AT&T certainly made a few of us happy yesterday when it announced that the iPhone SlingPlayer app would now be allowed to run over its 3G network, but the carrier apparently embellished the facts... |
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It's claim on the title of "world's first laser pico projector" might be a tad dubious, but AAXA Technologies' new L1 projector may just be the first to hit the market, with it set to start shipping ... |
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Telus hasn't yet committed to a date for the release of its mighty Milestone, but no sweat -- Best Buy's happy to commit on their behalf, pegging February 18 as the date that Canadians will have acce... |
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It looks like the tide is starting to turn decisively against Amazon's $9.99 e-book publishing model -- first MacMillan fought back and won, then HarperCollins dragged... |
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Back in the beginning of December, when Dell outed its business-oriented, 17-inch Precision M6500 laptop, it boasted some pretty meaty specs: Core i7 CPU, up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, a choice of ATI F... |
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When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom... |
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It likely won't be ready for your next vehicle purchase, but some researchers from Imperial College London say that this rather modest-looking piece of material could eventually do nothing short of c... |
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Apple might have surprised everyone -- including us -- by naming its tablet the "iPad," but the UK's X2 isn't letting this opportunity pass it by: it's managed to drum up some cheap attention today ... |
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Well, this is disturbingly creative. Seriously, is there much more to say about this Kratos casemod? Well, Greek mythology and video game fanatics alike should be pleased yet horrified with this one.... |
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We've already seen a render of the kickstand-equipped HTC HD2 extended battery, but renders don't power cellphones, so we're particuarly glad that CoolSmartPhone has now come through and provided som... |
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Logitech's Squeezebox Touch has had a somewhat troubled launch since being announced back in September alongside the Squeezebox Radio, and it looks like the road to availability just got a bit bumpie... |
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Coveting an iPad, but not willing to pay full price? If you happen to live in Austria and don't mind committing to a two-year data contract, Hutchison's got you covered. The carrier's offering a 333 ... |
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Hey, it's been a killer week, and we're about to podcast live -- won't you join us?
Update: It's all over -- but don't worry, our regular podcast post will be up tomorrow!The Engadget Podcast, live... |
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For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync... |
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Remember those rumors back in the day that Dell's Android-powered Streak MID -- the device that would later be revealed as the Mini 5 -- would be manufactured by Qisda? Well, we've got some pretty so... |
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Though Sony's overall bottom line is back in black, what held it back from an even bigger celebration cake was its core electronics brand, and no stranger to that sector is the PlayStation group. Bot... |
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In the gun duels of Hollywood Westerns, the one who draws first (usually the bad guy) always tends to lose. Why? Decades ago, Nobel laureate Niels Bohr claimed that would likely be the case in a real ... |
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With the 2010 World Expo just three months away, Shanghai officials have launched a public etiquette clampdown targeting pajama-wearing in public.
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Sent in by "Shelly" to Kitty Hell, spotted via Neatorama via Makezine via Wonderland....
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Sony, 'significantly exceeding expectations,' announces a profitable Q4. The gadgets division is leading the way. [NYT]...
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MIT Media Lab musician/inventor Tod Machover talks about the neuroscience of the musical experience, and using technology to close the loop between brain activity and what we're hearing in real time. ... |
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A respected Pakistani diplomat keeps getting rejected as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Why? Because his full name translates into Arabic as "Biggest dick." (Thanks, Samuel Rubenfeld!)...
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That's an image of the Moon and Earth sent via Twitter on February 3rd by International Space Station astronaut Jose Hernandez. I've seen plenty of official space photos were equally breathtaking, but... |
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Thank you, Robert Popper. Previously:Pardon me?...
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Via HuffPo, news that the Baltic nation of Latvia will auction off a Soviet ghost town abandoned after the Russian military departed. The town, Skrunda-1 (map), centered around a now-abandoned radar b... |
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Vans and the Places they Were, by Joe Stevens, via Todd Lappin. Above (photo by Joe Stevens): "Tradesman with Candy Paint Stripes," Hollywood, California, Winter 2009. Let there be a large-format book... |
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Via Wired: Der Spiegel reports that hackers obtained unauthorized access to online accounts where companies maintain carbon credits, and stole around $4 million worth of carbon credits. "At least seve... |
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Kudos to Mike Arrington for immediately disclosing his discovery that a young TechCrunch writer solicited expensive gifts from the startups on his beat. Unfortunately, the sacked 17-year old doesn't s... |
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You so do not want to know what Jon Stewart did to us last night. [Current.com, NSFW]...
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Though Xeni and I still have yet to hold our crimp-off for local number one fan status, it's safe to say that pretty much everyone around these parts is a fan of cult TV/radio/theater supergroup The M... |
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Look at those sunglasses, just look at them. Here's some background on the über-outré 1992 cult cinema specimen from which the video clip above was snipped: A Blog Post Referencing The Title Which I C... |
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Allan Haley at the Fonts.com blog, on Avatar: "[W]hy are the sub titles for the Na'vi people, the alien protagonists of the film, set in Papyrus?" (via @shellen)...
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They've got better moves than some people I know. (Via ScienceHack, one of my favorite sources for science videos of all types.)...
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Beware the coming onslaught of Chinese superbugs: "Studies in China show a 'frightening' increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA . There are... |
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The hell? Who knew SkyMall sold USB rootkits? From the ad copy: "Easy To Use & Undetectable Total Computer Spying Tool Covertly Monitors Passwords, Chatting, Photos, Websites & More! Insert In USB, An... |
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Following up on an earlier BB post about graphic designers mocking James Cameron's choice of typeface for the blue hippies' subtitles in Avatar: An Open Letter To James Cameron from Papyrus. (prttysht... |
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Congratulations to:
Lana B. of Sterling Heights, Missouri for winning the Sony Ericsson MBW-150 Bluetooth Watch
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Crystal O. of Columbus, Ohio for winning the Sony Ericsson HBH-PV720 Bluetooth Head... |
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Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to shower your loved one with gifts. Probably not because you want to, but because you know you have to. An upgrade from your standard flowers, candy, and jew... |
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Facebook has just started rolling out a new photo uploader, one that the company promises will be faster, easier and more stable than the current one. In an announcement on Facebook’s blog , the compa... |
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Today has been the Day of Location-Based Reporting at ReadWriteWeb, and what better way to help you end your tedious work week than by showing you this entirely speculative infographic that's recently... |
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EventVue set out three years ago to transform the way people interact with and network during events. Today, sadly, they have announced they are shutting down . In an overlay message that appears now ... |
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It's no secret that Facebook Photos is massively popular, with the company boasting that it receives a whopping 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month . And as the site continues to grow — it just pa... |
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This week, everyone had awards fever, imaginary orphans were adopted, and famous scientist Jenny McCarthy was proved wrong about something. There is a right way and a wrong way to convince people...So... |
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FBI Director Robert Mueller wants ISPs to track “origin and destination information” about their customers’ browsing habits and store them for authorities’ use for two years, according to a CNET repor... |
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A year ago we launched the ReadWriteWeb Guide on Community Management with the knowledge that "Community Manager" would become an increasingly popular job title. Since then, the requirements of keepin... |
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Twitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog , and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky , decided to share a video he made representing Twitter's development history. Th... |
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Google keeps adding new features to Google Maps and Google Earth . The latest: As of today you can type in a restaurant or other place you like in Google Maps and receive recommendations of nearby pla... |
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Yesterday, we got a nice little breakdown of which clients are used most often for the location-based service Foursquare (hint: still the iPhone). Today, the company has some new big news to share via... |
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The web is becoming more dynamic, context-aware and personalized by the day, and the amount of information consumed by each person is increasing exponentially. But software infrastructure is not keepi... |
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Earlier today I was driving to Google for a product briefing, minding my own business, talking on my Google phone with Google PR and trying to figure out what Google building I was supposed to be driv... |
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There is a special election in Queens, New York, to fill a spot on the Queens Assembly. The Democratic candidate sent out a mailer with a swastika on it attacking the Republican candidate in the heavi... |
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This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs weekly. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed. In addition to language improvements ... |
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BBLeaks got their hands on some RIM training documentation that details new features included in the yet-to-be-scheduled BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) 3.0 update. Some of the documented improvemen... |
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Editor’s note : This is a guest post written by Jeremy Allaire , founder and CEO of Brightcove . Prior to Brightcove, Jeremy founded Allaire Corporation which was subsequently acquired by Macromedia d... |
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Ah, the college library photo. Look through any school's brochure, and there's a good chance you'll see photos of an ethnically diverse group of students pouring over the same math problem together, a... |
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Google’s quite busy as of recent, days after the monumental Nexus One multitouch update, they’ve brought out the updated 3.4 version of Google Maps, that finally gives support to multitouch pinch-to-z... |
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Mobile advertising is one of the hottest fields we report on at VentureBeat. Gartner analysts expect it to be a $7.4 billion market by the end of 2014. Not as big as Google’s $20 billion-ish ad econom... |
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Tristate Camera, who btw has great reviews in Pricegrabber, has the Olympus FE-26 12MP Black Digital Camera. Features of this point in shoot include a 12 megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, xD picture... |
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