Mar 31
We welcome Bonnie back to San Francisco for the week as Dialed In brings you all the news from the CTIA cell phone blowout. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20001531-85.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Dialed In/a/p
Mar 31
RIM’s earnings just shy of expectations, expects boost next quarter
Posted in: BlackBerry, earnings, financial, RIM, Today's Chili
The latest quarter of earnings reported by RIM today was a bevy of pretty good news sprinkled in around one moderately negative piece — quarterly revenue — which missed the consensus estimate of $4.31 billion by about $230 million. Otherwise, though, the company set a new record for quarterly BlackBerry activations, raking in 4.9 million new accounts to bring the total to 41 million, and annual revenue grew 35 percent to $15 billion versus the year prior. Notably, co-CEO Jim Balsillie chimed in to say that the company is “off to a great start in fiscal 2011 and expect strong shipments, revenue, subscriber and earnings growth in Q1” to the tune of somewhere between $1.31 and $1.38 a share, which beats analyst estimates, so these guys must really like what they’ve got in store for the all-BlackBerry, all-the-time WES show in Orlando next month. That said, the company still closed down a little over a percent in trading today, so the bottom line — missing your numbers for the quarter — clearly counts for something.
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Mar 31
Comcast demos live 3D TV
Posted in: Today's ChiliCable giant shows reporters what the live 3D TV feed will look like from the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., next week. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20001535-266.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Signal Strength/a/p
Mar 31
Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th
Posted in: Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, AppleIphone, canada, ipad, iPhone, Mac, os, rumor, rumors, Today's Chili
We’re not quite at the height of Apple frenzy, but looking at the bell curve, we’re only a standard deviation or two from its zenith (we imagine the fever pitch will be in tandem with Saturday’s iPad launch, if history and human nature tells us anything). Of course, that doesn’t stop the rumor mill from amping up production, and so on with the show! First on the docket, remember last month’s discovery of multitasking comments in the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta? Well, Apple Insider’s apparently got it on word from its network of sources that OS 4.0 will in fact include multitasking, with app switching purportedly done by double-tapping the home button and selecting the appropriate active app icon. If you ask us, that sounds similar in function to command / tab switching, but the people claiming to be in the know liken it more to Expose for OS X.
Taking a step back to focus on the actual hardware for a moment, iPad in Canada is hearing that local Apple store employees have been told April 24th is a “black out period,” meaning no one is allowed to take that day off. That usually coincides with major product launch, and we did hear the international iPad debut would be late April, but Apple’s yet to make its non-US plans concrete. It is the last Saturday of the month, however, and perhaps it’ll coincide with the other countries as well. As always, none of this is confirmed and shouldn’t be taken as gospel in any way, shape, or form. We can’t stop you from getting your hopes up, but don’t blame us if those dreams get shattered by a sucker punch of reality.
Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 31
Microsoft Teams with Ford to Monitor, Charge Electric Cars
Posted in: Ford, Microsoft, Today's Chili
When Ford’s first all-electric car, the Ford Focus Electric, ships in 2011, the recharging system will be remotely managed by Microsoft. What sounds like an odd-couple fit – Microsoft? manage off-hours home electrical usage? – actually makes sense because of Microsoft Hohm, a year-old Internet service helping consumers monitor all kinds of home energy usage. In the case of electric cars, time-shifting the recharge to late at night is important because recharging effectively a home’s daytime energy usage.
Mar 31
Reports of webOS 1.4.1 update now coming in, Update: 1.4.1.1 available for Sprint
Posted in: firmware, palm, palm pre, PalmPre, pre, Today's Chili, update, webos
It doesn’t appear to do anything groundbreaking like overclock your Pre, but it looks like the webOS 1.4.1 update is now starting to trickle out to at least a few lucky users. According to PreCentral, one of the first reports to come in was from a Pre user who also happened to be one of the first to get the webOS 1.4 update while he was in Vietnam, and has now managed to snag the 1.4.1 update while residing in Holland. That was later followed up with a second report from a Sprint customer in Washington, but things seem to have been relatively quiet since them. Still no official word from Palm either, but the update does seem to be as minor as the number revision suggestions, with it weighing in at just 6MB. Receive yours yet? Let us know in comments.
Update: So that’s what the update does — according to Recombu, the update should allow European webOS users to finally spend their hard-earned quids and Euros on paid apps. PreCentral additionally reports that O2 Germany customers can now download the Mobile Hotspot app. Cheers!
Update 2: We’re getting a 1.4.1.1 10mb patch on our Sprint Pre as we speak, while a list of changes has arrived on Palm.com with one notable difference — the old NFL Mobile App has been renamed Sprint Football Live — but otherwise it appears to be the same. Meanwhile the word on PreCentral is that Verizon customers may be in for a wait of up to a few weeks for their own update, so slowing the pace of update checks to just once every 5 minutes would appear to be a reasonable course of action.
Reports of webOS 1.4.1 update now coming in, Update: 1.4.1.1 available for Sprint originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mar 31
The Kensington Amplified Car Cradle for iPhone isn’t the first accessory that claims to passively amplify audio output of Apple’s iPhone, but it may be one of the first aimed at in-car use for navigation purposes. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20001522-48.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Car Tech blog/a/p
Mar 31
Researchers at UC Berkeley teach Willow Garage’s PR2 humanoid robot how to fold a pile of towels. It’s one step toward making robots better at housework.
Mar 31
IE9 demoed on Ion-based Eee PC with full GPU acceleration
Posted in: Internet Explorer, NVIDIA, optimus, Today's Chili, video
Although we were a little more focused on Windows Phone 7 Series when we went to MIX 10, Microsoft’s other big announcement at the conference was Internet Explorer 9, which offers HTML5 support and support for GPU acceleration throughout the browsing experience. We saw a few demos of the system in action at MIX, but this video from NVIDIA does a little better job showing how helpful that extra GPU boost can be — IE9 running on the Ion 2-based Eee PC 1201PN smokes a regular Atom-based netbook across a suite of tests. What that’s going to mean for battery life is up in the air, especially since the GPU on an Optimus system like the 1201PN kicks in automatically, but it’s pretty cool to see a netbook browsing the web at almost desktop-like speeds. Check the video after the break.
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IE9 demoed on Ion-based Eee PC with full GPU acceleration originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 31
Sneak Preview: Inside the iPad App Store [Ipad]
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