Philips GoGear Aria is made for Rhapsody.
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If subscription music was a drug, I’d be one of its biggest pushers. I’m a huge proponent of paying a flat monthly fee in order to enjoy all the music I want at any time (and …
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The HTC Magic and HTC Dream: we could see more HTC Android handhelds soon.
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Here’s some news straight from the horse’s mouth. At Thursday’s launch of the HTC Magic in Singapore, Executive Vice President Jason Juang told CNET Asia in an aside that the company …
It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen a major recall surrounding volatile laptop batteries, but it looks as if HP is the company bringing the topic back to the forefront. Announced today, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with Hewlett-Packard, has issued a voluntary recall of about 70,000 Li-ion batteries. Reportedly, these cells can “overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers,” and so far, the firm and CPSC have received two separate reports of batteries that have overheated and ruptured, resulting in — wait for it — “flames / fire that caused minor property damage.” For a look at what units are affected, head on past the break — oh, and if you’re reading this on an HP lappie right now, go ahead and grab the fire extinguisher just in case.
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70,000 HP laptop batteries recalled due to fire hazard originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 15:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung’s N120 and N310 netbooks get reviewed, embraced originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 14:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Two years in, we still can’t say with any level of definitiveness or authority what exactly Sony’s Rolly is, but here’s what we can say: it’s still hanging around. After catching wind of a somewhat innocent Sony Insider report (which was seemingly misunderstood / misreported elsewhere) that the curious music maker was being canned in the US, we contacted Sony directly to sort things out. From Sony to you: “There is no truth to these reports at this time.” ‘Nuff said, yeah?
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Debunk: Sony has not discontinued Rolly in America originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In January, Google updated their Feed Reader Module for the Google Personalized Homepage so that items could be expanded and contracted. This makes it easy to reed the items without ever having to leave. It was a move that showed that Google was listening to their users. Now it’s time to cater to the publishers of those feeds, and today, Google announced that they will start reporting subscriber count.
Publishers asked, and Google listened. In the official announcement, they note that this is something that they’ve wanted to do for a long time, but “with all the products that use feeds at Google, corralling the data in one place was like herding cats. So herd we did.”
What this means is that if you use FeedBurner, you’ll be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers you have. According to FeedBurner who also made an announcement today regarding this, they will start reporting Google numbers on Saturday, February 17th.
If you’re not using FeedBurner, but you have access to server logs, you’ll be able to see how many subscribers you have from the HTTP header of requests from Google. This is an example Google gives of what you’re looking for:
User-Agent: Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 4 subscribers; feed-id=1794595805790851116)
Google has put together a “Tips for Publishers” page that gives you some suggestions on implementing feeds, and other helpful tips. One thing that they did mention in this section is the debate over full-content feeds vs. the partial-content feeds. Their response to the debate is:
“While there are good reasons to choose either option, the user experience is better with full-content feeds, as the user no longer needs to click through to read an article. Be aware that some users choose not to subscribe to partial-content feeds because of the extra effort involved in reading them.”
So why is this good news? Well, if you’re a publisher, you’ll have a better idea of how many people are actually subscribed to your feed. If you use FeedBurner, keep your eye out for an increase in subscribers because it will probably be coming soon.
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Inventor Graham Hawkes has been building deep sea exploration vessels for about 20 years. His newest submarine — called the Deep Flight Super Falcon — has a set of wings with a span of 10 feet, giving the 20 foot vessel a distinctly bird-like appearance. Hawkes has been working on the Falcon for several years, and it’s just now ready to make its first deep sea journey. The battery-powered vessel is twenty feet long, can carry two people, and cruise depths of up to 1,500 feet at a speed of about 7 miles per hour. The winged vessel is extremely agile because of its animal-like shape, and researchers at Farallones National Marine Sanctuary are optimistic about it potential for studying and following exotic, mysterious sea creatures such as super sharks and the ever-elusive giant squid. The Super Falcon is set to fly around Monterey Bay from June 19th to July 17th, and will be on display to the public when not in use. Check out the video of the Falcon after the break.
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Deep Flight Super Falcon winged submarine readies deep sea exploration in San Francisco originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 13:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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