Mar 18

Engadget Podcast 234 – 03.18.2011

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Don’t front like you had an excuse to avoid listening to the Engadget Podcast before. If you do keep fronting like that, though, just know in your heart of hearts you’re missing the very last scheduled meeting around the microphones of these three particular Engadget Podcasters. Join us for two hours of mayhem, pent-up aggression getting un-pent, and a dramatic re-telling of one of Aesop’s most poignant fables set to extremely serious music. It’s the Engadget Podcast, and that’s that.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life

00:03:34 – iPad 2 review
00:06:00 – iPad 2 launch day: everything you need to know
00:07:05 – iFixit has an iPad 2, and they’re ripping it apart (video)
00:15:04 – iPad 2 specs discerned, 900MHz dual-core ARM CPU and PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU blow away graphical benchmarks
00:18:11 – Editorial: It’s Apple’s ‘post-PC’ world — we’re all just living in it
00:33:43 – iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. HP TouchPad vs. BlackBerry PlayBook: the tale of the tape
00:49:27 – MacBook Pro review (early 2011)
00:54:35 – Apple’s Phil Schiller confirms: white iPhone to be available ‘this spring’
00:55:00 – Apple TV software update adds NBA League Pass, MLB.tv and Netflix 5.1 audio support
01:00:12 – Microsoft sells 10 million Kinects, 10 million Kinect games
01:06:28 – Microsoft reportedly kills off Zune hardware, will focus on software instead
01:08:00 – Microsoft says Zune isn’t exactly dead, that it doesn’t want to go in the cart
01:17:15 – Microsoft taking ‘extra time’ to make sure Windows Phone 7 copy and paste update is solid, targeting late March
01:33:03 – Verizon Wireless stops being coy, confirms HTC Thunderbolt for March 17th at $249.99
01:37:21 – Kyocera Echo hits Sprint on April 17th for $200
01:43:33 – PlayStation Suite coming to Tegra 2 devices

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Engadget Podcast 234 – 03.18.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 18

Asus Releasing $200 Netbook

Posted in: ASUS, netbooks, Today's Chili

 

asus-m50-Notebook.jpgAsus is gearing up for a release of a budget-friendly netbook. The computer should run between $200 to $250.

The new netbook will have two OS options–Android and Chrome. Asus will also offer a similar netbook with full Windows 7 installed at $500. No plans for a Linux edition as of yet.

No firm release date set for the netbook yet. 

Via TG Daily

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Mar 18

The Definitive Japan Crisis Timeline – Live Updates [Video]

Posted in: Japan, Today's Chili, top, video

Here’s the timeline to the Japan’s earthquake crisis—constantly updated with all news and features ordered chronologically, as well as the latest videos and images. [Last update: 3:03pm EST Tuesday, March 22, 2011] More »

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Mar 18

CMU shows off Honda Civic made electric

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Convert your Civic to all-electric with this Carnegie Mellon project called ChargeCar. But be prepared to invest serious cash.

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Mar 18

Motorola Xoom with Sprint insignia, Nexus S 4G logo leak out

Posted in: Android, carrier, ctia, honeycomb, leak, motorola, motorola xoom, MotorolaXoom, network, rumor, Sprint, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili, xoom

If you’ve been following these here pages closely, you’ll know that a little device named the Nexus S 4G is coming to Sprint’s network, with the expectation being that it’ll be announced at CTIA early next week. Fueling our previous info on the matter, we’ve now gotten ahold of an image purporting to be the logo that Sprint and Google will be using to represent their new WiMAX-equipped collaboration. That can be found after the break, but what you’re really eager to learn more about is that image of a Motorola Xoom with a Now Network logo on it, right? Well, it comes from the same source, whose record of revealing Sprint pre-release hardware (and not getting fired) is quite exemplary, so we’re willing to credit it as the real deal. We’ve no launch dates or pricing details to share as yet, but it’s not unreasonable to expect Sprint will be disclosing all that juicy info during its extra-long CTIA presser. And if not, we’ll keep tracking down these leaks and get it to you anyway!

[Thanks, r0fl]

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Motorola Xoom with Sprint insignia, Nexus S 4G logo leak out originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 18

About Half of Today’s Microprocessors Include GPUs

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laptop-7-gpu.jpgIf you own a new computer, chances are that your proceesor chipset includes a GPU. Analyst firm IHS iSuppli looked into the matter and discovered that almost half of all 2011 processors will include a GPU. AMD and Intel are both leading this trend. 

According to iSuppli, by 2014, more than half of all computers will have a GPU in their chipset.

Via X Bit Labs

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Mar 18

Google guesstimates release dates for movies and games

Posted in: Google, Release Date, search, Today's Chili
You can already do plenty of calculations and conversions right in Google’s search box, and it looks like the company’s now made it even smarter still. Searching for the title of an upcoming movie or video game plus “release date” will now instantly give you Google’s best guess for when the title will actually be released, which is apparently based on how often it’s been mentioned on certain websites. So far, we’ve only been able to get it to work with movies and games, although it seems pretty likely that it will soon expand to other areas as well — maybe even gadgets? Try it out yourself and let us know if you find anything.

[Thanks, Mario]

Google guesstimates release dates for movies and games originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 18

Google Updates Feed Reader Module: Expand/Contract the Article

Posted in: Apple, Features, Google, Microsoft, Screenshots, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on January 22, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google Feed Reader

It looks like Google just updated their Feed Reader Module for the Google Personalized Homepage. I’m sure that this is to help compete with Netvibes who offers an amazing built-in feed reader for their customizable homepage. The screenshot above demonstrates how the Feed Reader Module works.

As you can see each of the items can be expanded/contracted so that you can read the feed items without ever leaving the homepage. One thing that I did notice was that the module will display summaries of an article if the feed supplies them, instead of displaying the entire article. We want to give everyone the best experience possible when reading the feed from the Google Personalized Homepage so we have removed these summaries from the feed. This means that after Google erases the cached version of our feed (probably after we post this article) it will start to display the full article when expanding them.

Before you all go rushing to check your homepage for the new feature, it does look like they are rolling it out to the accounts. One of my accounts has it but some of the others don’t, and sometimes if you logout and then log back in you’ll receive it. You can also try switching browsers because the account that I used to take the screenshot above displayed the updated module fine in Firefox, then when I refreshed the page it was gone. I switched over to Internet Explorer and then the feature popped back up. I think it is just temperamental right now, but I’m sure all of the kinks will be worked out soon.

P.S. This is not some separate module I have installed…it is a real update by Google.

Thanks for the tip Eric!

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Mar 18

AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods to pay up or stop (update)

Posted in: att, iPhone, jailbreak, mobile hotspot, MobileHotspot, Today's Chili
Been using an app like MyWi to enable tethering on your jailbroken iPhone? Then there’s a good chance you’ve already received a message like the one above from AT&T, or perhaps an email like the one after the break. By all accounts, the carrier is now cracking down on all unauthorized tethering, and it’s asking folks engaged in such behavior to either pay up for a proper tethering plan or simply stop tethering altogether — if it doesn’t hear anything back for you after sending the message, AT&T says it will automatically enroll you in a DataPro 4GB tethering plan (at a rate of $45 a month). We should note that all the reports we’ve seen so far are from iPhone users, although that certainly doesn’t mean Android users will simply be allowed to slip by unnoticed. Exactly how AT&T is identifying users isn’t clear, however, and we could well just be seeing the beginning of a cat and mouse game as folks try to discover workarounds to go undetected. More on this one as we get it.

Update: AT&T reached out to us and, yes, this is pretty much all there is to the tale: the “small number of smartphone customers who use their devices for tethering but aren’t on our required tethering plan,” are being contacted to either cease and desist or prepare to start paying for the service. No word yet on how many customers have been contacted, but it does seem that they’re all using iPhones.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Mar 18

Carriers at odds with RIM over NFC payment data

Posted in: BlackBerry, nfc, RIM, Today's Chili

We’ve already heard a fair bit about RIM’s plans for NFC-based mobile payments, but it’s starting to look like some of those plans don’t quite line up with what the carriers have in mind. As the Wall Street Journal reports, there’s a brewing dispute between RIM and a number of carriers including AT&T, T-Mobile and Rogers over just how NFC payment-related data, or “credentials,” are stored, and who actually controls that data. For its part, RIM unsurprisingly wants to store the data in a secure area of the phone itself, which would obviously tie folks to their BlackBerry more than ever, while the carriers are pushing to have that data simply stored on the phone’s SIM card, which would let customers move from one phone to another more easily. While things apparently haven’t gotten that heated just yet, it does certainly seem like there’s a bit of a fight in store — according to the Wall Street Journal, RIM is already reaching out to banks on its own in an effort to strike some deals, while Canadian carriers have apparently been telling RIM in a “gentle” way that “you won’t be doing this.”

Carriers at odds with RIM over NFC payment data originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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