May 24

Best Buy advertising higher than regular prices as sales?

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Could some Best Buy “sales” not really be sales at all? Shocking, we know, but stay with us for a minute. As Consumerist reports, the mega retailer seems to have recently begun advertising some laptops at prices that are actually higher than their regular price, and then taking things one step further by placing “as advertised” signs on the laptops in store — thereby giving consumers the impression that they’re getting a deal. A tipster to Consumerist specifically sites laptops like the Dell and HP modes advertised for $649.99 and $699.99 in the latest ad pictured above, which are apparently $20 and $50 higher than their regular price — previous laptops advertised at higher prices also now seem to have gone back to their regular price. Of course, all of this seems to technically be on the up and up, since Best Buy isn’t actually advertising the laptops as being “on sale” but, if it is indeed a regular practice, it’s definitely not doing a service to customers, to say the least.

Best Buy advertising higher than regular prices as sales? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 13:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 24

Sony to coders: For Move, don’t rehash Wii failures

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As it prepares to release the PlayStation Move console, the company says it doesn’t want developers to create games that have already failed on the rival Nintendo Wii. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20005750-17.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Digital Home/a/p

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May 24

LaCie Delivers Network Storage for the Home

Posted in: networking, storage, Today's Chili

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Looking for high-capacity network storage for your home? Check out the dual-disk gigabit network storage and media server just introduced by LaCie, the LaCie Network Space Max. It includes two high-capacity hard drives that can be configured for maximum security (RAID 1) or maximum capacity (RAID 0). RAID 1 delivers automatic disk mirroring, so you’ll have a backup if one drive fails.

You don’t need to be an IT pro to set this up. The Network Space Max comes with LaCie Network Assistant software to help you set up the server in minutes.

Included media server features let you stream files to any connected computer or UPnP/DLNA-compliant device, such as the PlayStationi3 or Xbox.

Capacity starts at 2TB, with a price of $279.99.

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May 24

Steve Jobs to Headline iPhone-Centric Apple Developer Conference

Posted in: Apple, developers, Phones, steve jobs, Today's Chili

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Apple this morning announced that CEO Steve Jobs will be emceeing the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 in San Francisco.

Continuing his trend of doing one-to-one e-mail marketing for his $43 billion (revenue) company, Jobs himself helped tout the conference with a personal e-mail to a customer over the weekend.

The developer’s conference attracts greater than usual attention because, for the past two years, Apple has used the venue to announce the latest version of its iPhone. Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise this year by leaking what has been confirmed by Apple legal as a prototype of the fourth-generation iPhone. However, in an e-mail exchange with a customer over the weekend, Jobs said the event would still pack a punch.

“I hope you have some good WWDC announcements to blow [Google] out of the water,” a customer wrote to Jobs on Saturday.

“You won’t be disappointed,” the CEO responded, according to a report published on MacRumors.com.

As usual, the keynote address will be held in the Moscone West conference center to kick off the five-day WWDC conference, which includes hands-on sessions for software developers to become familiar with iPhone OS 4 and Mac OS X.

In addition to new iPhone hardware, Apple is expected to give further details on its next-generation mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4. The company in March previewed iPhone OS 4, which introduces support for multitasking and the ability to group apps in folders, among other features.

Apple’s 5,000-seat WWDC 2010 event sold out in eight days. The conference is designed to recruit and educate developers supporting Apple’s iPhone OS and Mac OS platforms.

The importance of WWDC continues to increase as Apple’s rivalry with Google becomes more fierce in the mobile space. Google last week held its sold-out Android developer conference, Google I/O, where executives spent a generous amount of time delivering potshots on Apple’s iPhone platform.

“If Google didn’t act, we face a draconian future. One man, one company, one device would control our future,” Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering of Google, told attendees at the conference. “If you believe in openness and choice, welcome to Android.”

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May 24

Best LED-based monitors

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With LED-based monitors, superthin panels aren't all that exciting anymore.

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LED-based monitors are nothing new. Well, not anymore anyway. Unfortunately, so far at least, they haven’t really lived up to their full potential. Most are made with TN panels, and with them you …

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May 24

Scosche Announces FlipSync Availability

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Scosche announced the FlipSync way back at CES, and now you can finally get one. It’s a keychain USB charge and sync cable, all in one tight little package. While about the size of a car alarm remote, it provides users with a convenient synching cable when on the go.

The FlipSync comes in two models. The IPUSBM features an iPhone/iPod connection, and the USBBMM features both mini and micro USB connections (for BlackBerries, digital cameras, and more). Both offer USB 2.0 connectivity. Find them at BestBuy.com and Scosche.com for $19.99 each. 

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May 24

A Booq Mamba Exclusive

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Remember back in March when we told you about the Booq Mamba Shift, a backpack for gamers? Of course you do, it was a grand time. Now Booq is releasing a special edition of the Mamba Shift that will be available exclusively in select Apple retails stores and Apple’s online store. That’s great: Who doesn’t love an exclusive?

What’s different about it? Apparently just the color. Exclusives are often like that; kind of a letdown. Instead of having a red lining, this version has a black lining. It looks cool and kind of Matrix-y. Like the original, it’s made with ballistic nylon, comes with a separate accessory zippered pouch, and includes a unique ID number to help your lost back get returned to you. Like the original, it lists for $149.95.

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May 24

Halo: Reach Reportedly Dropping on Sept. 14

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The anticipated sequel Halo: Reach will be released worldwide on September 14, though Japanese fans will have to wait to wait until September 15 to get their hands on the game, AP reports.

Since Microsoft released the multi-player beta of Halo: Reach on Xbox Live earlier this month, more than 2.7 million people have logged on to play. As a whole, players logged more than 16 million hours of game play and made more than 1.1 billion virtual kills during the 18-day beta, developer Bungie Studios told the AP.

Beta access was available to Xbox Live Gold account members who had the Halo 3: ODST campaign disc, and 1.2 G-bytes of free hard drive space. For comparison, the Halo 3 beta test had 800,000 participants.

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May 24

How to get Hulu running on Android 2.2, for now

Posted in: Android, froyo, hack, hulu, streaming, streaming video, StreamingVideo, Today's Chili
Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1. A perfect combination for combination for a little Hulu on the go, right? Not quite, as Hulu has decided to block videos (for legal reasons) when it detects a mobile device, but it turns out there is a surprisingly simple workaround. As Absolutely Android explains, all you have to do is make Hulu think you’re using a desktop browser, which can be done simply by entering “about:debug” in the address bar and switching the UAString setting from Android to desktop. The only downside to the trick is that you’ll now also get the full desktop version of the Hulu site (and any other site, until you switch it back), and there’s a better than decent chance that Hulu will close this loophole before you can finish your first episode of Kojak.

How to get Hulu running on Android 2.2, for now originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 12:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 24

LG Fathom brings new Windows world phone to Verizon

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Verizon Wireless announces the upcoming availability of its latest world smartphone, the LG Fathom. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20005725-85.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Dialed In/a/p

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