Apr 29

Report: Microsoft Ditches Plans for Courier Tablet

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Microsoft has reportedly canceled plans for its Courier tablet, Gizmodo reports.

Microsoft told employees working on the tablet that the project is dead, Gizmodo said. The Courier was never officially announced – Gizmodo first broke the news about the possible device in September.

The Courier was supposed to have two 7-inch touchscreens connected by a hinge for a book-like design. Steve Ballmer showed off the yet-to-be-released HP Slate during his CES keynote this year, but the company has not commented on any additional tablet plans.

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Apr 29

Report confirms Call of Duty: Vietnam

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The reported confirmation caps speculation that began in October 2008.

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Apr 29

Facebooking for love, part 1–Jasmine’s Tech Dos Don’ts

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Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week: the art of finding love on Facebook. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-20003763-49.html” class=”origPostedBlog”MP3 Insider/a/p

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Apr 29

ASUS Eee PC 1218 trades veil of secrecy for popular design award

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Well, will you look at that. In its haste to proclaim itself winner of a 2010 Red Dot design award, ASUS has inadvertently or perhaps intentionally announced the brand-new netbook that received it — the Eee PC 1218. She’s a beaut, too, with a slim, one-piece aluminum shell that evokes the MacBook Air but still packs a substantial number of expansion ports. There aren’t any hard specs quite yet, but the above shot shows it’ll come with a webcam and chiclet keyboard, and in a second pic after the break we can make out three USB sockets, Ethernet, VGA, a pair of 3.5mm audio jacks and an HDMI port — the last of which possibly suggests a dedicated GPU (here’s hoping an Ion 2) for HD video playback. Oh, and lest we forget, ASUS says it’s also got a soft-touch plastic underside, for all you coffee-swilling, netbook-slinging butterfingers out there. No word on pricing or availability.

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ASUS Eee PC 1218 trades veil of secrecy for popular design award originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 29

The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:45PM EST!

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It’s been an incredible week in news, and we’re getting ready to break it all down, podcast-style. Won’t you join us? We’ll be live at 5:45PM EST, but the chat below is open, so settle in and get comfy!

P.S.- And hey, don’t forget that Ustream has Android and iPhone apps if you’re out and about and can’t join in on the Flash-based fun below. Is that deeply ironic today? Yes, it is.

Update: And we’re done — that was a wild one! We’ll have the regular podcast post up tomorrow if you missed it, and we’ll be back next week as always.

The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:45PM EST! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 29

Go + Play boom box leaves less room for boom

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CNET’s Donald Bell reviews the Harman Kardon Go + Play Micro, a portable speaker designed for the Apple iPhone and iPod.

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Apr 29

Canon AE-1 Program SLR gets a digital retrofit

Posted in: film, hack, mod, Today's Chili, video
A classic SLR film camera gutted and given a digital upgrade — blasphemy? Maybe, but there’s no denying that this mod by Diego Monge is plenty impressive. He started out with a Canon AE-1 Program SLR, and apparently simply stuffed the guts of a compact digital camera of some sort inside, resulting in what he calls the AE-1 Program Digital — a 9-megapixel camera complete with image stabilization, a functional flash, and 4GB of memory (non-removable, it seems). Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any details on the build process, let alone a how-to, but you can at least get a glimpse of it in action in the video after the break.

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Canon AE-1 Program SLR gets a digital retrofit originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 29

Man ‘beats’ Bejeweled 2 after 2,200 hours playing

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Man spent more than 2,200 hours playing Bejeweled 2–the equivalent of a year’s work–before beating it. The feat was believed to be unreachable. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20003811-17.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Digital Home/a/p

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Apr 29

FCC outs HTC handset for ATT

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A recent FCC filing shows another Android-based handset from HTC on the way. This time around the specs hint at a possible ATT release. Could this be the HTC Wildfire? pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10473867-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p

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Apr 29

Opera Mini’s first iPhone fix doesn’t tackle big complaints

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Opera’s few minor tweaks for its big-deal iPhone app could leave users cold, especially in light of Skyfire’s new mobile browser advances. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20003802-233.html” class=”origPostedBlog”iPhone Atlas/a/p

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