Mar 31
Powerful remote-controlled loaders may help clear the way for robots to work at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Mar 31
There isn’t any hardware that will make you a better (or hell, a good) DJ, although we always seem to forget this whenever we see one of Native Instruments’ invariably mind-blowing product demos. If you’re a DMC-level DJ, it certainly looks like the newly available Traktor 2 will suit all of your needs nicely. If you’re not? Well, you can always enjoy DJ Craze going wild on the video after the break (be advised, however, that the F-bomb drops about a gazillion times on the thing, so this might not be safe for your workplace). And while we’re at it, if you own NI’s Maschine, the 1.6 software that we first got a look at in early February is available: launch the NI Service Center app to upgrade.
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Native Instruments rolls out Traktor 2, Maschine 1.6 update originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mar 31
11 iPhone tips for total novices
Posted in: Today's ChiliWelcome, newbies! If you’re finding the iPhone learning curve a little steeper than you expected, these handy tips should help with the basics.
Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
Mar 31
DirecTV, Comcast, Vudu could start offering ‘premium VOD’ $30 movie rentals in April
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Despite the questionable appeal of watching movies two months after they come out in theaters for $30 a pop, The Hollywood Reporter reports Warner Bros., Sony, Fox and Universal are going ahead with their premium video on-demand scheme. According to the always helpful unnamed insiders, DirecTV will be launch the service nationally at the end of April, with Walmart-backed Vudu and a regional launch by Comcast soon after. Company Town mentions movies like The Adjustment Bureau, Paul, or Just Go With It could be among launch titles. There’s no word on DRM although apparently Paramount has taken a pass specifically due to piracy concerns — theater owners aren’t happy either — so we’ll just wait and see if the quality of scene rips suddenly make a jump by this time next month. Either way, expect some new variation of Gregor and his lap giraffe to make an appearance soon.
DirecTV, Comcast, Vudu could start offering ‘premium VOD’ $30 movie rentals in April originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mar 31
HP announced today that all forthcoming HP ePrint-enabled devices will support Google Cloud Print apps on a range of mobile devices.
Mar 31
PlayStation One games appear in Android Market, predictably restricted to Xperia Play (update)
Posted in: Android, android market, AndroidMarket, availability, available, Games, gaming, Google, market, on sale, OnSale, playstation, sony, Sony Ericsson, SonyEricsson, Today's Chili, video games, VideoGames
If there was one thing that bothered us most about the Xperia Play, it was the dearth of original PlayStation games we could, you know, play on it. That’s getting a shot in the arm tonight with the introduction of five PS One titles to the Android Market: Syphon Filter, MediEvil, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, and Jumping Flash. Each is priced at £3.99 in the UK, with the first two games on the list also being available in five languages. That pricing translates to $6.38 when the games are accessed from the US, but we imagine the final pricing may differ once the Xperia Play lands stateside. And yes, the Xperia Play will be your only way to access these for now (R800i is its codename), leaving the rest of us Android PS One lovers with a bunch of games to envy and one less emulator to enjoy. The Android giveth, and the Android taketh away.
Update: Sony Ericsson wants you to know that since the Xperia Play is, in fact, an Android handset, it won’t be restricted to just those five PS One games — it will also feature quite a few titles that you can also find on the Android Market and even a few temporary exclusives like Backstab and Dungeon Defenders Second Wave. Still, it’s a little light on actual PlayStation gaming… See the full list in the press release after the break.
PlayStation One games appear in Android Market, predictably restricted to Xperia Play (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 31
Much like pimpin’, shooting 770 pounds of scientific equipment through 36 million miles of space and getting it to then work on the surface of another planet ain’t easy. Martian Summer recounts the unyielding determination and technological innovation needed to get there. More »
Mar 31
HTC Arrive review
Posted in: HTC, qwerty, review, Sprint, Today's Chili, video, windows phone, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone, WindowsPhone7, Wp7
Though it was teased late last year — on the same day that HTC announced its very first Windows Phone 7 devices, in fact — the company’s QWERTY-packing 7 Pro has taken its sweet time to make it to American airwaves; in the process, it’s gone through a name change and picked up the first big platform update from Microsoft. The phone we now know as the Arrive is finally available from Sprint, becoming the first Windows Phone 7 device available on a CDMA network. These days, it’s pretty unusual for an HTC handset — or a handset on any American carrier, really, regardless of manufacturer — to take this long to make it to subscribers’ hands after announcement, but in this case, Sprint’s hands were tied: Microsoft simply didn’t support CDMA initially, which explains why both AT&T and T-Mobile have been enjoying a selection of models from Samsung, LG, Dell, and HTC alike while Sprint and Verizon have been patiently twiddling their thumbs.
The CDMA dry spell’s over, though; the Arrive marks just the first of what should be several Redmond-powered phones over the course of 2011. Is it a fitting first effort? And how does it fare against the GSM models that beat it to market? Read on.
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HTC Arrive review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 31
HTC Video Reveals Hot Android Tablet Details
Posted in: Android, HTC, tablet, Tablets and E-Readers, Today's ChiliTaiwanese electronics manufacturer HTC will soon debut its own Android-powered tablet. From the looks of a new promotional video, it could be a strong competitor in a very crowded market.
Dubbed the Flyer, HTC’s tablet will come equipped with accoutrements similar to most other Android tablets — 5-megapixel back facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front facing camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support — and a number of details not so common. The Flyer will run on a powerful 1.5-Ghz processor, backed by a full gig of RAM. The tablet will also support Adobe Flash and HTML5.
Most attention-grabbing is HTC’s inclusion of a stylus pen with the Flyer, the first of the Android tablets to have such an item. The video details some of the features made possible by using the stylus, including note-taking abilities on documents and web pages, the ability to put your John Hancock on electronic documents and an MS Paint-like application for the artistic crowd. While we don’t know how well the stylus hardware will work with the Flyer, its inclusion will certainly differentiate the tablet from its already existing competitors.
HTC has not set an official release date for the tablet, but reports say we should expect to see hardware by the summer.
Photo: HTC Flyer/HTC
See Also:
- HTC Flyer: A Tablet With a Pressure Sensitive Pen
- Report: HTC Planning Three Android Tablets in 2011
- Honeycomb
- htc-2
Mar 31
Microsoft details Windows Phone 7 by the numbers: 11,500 apps, 36,000 developers
Posted in: app, apps, Microsoft, statistics, stats, Today's Chili, windows phone, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone, WindowsPhone7, Wp7
We’ve already seen a fair number of Windows Phone 7 stats, but Microsoft’s now gone and provided a proper retrospective for the first anniversary of its debut at the MIX10 conference last year. The standout figure, as usual, is the number of apps, which now stands at 11,500 — a number that Microsoft is quick to point out it’s not “artificially inflating” by listing wallpapers as a category, or boosting by adding competitor’s apps to increase “tonnage.” Microsoft also notes that while the Windows Phone Developer Tools have been downloaded 1.5 million times, it’s choosing instead to focus on the number of AppHub community members as a more accurate measure of the number of developers for the platform — they now total 36,000. It’s also revealed that Windows Phone 7 users download twelve apps each month on average, that it’s currently adding 1,200 new developers this week, and that 1,100 of the apps in the Marketplace are ad-supported and generating revenue with its Ad Control platform. Hit up the source link below for the rest of the stats.
Microsoft details Windows Phone 7 by the numbers: 11,500 apps, 36,000 developers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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