Jun 08

Microsoft Actually Releases a Firefox Extension/Plugin?

Posted in: Apple, Firefox Extensions, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Screenshots, Software, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on March 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

I had been wondering what the latest news on Photosynth was so I just jumped over to their blog to find out that almost two months ago they released a Firefox extension/plugin for the service. Previously Photosynth was only available for Internet Explorer but now it can also be used in Firefox with the help of the extension.

When downloading the extension it requires that you are using either Firefox 1.5 or 2.0 and for me the download was 5.5MB in size! That was pretty big, but after that I was all set to play with my new Firefox toy.

Firefox PhotoSynth

Everything seemed to work just as well as the Internet Explorer counterpart, and there is no doubt that Photosynth is quite a remarkable tool. The whole point behind it is to take a bunch of 2D photographs and assemble them together to form a 3D world. The downside, however, is that the technology is still very new and takes at least a few hours, or even days, to produce the desired output for a relatively small area. For this reason the Photosynth team have not begun to let users upload their own photos and utilize the service.

Microsoft has embarked on quite a task that could revolutionize the way we view the pictures we’ve taken. Being able to reconstruct a 3D world from 2D images is something that will probably become an everyday thing in a few years, much the way video sharing has evolved. They are definitely on the right track, so now it is just a matter of optimizing the system so that it is more efficient.

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Jun 06

Entelligence: Market caps and dunce caps

Posted in: Apple, column, Microsoft, Today's Chili, Windows, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 series, WindowsPhone7, WindowsPhone7Series, xbox

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.

The buzzword of last week was “market cap.” To those unfamiliar, market cap is the total value of outstanding shares of a company, and on May 26th at around 3PM Eastern, Apple’s market value reached $225.1 billion, surpassing Microsoft’s $222.3 billion. Apple isn’t the largest technology company around, but it’s become the most valuable, and it’s valuation is second only to Exxon in the US. Later that same week, Microsoft announced that Robbie Bach and J Allard, the head of its Entertainment and Devices group and the division’s CTO, were both leaving the company. There’s been speculation that these two events were somehow intertwined, but I don’t think that’s the case. In addition, as good as Robbie and J are, there’s more to the E & D team than two people — as grandpa used to say, the cemeteries are full of people who couldn’t be replaced.

Historically, Microsoft has always been two companies, the parts that made lots of money (Windows, Office, Server) and the parts that don’t make money yet but might someday soon. E & D is the latest incarnation of the latter. Let’s take a closer look.

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Jun 06

Computex 2010 wrap-up: tablets, a Windows 7 eatery, and a few more tablets

Posted in: ASUS, e reader, e-book, e-books, e-readers, Features, intel, laptop, Microsoft, roundup, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tablets, Today's Chili, windows 7, Windows7

Taipei’s been far too kind to us Westerners, and with Computex drawing to a close here on this side of the world, we can’t help but pull ourselves together for a moment and look back at the trade show that was. It’s been a fairly wild week in news, in large part thanks to the smorgasbord of tablets that have surfaced for the first time during the 30th running of this great event. Both Intel and Microsoft dropped bombshells on the tech world this week, with ASUS, iiView and even the xpPhone making bigger-than-life impressions. If you missed any of the blow-by-blow action over the past week, we’ll work on forgiving you, and while you can relive the memories by visiting the links below, you simply can’t move on with your life without living vicariously through us during our trip to the one and only Windows 7-themed ‘100 Seafood’ restaurant. So long, Taiwan — we’ll be back before you know it.

Major news / product releases:

Hands-on / previews:

Everything else:

After all of that, we’re still just skimming the surface. For the full monty, be sure to check out our Engadget Computex 2010 landing page right here.

A huge, huge thanks goes out to Andy Yang for his invaluable translation skills and all-around amazingness during the show. Another major thank you to the entire Engadget Chinese team for their hospitality and kindness. One final thank you to the nation of Taiwan and city of Taipei — without you, the world would be far less awesome.

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Jun 05

Onkyo DX1007A5B dualscreen netbook preview

Posted in: impressions, Microsoft, netbook, preview, Today's Chili, video

We’ve known about Onkyo’s DX dual-screened netbook for quite awhile, but it’s another thing entirely to see it extend its two 10-inch screens in person. On display at the Microsoft booth here at Computex, the Onkyo is still a rebadge of the Konjinsha DZ that we saw at CEATAC last year, but has a 1,366 × 768-resolution display rather than the Konjinsha’s 1,024 x 600. In our short hands-on time we found the screens to extend smoothly, but the hinge did feel a bit weak, though that could very likely be the result of being used and abused on the show floor. We were able to drag windows to the second monitor without a problem, so if you were concerned that the learning curve would be too steep, fret not. The most interesting thing about the netbook is that it turns into a handheld device of sorts — when you pull the screens back in, you can flip it around and hold it up. For some odd reason it doesn’t have a touchscreen, so you have to use an optical mouse on the side to navigate within Windows 7. If anything, the DX needs an internal upgrade since it still packs a first generation AMD Neo processor, but we’re sure that’ll come in time. See it all for yourself in the video after the break.

Gallery: Onkyo DX1007A5B dualscreen netbook

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Jun 05

How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft’s Plan for Us All [Cloud]

Posted in: Apple, cloud, feature, live, Microsoft, Today's Chili, top, windows phone 7

Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it’s Microsoft—not Google—that’s best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here’s why. More »

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Jun 04

Engadget Podcast 199 – 06.04.2010

Posted in: Apple, GalaxyTab, LG, meego, Microsoft, podcast, qualcomm, snapdragon, Today's Chili

Conferences. Trade shows. Exotic locales. Special guests. Tablets. Fish legs. Tablets. Fish balls. Tablets. You know the drill.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Guests: Joanna Stern, Darren Murph
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Boys Don’t Cry

Hear the podcast

00:02:38 – Engadget dines at Taipei’s Windows 7-themed restaurant (video)
00:06:05 – Windows 7 tablet roundup from Computex, nay Tabletex
00:07:03 – Microsoft’s Guggenheimer dismisses Android on tablets as ‘an experiment’
00:09:05 – Microsoft reveals Windows Embedded Compact 7 at Computex, hosts heaps of tablets
00:10:40 – Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 explained, trial download now available
00:12:10 – Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 not planned to hit tablets, Courier was always a concept
00:13:00 – NVIDIA CEO says Android is an OS to ‘unite behind,’ will be better tailored to tablets this Fall
00:13:40 – Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 tablet prototype preview
00:14:20 – Samsung Galaxy Tab revealed
00:17:10 – MeeGo Moorestown-powered tablet preview
00:18:40 – Pixel Qi introduces tablet-ready screens, we go hands-on (video)
00:23:40 – Exclusive: LG UX10 tablet preview at Computex
00:39:46 – Intel demos Android 2.1 on Moorestown smartphone (video)
00:41:45 – Qualcomm ships first dual-core Snapdragon chipsets clocking 1.2GHz
00:45:47 – Labor practice protest goes down at Computex, Steve Jobs called an ‘OEM profit bloodsucker’
00:54:40 – Steve Jobs live from D8
01:02:57 – Steve Jobs’ D8 interview: the video highlights (updated)
01:03:38 – Steve Jobs on Foxconn: ‘We’re all over this’
01:05:52 – Steve Jobs on lost iPhone 4G prototype: it’s an ‘amazing’ story
01:14:45 – Steve Jobs on TV: ‘no one wants to buy a box’
01:24:55 – Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie live from D8
01:25:06 – Jobs: The PC is a truck. Ballmer: There’s a reason they’re called ‘Mac’ trucks.
01:27:00 – Steve Ballmer at D8: the video highlights (updated)
01:38:38 – Kno dual-screen tablet appears at D8, we go hands-on

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Jun 04

1.5 GHz Scorpion and quartet of HTC Windows Phone 7 handsets headed to North America?

Posted in: Android, Google, HTC, leak, Microsoft, rumor, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 series, WindowsMobile, WindowsPhone7, WindowsPhone7Series, Wp7

Conflipper is a regular in the underworld of HTC ROM cooking. So when he tweets about unreleased devices and their respective carrier support you really outta listen. First up is the HTC Scorpion (aka, Olympian) which he claims is going to Verizon and Bell Mobility — a device previously rumored to be packing Froyo with WiMax and a 1.5GHz Snapdragon whipped topping. Conflipper also claims to have the inside scoop on a quartet of Windows Phone 7 devices and their respective North American launch partners: the HTC Spark_W (Bell Mobility and Verizon), HTC Gold_W (Sprint), HTC Shubert (Telus), and the HTC Mondrian (Telus, Rogers and AT&T). Note that the “_W” in those handsets signifies a worldphone device with dual-mode CDMA and GSM radios. And in the immortal words of Klaus Meine, “Time, it needs time.” So true.

1.5 GHz Scorpion and quartet of HTC Windows Phone 7 handsets headed to North America? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 04

ASUS EPad: like the EeePad, but with less ecstasy

Posted in: ASUS, Microsoft, prototype, tablet, Today's Chili, video, windows 7, Windows7

Well, isn’t this typical ASUS. Yet another Eee Pad, or this time an ‘EPad’ as the placard says, has shown up on the Computex show floor. While the company introduced two Eee Pads at its press conference earlier this week — the 10-inch EP101TC with NVIDIA Tegra 2 / Windows Embedded Compact 7 and the 12-inch EP121 with Intel / Windows 7 — this new 10-inch version has popped up running Windows 7 at the Intel booth. We’d be lying if we said we knew what was going on here, but to us it looks like ASUS shot out a working Windows 7 model — perhaps just to have a functioning device to display on the show floor. There’s no telling if it’s being powered by Intel’s Atom Moorestown platform or a current Menlow Z Series CPU, but the design looks very similar to that of the EP101TC. We’ve sent off an inquiry to ASUS’ PR team, but you’ll still want to check out the video after the break of a very slim slate and real live “booth babe.”

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Jun 03

Engadget dines at Taipei’s Windows 7-themed restaurant (video)

Posted in: awesome, hands-on, Microsoft, operating system, OperatingSystem, os, Software, Today's Chili, video, Windows, windows 7, Windows7

Taiwan may be a comparatively small place, but it’s well known for a few things: incredible eats, incredible technology, and the best Little League World Series teams this planet has ever seen. We’re experiencing the best of those first two this week at Computex, and since we were all the way over on the other side of the planet, we couldn’t help but stop by the Windows 7-themed eatery that opened up for just a couple of months surrounding the nation’s only hosted consumer electronics show of this magnitude. The place, as we were told by the one and only Andy Yang from Engadget Chinese, is Taiwanese through and though. It typically goes by 100 Seafood, but for a couple of months it has been transformed into a 64-bit dining location with Windows 7 wallpaper, stickers, banners, and even mugs. Each day there’s a special menu item that sells for just NT$77 (around $2.38 in the US), but considering that said special was some form of intestines on the evening that we showed up, Engadget and company sprung for dishes with a bit less relation to the digestive system. In all seriousness, the grub hit the spot after a long day on the trade show floor, and the take-home mugs for us media folk made the journey even more worthwhile. Now, to see if the lid closes over if we don’t activate the thing in 30 days…

Take a trip to this magical place yourself in the galleries below, or do one even better and jump past the break for a video!

Gallery: Windows 7-themed restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan during Computex 2010

Gallery: Unboxing the Windows 7 mug on location in Taipei

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Engadget dines at Taipei’s Windows 7-themed restaurant (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 03

Jobs: The PC is a truck. Ballmer: There’s a reason they’re called ‘Mac’ trucks.

Posted in: Apple, Microsoft, steve ballmer, steve jobs, SteveJobs, Today's Chili, video

One of the more interesting exchanges at D8 actually happened across two days as both Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer were asked about the future of PCs: Jobs compared traditional computers and tablets to cars and trucks by saying most people will eventually only need tablets while some would still need the added utility of a PC, and Ballmer responded directly by saying, “Well, there may be a reason why they call them ‘Mac’ trucks!” Ballmer snap. When it comes right down to it, though, both CEOs expressed relatively similar visions about the prevalence and importance of multiple computing form factors in the future and mostly differed on semantics — Ballmer came right out and said he thinks the iPad is actually a PC, and we’re pretty sure Jobs thinks it… isn’t. Check our edited video after the break to watch these two go at it across space and time, and then check our Ballmer liveblog / video highlights and Jobs liveblog / video highlights for more.

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