Jan 25

Verizon ramps up trade-in, upgrade programs in advance of iPhone 4 launch

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Not exactly a huge surprise here, but it looks like Verizon will be doing everything it can to pair folks with a new iPhone 4 when it launches on the carrier next month, even if they’ve just purchased a new phone on Verizon or another carrier. During an investor meeting this week, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo revealed that the carrier will be using its existing trade-in program (which launched in October) to lure would-be customers, with a Verizon rep further detailing that it will be “more actively” promoting the plan in the lead up to the iPhone 4 launch — under that program, a 16GB iPhone 4 from AT&T will net you a $212 credit. In addition to that, Verizon is also rolling out a new “Special Upgrade Offer” that will let existing customers trade in a phone they’ve recently purchased for a Visa debit card ($200 for a smartphone trade-in, or $75 for a feature phone). Only those that have purchased a phone between November 26th, 2010 and January 10th, 2011 will be eligible, though, and you won’t exactly get that cash right away — you’ll first have to first buy and activate your iPhone 4 at the full retail price, send in your trade-in phone within 30 days of activation, and then wait four to six weeks to receive the debit card.

Verizon ramps up trade-in, upgrade programs in advance of iPhone 4 launch originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 25

The 404 743: Where it’s complicated with Caroline McCarthy (podcast)

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Caroline McCarthy from CNET’s The Social blog joins us on today’s podcast to discuss this morning’s Oscar nominations and eight nods for “The Social Network” including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay Adaptation, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Original Score.

The film undoubtedly deserves the recognition, but it seems they left off Andrew Garfield for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Eduardo Saverin, Facebook’s co-founder and a 5 percent shareholder of the $2.5 billion company.

Despite this oversight, Garfield will likely have another chance with his upcoming role as the famous Webslinger in the upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. The rest of the cast includes Rhys Ifans as the Lizard, Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, and Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson.

But there’s no chance the movie will be quite as awful as “Turn off the Dark,” Broadway’s version of the Spider-Man genesis wrought with disaster even in the face of its new finale.

Wilson checked out an early preview of the show and has an equally negative review to share that makes this Onion headline sound right on the mark: “Nuclear Bomb Detonates During Rehearsal For ‘Spider-Man’ Musical.” We blame Bono.

As usual, the Razzie nominations were announced today in conjunction with the Oscars, and it’s no surprise that the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” swept the Golden Raspberries for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Robert Pattinson), Worst Screenplay, and…actually, the movie appears in all the categories except for
Worst Supporting Actress and Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D, where they were ineligible to be nominated.



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Jan 25

MetroPCS takes a cue from Verizon, appeals FCC’s net neutrality code

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It’s not just Big Red taking issue with the FCC’s final stance on net neutrality, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise — landline and wireless operators tend to do a pretty good job harmonizing their opinions on regulatory issues, and net neutrality is about as big of a regulatory issue as you’re going to get. Next up to drop the legal hammer is MetroPCS, filing this week with the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and saying that it wants to make sure “the concerns of competitive wireless carriers, like MetroPCS, are addressed.” Interestingly, the company specifically calls out net neutrality complaints against its new 4G plans — which stratify non-browser data usage as a separate category with its own bucket — as one of the reasons it’s filing the appeal; separately, the carrier says that it’s going to formally respond to those complaints next month, so it’s clearly not ready to back down and rethink its LTE strategy. It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

MetroPCS takes a cue from Verizon, appeals FCC’s net neutrality code originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 25

Paper batteries recharge from moisture in the air, seemingly defy laws of nature

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Paper batteries recharge themselves from the moisture in the air, seemingly defy laws of physics

Some like working with clay, some like carving from stone, others etch out of silicon, but the team at CENIMAT apparently really likes plain ‘ol paper. The researchers there proved they could print transistors on the stuff back in 2008, and now they’re making paper batteries too. But that’s nothing new, others have made mache cells for years. What’s exciting here is that these batts charge with water, and they don’t need very much of the stuff to juice up. Just 40 percent humidity in the air is enough to regain their potency, a threshold that might put them out of the realm of possibility for self-recharging power for Vegas lights, but something tells us the voltage coming out of this pulp couldn’t cope with that kind of strain anyhow.

[Thanks, Manuel]

Paper batteries recharge from moisture in the air, seemingly defy laws of nature originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 25

Mopar app acts as electronic owners manual for Dodge vehicles

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The new Mopar apps provide vehicle operation, maintenance and warranty information, as well as product feature video demonstrations.

Originally posted at The Car Tech blog

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Jan 25

Finally…Firefox 2.0 Beta Gets A Tab Overflow Button

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on July 24, 2006 by CyberNet.

Firefox 2.0 Beta Gets A Tab Overflow Button

By this point I think most people know the frustration that I had with how Mozilla handled the scrolling tab-bar in Firefox but it looks like they have found a good solution. By default I can now have a much more reasonable number of tabs open, in the area of 20-30, before the tabs start to scroll. Thank you Mozilla!

Even better is that the latest nightly build has a button located to the far right side of the tab-bar that will show you a list of ALL your open tabs. This makes it easier to navigate your sites when the tabs get so small you can hardly read them. In the demonstration picture that I took above you can see that my tabs are so small that they are hard to read which makes the tab-navigation button very useful. You can very easily see which tab you have selected because it will be displayed with bold text in the list.

At first I was wondering why they wouldn’t just make the button appear when your tabs overflow and start scrolling, but I am glad they didn’t because I have found it to be quite useful! If you decide you want to live on the edge and try out the latest nightly build of Firefox then go ahead, but you may experience some instability since this is not a released version!

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Jan 25

This Dead Space Plasma Cutter Replica Won’t Kill Aliens but Looks Great

Posted in: Miscellaneous Tech, Today's Chili, video games
Dead Space Plasma Cutter

If you’re a hardcore survival horror game fan, you’ve probably already played Dead Space through to the end, and you’re planning on picking up your pre-order of Dead Space 2 as soon as you can today, now that the game is in stores. 
What you may be missing from your Dead Space collection however is this Dead Space Plasma Cutter replica, complete with scorch-marks on the front, light-up effects, and a beautiful display-case to keep it safe when you’re not whirling it around in your living room, pretending you’re being attacked by necromorphs. 
The plasma cutter replica is large enough to hold in your hand, and has a rechargeable battery inside with about 30-minutes of play time before you have to plug it back in. It’s just less than 3 pounds, and if you just have to have one, you can pre-order it now for $219 list price. Entertainment Earth says they’ll begin shipping in March.
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Jan 25

New Kraft Vending Machines Read Your Face, Tell You What to Eat

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Kraft Brands

If you thought all of the high-tech action ended earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you were wrong. Right now, the National Retail Federation is having their annual trade show, and among the gadgetry at the event is the new Kraft Store Kiosk, developed through a partnership between Kraft Foods and Intel – yes, that Intel. 
The Kraft Store Kiosk has cameras built into the front, and uses what Intel calls “Anonymous Video Analytics” to scan your face to instantly determine your age, gender, and uses that information to suggest something for you to eat that the kiosk can provide. The goal is to use the demographic information that Kraft is already collecting about its customers to help make it easier for you to choose what to eat for dinner, since the machine will know all about you (the “royal” you, that is) and be able to suggest something you’d like. 
Whether the kiosk is designed to read your weight or anything wasn’t explicitly, but since the Kiosk dispenses Kraft foods, we should expect lots of macaroni and cheese, Wheat Thins, Philadelphia cream cheese, and Oreos. Who knew the future would be so bad for your arteries. 
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Jan 25

Dead Space 2: Real space, real terror

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Dead Space 2 continues the story of Isaac Clarke and his seemingly endless run-ins with the once-human Necromorphs that have taken over a space station on one of Saturn’s moons, Titan. Does Dead Space 2 deliver the screams of its predecessor?

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Jan 25

Samsung Galaxy S Hoppin hops to South Korea, includes TV dock for big-screen fun

Posted in: GalaxyS, korea, samsung, set-top-box, South Korea, SouthKorea, streaming, streaming video, StreamingVideo, Today's Chili, video

South Korean carrier SK Telecom is billing its new Galaxy S Hoppin from Samsung as a “smartphone that can also serve as a set-top box,” but in reality, it’s basically an Android phone just like any other in Sammy’s stable with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display — the big difference is that it comes bundled with a dock that cables up to your home television and lets you watch streaming video off of the company’s new Hoppin entertainment service either on the road or in the comfort of your La-Z-Boy. Movies will run anywhere from 1,000 to 3,500 won — 89 cents to $3.12 — which isn’t bad, all things considered. The remainder of the phone’s specs are standard fare at this point: 1GHz Hummingbird processor, Android 2.2, a 5 megapixel cam, WiFi, and Bluetooth 3.0 round out the package. Look for it to launch this week.

Samsung Galaxy S Hoppin hops to South Korea, includes TV dock for big-screen fun originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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