Aug 26

Nissan’s Leaf rollout speeds up in Chicago this fall

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Oprah may have left town and packed up her “You get a car!” philanthropic ways, but that’s not stopping Nissan from injecting the windy city with a little auto excitement. Responding to an overwhelming customer demand for its all-electric Leaf vehicles, the Japanese car maker is accelerating the line’s rollout to Chicago residents, with the first models to be available this fall. The launch will be bolstered by a planned 280 EV charging stations, funded in part by a pledged $1 million from the state and an additional $1 million grant. If you’re living in the second city to our north and haven’t yet hitched your ride to the electric hatchback caravan, now might be the time.

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Nissan’s Leaf rollout speeds up in Chicago this fall originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 26

Apple stops renting TV shows in iTunes, could be working on a new kind of video service

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Apple has pulled the plug on TV episode rentals via iTunes, abruptly leaving customers with only the option of purchasing per episode — good thing you can watch those on your Apple TV streamed from the cloud — or a Season Pass where available. AllThingsD has a quote from spokesman Tom Neumayr indicating this was in response to customers that “overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows.” Making the timing of the move particularly curious are once-again renewed rumors of an Apple HDTV and a WSJ profile of new CEO Tim Cook that indicates the company is “working on new technology to deliver video to televisions, and has been discussing whether to try to launch a subscription TV service.” Like Google, any move depends on its success in negotiating a new delivery model from the networks, who so far have been averse to anything that threatens their existing relationship with pay-TV providers. It appears 99-cent rentals didn’t move the needle, so we’ll wait and see what the folks from Cupertino have up their sleeve next.

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Apple stops renting TV shows in iTunes, could be working on a new kind of video service originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 26

Friday Poll: What was Steve Jobs’ greatest hit?

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As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO, what do you think was his greatest achievement?

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Aug 26

CyberNotes: Minimo Is The Firefox For Your Pocket PC

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This article was written on August 30, 2006 by CyberNet.

CyberNotes
Web Browser Wednesday

Minimo logo I have been the proud owner of the HP iPAQ 5455 for over a year now and it is great having the built-in wireless capabilities. One thing that every Pocket PC lacks in my opinion is a great browser. Opera has a nice mobile browser that I played with but I wasn’t compelled to purchase it after the 30-day trial. NetFront is also really nice but I ran into the same problem…I didn’t use it enough to fork out the money.

For a few months now I have stuck with Internet Explorer because I only browse the Web on my Pocket PC for no more than 20 minutes a day. Last week I took a stroll over to see how Minimo (Mozilla’s mobile browser) was coming along. I had checked on it a few months ago when it was in the very early/almost unusable stage and I thought it would be time to take another look at it. They had some nice screenshots up and I thought so I would give it a shot (yes, screenshots are an amazing selling point with me).

Being that it was only version 0.016 I didn’t have much hope that it would be a success. A primary reason I was installing it was because they provided a CAB installer for the Pocket PC, which meant I could download it directly on my iPAQ and install it without ever needing to dock it to my desktop PC. After the short download and installation I had it running…and I was very impressed.

Playing around with it more and more made me realize that this is truly a mini-Firefox. Checkout these screenshots and judge for yourself:

 

Overall I would have to say that it runs pretty smooth even though it does seem a little sluggish if I open multiple tabs, but I don’t do that on my Pocket PC much. I won’t be trading this browser in because it is a much better alternative to Pocket IE! Hopefully Mozilla will see a value in making a mobile browser and will continue to fine tune it.

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Aug 26

HTC Vigor poses for a couple of spy shots, reveals little

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So it turned out that render of HTC’s Vigor on a Dutch online store wasn’t exactly kosher; but what might be are two spy shots that Droid Life obtained today, providing us with what would seem to be the first legitimate glimpse of the Verizon-bound, LTE-toting smartphone. Gracing its derriere is a texturized backplate, which sports the usual self-explanatory “WITH HTC SENSE” label along with a large lens plus dual LED flash; whereas on the other side we see a front-facing camera along with four capacitive buttons. Whether or not it’ll arrive with the also rumored 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage remains to be seen, but you’ll know more when we do.

HTC Vigor poses for a couple of spy shots, reveals little originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 26

Canon Pixma MG5320 review: Capable performance with photocentric features

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The Canon Pixma MG5320 is a worthwhile photo printer for families and work groups, and you get plenty of new features like HD Movie Print, fun photo filters, and Pixma Cloud Link that can provide new ways to bring your digital photos to life.

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Aug 26

Escalade tops thieves’ most-wanted list again

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The SUV of choice for music and athletes is also popular with car thieves, and again is the vehicle most frequently reported stolen to insurance agencies.

Originally posted at The Car Tech blog

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Aug 26

Apple patent application imagines iPhones that learn the sweet sound of your voice

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Button-loathing Apple really wants people to stop dirtying its devices with sticky fingerprints. That’s why it’s applied for a patent that should improve the frustrating experience of using iOS’s voice control — precisely the kind of update we’ve been awaiting since Apple bought Siri last year. With the help of a technology billed as “User profiling for voice input processing,” your device would identify your voice, check against a library of words associated with you without having to trawl through its entire dictionary. We just hope Apple doesn’t do away with physical inputs entirely — we’d hate to broadcast to the world all the guilty pleasures we have loaded on our iPods.

Apple patent application imagines iPhones that learn the sweet sound of your voice originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 26

The first drops of the fall camera deluge

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Here’s our summary of this week’s camera announcements.

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Aug 26

Crucial m4 SSD gets major firmware update

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Crucial releases firmware that improves its m4 solid-state drive’s performance and compatibility.

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