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  • Arbitron’s Portable People Media 360 uses *cell technology*

    Arbitron’s Portable People Media 360 uses *cell technology*

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like the radio industry (well, pretty much media industry, actually, but I'm pretty sure radio is the biggest user of Arbitron data) has a new people meter up its sleeves. It's called the Portable People Meter 360, and it's designed to make reporting your radio-listening habits all the more easy. It reports to Arbitron HQ using cell technology. Just like you can download books over a cell network on your e-book reader, so, too can you tell The Man that you're listening to The Fan as you sit in traffic on the LIE.

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  • Shock study: Adult Web sites are filled with malware

    Shock study: Adult Web sites are filled with malware

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Wow, who would have guessed that visiting adult Web sites would be dangerous to the health of your computer? I mean, of all of the genres of sites out there—sports, tech, politics, books, etc.—the last I would have predicted to be dangerous was adult ones. Thanks, International Secure System Lab

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  • Sprint voice service down in New York City (updated with official statement)

    Sprint voice service down in New York City (updated with official statement)

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    We certainly don't want to point the finger at a wildly-successful EVO 4G launch just yet, but it seems that Sprint's voice service is down in New York City (data is still working, for what it's worth). This is happening consistently for three of us here in the city with EVOs on hand, so it certainly seems like a real problem. We're reaching out to Sprint for comment and we'll let you know what we hear.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Update: And we just got this from Sprint --
    "One of our VoIP switches in New York did experience an equipment failure earlier today causing some traffic to be rerouted to another switching location during the repair process and resulting in call congestion for some Sprint customers. Our network operators are working aggressively to resolve this issue and hope to have service back to normal soon."
    Let's hope those glorious EVOs resume normal operation shortly.

    Sprint voice service down in New York City (updated with official statement) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Bing app for WinMo 6.x phones adds turn-by-turn navigation

    Bing app for WinMo 6.x phones adds turn-by-turn navigation

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Turns out Google isn't the only one pushing further into the turn-by-turn market this week -- Microsoft came out swinging today with the announcement that full car navigation capability has been added to the latest version of its Bing app for Windows Mobile 6.x devices, too. It's got the usual array of route configuration options for avoiding traffic and tolls, alerts, direction lists, and voice prompts -- and Microsoft describes the audible directions as an "amazingly lifelike voice experience," so our expectations are set appropriately. Interestingly, the app isn't available to Verizon subscribers for some ominous reason, but folks using a laundry list of devices on Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T can update their already-installed Bing app or visit Bing's site for the download.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Bing app for WinMo 6.x phones adds turn-by-turn navigation originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 11 May 2010 22:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Microsoft joins the party, adds free turn-by-turn Voice Navigation to Bing for Windows Mobile

    Microsoft joins the party, adds free turn-by-turn Voice Navigation to Bing for Windows Mobile

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    GPS makers, commence shaking in your boots. Yet another party has come along with hopes of destroying your business model. The first hit came from Google, who announced back in October that they were adding free turn-by-turn functionality to Android. Nokia followed up with a massive haymaker in January, bringing free voice navigation to over a dozen of their most popular handsets. This time, it's Microsoft.

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  • TomTom quietly releases two new US models

    TomTom quietly releases two new US models

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    TomTom, you sneaky, sneaky devil. You thought you could pop two new GPS models up on your website and no one would notice. Well, you're wrong. The Internet doesn't miss anything.

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  • Contest: iHome wants to help you wake up

    Contest: iHome wants to help you wake up

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's your chance to learn about and win an iHome iA5 iPhone/iPod dock with alarm clock!

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  • Federal Court Tells FCC It Does Not Have Authority To Enforce Net Neutrality

    Federal Court Tells FCC It Does Not Have Authority To Enforce Net Neutrality

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    This morning, the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dealt the FCC a major blow in its drive to impose net neutrality on the nation’s broadband providers. A panel of three judges ruled that the FCC did not have the authority to order Comcast to slow down BitTorrent traffic, and, more, broadly, that the FCC does not have the authority to enforce net neutrality. The case started as a result of Comcast selectively slowing down certain types of traffic in 2007 — namely, BitTorrent — leading the FCC to order Comcast to stop the practice. Comcast challenged the order, claiming that the FCC didn’t have the authority to mandate net neutrality policy. Today’s ruling affirms Comcast’s stance. This will strike a blow to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s recently released broadband plan, but it was not entirely unexpected, and the FCC can still fight back.

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  • Daily Crunch: Burst Bubble Edition

    Daily Crunch: Burst Bubble Edition

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    AquaAntics Water Bomb Factory is genius, should win an international peace award DIY: Convert a disposable camera into a slave flash DIY: Get medieval with the Mini-Trebuchet SIMBox, the texting incontinence pants TomTom brings free lifetime traffic and maps to the XL and XXL GPS models

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  • Is the iPhone getting Binged?

    Is the iPhone getting Binged?

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It seems that Apple may be inviting Microsoft's Bing into the iPhone, at least according to BusinessWeek. In what could be some sort of bluff by Apple, Microsoft is apparently in talks to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone, supplanting Google's current position on the phone deck. This does not mention if they're moving away from Google Maps and YouTube, but by giving Microsoft the default search spot Apple could get a bit more revenue from traffic thrown at the provider.

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  • CrunchDeals: Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS with Bluetooth for $140

    CrunchDeals: Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS with Bluetooth for $140

    Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Amazon’s lopped $50 off the price of the 4.7-inch Magellan Maestro 4700, which includes Bluetooth, voice command, and predictive traffic features. You can get it for $140, today only.

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  • CrunchDeals: Garmin nuvi 855 for $160

    CrunchDeals: Garmin nuvi 855 for $160

    Posted on December 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon’s got a one-day deal on the 4.3-inch Garmin nuvi 855 GPS at $160, down from $190. You can still get it by Christmas with one- or two-day shipping, too.

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  • ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids”

    ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids”

    Posted on December 12, 2009 | No Comments
    We told you the Google phone was confirmed. And now some Googler's seem to be confirming it, too. There is a lot of chatter on Twitter about Google employees with HTC-built unlocked Google Phones running Android 2.1. And the devices look to be coming out in January. We noticed a Twitter message from Google Program Manager Leslie Hawthorn, who writes "Stuck in mass of traffic leaving work post last all hands of 2009. ZOMG we had fireworks and we all got the new Google phone. It's beautiful." Another guy, Jason Howell, says he had his hands on the device, which he says is made by HTC and is running Android 2.1: "The new Google Phone runs on HTC hardware. I saw it w/ Android 2.1. Homescreen has new visual enhancements like animated desktop wallpaper." "Supposedly, Google employees were given tons of these phones today. unlocked," he adds.

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  • FCC starts up white spaces database, devices now inevitable

    FCC starts up white spaces database, devices now inevitable

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    White space devices seem likely to play a major part in the FCC's solution to the wireless spectrum crisis. Operating in the buffers between frequencies used by television broadcasts, these devices will be able to exploit TV's airspace without interfering with the incumbent users' traffic. The unlicensed utilization of white spaces has been approved going on for a year now, but really important government stuff has gotten in the way of making that vote a reality. It was only recently that Claudville, Virginia got the very first such network, and initial results show that it hasn't disrupted any of the fine, fine programming percolating the local airwaves. The only issue we see is that your WSD will need to be capable of both identifying its own position by GPS and hooking up to the database to find out what bands it may use, but then it's not like anyone sells smartphones without these capabilities nowadays, is it?

    FCC starts up white spaces database, devices now inevitable originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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