Hasta La Gadget!

A somewhat sombre duo addresses the passing of the man whose invention gave birth to podcasting itself. They also talk about tablets and cars, so don’t worry about a thing. It’s the Engadget Podcast…still hungry, with respect and humility.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Baker Street

00:00:30 – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has passed away at 56
00:16:15 – Remembering Steve Jobs: we all pay tribute
00:36:00 – Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ keynote liveblog!
00:38:45 – iPhone 4S hands-on!
00:42:00 – iPhone 4S officially announced: lands October 14th starting at $199 in sizes up to 64GB, coming to Sprint
00:47:58 – Grid10 review
00:59:00 – Amazon Kindle review (2011)
01:05:10 – Tesla Model S test ride and factory tour (video)

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Engadget Podcast 259 – 10.07.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We knew more or less that an announcement of this sort was coming. Back in July, Dan Hesse had teased us face-to-face with the promise of a “great story this fall around 4G,” and now the time to tell that tale has arrived. At its strategy event today, Sprint finally went public with plans to “simplify its network” by converting its 1900MHz holdings and LightSquared’s 1600MHz spectrum (“pending FCC approval”) to LTE, an industry favorite. Helping the operator make that transition is the swath of 800MHz spectrum it reclaimed from the, now defunct, iDEN push-to-talk network — which had been a drain on the company’s resources. This spectrum, acquired from Nextel, will be phased out by mid-2013 and rolled into LTE. The company plans for a rapid deployment of this new 4G network, with the first LTE markets and handsets to hit in mid-2012, and the full rollout mostly completed by 2013. Current subscribers signed up for WiMAX plans won’t have to worry as their devices will continue to be supported throughout 2012.

Beginning tomorrow, Sprint’s consolidating its 4G LTE (including LightSquared), 3G and Direct Connect networks into one single architecture. All the major technical milestones, such as test calls and field integration, have cleared their hurdles and work on over 22,000 cell sites are currently in process. Samsung, Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson have partnered with Sprint to install multimode 3G and 4G base stations to handle the network’s future traffic, essential for deploying the multitude of frequencies required by hosted devices. Prospective iPhone 4S users on the network will be able to take advantage of better signal strength and improved voice service as Sprint intends to also offload the latter onto 800MHz.

Expect a steep “reduction in roaming costs” and deeper signal penetration throughout the operator’s expanding national footprint over the course of the next two years. Naturally, LTE speeds on this new network will be significantly improved over the currently in-use WiMAX, and a planned implementation of WiFi offloading should help to cut congestion by 20 percent. By the end of next year, Sprint aims to have a combined WiMAX/LTE population coverage of 176 million — with 123 million covered by LTE and 76 million overlapping both. When the network build-out is nearly complete in 2013, the company should have over 250 million blanketed in LTE, far outstripping the stagnant 120 million served by WiMAX.

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This article was written on November 08, 2006 by CyberNet.

Jim Allchin just posted a lengthy article (10 characters long) stating that “It’s time!” Judging by the tags on the post I would assume that he is referring to Windows Vista being sent to the manufacturer!

The road has been a long one but I am glad to see that Microsoft finally reached a point where they felt confident enough to ship Vista out. This means by next Wednesday MSDN subscribers should be able to download it and I’m sure it won’t be long after that happens for it to leak to the Internet, since that is naturally what happens.

I am still running Vista RC2 on two of my primary machines and they are both starting to get bogged down a little. It has only been a month since I did a fresh install but it is a lot slower now that I have many of my frequently used programs installed. I’m sure a lot of the problem is due to the applications not explicitly being Vista compatible but many of them I can’t function without. In fact I just got done rebooting from a blue screen (yes, the wonderful BSoD is still in Vista).

I’m sure that several bugs have been fixed so that Vista RTM runs smoother than the previous releases so I can’t wait to give it a try. Congratulations to Microsoft for getting Vista out-the-door and I anxiously await to see what kind of applications developers will make to utilize the full functionality that Vista has to offer.

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The man on your left is Dr. Peng Ning — a computer science professor at NC State whose team, along with researchers from IBM, has developed an experimental new method for safely securing cloud-stored data. Their approach, known as a “Strongly Isolated Computing Environment” (SICE), would essentially allow engineers to isolate, store and process sensitive information away from a computing system’s hypervisors — programs that allow networked operating systems to operate independently of one another, but are also vulnerable to hackers. With the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) as its software foundation, Ping’s technique also allows programmers to devote specific CPU cores to handling sensitive data, thereby freeing up the other cores to execute normal functions. And, because TCB consists of just 300 lines of code, it leaves a smaller “surface” for cybercriminals to attack. When put to the test, the SICE architecture used only three percent of overhead performance for workloads that didn’t require direct network access — an amount that Ping describes as a “fairly modest price to pay for the enhanced security.” He acknowledges, however, that he and his team still need to find a way to speed up processes for workloads that do depend on network access, and it remains to be seen whether or not their technique will make it to the mainstream anytime soon. For now, though, you can float past the break for more details in the full PR.

Continue reading NC State researchers team with IBM to keep cloud-stored data away from prying eyes

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The T2 O concept looks great for nipping around town. Photo Antoine Fritsch

While electric bikes may or not be better than their people-powered counterparts, the push-along scooter seems like a perfect candidate for some extra electric oomph. What’s more, the lesser stresses of a scooter’s simple design looks like a better fit for bamboo, too.

So the T20 bamboo scooter from France’s Antoine Fritsch seems ideal. Scooting is a lot less efficient than pedaling, so an electrical assist is welcome and, after kicking off by yourself, the motor will cut in and carry you for around 40km (25 miles) at up to 25kph (16mph).

The brakes use disks, and there’s a seat on which you lean instead of sit, similar to those found at European bus stops. It doesn’t look very easy to lock up, but as a way to scoot across town to pick up the morning baguette and croissants, it looks ideal.

Bamboo Scooter [Fritsch Durisotti via Andrew Liszewski]

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