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Spotify still won’t say when its streaming music service will come to the US, but its 10 million songs will play on two more devices from here on out: starting today, the Logitech Squeezebox Touch and Squeezebox Radio can get their 320kbps groove on. (Sonos, eat your heart out.) A free beta version of the music app should appear on the MySqueezebox website at any moment — though it doesn’t seem to be there right now — followed by “a full rollout expected in the very near future,” a promise which we can’t quite translate, but might mean support for even more devices down the road. Of course, Spotify’s something of a given for Logitech’s next Squeezebox, if it happens to run Android. PR after the break.

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Spotify comes to Logitech Squeezebox, makes non-Europeans mildly jealous originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You had to expect that as the 3DS got closer to its global release, stray units would manage to break out of Nintendo’s manufacturing fortress and dash out into the wild. We already saw one such escapee earlier this month and, if we’re not terribly mistaken, that very same unit has now gone through the ritual of having its body disassembled for the sake of curious 3D gamers everywhere. There’s little to thrill the superficial viewer — we already knew about the 1300mAh battery, for example — but maybe you’ll care to scrutinize the silicon more closely. If so, the source link is your nearest and dearest friend.

[Thanks, Adam]

Alleged Nintendo 3DS roams the wild, gets thoroughly dismantled originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been less than a week since Intel announced their 2nd Generation Core processors, and the little guys are already hard at work. Deep in the heart of another convention — the National Retail Federation Convention, to be exact — Intel unveiled the Connected Store concept: a futuristic storefront for retailers looking to up their digital game. The store, powered in part by the “visibly smart” processors, is packed with interactive demos and proof-of-concepts that look like something out of the Jetsons. Among the systems sporting the new processor’s 3D graphics capabilities are a virtual search engine-equipped wall of Adidas sneakers — the thing packs up to 8,000 different styles — and the Intel Digital Signage Endcap, which does some creepy big brother stuff, using gestural sensors to target you specifically. Also on display are a number of beefed-up and interactive self check-out kiosks and point-of-sale systems. Intel’s already got the big guns interested, including Proctor and Gamble and Kraft Foods, but we just want to know who’s going to make this wall of shoes a reality. Video of the Connected Store after the jump.

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Intel announces Connected Store concept, makes us hungry for shoes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LTE’s great… but only if it’s got phones and modems that can take advantage of it. Though MetroPCS beat Verizon to become the first American carrier to launch the technology, it’s been scraping by so far with nothing other than the Samsung Craft, a middling dumbphone without the chops to attract the powerusers that would normally want to be involved with a 4G network anyway. Looks like that’s finally about to change, though, because BGR‘s scored a shot of a so-called SCH-R910 — also from Samsung — that’s running Android 2.2. It’ll allegedly have backward compatibility with MetroPCS’ CDMA network (naturally) along with a 1GHz Hummingbird core and 5 megapixel camera — not a blockbuster by any stretch, but still on a whole new plane than the Craft. Rumor has it we’ll see this before the end of March for somewhere between $330 and $400 contract-free; question is, will it beat Big Red’s first LTE phones to market?

MetroPCS finally prepping Android smartphone with LTE from Samsung? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Mozilla is currently taking new steps to improve upon their 50% user retention rate for Firefox. That number means that only half of the people who try Firefox actually continue to use it on a regular basis. So what’s Mozilla going to do to make that number even better? Here’s their plan:

1. Force the Firefox icon to easier to find location
2. Alter the default browser settings path for better user choice
3. Major outbound brand marketing program driving brand recognition and differentiation
4. Change Firefox icon label to closer resemble action of getting to web
   
5. Improve download page and first run pages
6. Launch support.mozilla.com
7. Make common plug-ins work out of the box
8. Make add-ons and personas more accessible
9. Stickier start page
   
10. Make the web feel more human
11. Improve messaging through communication channels

Mozilla recently started a community effort to create more support documentation, and we’ve been contacted by Mozilla to see if Chris from our very own Learn Firefox could contribute some of his work to the project. We’re still trying to work out some of the terms regarding that, but Learn Firefox has everything beginners and advanced users need to know about getting started with the browser. And if you’re looking for a theme there is no better place than Learn Firefox to browse over 200 of them!

There’s no doubt that Mozilla is making some progress as they climb up to 20% of the browser market share, and hopefully by implementing some of these tactics it will increase their retention rate. In the first week of September Mozilla should also be hitting a big milestone: 400 million downloads of Firefox. They are currently close to 390 million downloads, and I’ve estimated the 400 million mark using the current download rate.

Source: Ars Technica

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