If you think the biggest problem with a camera phone is the poor quality of the photos, a member of Congress might make you think again. Earlier this month, Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would ban camera phones from having a …
Officially announced to ship in February, Sony’s VAIO P was just spotted riding the FedEx truck to destiny. At least one lucky reader can gaze longingly at his very own shipping confirmation received from Sony Style USA. That puts him and his VGNP530H/Q on course for a January rendezvous. It’s another Obama miracle.
Sony VAIO P begins shipping Stateside originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Just as we’d heard, Western Digital is indeed producing (and shipping) a standalone 2TB internal hard drive. Available now for purchase from Mwave Australia, the 3.5-inch WD20EADS sports a 7,200RPM spin speed, 32MB of cache and a AU$377.80 price tag, which converts to just under $250 in greenbacks. We get the feeling that this drive is just hours away from launching here in the US of A (we’re guessing the time zones are to blame), so we’ll be keeping a close eye out for early reports on performance.
[Thanks, Danny]
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Western Digital’s 2TB Caviar Green HDD on sale in Australia originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This article was written on January 08, 2008 by CyberNet.
The word solicit is defined as a verb to seek something, like “He solicited aid from the minister.” Now you’re probably wondering what that has to do with anything, so let me explain. The first time I came across the website Youlicit, I automatically thought of the word solicit because they’re so close in sound. As it turns out, they’re also close in meaning. Youlicit is a fairly new search engine/ social network whose purpose is to connect you with the information that you’re looking for. Essentially they’re soliciting sites that will likely interest you. .
Given that the goal of Youlicit is to connect people with the information that they are looking for by providing them with the links to useful sites, they try to make it as easy as possible to use. If you want to try the service, they offer a few different options. One is to simply go to www.youlicit.com and enter in a URL or tag. Another is to get the Firefox Extension, Bookmarklet, or the Google Toolbar that they offer. The Google Toolbar with the Youlicit button is helpful because if you do a Google search for something, you’ll get Youlicit results for it as well.
When I went to their site to give it a try, I was pleasantly surprised. After entering in the URL http://tech.cybernetnews.com, I received recommendations that included Lifehacker, Engadget, and Google Operating System blog. It chose our related key words as “news, technology, blog, tech, tips, daily, Firefox, Internet, and software,” all words which associate perfectly with CyberNet. Remember, you can enter in a URL or tags like software or music. They determine how popular a site is before they send it to you as a recommended site, so the results are usually pretty relevant.
If you’ve ever wanted to find sites that are similar to a particular site that you already know you like, Youlicit might be the perfect tool! In some ways it reminds me of StubmleUpon because you can come across some great sites, but it’s more specific to your wants and needs. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
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Apple had already solidly cemented its reputation as the confused, identity crisis-stricken, moral dilemma-having lord ruler of the App Store with its recent approval of a number of browsers that would seemingly violate its “duplication of functionality” policy, but now it’s doing some serious soul-searching with this latest move. Remember Podcaster? The on-the-go podcast downloader predated Apple’s own mobile download capability by months — but Cupertino struck the thing down for encroaching on iTunes’ territory, seemingly dooming it to a life of ad hoc installs and jailbreaks. It’s just been given a fresh lease on life, though, emerging as “RSS Player” and killing off Podcaster’s built-in directory of casts; Apple’s suddenly cool with the revised app, giving it two thumbs-up on the way to the App Store, but it’s not clear if the directory functionality was the problem, there’s a policy change in play here, or the name change simply fooled the App Store admins into giving the green light. At any rate, in case you’re wondering why you’d shell out $1.99 for the pleasure of this “duplication of functionality,” RSS Player will let you blow by iTunes’ 10MB limit — and, of course, you can download any feed you like. Thanks, Apple. [Warning: iTunes link]
[Via UNEASYsilence]
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Portable Audio
Apple throws another curveball, approves Podcaster for the App Store with changes originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Bandai’s $2000 limited edition speaker has a glowing, moving, living diorama of Tokyo’s Ginza district as seen in 1955. I don’t care how it sounds, it’s the coolest speaker I’ve seen all year.
It has numerous LED light sources, moving parts and sound effects, and along with awe, inspires some sort of Godzilla-like instinctual response to crush it’s little buildings and trains right down into its wooden pedestal. And smack down a giant moth. [Bandai via Akihabaranews]
Astro Gaming may not produce the most invigorating products out there, but you’d never know it by its marketing approach. In fact, we dare any HP Blackbird owner to give the read link a look and not have even the slightest desire to pick this here gizmo up. The Headset Hanger, contrary to popular belief, actually isn’t a makeshift racing wheel; rather, it’s designed to be the first (and only, probably) accessory to bolt directly onto the Blackbird’s built-in VESA-compliant hardpoint. The purpose? To hold your gaming headphones, which would obviously be the A40s if Astro had any say in the matter. You could spend $19.95 on this just to satisfy your curiosity, but we’d recommend just glancing through the gallery a time or two until you’re over it.
Filed under: Peripherals
Astro Gaming’s Headset Hanger needs little explanation originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Senate on Monday approved a bill that would move the date of the digital television transition from February 17 to June 12.
The bill was approved unanimously, and is scheduled to be taken up by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday morning.
TV broadcast stations are federally mandated to switch from analog to digital signals by February 17 in order to free up spectrum for public safety and other uses. But recent concerns about funding, the government-sponsored converter box coupon program, and possible reception problems on February 18 prompted Democrats and President Obama to call for a delay to the switch.
Under the bill, dubbed the DTV Delay Act, stations have until June 12 to flip the switch – – but they are allowed to do so earlier. In the event that a station does switch early, the vacant spectrum will be made available to public safety officials.
Get set to mark your calendars. The deadline for the transition from analog to digital broadcasting could change.
Broadcasters were set to move to digital transmission starting Feb. 17
but now the U.S. Senate has voted to push it back to June 12 to give consumers more time to make the switch.
The Senate support for the move comes after President Barack Obama suggested delaying the process.
Earlier this month, Congressman Ed Markey warned many consumers could be left in the cold as funding for
converter box coupons that can make analog TV sets digital-ready could
fall short.
The new deadline could help buy time to bridge that gap.
The House is also expected to vote on a similar legislation and likely extend the expiration date on all converter box coupons to Sept. 15, says the Wall Street Journal. If the House passes the bill and President supports it, the new deadline will become final.
There are an estimated 300 million TVs in the U.S., of which about 70
million use antennas and require a converter box to switch to DTV.
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We knew it was bound to happen, and sure enough, it’s happening. For the millions of Americans still waiting for their $40 voucher before buying one of those newfangled DTV converter boxes, the US Senate has just given its stamp of approval on providing them a four month reprieve as it attempts to get its act together. Oddly, there’s no mention of Congress looking for new sources of funding, though we are told that consumers holding expired coupons can now request new ones. We suspect more details will flow out on all of this soon, but for now, you can bank on the digital TV transition — originally scheduled to go down on February 17th — now occurring on June 12th. Until it changes again, of course.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Senate okays digital TV transition delay to June 12th originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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