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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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At this point, we don’t even know if HP’s Slate is still hitting the market — but one thing we do know is that there’s no evidence to suggest that the company will be releasing it with webOS instead of Windows 7. In fact, the two platforms are so wildly different and targeted for such disjoint devices — never mind the fact that HP and Palm aren’t yet united in the legal sense of the word — that there’s virtually no chance that the existing Slate hardware could be effectively used in time for a near-term webOS tablet launch (at least, not a tablet that anyone would want to buy). There’s word on Gizmodo today that the Slate will be offered as a webOS device, but that appears to be a misinterpretation of a DigiTimes report from HP Taiwan that the company intends to use Palm’s operating system to underpin both “smartphones and tablets,” while avoiding porting it to netbooks since they’re “more similar in functions with traditional computers.” Given the Slate’s lukewarm reception, we can totally understand HP canning it in its current incarnation — but you can’t just drop a flashy mobile platform onto it and call it good. Interestingly, the DigiTimes report goes on to say (on an unrelated note) that the Slate will come to market before October, but it’s unclear whether they’re taking into account the most recent round of rumors that it’s been deep-sixed; guess we’ll know soon enough.

HP Slate isn’t rumored to be switching from Windows 7 to webOS originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 12:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How’s that Apple tattoo treating you? Good, good. Well, Elgato has something for the faithful: the new EyeTV HD. The device grabs a 1080i signal over component from your DVR or cable box or Blu-ray player, and records that video to your Mac using Elgato’s own desktop DVR software. The shows can then be auto-transcoded to iPhone or iPad-friendliness, providing you a bit of much needed Animal Planet during your commute the next day. That’s all well and good, but the real kicker is the live streaming the device can push to your iPad or iPhone, using an IR blaster to change the channel on your cable box. It’s all rosy except for the fact that you’ll need to plug this directly into your Mac and your cable box, meaning that they’ll have to be in fairly close proximity (there’s a six foot USB cable included). The unit retails for $200 and is available now directly from Elgato or Apple stores. PR is after the break.

We haven’t plugged in the box yet, but we played around with Elgato’s setup using an iPad 3G and found it pretty impressive. The streaming quality isn’t really at, say, a Netflix level (it’s more suited to a phone screen), but it’s certainly passable, and the interface for browsing your own channels and recordings is very pleasant. We also loved the inclusion of meta data and chapters in the recorded shows and movies that had been loaded onto the device (you can check that out in the gallery below). Elgato might’ve just released the most elegant “analog hole” yet.

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Elgato’s EyeTV HD records shows to your Mac, slings live to your iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 11:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The era of the color e-book reader is upon us. Granted, it was rather forcefully nudged along by the Apple iPad, but the Pandigital e-reader seems likely to be yet another nail in the coffin of the current crop of black-and-white readers, such as the Amazon Kindle in its various iterations.

Pandigital today announced that it has extended beyond its digital photo-frame roots with the release of the Novel eReader, a $199 e-book reader with a 7-inch TFT LCD color touchscreen display. The device features access to Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore and the company’s LendMe technology, which lets users share e-books with friends.

The Novel has 800-by-600 resolution, Wi-Fi, a mini-USB port, a SD/MMC slot, and 1GB of built-in memory. It can read a number of file formats, including PDF, ePub, and HTML.

The Novel eReader ships in June.

Hear that? It’s the sound of your iPhone 3GS becoming rapidly obsolete. Apple today announced that it will be opening its annual World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote from Steve Jobs.

Jobs will take the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Monday, June 7 at 10am

No word on exactly what Jobs will use the platform to announce, but the smart money is on the final version of the 4th-generation iPhone, prototypes of which seem to have been showing up all over the place in the past couple months.

The event, which is targeted at Apple developers, sold out in eight days. It features “five key technology tracks,” including Application Frameworks; Internet & Web; Graphics & Media; Developer Tools; and Core OS. For the last couple of years, however, the key draw for the general public is the announcement of the latest version of the iPhone.