Apr 08
A bug that has some owners of the Verizon flavor of iPad 2 needing to reboot the device to re-enable the 3G after turning it off is being investigated by Apple.
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Apr 08
iPhone Launch Day News Round-Up
Posted in: Apple, Gadgets, iPhone, Microsoft, Screenshots, Today's ChiliThis article was written on June 29, 2007 by CyberNet.
It’s going to be a slow news day today, folks. Everybody is caught up with the iPhone, and as as result, well, the only news out there is about the iPhone. Here’s CyberNet’s very last iPhone news round-up.
All for one, one for all:
Steve Jobs put on his Santa hat yesterday during a Town-Hall meeting with Apple employees to tell them that every single full-time U.S. employee and any part-time employee that has been with Apple for a year would be receiving a brand new 8GB iPhone!
I liked Engadget’s title, “Jobs pulls an Oprah.” In their article, they point out that Apple has over 17,000 employees, so that’s a total of over $12,091,414 (retail price) that Jobs just forked out for his employees. I bet those temp employees who haven’t been there are year are feeling a little left out today.
Thanks for the tip Oliver!
EDGE speeds improving?
On Wednesday when the first big reviews came out, the one thing that was said was that the Edge Internet on the iPhone is “excruciatingly slow.” Current AT&T customers who have been using the EDGE Internet have been reporting “dramatic increases in throughput” over the last day.
Engadget got an EDGE handset to run their own tests and while they said it was inconsistent, they did manage to get some speed tests that ran over 200kpbs. For the sake of all the soon-to-be iPhone owners, hopefully those speeds keep up!
Google Reader on iPhone, cool!
A developer decided he wanted to come up with a solution for those who wanted to use Google reader on their iPhone. Just follow these steps if you’d like Google Reader on your phone:
- Visit his site and drag the bookmarklet into Safari 3
- Visit Google Reader and click on the bookmarklet
- The look now changes using Javascript so that you have an iPhone-sized interface.
Source: Mashable
Full Resolution iPhone Interface Images
If by chance you’re not standing in line somewhere and you’d like to get an idea of what the iPhone interface looks like, ThinkSecret has some great full resolution interface shots.
That’s all for today! Come 6 PM, the iPhone will finally have a chance to prove whether it was worth all the hype, and the money. If it’s successful, it could really change the cellphone industry as we know it today. Happy iDay (as the day has been labeled by Apple fans)!
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Apr 08
At this point, Cowon’s D2 (and to a lesser extent, the D2+) is getting a bit long in the tooth, and it looks as if the Korea-based outfit will be taking an alphabetical leap backwards in order to supplant it. The newly revealed C2 is slated to land at the end of April or early May in order to give barebones PMP users yet another alternative, boasting a 2.6-inch resistive touchpanel (320 x 240), a composite video output, microSD expansion slot, 4/8/16GB of internal flash storage, USB 2.0 connectivity, an internal microphone and a rechargeable battery that’s good for up to ten hours of video playback (and a whopping 55 hours when listening strictly to audio). Per usual, Cowon’s supporting every file format under the sun (and the moon, for good measure), and we’re expecting nothing less than world-class aural performance based on the company’s past. We’re still waiting to hear back on a price, but you can use your limbo time wisely by deciding on white, black or gray.
Gallery: Cowon’s C2 portable media player
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Apr 08
Verizon Wireless will end its one-year contracts starting April 17, 2011.
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Apr 08
We’ve seen them scoop up oozy goop, shake their moneymakers, and even give birth, but it’s rare for us to land solid face time with the robotic superstars we admire so much. If you’re in DC over the next few weeks, however, the Smithsonian’s offering you the opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the most influential automatons in robotics history. In honor of National Robotics week, the museum is dedicating its Spark!Lab to our mechanical counterparts, allowing you to play Simon with DARPA’s Autonomous Robotic Manipulator (ARM), invent a robotic arm of your own, or feast your eyes on the likes of ELECTRO the robo dog. The museum has also announced that it is now accepting donations “relating to the development of autonomous mobile robots in the United States.” So, throw one back for your favorite robots this week, because — you know — they can’t. Full PR after the break.
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Smithsonian’s Spark!Lab gives big ups to robots originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 08
However, this quirky piece of furniture covered in old cassette tapes won’t play Madonna, ABBA, or The Cure when you sit on it.
Apr 08
Full specs leak for BlackBerry Bold Touch, 1.2GHz Snapdragon can’t overcome ugly
Posted in: BlackBerry, leak, RIM, snapdragon, Today's Chili, touchscreen
We understand that it’s hard to take two steps rather than one, but a solid list of specifications isn’t going to make the BlackBerry Bold Touch (Dakota) look any less last-decade. For whatever reason, RIM’s design department seems to be stuck in an era where last-generation is the new next-generation, while it’s internals team has seemingly managed to escape. For those who couldn’t disagree more regarding the exterior, you’ll likely be elated to know that the impending handset will boast a blisteringly fast 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage, 768MB of RAM, a microSD expansion slot, 5 megapixel camera and a 35-key backlit keyboard. You’ll also get a microscopic 2.8-inch LCD with a woeful 640 x 480 resolution, Bluetooth 2.1, a 3.5mm headphone jack, A-GPS, dual-band 802.11b/g/n WiFi and a 720p movie mode. So, one down, one to go — time for a reread, is it RIM?
Update: Seems as if the faucet’s still flowing, with a full specs list popping up for the BlackBerry Torch 9860 (Monza) as well!
[Thanks, bighap]
Full specs leak for BlackBerry Bold Touch, 1.2GHz Snapdragon can’t overcome ugly originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 08
Full specs leak for BlackBerry Torch 2, 1.2GHz Snapdragon can’t overcome ugly
Posted in: BlackBerry, leak, RIM, snapdragon, Today's Chili, touchscreenWe understand that it’s hard to take two steps rather than one, but a solid list of specifications isn’t going to make the Torch 2 look any less last-decade. For whatever reason, RIM’s design department seems to be stuck in an era where last-generation is the new next-generation, while it’s internals team has seemingly managed to escape. For those who couldn’t disagree more regarding the exterior, you’ll likely be elated to know that the impending handset will boast a blisteringly fast 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage, 768MB of RAM, a microSD expansion slot, 5 megapixel camera and a 35-key backlit keyboard. You’ll also get a microscopic 2.8-inch LCD with a woeful 640 x 480 resolution, Bluetooth 2.1, a 3.5mm headphone jack, A-GPS, dual-band 802.11b/g/n WiFi and a 720p movie mode. So, one down, one to go — time for a reread, is it RIM?
[Thanks, bighap]
Full specs leak for BlackBerry Torch 2, 1.2GHz Snapdragon can’t overcome ugly originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 08
US DoJ approves Google’s acquisition of ITA, but not without stipulations
Posted in: business, deal, Google, industry, search, Software, Today's Chili, Travel, us, usa
The United States government may be dissolved tomorrow, but it’s certainly taking care of one final piece of business before going into shutdown: this. If you’ll recall, Google announced its intentions to acquire ITA for $700 million in July of last year, and as we cruise into the start of America’s summer travel season, all signals are go. Today, the US Department of Justice approved Google’s request to move forward with the buy, but rather than having the entire travel search market under its wing, El Goog’s going to have to make a smattering of concessions in order to get the right signatures. For starters, the search monolith will allow ITA’s existing client contracts to extend into 2016, and it’ll let both current and new customers license ITA’s QPX software on “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.” No one’s saying when the integration will be complete (or start, for that matter), but we’re desperately anxious to see just how Kayak and Bing Travel react after this launches in earnest. Power to the searchers, as it were.
US DoJ approves Google’s acquisition of ITA, but not without stipulations originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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