Posted on December 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Nokia's Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets archived anyway (video)Sure, GPS can get you to the mall, but can it route you from the Bon Ton down to Penney's? Not so much. Indoor navigation is still generally a paper map reliant affair, something Nokia attempted to do away with at the Kamppi Shopping Center in Helsinki. The service, also called Kamppi, relied on wireless LAN to position people within the complex, meaning anyone with an S60 handset with WiFi could simply browse to kamppi.nokia.mobi, see their current position, locate their friends, and find their way around as shown after the break. 15,000 people tried it out successfully over the summer and so the service is receiving a fitting send-off: it's been "archived." Nokia is pledging to use the tech in future products, but we expect to be reliant on those giant, obelisk-mounted maps for many years to come.

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    Nokia's Kamppi Trial succeeds at indoor positioning, gets shelved anyway (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Customized streetmap clocks from FluidForms

    Customized streetmap clocks from FluidForms

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Just in time for the holiday, Fluid Forms has announced the availability of custom clocks made from street maps. Using their website, you can plug in a zip code or city name and then drag the map around until the portion you want is visible in the clock face. The map will then be fabricated in the color of your choice, to create a truly memorable timepiece. This would make a pretty unique gift to commemorate a special event, or romantic get-away. It's not exactly cheap, at 120 Euros, but it's sure to turn heads.

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  • AT&T ‘hits’ back at Verizon’s Map for That campaign with an ‘ad’ of its own

    AT&T ‘hits’ back at Verizon’s Map for That campaign with an ‘ad’ of its own

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Boy, AT&T sure isn't taking Verizon's Map for That campaign too well. After losing a request for an injunction (for now), the company seems to have decided that the only thing to do in the short term is to start advertising right back at Verizon. Unfortunately, it looks like AT&T threw this one together in a hurry, grabbing a bucket of magnets and a board and sticking them into some abandoned warehouse with Luke Wilson and some Apple-ad-style music. Luke didn't even have time to shave! As for the claims made by Luke's magnetic board, it's hard to take issue with them since they don't really say lot. So AT&T's present and accounted for in this newly minted ad war, but Verizon clearly still has the upper hand... though this is clearly just the beginning. Check out the 30 second spot after the break.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Continue reading AT&T 'hits' back at Verizon's Map for That campaign with an 'ad' of its own

    AT&T 'hits' back at Verizon's Map for That campaign with an 'ad' of its own originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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