It may not be April Fools’, but don’t tell that to The Onion. On Monday, the satire magazine posted news of its fake sale to a fictional Chinese company called Yu Wan Mei that specializes in “amalgamated salvage fisheries and polymer injection.”
Along with changes to all of The …
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URC debuts MX-5000 universal remote with haptic feedback originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mac users, rejoice — well, the BlackBerry users in the lot of you, anyway. RIM’s been infamous over the years for all but ignoring Mac support for its devices, throwing out the occasional bone like Media Sync, but they’re now going big with a full-fledged Desktop Manager supporting Mac OS 10.5.5 and above when it launches… sometime. The big sticking point right now is that RIM isn’t talking about an availability date, all we know is that it’ll happen some time in September — but when that date comes, you’ll have a suite that’s able to sync iTunes, add and remove apps, perform firmware updates, create backups and restore from them, and manage multiple BlackBerrys at the same time. Nokia, maybe you guys want to take note here?
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
BlackBerry Desktop Manager coming to Mac in September originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Zoom Q3 puts a high-end audio twist on a familiar video camera design.
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It used to be all about getting your band’s music on the radio, but these days, it’s all about YouTube. Producing the ultimate viral music video isn’t easy, though. Video cameras …
Citroën has confirmed it will build six examples of a $2.1 million GT supercar based on the automaker’s design for the PS3 game Gran Turismo 5, according to the New York Times.
The two-seater GT will feature gull-wing doors and a carbon fiber body. Chances are it won’t include a real version of the virtual powertrain in the PS3 car: a 646 horsepower hydrogen fuel cell with an overboost function that generated 138 extra horsepower on demand. “That ultra high-tech powertrain will remain video-game fantasy,” according to the report, although few details are available at this point.
Citroën will debut the GT at the Frankfurt auto show later this year.
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Toshiba’s new digiframes feature social networking, FrameChannel originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Modu music jacket features JBL speakers.
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It’s been a year and a half since we first saw the Modu cell phone, but the company announced Sunday that its product will finally go on sale. Modu’s home country of Israel will be the nation to launch …
The Apollo missions marked a turning point in human history. They changed the political climate of the day, made many tech advances possible, and inspired future scientists and astronomers the world over. But it turns out they’re also having a far more practical effect: acting as a guiding light for future lunar missions.
NASA’s next-generation Orion spaceship–scheduled for first launch in 2015–may look a lot like the Apollo craft in use 40 years ago. But as Space.com reports, the similarities are often just skin deep–and also draw from the Shuttle program as well. “The computing power of modern electronics just dwarfs what [Apollo engineers] had available,” Jim Geffre, a NASA engineer working on Orion, said in the article. “That allows us to do a lot more and build more automation into the spacecraft. More performance that uses less power and less space allows us to build in redundancy that Apollo didn’t have.”
The Orion is also about four feet larger in diameter–16.5 feet, to the Apollo craft’s 12.8 feet–which will enable four astronauts to travel to the moon instead of three, let all four descend to the surface (instead of just two), and allow for missions that run several weeks long. (Image credit: NASA)
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Update: Looks like the T101 and T101H are one in the same. Sorry for any confusion. Post has been corrected to reflect this.
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ASUS Eee PC T101 tablet reportedly facing uncertain future originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Verizon and some cellphone retailers have cut the price of the BlackBerry Storm by more than half in a move that could signal an updated version of the touchscreen device is on its way.
Verizon is now offering the Storm for $100 through its website, while Amazon Wireless has it even cheaper at $50. At Wirefly.com, the Storm costs just $30 with a new Verizon account. The prices are all for a device with a two-year contract.
As we have said earlier, reports suggest the BlackBerry Storm 2 could be available in September. With the latest price cut, it looks very likely that Research In Motion is readying to get the Storm 2 in retail stores soon.
Research In Motion released Storm, its first touchscreen phone, in November last year. The $200 phone (with a two-year contract) received some harsh reviews on its debut from critics unhappy with the software and the user interface. But the Storm has become a big hit among Verizon subscribers. One million Storm phones were sold within two months of the launch.
The Storm 2 is likely to have Wi-Fi–a key feature missing in the first generation device–and an improved touchscreen. It’s fairly certain the phone will make its debut on the Verizon Wireless network and could become the telecom carrier’s weapon in its battle against AT&T’s new iPhone 3G S and Sprint’s Palm Pre.
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Photo: BlackBerry Storm (Juan Benitez/Flickr)
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