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Engadget Podcast 193 – 04.23.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google has never been too inclined to give the world the straight dope on total app counts in the Android Market, but other companies — notably AndroLib — have been happy to try to pick up the slack. The app tracking site now reports a grand total of 50,031 approved binaries as of this writing, marking a pretty magical milestone in light of the Market’s humble beginnings as a free-only cache of a handful of apps for the G1. To be fair, AndroLib is aggregating across all of the Market’s regional sites — you won’t find 50,000 apps in any one Market alone — but it’s undoubtedly a solid sign for the platform. Now we just need a little Froyo to go with that, right?
Android Market clears the 50,000 app mark, says AndroLib originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Things must be getting a little weird at Palm right now, as every day seems to add a new piece to an already confusing puzzle. In just two weeks’ time the company has gone from a potential free agent, to a lone wolf, and then back to prospective purchase. Adding more noise to the proceedings, TechCrunch is now reporting that another senior staffer has hit the road, and this time it’s Caitlin Spaan, Palm’s VP of carrier marketing. Her name gets added to what looks like a growing list of recent Palm departures (not to mention that entire marketing department we hear has been canned). More troubling than that news, however, is a rumor which also appears on TC suggesting that CEO (and putative savior of the company) Jon Rubinstein may be on his way out as well. This report is pure hearsay at this point, but if true would be a major admission on Palm’s part that its plans to kickstart the ailing company nearly two years ago are failing (or have just plain failed). Of course, we need to stress that this is just rumor at this stage — the company offered no comment to Business Insider — and until we get more solid word, it should be treated as such. As for us, we’re hoping the company can pull something salvageable together from this mess and figure out a way to compete at a level of increasingly more difficult stakes.
Update: Apparently Jon showed up in a room of developers at the company’s currently-ongoing dev camp and said “I’m still here,” to big laughs. Hang in there, man!
Another Palm exec is out… and CEO Jon Rubinstein is next? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Designed to dock with a MacBook’s left edge where all the connectors are, this peripheral has a pass-through system where the individual ports can be accessed via the dock.
As much as Microsoft has revealed about Windows Phone 7 thus far in the past two months, one critical, differentiating element that it’s going to be able to lord over its competitors — true Office support — has been a bit of a black box. We’re starting to see a little bit more about the Office team’s next-gen mobile product now, though, thanks to a pair of new videos that have been published this week. The first focuses on the email and calendar experience, but we do see one pretty awesome trick when the demo opens a PowerPoint file inline from the email client, edits it, and sends it back to the original sender. The second video dives deeper on the actual Office hub, where we get a quick look at the Word editor — and as you might expect, it’s squeaky-clean and nearly UI-free, just like pretty much everything else in the platform. Peep the videos after the break.
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Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Police are investigating the loss of what appears to be an iPhone prototype, purchased and originally published this week by the tech site Gizmodo.
A law enforcement official told CNET today that the incident could have violated criminal laws.
In an unprecedented security leak for the Cupertino-based corporation, one of its engineers reportedly took the prototype to a local bar in Redwood City and left it there. Gizmodo claims the two unnamed individuals who found the device attempted to return it to Apple before selling it to the publication for an alleged sum of $5,000.
It’s unclear whether the police are focusing on Gizmodo, the people who found and sold the prototype, or both. Apple has spoken to the local police about the incident, who are now trying to determine whether criminal charges should be filed. The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office is believed to be taking charge of the investigation.
After publishing the photos and videos, Apple contacted Gizmodo and asked if they could have their product back. Gizmodo complied.
Famously secretive, Apple has been known to go after rumor sites that published information on its upcoming products. In a previous lawsuit filed against Apple rumor blog Think Secret, Apple alleged that the website’s owner, Nick Ciarelli, was violating trade law by encouraging and inducing people to provide product information in breach of agreements. After a three-year court battle, Apple and Think Secret reached a settlement, and Ciarelli agreed to cease publication of his blog.
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Boeing’s X-37B, the test craft that’s been kicking around for the last decade or so, has finally made it into orbit. Formerly a NASA project, we’ve heard little about the thing since it passed into DARPA hands in 2004 — and statements like those of the Air Force’s Gary Payton don’t help much: “in all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back for sure.” How’s that for autonomous? Also uncommented upon, yet tantalizing, are the military’s intentions for the unmanned vehicle, which can remain in orbit 270 days at a time. Spy drone? Orbital weapons platform? Plaything for our future robot overlords? (Let’s hope it’s not the last one.) The success of the mission will depend on a couple things, namely: how the return trip goes (it should make it back to California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base via autopilot… sometime) and whether the thing can be re-launched quickly enough. Ideally, the craft should be ready for another flight in fifteen days. Another test is planned for 2011.
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Boeing X-37B autonomous space shuttle launched last night, due back ‘whenevs’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Facebook’s long had some privacy issues, and now that they’re broadening their reach on the web, who knows what’ll happen next? Oh, right. We do: More »
Ah, leaked company presentation slides, they have a clarity only Mr. Blurrycam would despise. EETimes got a batch of them from Samsung dated November 2009 making the rounds, but more important than revealing its equal love for both Roman and Greek mythology, we get a glimpse at its then-planned ARM chip roadmap (yeah, another one) through 2013. In a nutshell, for the Cortex A9 crowd we’ve got the 800MHz dual core “Orion” due for mass production in Q1 2011, a 1GHz single core “Pegasus” for Q4 2011, a 1GHz dual core “Hercules” for Q1 2012, and for sometime in 2012 / 2013, a 1.2GHz dual core “Draco” and quad core “Aquila.” Fear not, Cortex A5 fanatics, you’ve got gifts as well, in the form of 600MHz single core “Mercury” and dual core “Venus” chips, slated for 2010 / 2011 and 2012 / 2013, respectively. We don’t expect the nomenclature to extend beyond internal usage, but frankly, who cares — it’s the devices that count, and unfortunately all we can do is doodle our future gadget hopes and dreams onto scraps of paper while we wait.
Samsung’s ARM roadmap lays coordinates through 2013: Aquila, Venus, and Draco (oh my) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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