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  • Discount My Way Allows Shoppers to Create Instant Discounts with their Smart Phone

    Discount My Way Allows Shoppers to Create Instant Discounts with their Smart Phone

    Posted on August 25, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Nokia says all of its smartphones will support NFC starting next year

    Nokia says all of its smartphones will support NFC starting next year

    Posted on June 18, 2010 | No Comments
    A few hiccups aside, Nokia has been one of the biggest boosters of near-field communication (or NFC) for years now, and it looks like it's now made its biggest commitment to the technology yet -- Nokia's Anssi Vanjoki has announced that all new Nokia smartphones will include NFC starting in 2011. Of course, he did say "smartphones," not "phones," so Nokia does still has quite a bit more room to grow -- and, no, he didn't offer any more details on what those smartphones might be.

    Nokia says all of its smartphones will support NFC starting next year originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon looking to partner up for rural LTE deployments

    Verizon looking to partner up for rural LTE deployments

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    If you're wondering why T-Mobile doesn't have 3G in the middle of the Mojave, the answer's pretty simple: it's hard for any of the Big Four to justify spending millions of dollars on infrastructure in sparsely-populated areas. Rather than ignore it and leave the spectrum blank, though, Verizon's asking other companies to step in and share the responsibilities -- sort of -- by letting partners do most of the hard work (build towers and operate backhaul) while Big Red chips in its 700MHz spectrum holdings and "core LTE equipment." Presumably, Verizon will help itself to a share of the proceeds, which from their perspective, makes it look like a win-win scenario: they're helping to bring 4G technology to underserved areas, doing less work and spending less capital than they'd have to otherwise, and profiting off the spirit of an initiative that FCC chief Julius Genachowski is pushing very, very hard at the moment. And hey, we bet you'll be getting some insane throughput when you're rocking the LTE modem in the middle of nowhere.

    Verizon looking to partner up for rural LTE deployments originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Microsoft Tag fills your world with tags that you scan for information

    Microsoft Tag fills your world with tags that you scan for information

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Say hello to Microsoft Tag. It's a brand new service (I guess you can call it a service) that envisions a world filled with tags. The tags, almost like barcodes or QR codes, are placed all over the place. On merchandise at the mall, on statues at the parks, and so on. You scan the tag with your phone, then all sorts of info pops up.

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  • Why haven’t our clichés been updated to better reflect today’s technology?

    Why haven’t our clichés been updated to better reflect today’s technology?

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Our clichés need updating. "Axe to grind"? How many people still regularly use axes, axes that need grinding? Why not something like "hard drive to defrag"? "Best thing since sliced bread"? Why not "best thing since the iPad"? We are surrounded by technology, but our language still reflects life on the farm. Let's do this!

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  • OLEDs are the future: Canon buries development of SEDs

    OLEDs are the future: Canon buries development of SEDs

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember SEDs? Those surface-conduction electron-emitter displays were around for quite a while, competing with FEDs (field emission displays) until Sony decided to pull the plug on the latter back in March last year. That gave one company, Canon, enough of a push to continue to believe in SED. Canon even filed new patents on SED technology in the US in May 2009. But that's over now (we kind of anticipated this as early as December 2008).

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  • Blackberry Bold 9800 slider to ditch SurePress, more photos surface

    Blackberry Bold 9800 slider to ditch SurePress, more photos surface

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    By now we've all seen the many, many, many and more photos (and video) that have been leaked of the up-n-coming BlackBerry 9800 slider phone. So you're probably not that amazed by the new batch of photos that have emerged over at The Berry Fix. However, the photographer behind this latest photo shoot does have some interesting news for y'all: the new slider won't be using RIM's trademark, annoying SurePress technology.

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  • HP developing “next-gen” wristwatch for the military

    HP developing “next-gen” wristwatch for the military

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Printed circuitry on plastic isn't very new, but what is interesting is that HP is commoditizing it and creating wristwatches using display elements and chips etched right onto a roll of soft plastic. The printed faces can also contain solar cells to power the watch.
    HP Labs has been developing a process to "print" the plastic display components for 10 years. The company originally intended to use the technology in portable memory drives, but creating larger screens out of plastic turned out to be a more economical and feasible venture, Taussig said.

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  • DuPont working on cheaper ways to make OLED screens

    DuPont working on cheaper ways to make OLED screens

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    OLED televisions are notoriously expensive and difficult to make; but like all technologies there is always someone working on making the technology cheaper. DuPont recently announced the development of a new process that prints OLED screens in sheets, much like a inkjet prints on paper.

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  • Polaroid archive shows history of pictures

    Polaroid archive shows history of pictures

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Polaroid is one of those things that's always been with us, and if some have their way, always will. I remember taking pictures at camp using the family OneStep, and I still have a shot of myself at my first job.

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  • Prototype single lens camera sees the world in 3D

    Prototype single lens camera sees the world in 3D

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Most 3D imaging requires cameras with multiple lenses, but an Italian firm has discovered a way to allow a single lens to see three dimensional images using pulsed laser energy.

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  • The Sapphire 5970 4G Toxic Edition is the fastest video card on Planet Earth

    The Sapphire 5970 4G Toxic Edition is the fastest video card on Planet Earth

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Damn you, Sapphire. Three weeks ago I bought your vanilla Radeon 5970, and now you release the Radeon 5970 4G TOXIC Edition? What a load of bunk. Fastest video card on the planet, you say? Well I say FE$%Fxtgredth.

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  • Samsung looking into bringing Android to the TV

    Samsung looking into bringing Android to the TV

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Sources at Samsung revealed that they are looking at TV’s that incorporate Google’s Android OS in them. I’m not so sure I want a TV that is quite that intelligent. An anonymous Samsung exec was quoted as saying, “we are considering Google TVs.” It makes sense to license Android, since the application base keeps growing, and [...]

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  • The PowerV Quad from Konnet Technology aims to charges and display Wii Remotes

    The PowerV Quad from Konnet Technology aims to charges and display Wii Remotes

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    There isn't much to be said here. One look at the pic and headline and you probably already know what it's a 4-port Wii Remote inductive changing station. But you probably don't know that the PowerV Quad even works Wii Motion Plus and silcone covers. Nice, eh? $50 and ships in a few weeks.

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  • Video: No-touch, mid-air 3D input interface for mobile devices

    Video: No-touch, mid-air 3D input interface for mobile devices

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    A lot of sophisticated, portable gadgets nowadays have a touchscreen, but what if you could operate those gadgets with your fingers - without touching the display or any part of the device itself? A research team led by Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has developed a way to operate mobile devices by moving your fingers in mid-air.

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