Dec 30
Words such as “laptop” and the quite delightful “handy” (meaning cell phone) are examples of so-called Denglish and are now banned by Germany’s transport ministry.
Originally posted at Technically Incorrect
Dec 30
Not that it’s a competition, or anything, by Microsoft just wants to let you that it hit its 5000th Windows Phone 7 app this week, eight days after announcing that the company had shipped 1.5 million devices running the mobile operating system (that’s shipped, not sold).
That’s the same number of apps that Palm/HP has in the webOS app store (Microsoft launched its store two months ago–Palm’s store has been around eight months) and one-third of what the BlackBerry store is carrying.
Of course, Microsoft is still far behind the industry leaders–Apple and Google have 300,000 and 200,000 apps, respectively, but the numbers are still promising for a company that was largely considered out of the game, just a few months back.
Dec 30
Archos 7 Home Tablet sees revision 2, with Android 2.1 and faster 800MHz CPU
Posted in: Android, archos, slate, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili
The Archos 7 Home Tablet was something of a disappointment, and Archos has shipped bigger and better things since, but the firm isn’t done with the original affordable Android slate quite yet. We’ve confirmed with Archos that a “v2” revision is now shipping in Europe with three things the original lacked — an accelerometer, a relatively recent version of Android (2.1) and an 800MHz Rockchip CPU. Make no mistake, those are still budget specs, and you’ll almost certainly still have to hack your own Android Market on to get a full quota of apps, but it’s not like you’re paying any more for the extra oomph. The updated version has been spotted at Expansys for the same $200, which might actually might make it one of the best bang-for-the-buck tablets out there. Look how far we’ve come.
[Thanks, Marien]
Archos 7 Home Tablet sees revision 2, with Android 2.1 and faster 800MHz CPU originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dec 30
T-Mobile’s successor to the Cliq has been spied on the eve of CES. With a rumored January 19th launch date, it would make sense that the carrier is ready to announce the phone.
Originally posted at Android Atlas
Dec 30
The world’s largest Internet population got a lot bigger in the past year, jumping 20,3 percent to 450 million–that’s more than a third of the country’s population of 1.3 billion.
Of course, that massive number of users aren’t able to access the whole of the Internet. The Chinese government has been notoriously hard-lined in its censorship of those sites it deems a threat. In the past year, the government has shut down more than 60,000 sites and removed more than 350 million pieces of content deemed pornographic.
A number of high profile America sites including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been blocked as well. According to Chinese authorities, VoIP service Skype is next on the list.
Dec 30
2010: The Year in Alt
Posted in: Today's Chili
Engadget Alt, the most recent addition to the site, is something near and dear to our hearts. This a place where we can comment on (and draw attention to) things that don’t exactly fit into the main stream of our coverage, yet resonate with us as writers — and with you as readers. So, what did we learn this year? Spacecraft are prone to hardware failure, it seems, and Ozzy Osbourne’s genome is a wonderful resource for scientists. And one editor-in-chief really, really digs eBoy. Aside from all that, this space has seen a number of feature articles and columns that we’re especially proud of. Cruise on past the break for some of our favorites.
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2010: The Year in Alt originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dec 30
This article was written on October 07, 2006 by CyberNet.
Google has apparently canceled their Click-To-Call feature according to a blog post that was available for just a few minutes (yes, that link is now broken). The Click-To-Call service was designed to quickly connect advertisers with customers. I got the screenshot above from Google Blogoscoped and it shows how you just need to enter in your phone number and it would dial the company at no cost to you. More information on how it works can be found in the Google Help section.
The thing that is really mysterious is how the post was quickly removed. For those of you who weren’t able to see it the few minutes that it was available here is what it said:
Google Click-to-Call project canceled
19:07 10/7/2006, Maximal, Official Google BlogAfter concientiously considering, Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has been in the media on last days because of the notice of Google agreement with e-Bay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with e-Bay a monopolistic aproach that would damage small companies in the CRM area.
This message has been translated using Google language tools.
That is the extent of the information that they provided. Speculation in the Google Blogoscoped forum is quickly determining that the blog post is fake.If that is true then I would sure hope that Google would make a follow-up post to let everyone know. I also noticed that there are two spelling mistakes in the post that I highlighted in red, which is definitely not the quality that I would expect from Google.
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Dec 30
Clear iSpot discontinued already
Posted in: 4G, hotspot, mobile hotspot, MobileHotspot, Today's Chili, WiMAX
Well, that certainly didn’t last very long, did it? Looks like Clear is already sending its unusual iSpot product to the great WiMAX network in the sky less than five months after its introduction. As a refresher, the iSpot’s claim to fame is that it was designed to work only with iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads — and in exchange for the crazy restriction, Clear would charge you less than $100 for the hotspot itself and just $25 a month for unlimited 4G access capped at 6Mbps down. Of course, it’s easy to understand why Clear would want to forget the iSpot ever existed: its MAC address filtering was easily defeated and plagued with reports that even approved devices were being denied access, suggesting that the concept probably wasn’t a solid one in the first place. For what it’s worth, Clear retail stores are still selling through remaining stock if you’re interested — and the company will maintain a supply of units for warranty replacements — but otherwise, you’re out of luck.
[Thanks, rand]
Clear iSpot discontinued already originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Dec 30
Responding to a Kaufman Bros. report asserting that the PlayBook tablet has a short-lived battery, RIM says any outsiders would have seen pre-beta units without power management enabled.
Originally posted at News – Digital Media
Dec 30
Skype Declared Illegal in China
Posted in: skype, Today's Chili 
It’s turning out to be a pretty rough month for the folks at Skype. First there was that whole major service outage that the service suffered during one it its busiest times of year. And now it seems that the VoIP provider may soon become illegal in the world’s most populous country.
Communist Party-run paper The People’s Daily declared all Internet phone services not run by state sanctioned China Telecom and China Unicom to be illegal. The article stated that The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is set to take Skype and other VoIPs out of commission in China.
The Ministry reflected the statement in a recent announcement, “Currently, our ministry is working with relevant departments to focus on the crackdown on illegal VoIP [voice over internet protocol calls] and we are now appealing to the public for clues for illegal VoIP cases.”
For now, Skype is currently available in the country. Said a spokeswoman, “Users in China currently can access Skype via TOM Online, our majority JV partner. TOM Online offers local versions of Skype for Windows, MAC as well as mobile platforms such as Symbian and Windows Mobile. More details can be found at skype.tom.com.”
If Skype is indeed officially made illegal, it will be in good company, joing Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
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