Archive for October 1st, 2007
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
That was quick. Just a few hours after peeping their S730 in the wild, HTC has upped and made it official. They also pushed out the P6500 enterprise phone to keep it safe and feeling protected. The S730 is just what we heard: 400MHz Qualcomm processor, "worldwide ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: StorageEarlier this year, we heard that NASA gurus were working up a biological nanobattery that utilized ferritin, and now another report is suggesting that the substance could even be used in a "biotech-based process for creating ultrathin computer memory." Reportedly, the researchers have found that by using ferritin, ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
The headline really does tell the whole story in this case: Finnish telecom giant Nokia has announced its intention to purchase one of the world's two digital mapping powerhouses (the other being TomTom target TeleAtlas) in an $8 billion deal that should result in some pretty sick ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Ariel Waldman contributes Adgadget, a column about the intersection of advertising and technology.Technologically better equipped than booth babes, fantasy fembots seem to be popping up everywhere in ad campaigns these days. Alcohol seems to be popular with the fembots -- they're employed in ads from both Heineken and Svedka -- ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
BenQ has been firing on all cylinders lately, dropping more projectors, cameras, and Intel-based MIDs then you can shake a stick at (trust us, we've tried to shake a variety of sticks at them). Joining the fold today is the DC-X735 compact digital camera, a sleek little ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Household
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Watch_out_George_Foreman_Evander_Holyfield_releases_Real_Deal_Grill'; Truth really is stranger than fiction: not only has one former heavyweight champion managed to make a lucrative post-boxing career hawking electric cooking appliances, but now yet another former champ is throwing his proverbial apron into the ring with the release of Evander Holyfield's Real ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Laptops
Toshiba, a company known to drop a wild assortment of products on the market in rapid succession, has once again clogged the press-release pipeline with a slew of new Satellite laptop configurations (on the P205, M205, A205, and U305) sure to make even the pickiest of buyers happy. ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
What's better than sticking it to the man with your anti-consumerism, pro-recycling commercial? Why, filming it with "video sniffin'," the practice of tuning in wirelessly to public and private security camera footage and recording it for fun and profit. The movie was sponsored by Mediashed, who also ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Home Entertainment
We got to spend a bit of time with Vudu's eponymously named set-top box earlier this month at CEDIA, but those still trying to justify that $399 price tag now have a bit more info to help inform their decision, with a number of reviews of the ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, FeaturesWe're in a unique position here at Engadget, serving the technology community, while simultaneously interacting with and trying to make sense of the moves of the companies our readership patronizes. Apple's latest iPhone firmware, as you've probably heard, locks out third party applications, consequently preventing owners from ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
Emblaze Mobile, Israeli-based phone designers / makers, have inked a deal with Japanese powerhouse Sharp, and software developer ACCESS (of Palm OS fame, amongst others) to create a new mobile device which will "revolutionize mobile communication." You know... just a small goal. The companies plan to reveal this ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: GPS, Portable Audio, Portable Video
It's getting close to two years since Alpine trotted out its music-playing PMD-B100 Blackbird GPS unit, but the company has now finally decided to deliver a follow-up. From the looks of it, the new PMD-B200 Blackbird II doesn't stray too far from the ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Announcements
Tokyo, San Francisco! We're coming to town to hang out, so please join us THIS WEEK in Tokyo as we host our first ever Japanese readup in Google / YouTube Japan's offices. Next week in San Francisco we'll be at Mighty. Directions and info below.Both events are ALL ...
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