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  • Virgin Mobile launching prepaid MiFi next week

    Virgin Mobile launching prepaid MiFi next week

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    The spotlight on Sprint's MiFi has definitely faded since the launch of the Overdrive and EVO 4G -- both of which can kick it into high 4G gear when in range -- but Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile is bringing Novatel's groundbreaking mobile hotspot back into the forefront by taking it to the prepaid world. What that means is that you'll be paying $149 for the MiFi itself -- contract free, naturally -- plus any of a number of prepaid data rates ranging from $10 for 100MB all the way up to $60 for 5GB. It's said to be launching next Monday online and in Best Buy and Radio Shack locations -- so if you're an occasional data user, this might be about the best option on the block.

    Virgin Mobile launching prepaid MiFi next week originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Boost Mobile launches Motorola i1 on June 20

    Boost Mobile launches Motorola i1 on June 20

    Posted on June 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Since the Android-powered i1 was originally announced for Sprint's Direct Connect service, you might've assumed that it'd be the first to get a hard launch date -- but subsidiary Boost Mobile is breaking that news first for some reason with the announcement today that the phone is coming June 20 in Boost retail stores plus Bust Buy locations. Pricing hasn't been announced, but Best Buy had previously teased it for $350, so we wouldn't expect this to be a cheap purchase; then again, you've gotta remember that it's coming at you contract-free. Not like you'll be unlocking it and taking it to another iDEN network either way, right?

    Boost Mobile launches Motorola i1 on June 20 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Video: Toshiba’s amazing, tactile feedback-based UI solution for touchpanels

    Video: Toshiba’s amazing, tactile feedback-based UI solution for touchpanels

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Many hardware makers, especially in the mobile device area, are betting high on touchscreens to let users interact with their products. Toshiba subsidiary Toshiba Information Systems has now developed the "New Sensation UI Solution", which is supposed to make user interaction via touchscreens more intuitive through tactile feedback. While this approach isn't new in itself, Toshiba's technology is different from other solutions as it doesn't actually "move" hardware through actuators. Instead, the system is based on a special film that's affixed to the touchpanel. That film, made by a Finnish company called Senseg, gives tactile feedback to the user when he or she touches the screen, charging the film.

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  • Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel

    Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Major Japanese oil wholesaler Nippon Oil and Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Plant Technologies are developing a technology that's supposed to make it possible to mass-produce eco-friendly jet fuel from Euglena, single-celled organisms that live in ponds and lakes. To be more exact, both companies are cooperating with and acquired shares in a Tokyo-based venture called Euglena, Inc., which is trying to find a way to extract oil from these organisms to produce fuel.

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  • Zii Trinity mobile platform packs 1080p punch, looking for OEM love

    Zii Trinity mobile platform packs 1080p punch, looking for OEM love

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Ready to start lusting after a new smartphone? If Creative has its way, you'll soon be enjoying Full HD video on a 3.5 / 4G device, with built-in WiFi, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, accelerated 3D graphics, and mini-HDMI and Composite video outputs. The newly announced 3.1-inch, multitouch-capable Zii Trinity has been designed by Creative subsidiary Ziilabs, and will be licensed out to clients who'll be able to customize a Zii-optimized Android install and Plaszma interface. As if we haven't got enough smartphone ecosystems knocking about already, this also marks the introduction of ZiiLife, which aims to be both a content delivery and productivity suite. Powered by the ARM-based ZMS-05 or ZMS-08, the new handset actually seems destined to perform plenty of KIRF and grey market duties, judging by Creative's "strategic partnerships" with Chinese manufacturers, but that might be no bad thing as, according to Gartner, the grey market is booming right now.

    Zii Trinity mobile platform packs 1080p punch, looking for OEM love originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Germany ousts BlackBerry for government VIPs

    Germany ousts BlackBerry for government VIPs

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    RIM may have recently opened a facility in Bochum, but that apparently wasn't enough Bavarian love to save it from being canned as the German government's platform of choice for its high-security needs. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has been selected to lead up an effort to procure "several thousand" customized handsets with mega-uncrackable encryption, winning the deal over the old BlackBerry standby thanks to concerns that state secrets are being transmitted overseas -- to Canada, specifically. Canada has always struck us as a pretty trustworthy bunch of good, hard-workingfolks, but then again, it's all fun and games until Canadian Motor Works, Canadawagen, Canada-Benz, and Canadorsche all come out of nowhere.

    [Thanks, Toby]

    Germany ousts BlackBerry for government VIPs originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Solar energy and lithium-ion batteries: Sanyo now builds “green” homes in Japan

    Solar energy and lithium-ion batteries: Sanyo now builds “green” homes in Japan

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Sanyo is already being considered Japan's "greenest" brand in the consumer electronics field (which is the main reason Panasonic is about to acquire the company), but them building complete, eco-friendly buildings is certainly new. Sanyo Homes [JP], a wholly-owned subsidiary, will start marketing all-electric homes with lithium ion batteries providing back up power to Japanese customers as early as tomorrow. (Sorry for the tiny picture, which shows a CGI-model of how these houses look like.)

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  • NEC prototypes battery-less remote control

    NEC prototypes battery-less remote control

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    NEC Electronics, an NEC subsidiary, has announced the development of a remote control [JP] that works without using batteries. Every time users push a button on the device, they generate a small amount of electricity through vibration. NEC says this is enough to turn on or off a TV (or any other electric appliance), switch channels or control the volume.

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  • “Green Tap”: NEC develops energy-saving power strip

    “Green Tap”: NEC develops energy-saving power strip

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    NEC subsidiary NEC System Technologies has developed a power strip [JP] with a built-in processor, sensor (the device pictured on the right) and remote control that can cut power consumption by as much as 15% and more. The company says the so-called Green Tap, which sports four outlets, can be used by both offices and private homes.

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  • Finally: Panasonic to convert Sanyo into 100% subsidiary next month

    Finally: Panasonic to convert Sanyo into 100% subsidiary next month

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments
    The deal has been in the making for months now, but yesterday Panasonic finally announced a tender offer for Sanyo Electric, paving the way to convert Sanyo into a wholly owned subsidiary as early as the middle of next month.

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  • T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup

    T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup

    Posted on October 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they've likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft's servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven't been locally backed up are gone. Apparently if you don't turn off your Sidekick and make sure its battery doesn't run out you can salvage what's currently stored on the device, otherwise you're out of luck: Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as "extremely low". T-Mobile Sidekick users have been suffering from a major outage all week, and that issue apparently hasn't been resolved either.

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  • SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made

    SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments

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    What exactly does the equivalent of roughly $830 buy you in Pantech's home market these days? Well, it'll apparently get you signed up for the priciest device South Korea's third-largest handset manufacturer has ever made, the Dupont from subsidiary SKY. As far as we can tell, this thing is more show than go, thanks largely to a weakling 3-inch WQVGA display and 3 megapixel camera -- but then again, it's hard to argue with designer tie-ins and questionably tasteful gold accents, isn't it? Look for this one on local carrier SKT, and for once, we're totally fine with the fact that Pantech is concentrating on low-end messaging devices over on AT&T.

    [Via Unwired View]

    SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • T-Mo T-oBuy O-Range I-n U-K

    T-Mo T-oBuy O-Range I-n U-K

    Posted on September 8, 2009 | No Comments
    robot-love Rumor has it that T-Mobile UK and Orange UK will merge, creating a 28.4 million customer uber-carrier. The next largest carrier will be Telefonica's O2, the former heavyweight. The deal will be signed by November and the merged company will share networks and CRM services in the UK. This does not directly effect T-Mobile's German parent company except in that it will lose its subsidiary in the UK.

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  • ASUS doesn’t see a clear market for smartbooks

    ASUS doesn’t see a clear market for smartbooks

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    smartbookDespite being one of the first companies to bring the idea of small, cheap, no-frills computers to market, ASUS doesn't think the whole smartbook idea is going to take off. As such, we'll see no smartbooks from ASUS anytime soon.

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  • The Solar-UFO is a UFO-shaped vessel that serves as a water purifier

    The Solar-UFO is a UFO-shaped vessel that serves as a water purifier

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    A Japanese company called NTT Facilities, a subsidiary of telecommunications behemoth NTT, obviously has enough time for something cool like this: The so-called Solar-UFO [JP], a UFO-shaped vessel that serves as a water purifier and is powered by solar energy.

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