Mar 29
New start-up promises to supercharge your social-networking love life with a real live fake girlfriend. This is sounding more and more like an Ashton Kutcher movie.
Mar 29
iSkin’s new translucent Claro case for the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G is both hard and soft.
Mar 29
CNET Labs runs native-resolution video battery-drain tests on Android phones.
Mar 29
Cellular South to offer HTC Merge in April with Amazon app store preinstalled
Posted in: Today's ChiliCarrier Cellular South is the first to offer customers out-of-box access to the Android Market and Amazon.com’s new app store.
Originally posted at Android Atlas
Mar 29
Xbox 360 Update Preview Program begins anew, sign up for your sneak peek now
Posted in: Microsoft, software update, SoftwareUpdate, Today's Chili, update, xbox, xbox 360, Xbox360
Once upon a time, the Xbox 360 dashboard looked like the picture above — then, Microsoft blasted it with yearly updates to transform it into the warm, welcoming interface we’ve come to know and love. If you’re already aware of that fact, then you may also know that a select group of lucky US gamers typically get to test out the latest revision months ahead of their peers, and today Microsoft’s holding sign-ups for a new version that will include “an updated Xbox 360 disc format,” whatever that might mean. You’ll also get a free copy of Halo: Reach if your name is picked — which, according to Major Nelson, is much more likely if you’re paying for an Xbox LIVE Gold account — so you’ll probably want to dive through ancient email post-haste to find your Windows LIVE ID, head over to our more coverage link and give it a go. Let us know what those new discs are all about if you get in, eh?
Xbox 360 Update Preview Program begins anew, sign up for your sneak peek now originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mar 29
Baltimore is known as many names—Charm City, The City That Reads, The Greatest City in the World, That Place from The Wire—but when I lived there for a few years, I sure never remembered the awesome WiFi. -SB More »
Mar 29
Panasonic, Xpand team up on M-3DI standard for active shutter glasses at home and in theaters
Posted in: bluetooth, Panasonic, Today's Chili, viewsonic
Last year’s problem was a complete lack of standards on active shutter 3D glasses but now we might have too many, as Panasonic and Xpand have joined forces with several other companies to push M-3DI as a single spec for TVs, computers and theaters. Initial plans for the spec cover only IR sync, with the RF Bluetooth technology included on many 2011 3DTV models (Samsung and Sony are notably missing from the list of participants) to “be considered” for the next step. We’ll wait to see some cooperation between this alignment (full list of supporters in the press release after the break) RealD and the CEA’s 3D Technologies Working Group — which, probably not coincidentally is expecting proposals by the end of this month — before believing the current 3D glasses mess will be resolved.
Panasonic, Xpand team up on M-3DI standard for active shutter glasses at home and in theaters originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 29
Gemalto bringing NFC payments to phones of any intelligence with MasterCard PayPass SIM
Posted in: nfc, Today's Chili
We’re seeing NFC chips showing up and tickling the innards of more and more mobile devices, but at this rate it’s going to be ages before we see some proper market penetration. Gemalto may have just jump-started that process with a new NFC on a SIM card design that’s certified by MasterCard PayPass. It’s similar to the company’s Zuckerberg on a SIM project we heard about last month, but this time it’s wirelessly paying for a drink and not wirelessly telling your friends how much you just had to drink. This means near-field wireless payments could be brought to nearly every GSM phone on the planet, also allowing for secure on-device transactions, like adding more minutes to a pre-paid phone. This is said to be the beginning of a “mass commercial roll out,” giving us reason to hope that soon forgetting our wallets at home will be a feature and not a bug.
Gemalto bringing NFC payments to phones of any intelligence with MasterCard PayPass SIM originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 29
We’ve rounded up the best budget iPod/iPhone speaker systems that CNET’s reviewed in the last year.
Mar 29
While it isn’t quite available yet, Speck’s PixelSkin HD Wrap for the iPad 2 looks like a compelling alternative to Apple’s iPad 2 Smart Cover.
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