Leave it to the very same poster who teased the Motorola Shadow’sGetting Started manual, wnrussell of Howard Forums, to provide a pretty clear shot of the device itself — yep, that’s a HDMI out port — and reveal some purported specs. Here’s the claimed technical details: 4.1-inch screen, TI OMAP 3630 processor (a 720MHz ARM Cortex A8), 8GB internal storage, 8 megapixel camera. Yeah, we can buy all that, especially since he’s clearly got the device in hand — so now it’s up to Verizon to let us know when we can do the same.
So, you’ve got a few options here. Do a little research and piece together your own surround system, hire a voyeur from Geek Squad to do it for you, or just hire a live-in technician to handle both present and future issues. Whatever you settle on, you can pretty much rest assured that it’ll be cheaper than forking out for one of Bose‘s hilariously overpriced Lifestyle systems. In typical Bose fashion, the company is introducing a new trio of 5.1 rigs (the V35, V25 and T20), each of which utilize a new “Unify” technology that is said to make “connecting speakers and sources, programming remotes, and accessing content easier and faster than ever before.” And by that, they mean “we’ll show you pictures of the connectors on your television screen.” Each setup comes with a handful of tiny, cube-like speakers and a surely unimpressive Acoustimass bass module, and if you’re hoping to find detailed specifications — you know, things like RMS, impedance, frequency response range and other vital audio statistics — we wish you the best of luck. Oh, but here’s a few figures that are being handed down: $3,299, $2,499 and $1,999. Yeah, those are the MSRPs in order of mention, and amazingly, we aren’t kidding.
We know, Tour owners — you’re so ready for a little WiFi in your life that you could quite literally scream. Go ahead, let it out! There, doesn’t that feel better? No? Well, maybe this will: new shots out of The BlackBerry Zone suggest that Verizon sales reps are being actively trained on the Bold 9650, adding to a trail of evidence over the past month from a variety of sites that the phone is coming shortly. It certainly should, considering the relative importance of BlackBerrys in Verizon’s lineup and the fact that Sprint now has it at retail, and it’s still possible that documentation on CrackBerry last month pointing to a May 27 release — that’s this Thursday, for the record — is accurate. We’ll know soon enough, but in the meantime, treat those old trackballs with care, alright?
We’re going to warn you up front. This isn’t easy to watch, but robotics research can sometimes be a nasty business, and some things just can’t be left unseen. At the center of the disaster waiting to happen pictured above is MABEL, a bipedal robot that researchers at the University of Michigan have been working on for the past few years, and which, on an otherwise ordinary May 18th, made its first attempt at walking over rough ground. Things got off to a well enough start, with MABEL able to walk with a reasonably natural gait, and even recover after a small slip after a few boards where placed in her path. As the university itself points out, however, the whole point of the experiment was to “push her til she cracked” — and crack she did, with a shin eventually giving way after one too many boards were added, resulting in one of the sadder sights we’ve seen in our years of robot watching. Head on past the break for the complete video, if you can handle it.
Most recently, Pioneer announced an update to its flagship model with its reveal of the AVIC-Z120BT in-dash navigation system, a double-DIN receiver that features some pretty heavy integration with Pioneer’s software suite for multimedia and GPS navigation: PandoraLink, MusicSphere, and AVIC Feeds. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20005974-48.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Car Tech blog/a/p
No matter how much T-Mobile wants to pretend, HSPA+ is not on the same upload / download pay grade as LTE and WiMAX. Still, that isn’t stopping the company from calling its new technology rollout “4G speeds,” much to the dismay of another major HSPA+ supporter, AT&T. Cue Ma Bell spokesman Seth Bloom, who recently told Fierce Wireless, “I think that companies need to be careful that they’re not misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as a 4G technology.” Of course, AT&T itself is rolling out that technology as an intermediate step between current 3G and LTE, and we know they want to reserve the 4G nomenclature for the latter’s unveiling. Hey guys, can we just label it 3.95G and call it day?
At Amazon’s shareholder meeting Tuesday, CEO Jeff Bezos says the Kindle isn’t getting a color screen and that the device will remain primarily focused on reading. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20005971-260.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Circuit Breaker/a/p
Froyo? That’s just what the myPhoneDesktop app eats after a hard day of wirelessly zapping links, text and images from your computer to your iPhone or iPad—a taste of the mouthwatering functionality Google demoed on Android last week. More »
If you want to know what Google meant by “more retail availability” for the Nexus One when it talked about spiking its first-party phone store, take a good, hard look at our brave new world here. Independent retailer i Wireless has started offering a number of Android devices in the past few days, including the Nexus One — a product that’s still extraordinarily difficult to find outside of Google’s own site, especially since none of the American Big Four carriers intend to offer it directly. It turns out that i Wireless is an authorized T-Mobile affiliate, so they’re selling the phone for $299.95 on contract after rebate — a good bit more than the $179 Google charges, but in return, it looks like you can select just about any plan T-Mobile offers (Google restricts you to the Even More 500 plan to get the subsidy). We think we already miss the old way of getting these things.
This article was written on July 02, 2008 by CyberNet.
Web Browser Wednesday
Yesterday we announced the new Firefox extension that we launched called CyberSearch (our homepage for CyberSearch). It is based on the original version of AwesomeSearch (now called Searchery), and the reason I decided to create the extension was because I saw how it could make me more productive. Hopefully what I’ve come up with can be useful for you as well.
What is CyberSearch? It lets you perform various types of Google searches right from the address bar in Firefox 3. As you’re typing the extension will send your query to Google, grab the results, and then display them along side the history results that Firefox normally shows.
To make the extension even better we’ve supercharged it with a completely customizable keyword system. If you’re familiar with the built-in Firefox keywords understanding how to use these will be second nature for you. The video demonstration below will help put these in perspective, and show just how powerful they make the extension!
–Video Demonstration–
The best way to demonstrate how CyberSearch works is using a video, and so that’s what we’ve got for you. There are also a bunch of screenshots after the video.
–Features–
Supports Multiple Google Services You can perform searches and assign keywords to any of the following Google services: Web, Local, Videos, Blogs, News, Books, Images, and Patents.
Customizable Keywords Pick and choose the keywords that you can remember! You can have one keyword for doing a Google Web search, another for Google News search, and so on. The possibilities are endless!
Restrict Searches to a Site Using the keyword system you’ll be able to restrict a particular search to a certain site. For example, you can create one keyword that will only return results from Wikipedia while a different keyword will only show results from CyberNet News. Want results from multiple sites using just one keyword? No problem, just separate them by commas! Note: This feature is only available for Google Web, Blog, and Image searches.
Custom Icons Assign any icon to be shown next to the search results for a keyword.
Change the Appearance You can choose a customized background color for results that are retrieved from Google. That way you’ll know at a glance what’s coming from your history, and what’s coming from the extension.
Retrieve Multiple Pages of Results A customizable “keyword” is available so that you can even retrieve multiple pages of search results. Checkout the video for more information on how this works.
Hide Results when Using a Keyword You can optionally have Firefox hide the history results from the address bar when it recognizes that you’ve entered in a keyword. That way you see only the search results when using a keyword.
Doesn’t Interfere with Existing Firefox Keywords If you already have existing Firefox keywords setup this extension will not interfere with them. Our keyword system is completely separate from the one that is built-in to Firefox.
Here are some screenshots from the configuration section of the extension:
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One thing that we placed throughout the preferences are the small question marks, and you can hover over them at any point to have a feature explained to you.
–Supported Google Services–
Eight different Google services are supported in CyberSearch, and we’re sure you want to know what the results look like in the address bar for each of them. Here’s a screenshot for each of the different types of Google searches that we support:
Web Search – Your typical Google search. Opening a result will take you directly the site.
Local Search – Find the address and phone number for any business in seconds! Opening a result will take you to a Google Map that shows where the place is located.
Video Search – Search Google Video and Youtube. Opening a result will take you to that video.
Blog Search – Find blog articles that have been written. Opening a result will take you directly to the article.
News Search – Pull up news items. Opening a result will take you directly to the article.
Book Search – Find books. Opening a result will take you to the Google Book page for that particular selection.
Image Search – Searches for images, but isn’t all that useful since there is no image preview. Opening a result will take you directly to the image.
Patent Search – Search for patents. Opening a result will take you to the Google Patent page for that particular selection.
–Installing CyberSearch–
Like what you see? Then go ahead and download the CyberSearch extension from Mozilla. This extension is still experimental, which means you’ll need to login to the Mozilla site before being able to install it. If you don’t have a login you can use a generic one that I’ve created over at Mozilla:
Username: firefox@cybernetnews.com
Password: cybernetnews
Note: If someone decides to be funny and change the password just let us know. Since we have full control over the email address we can change the password back at anytime.
–Overview–
Hopefully this extension will be as useful to you as it has been for us over the last week. If you have any questions or recommendations feel free to drop them off in the comments, but as it stands right now this does just about everything we’d like it to. Our initial focus will be on fixing any bugs that people find.
Regarding CyberSearch for other countries: At this time CyberSearch only supports the use of Google.com. We are looking into expanding this extension to support Google services in other countries. We’ve researched this a little bit, and we don’t believe Google’s API permits the use of the varying country’s Google search engine (eg. google.co.uk).
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