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  • Xbox 360 gets a few new options for the same price

    Xbox 360 gets a few new options for the same price

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Here it is, the new Xbox 360. It’s a tad smaller, a whole lot more shinny, and overall a cleaner look — but no slim naming scheme. It comes with built in WiFi, 250 GB all for the same price. Oh, and the are shipping tomorrow. Unless you were at the presser like us and [...]

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  • Friends Around Me iPhone/iPad app lets you interact with friends or strangers, just like they were really there

    Friends Around Me iPhone/iPad app lets you interact with friends or strangers, just like they were really there

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Friends Around Me is a mobile app for iPhone and iPad that searches around you for nearby friends — or anyone else willing to say hello — and enables you to view their profile, look at and rate their photos, chat with them, or send them virtual gifts. The service joins together your Foursquare, Twitter, and [...]

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  • webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake

    webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake

    Posted on May 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Just a day before the Pre Plus launches on AT&T, current Palm owners are experiencing all kinds of problems related to the App Store and their Palm Profiles. Reports indicate the problems started last night, since then users haven't been able to download new apps or update existing ones from the catalog, while those unlucky enough to have tried a reset have had trouble signing back into their Palm profile in the cloud, and have lost some information like call logs and had to resync their various accounts in webOS. The Palm Developer Website is also down, tossing a "back in a few hours" sign in the window and going out for a few afternoon mimosas. For now, PreCentral posters recommend taking the device off of network time and resetting it to any day prior to today which will allow apps to install and update without issue. A post on the official Palm blog indicates things should be back to normal "soon" so AT&T customers can hopefully avoid any date/time trickery just to get their Foursquare checkins going.

    [Thanks, William]

    webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving 'install failed' messages in their wake originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 May 2010 16:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • SlingPlayer for Android sneaks into private Beta

    SlingPlayer for Android sneaks into private Beta

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’re the proud owner of both an Android handset and a Slingbox, you might be a bit bummed out right now — and rightly so. While almost every single other smartphone platform around has been slingboxin’ video content freshly piped from a remote TV for years now, Android has, thus far, been left out [...]

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  • Only one game per matchday will be in 3D during the World Cup

    Only one game per matchday will be in 3D during the World Cup

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    More info on Sony and FIFA's plan to bring us the World Cup in 3D. It turns out that Sony will only film one game per matchday in 3D. That's for all 25 days of the tournament, so if multiple games are played on the same day only one game, presumably the highest profile, will get the 3D treatment.

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  • Microsoft SideWinder X4 gaming keyboard lets you press 26 keys at once

    Microsoft SideWinder X4 gaming keyboard lets you press 26 keys at once

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Using “the industry’s most advanced anti-ghosting technology,” Microsoft’s upcoming SideWinder X4 gaming keyboard “takes anti-ghosting to the next level by allowing gamers to press up to 26 keys at once.” And all for around $60!

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  • Weeks after Marrying Pinch Media, Flurry Gets in Bed with comScore and Starts Revenue Machine

    Weeks after Marrying Pinch Media, Flurry Gets in Bed with comScore and Starts Revenue Machine

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    FlurryComScoreFlurry Analytics has been real busy this holiday season. They recently merged with Pinch Media to create the biggest (in terms of user base) mobile analytics platform on the market. Today, Flurry is announcing a partnership with comScore, Inc. to provide mobile analytics for comScore clientele. This will provide Flurry with a fresh new revenue stream and comScore with the ability to stay relevant with their analytics offerings to existing clientele. Essentially, comScore, inc. has a large sales force and existing relationships with big brands that pay comScore to provide them with analytics. These analytics come primarily through panel data, in which comScore uses a sampling of users as a way to determine web traffic and usage data. By selling Flurry's SDK to clients, comScore can remain relevant by providing mobile analytics on top of their existing web analytics package.

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  • Palm and Sprint issue statement acknowledging Profile backup issue

    Palm and Sprint issue statement acknowledging Profile backup issue

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Even in a world full of racket, it seems that the squeaky wheel still gets the grease. In yet another blow to this whole "cloud" agenda, a vocal segment of Palm users began to notice that information transferred from their online Palm Profile was only a fraction of what it should have been. Today, both Palm and Sprint have issued a joint statement acknowledging the issue and promising to work much, much harder in order to avoid having something like this ruin your life once again. To quote:
    "We are seeing a small number of customers who have experienced issues transferring their Palm Profile information to another Palm webOS device. Palm and Sprint are working closely together to support these customers to successfully transfer their information to the new device."
    Between this mess and the T-Mobile fiasco, we're pretty certain we're being forced to stay on the manual backup bandwagon for the foreseeable future.

    [Thanks, Mike]

    Palm and Sprint issue statement acknowledging Profile backup issue originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware!

    Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware!

    Posted on November 21, 2009 | No Comments
    We've just been alerted to an unsettling trend in Palm Pre land, where strings of replacement devices are a bit too common for comfort: some users have been losing their Palm Profile backup, or a large majority of it, once they pair up their new device. The big issue is that since this problem is rather sporadic, Palm doesn't seem to have a good way to deal with it yet -- the trend in the forums seems to be a complaint sent to Palm, followed up by word of an inability to restore data from Palm a few weeks later. Lucky for these hapless Pre replacers, a particularly repeat offender (working on his seventh Pre) has posted instructions for making sure this sort of data loss doesn't happen to you. His theory is that it has something to do with a refurbished device loaded with an old firmware trying to sync with the newer-firmware-styled backup your dead device made with Palm's servers, and messing stuff up in the process. He recommends walking out of the store before Sprint tries to trip you up, and upgrading and wiping the phone before reactivating it and syncing. Sounds foolproof enough, right? Let's hope.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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    Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Facebook Connect for the DSi goes live in North America

    Facebook Connect for the DSi goes live in North America

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Good morning, everyone! Nintendo pushed out firmware v1.4 last week in Japan and it looks like NA will be getting the same treatment tonight. Sometime after 5PM PT today, Nintendo will be pushing out an update for DSi owners to be able to upload pictures to their Facebook profile page via the DSi. We first [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: A sub-$100 Blu-ray player

    CrunchDeals: A sub-$100 Blu-ray player

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Disclaimer: This player is refurbished and it's a Magnavox. However, it still plays Blu-ray discs and can be had for slightly less than a 100 bones.

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