Jan 28

Google announces Android event for February 2nd

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Had enough Honeycomb this week? Perhaps — but next week is a whole new week, and Google’s got your back. Mountain View has selected Wednesday, February 2nd for an event that’ll include “an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos,” so by all accounts this seems to be more than a mere wrap-up of everything they’ve announced in the past few weeks. New tablets? Honeycomb for smartphones? Android 2.4? Something else entirely? We’ll be there to find out, of course.

Google announces Android event for February 2nd originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Portland store trades print books for Kindles

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The Microcosm bookstore in Portland, OR is allowing people to trade in their “soulless faux-literary technology for its worth in good old fashioned books.”

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Jan 28

Should you buy a 13-inch laptop now, or wait?

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We answer a common reader question about whether to buy a 13-inch laptop now or wait for the next round of component updates.

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Jan 28

Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S successors to be announced at Mobile World Congress

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A leaked document shows Samsung unveiling new models of two of its popular Android devices.

Originally posted at Android Atlas

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Jan 28

Nook Color earns its very early, very unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb wings

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One of the first things that happens after a new platform emulator breaks loose is that a bunch of hackers far smarter than ourselves get hold of it, tear it apart, and port it to whatever’s convenient. In the case of this week’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview, “whatever’s convenient” would be the Nook Color, which reigns as perhaps the cheapest decent-quality Android tablet money can currently buy. Naturally, xda-developers has a thread going on the subject as we speak; the current port is said to be really slow and mostly broken — but then again, that kind of describes the current state of the emulator itself. Good news is that the developer says he plans on working on graphics acceleration to improve performance over the weekend, so with any luck, the Xoom might have some unofficial competition before too long. Follow the break for another shot.

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Nook Color earns its very early, very unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb wings originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Cheap texting and extreme jogging: iPhone apps of the week

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This week’s apps include a chat app that could save you a lot of money and an extreme jogging game that’s just as challenging and silly as it sounds.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

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Jan 28

HP: New WebOS products shipping soon, another unveil set for March 14

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HP CEO Leo Apotheker teases a March 14 announcement that will be the “secret answer” and vision of the company going forward.

Originally posted at Dialed In

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Jan 28

Watch the Egyptian Revolution Unfold on Your iPhone

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The Egyptian government has shut down 88 percent of the country’s internet access amid mass protests. If you’re on the road and away from a computer, fortunately there’s a free iPhone app to tune in to the latest developments.

Available in the App Store, international news network Al Jazeera has a free iOS app with live coverage of the protests, so you can watch the Egyptian revolution unfold on your phone. The app features access to news articles, photos and live video of the protests. It’s a really quick, snappy app to keep up with the news.

Meanwhile, for up-to-date news of the Egyptian protests, follow Wired.com’s coverage at the Danger Room blog.

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Jan 28

Dell hints at Android 3.0 tablets, new Win Phone 7 devices

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BBC business editor reports that Dell plans to ship iPad-sized tablets as soon as Android 3.0 Honeycomb is available.

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Jan 28

UN: worldwide internet users hit two billion, cellphone subscriptions top five billion

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The UN’s International Telecommunication Union predicted last fall that the number of internet users worldwide would hit two billion by the end of 2010, and it’s now issued its full report that confirms just that — 2.08 billion, to be specific. As the ITU’s Hamadoun Toure notes, that number represents a huge leap from the mere 250 million internet users that existed a decade ago, and it means that roughly one third of the world’s population now has internet access of some sort — of those, 555 million have a fixed broadband subscription, and 950 million have mobile broadband. Just as impressive as that (if not moreso), are the number of cellphone subscriptions worldwide, which has now crossed the five billion mark. That’s up from 500 million at the beginning of the year 2000, although the agency notes that it’s only accounted for “subscriptions,” and not individual users. Any way you slice it, however, that’s quite a record of growth for the first decade of the 21st century.

UN: worldwide internet users hit two billion, cellphone subscriptions top five billion originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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