Episode 43 of the Digital City, where special guest Natali Del Conte joins us to talk about the ethics of news organizations uploading street fighting videos; the CrunchPad vs. Apple’s hypothetical tablet,
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Originally posted at Digital City Podcast
I got a few minutes of hands-on time with Microsoft’s forthcoming Zune HD at a Microsoft event on Thursday, and I came away thinking that Microsoft might finally have a contender.
Of course, it inherits all the benefits of the current Zune–a more visually interesting (if not always more …
Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech
Update 2: AT&T spokesman Brad Mays has sent us a statement denying any involvement in the app store process: “AT&T does not manage or approve applications for the App Store. We have received the letter and will, of course, respond to it,” he says. That said, its involvement in Slingbox’s rejection certainly does raise some eyebrows here.
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FCC queries AT&T, Apple on Google Voice iPhone app rejection originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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(Credit: Matt Hickey)So Apple on Friday released an update to the iPhone OS (3.0.1) that takes care of an SMS vulnerability. It’s a fairly important patch, and usually when Apple updates the iPhone OS, jailbreakers have to wait until the Dev Team comes out with a …
[Via CrunchGear]
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LEDSAUR Tyrannosaurus Rex desk lamp makes chewing through paperwork less monotonous originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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I have had Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (release to manufacturer) for a few days. This is, of course, a legitimate copy, not the leaked copy that you can download from the Internet. That’s the good news.
The bad news is I have to test it, which has been lot of work. We tested the new operating system against Windows Vista SP2 and Windows XP SP3. Overall, Windows 7 offers a much more pleasant experience than Windows Vista. Everything works more smoothly. The new OS takes less time to launch applications, and it’s nice just to browse around its functions and features–it’s also very pretty. However, it is slower than Windows XP, except for the boot and shutdown times, where XP has always been a drag.
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August will be an important month for Android.
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Starting Saturday, August 1, we’ll begin to see many new applications appearing on the Android Market. We reported several weeks ago on the second Google Android Developers Challenge (ADC2), and August 1 is the day submissions begin. The official …
Originally posted at Android Atlas
We understand that Sony has a long way to go in making up the losses it’s incurred by selling the PS3 at a loss — even if it was commanding the highest price in the industry the whole while — but if this latest word on manufacturing costs is correct, we’d say Sony has some room to get the console under that dastardly $400 mark. During an overseas call with investors over Sony’s Q1 financials, Nobuyuki Oneda, Sony’s CFO and Executive VP, apparently stated that manufacturing costs for the PS3 are down 70 percent, which is right “on schedule.” While there’s no official cost published by Sony, those in the know estimate the console originally cost around $800 to produce, and should be down to roughly $240 at this point. Maybe a holiday price cut is in the cards? Boy, we sure hope so. Either that, or he’s already spouting off the PS3 Slim‘s production cost, which is a win for everybody.
[Via Joystiq]
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PS3 manufacturing costs down 70 percent? Strange, it doesn’t feel that way originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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(Credit: CNET)When we last saw JVC’s El Kameleon car audio receiver, we awarded it our Editors’ Choice award for its innovative interface and expandability. However, we wished that the unit featured a touch screen instead of a touch pad.
With the new El Kameleon KD-AVX77, we get our …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
This week in the App Store it may as well’ve been 1991: We’ve got Lollapalooza! Monkey Island! Novel self-help strategies! Glittery-clothed strippers! And last but not nearly least, everyone’s favorite defunct supermarket tabloid! The Golden Age of culture, people.
Weekly World News: Now is neither the time nor place to get into my deep appreciation of the WWN, and I feel their blurb says enough:
For over 30 years, the Weekly World News has been the World’s ONLY Reliable News Source. The Weekly World News bares the TRUTH about UFOs, aliens, monsters, Elvis’ whereabouts, cryptids, popular celebrities, and the mutant freaks that live among us.
Considering you can get the entire archives of the paper for free on Google Books, it seems dumb that this $1 app only gives you access to covers, though the add-your-own-face feature is pretty neat. Granted, this could have been a content ratings thing, because half of the dead magazine’s columnists were basically insane, or sexist, or some other terrible kind of “ist.” It’s part of the charm! [via Gawker]
Pocket Dancer: A 3D lady will dance a sad little dance while you spin her around with your finger and occasionally change the floor lighting. Fact: There is absolutely no way to use this without looking and feeling like a creep. One dollar!
Booyah Society : Pulling ourselves out of the slime, here’s the high concept app for the week: Booyah Society assigns arbitrary point values to day-to-day achievements, creatings a sort of WoW-ish self-help game, integrates with Twitter and Facebook. Despite how it sounds, it’s not at all pathetic or annoying; I can easily see how someone who already broadcasts their every action on social networks could get hooked on this. Free.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition: Diehard fans see Monkey Island titles as the zenith of 2D adventure gaming, while most people who grew up in the early 90s just remember them as being pretty fun. I’m guessing only one of those two groups will be willing to drop the full $8 on this, but to be fair to LucasArts, the game translates well to the iPhone and it’s pretty massive.
Lollapalooza: Sharing its concept and design with the excellent Coachella app from last year, this free download helps you find your way around the only legendary music festival ever to be ruined by the advent of txt speak.
This Week’s App News on Giz:
• TheXchange: Will This Porn iPhone App Survive the Apple Banhammer?
• iDisk iPhone App Lightning Review: Halfway There
• Soon We’ll Be Able to Search the App Store For More Than Exact Product Names
• Apple’s Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far
• EA Bringing Madden, FIFA Franchises to the iPhone
• iPhone Owners Score Free MobileMe iDisk App
• Offender Locator Tracks Sex Offenders on Your iPhone
• iWet T-Shirts: Yet Another iPhone App That Makes Me Shake My Head in Shame
• GV Mobile Google Voice App Available For Free On The iPhone via Cydia
• Nissan Developing iPhone App to Monitor Electric Cars
• Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App
• Multiplayer Chess iPhone App Is Very Cool, But Probably Won’t Be a Bestseller
• GV Mobile Google Voice iPhone App Getting Booted From App Store for Usual Ridiculous Reasons
• Spotify iPhone App Kills Pandora, Last.FM, Slacker and iTunes in One Shot
• Weirdest Use of Spreadsheets I’ve Ever Heard
• Passion iPhone App Will Let You ‘See How Good You Are at Sex’
• Resident Evil 4 Brings More Re-Killing Zombies to the iPhone
• Top Three iPhone Apps: Weed, Booze, and Partial Nudity
• Apple Will Let iPhone Apps Augment Our Sad Little Realities in September With OS 3.1
This list is in no way definitive. If you’ve spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, better yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, and check out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory and our original iPhone App Review Marathon. Have a good weekend everybody.
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