Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on December 28, 2006 by CyberNet.

Wikipedia, part of the Wikimedia Foundation is raising funds. They don’t have any advertisements or sponsors, so they need to make their operating costs somehow! They have a site all set up with options to donate using PayPal/Credit Card, Moneybookers, Check, or Direct Deposit. Recently, a transaction from an “anonymous friend” appears on the live contributions for $286,000! It also appears that each day, a new organization is matching the donations that is received. That means that the one donation could potentially have brought Wikipedia over a half million dollars.

Most donations range from $5.00-$50.00, so this donation really stands out. I love Wikipedia and find it very useful. Sure, the content isn’t 100% accurate all the time, but there’s a lot of good reliable information. If you find it as useful as I do, you can head on over and make a donation. Today, any donation that is received will be matched by Virgin Unite. You can view the live contributions here.

Any guess on the “anonymous friend” who happened to have $286,000 to give away?

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While we’ve got no way to confirm at the moment, here’s some proverbial food for thought. A friendly reader last night published in our comment thread for the two rumored Verizon-bound Motorola devices with the above picture (subtitles added by us), claiming the bottom image is the Droid 2’s upgraded QWERTY keyboard. The story goes that his friend had one but no other information is currently available — the font on the keys is identical, and the mic icon on the bottom left is distinctively Android. If it’s legit, we gotta say we’re hopeful; the keys look to have a more protruding center à la the CLIQ, which should make typing on the little guy much easier than before. And if it’s not the Droid successor, well, it’s still something we haven’t seen. Could this be the updated QWERTY-fied Android solution we’ve been waiting for? Time will tell.

Update: Droid Life has what it claims to be a screencap from the Verizon inventory system showing the M1955, a.k.a. Droid 2, hanging out in Ontario, California. Easily fakeable? You betcha, but it’s not like the Droid name is going to any other carrier. Interesting food for thought.

Update 2: The original source of the image just got back to us with some purported specs — and yet again, let’s remind you that we can’t confirm any of this yet. What we’ve heard: it’s out in the field for testing purposes, it has a 3.7-inch screen, is nearly identical to the original Droid in size and shape, and is chrome instead of black (though that might just be the prototype). And in case you weren’t convinced yet, this is definitely not the same as the Shadow.

[Thanks, mabbikeel and Tuan Tran]

Motorola Droid 2 found in Verizon system, keyboard makes an online cameo? (update: specs) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 20:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony patent application points to dual-screen, dual-use tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 19:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ll allow us to do a little dot-connecting and hand-waving here, we think we may have just stumbled across a new version of Barnes and Noble’s Nook that drops the GSM connection and soldiers on with WiFi alone, matching up nicely with a rumor that spread across the webs not long ago. You see, the Nook’s FCC ID is BNRZ100, and this thing that we just found in the FCC’s filing system under Barnes and Noble’s name has an ID of BNRV100 — and the test reports are very explicit about the fact that this is for “EBOOK, WLAN, AND USB PORTS WITHOUT WWAN.” WWAN, of course, is a fancy way of referring to a cellular connection, so that’s that. If this thing can sell for, say, $100 less than the Nook’s $260 — a price that puts it out of reach of the average person’s impulse purchase limit — we could see some significant new uptake of the platform, we’d wager. No word on a release, but we’ll keep our ears to the ground.

WiFi-only Nook gets FCC approval? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 18:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Electric motors can make a hybrid economical or powerful. BMW steered the performance course with the BMW ActiveHybrid7, a $107,075 variant of the V8 gasoline-only BMW 750Li that accelerates to 60 mph in 4.7 seconds (half a second better than the 750Li) and also gets about 15% better fuel economy. You only lose a small corner of the trunk to the lithium ion battery pack, and none of BMW’s sporting ride or luxury.