May 04
Canon updates its CanoScan photo line with a resolution boost and some power-consumption tweaks.
May 04
Know Your Rights: H.264, patent licensing, and you
Posted in: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Today's Chili, videoKnow Your Rights is Engadget’s technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we’ll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world. This isn’t legal advice or analysis, so don’t get all donked in the head.
What on earth is going on with H.264, patents, and video encoding on the web? It seems like ever since Steve Jobs published his Thoughts on Flash the world has gone crazy.
We know what you mean! It’s getting pretty silly out there. OSNews just declared that H.264 would be the death of video art and culture because professional video cameras are only licensed by AT&T for personal and non-commercial usage. Terrifying, although most of the creative people we know have continued working free of devastating laser attacks from space.
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May 04
Engadget wins the People’s Voice Webby in Consumer Electronics, and you can win a Droid Incredible!
Posted in: contest, Today's Chili
Hey, would you look at that — we done won ourselves an award! And not just any award, but the People’s Choice Webby Award in Consumer Electronics, which is doubly special to us since it was voted on by the general public. Obviously we’re pretty happy about the win, but we’re even happier to have such great readers like all of you — Engadget editors work pretty hard, but you’re the ones who make our site what it is. So by way of celebration, we’re giving away a Droid Incredible, courtesy of Verizon Wireless, and 10 lucky runner-ups will get spiffy new Engadget T-shirts! All you have to do is leave a comment to tell us how happy you are, and you’ll be entered to win. The full instructions and typical rules can be found after the break. Good luck!
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May 04
Confirmed: BlackBerry two-way sync for Gmail is now live
Posted in: BlackBerry, Email, Gmail, RIM, sync, Today's Chili
We’ve just heard from the boys and girls at RIM that the company did, in fact, deploy the long-awaited two-way Gmail synchronization capability to North American BIS users this week. What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means that if you’ve got a BlackBerry on any North American carrier that isn’t going through BES, Gmail should behave more like it should — deleted items will disappear from your phone, emails read elsewhere will show up as read on the device, and you’ll have access to all of your sent items. Oh, and you can create and delete labels from the comfort of your QWERTY thumb board, too, which is a sweet deal. Sure, the feature might be literally years late as far as we’re concerned — but hey, better late than never.
Confirmed: BlackBerry two-way sync for Gmail is now live originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 04
Daniel Terdiman embarks on Road Trip 2010 in June and wants help figuring out what kind of gadgets to bring. This could be your ticket into the Halo: Reach beta. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20004131-52.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Geek Gestalt/a/p
May 04
Waze’s releases a beta version of its crowdsourced navigation and traffic app for BlackBerry. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20004107-12.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Download Blog/a/p
May 04
A clever shutterbug gutted a film camera innards and made space for the Canon Digital Ixus 870 IS to be placed inside.
May 04
Kroll OnTracks New Techniques Improve Data Recovery From Flash Drives and SSDs
Posted in: hard drive, SSD, Today's Chili
If you’ve ever felt the sting of losing vital information due to drive failure, then you also know the importance of recovering it. Today, Kroll Ontrack announced enhancements to its data recovery technology that makes recovering information from Flash drives and SSDs easier and faster than before.
Although Flash memory typically fails less frequently than traditional hard drives do, recovering
the data can be trickier: SSDs employ “wear leveling” techniques
whereby information is evenly distributed across random blocks of the
memory chip, whereas with traditional spinning hard drives, data is stored
linearly and concentrically, making it easier to recover. Kroll’s new toolkit allows Ontrack’s recovery wizards to retrieve data from Flash memory more quickly and with a higher success rate. It also increases the integrity of the information recovered.
If you’re need information restored, Kroll Ontrack offers a free initial consultation for customers experiencing a
data loss.
May 04
Celebrity Nerds confirms what you always knew, deep in your heart of hearts: that stars are nerds like us. Send in your own confirmations of this fact right here.
We wish we could tell you that Oprah caused a small riot in Chicago by handing out HTC EVO 4Gs to everyone in her audience but, alas, she seems to have just kept this one for herself. More specifically, she used the “fancy new” phone to show “those of you who actually know how to text” how easy it is to sign her “No Phone Zone” pledge. No discounts, no Bono, just a fleeting glimpse of one of the most anticipated phones of the year. Head on past the break for the video evidence of this momentous event.
[Thanks, Luis]
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May 04
Intel demonstrates Light Peak on a laptop, says 10Gbps speeds are only the beginning
Posted in: cable, intel, Today's Chili
Folks in Brussels for Intel’s European research showcase got to get their hands on the company’s Light Peak this week, with the first demonstration of the optical cable technology running on a laptop. Outfitted with a 12mm square chip that converts the optical signal into data the machine can read, two separate HD video streams were piped to a nearby TV, which displayed them with the help of a converter box — a necessary evil until the Light Peak chips are developed for the display side of things. According to Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO, the current 10Gb / second speeds are just the beginning. “We expect to increase that speed dramatically. You’ll see multiple displays being served by a single Light Peak connection. There’s almost no limit to the bandwidth — fibers can carry trillions of bits per second.”
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