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- Russia's Yo-Avto breaks ground on hybrid yo-mobile factory
- Comcast to show off new Xfinity guide with Facebook tie-ins Thursday (video)
- Photogram For iOS Is Yet Another Image Sharing App, But One Worth Checking Out
- Senate shoots down proposal to end ethanol subsidies
- WPTattleTale.com Points Fingers At Carriers For Weak WP7 Sales
- 23-Inch NEC MultiSync EX231Wp makes desktop displays a little bit greener
- Shocker! Gamer behavior is actually quite predictable
- Video: The Engineer Guy Explains How The First Phone Turned Into Your Phone
- Maserati 'Birdcage' Up for Auction
- Japan Quake May Delay US-Built Leaf
- BMW to Offer M3 Frozen Black Edition
- 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class offered with 25 mpg 3.0-liter diesel
- Nintendo's Iwata talks about Wii U's place in the living room
- Keepin' it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video)
- Going for real and simulated drives to find your personal best MPG
- Garmin to purchase Navigon, plans to complete acquisition by late July
- Apple retail chief Ron Johnson takes his empire-building genius to J.C. Penney
- Samsung’s “Attempt To Harass” Apple Gets Rough Response
- 22-Year-Old F1 Heiress to Buy $150 Million Home
- Best Used Cars 2011
- Daimler to Soon Decide Maybach’s Fate
- Corvette Gets Price Hike for 2011
- Report: Cities in UK may ban heavily polluting vehicles
- Astro MixAmp 5.8 review
- A Campground Grows...in Brooklyn?
- Google announces Search by Image, Search by Voice for desktop
- New York Times, OpinionLab sue Lodsys seeking declaratory judgement
- Why spare tires may soon fall prey to better fuel efficiency
- HTC Desire tries to catch Gingerbread, can't keep up
- Fun Fact: Your Headphone Remote Works As A Camera Shutter Button in iOS 5
| Russia's Yo-Avto breaks ground on hybrid yo-mobile factory Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:12 PM PDT Russia's Yo-Avto breaks ground on hybrid yo-mobile factory  Russia's Yo-Avto breaks ground on hybrid yo-mobile factory Filed under: Hybrid, Europe/EU, Asia Yo-Avto, the joint venture owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group and by Yarovit Motors, has broken ground on a factory for its hybrid vehicles in St. Petersburg, Russia. The facility is being built in the Maryino Industrial Park area of St. Petersburg and, once construction is complete, the Yo-Avto site will begin cranking out up to 45,000 hybrid ë-mobiles a year.... |
| Comcast to show off new Xfinity guide with Facebook tie-ins Thursday (video) Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:12 PM PDT Comcast to show off new Xfinity guide with Facebook tie-ins Thursday (video)  Comcast to show off new Xfinity guide with Facebook tie-ins Thursday (video) Thanks to one of our readers getting an early install, we've already dug deep into Comcast's next generation Xfinity TV DVR, but on Thursday Brian Roberts will show it off in full (along with "new broadband speeds") at the 2011 NCTA Cable Show . According to the press release the new guide that blends internet content with TV broadcasts will include customizations and sharing tied to Facebook along with hardware built... |
| Photogram For iOS Is Yet Another Image Sharing App, But One Worth Checking Out Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:12 PM PDT Photogram For iOS Is Yet Another Image Sharing App, But One Worth Checking Out  Photogram For iOS Is Yet Another Image Sharing App, But One Worth Checking Out Sometimes, it's all about the experience. Without its finely tuned user experience, Yelp would be just another reviews site. Tivo would be just another DVR. Twitter would just be a fancy status broadcaster. Their user experiences, though — that feeling that things "just work" — keep people coming back. A simple idea grows, the product evolves, and eventually they become the names we all recognize. Photogram isn't a complicated idea.... |
| Senate shoots down proposal to end ethanol subsidies Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:35 PM PDT Senate shoots down proposal to end ethanol subsidies  Senate shoots down proposal to end ethanol subsidies Filed under: Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USAEarlier today, the United States Senate rejected an amendment that would have put an end to the $6 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for producers of corn-based ethanol. Introduced by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), the amendment was unable to martial the 60 votes needed to end debate in the Senate, failing in a 40-in-favor, 59-against procedural vote as members of both parties joined in opposition... |
| WPTattleTale.com Points Fingers At Carriers For Weak WP7 Sales Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:35 PM PDT WPTattleTale.com Points Fingers At Carriers For Weak WP7 Sales  WPTattleTale.com Points Fingers At Carriers For Weak WP7 Sales The Windows Phone platform might have a relatively small following now, but there are two things to remember when it comes to WP7 fans: 1) they are just as intense about Windows Phone as Apple fanbois and Android loyalists are over their respective platforms, and 2) the WP7 pack is growing by the minute.... |
| 23-Inch NEC MultiSync EX231Wp makes desktop displays a little bit greener Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:35 PM PDT 23-Inch NEC MultiSync EX231Wp makes desktop displays a little bit greener  23-Inch NEC MultiSync EX231Wp makes desktop displays a little bit greener If you remember last year's EX231W (note the lack of "p") then you pretty much know all you need to about the company's latest business-class 23-incher, the EX231Wp. It's got the same 14.6mm bezel, 250-nit brightness, 25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and 1920 x 1080 resolution. It even kept the pair of sensors for measuring ambient light and detecting meatbags sitting in front of it, which allow the screen to adjust its... |
| Shocker! Gamer behavior is actually quite predictable Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:57 PM PDT Shocker! Gamer behavior is actually quite predictable  Shocker! Gamer behavior is actually quite predictable Isn't it curious how you always crack open a beer before settling in for some GTA? Or how you tend to put an anxious hand over your wallet when logging onto PSN? No soldier, it is not curious. Not at all. But this is: Researchers at North Carolina State University claim they've found a way to predict your in-game behavior with "up to 80 percent accuracy." After analyzing the decision-making of... |
| Video: The Engineer Guy Explains How The First Phone Turned Into Your Phone Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:57 PM PDT Video: The Engineer Guy Explains How The First Phone Turned Into Your Phone Video: The Engineer Guy Explains How The First Phone Turned Into Your Phone Once upon a time, "cell phones" weighed about a pound and performed only one function: placing calls. No games, no cameras, no texting. Not even a screen. Today, we're so spoiled by LTE coverage, apps, and beautiful touchscreens — and yet, we still manage to find things wrong with them.... |
| Maserati 'Birdcage' Up for Auction Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:57 PM PDT Maserati 'Birdcage' Up for Auction Maserati 'Birdcage' Up for Auction A 1960 model that raced at Sebring will be auctioned in Monterey. |
| Japan Quake May Delay US-Built Leaf Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT Japan Quake May Delay US-Built Leaf Japan Quake May Delay US-Built Leaf Nissan says it can't yet estimate how long any disruption might be. |
| BMW to Offer M3 Frozen Black Edition Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT BMW to Offer M3 Frozen Black Edition BMW to Offer M3 Frozen Black Edition BMW is shipping only 19 models stateside; ordering starts June 16. |
| 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class offered with 25 mpg 3.0-liter diesel Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:19 PM PDT 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class offered with 25 mpg 3.0-liter diesel  2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class offered with 25 mpg 3.0-liter diesel Filed under: Diesel, MPG, Mercedes Benz 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class - Click above image for high-res gallery Mercedes-Benz will launch its 2012 M-Class crossover in the U.S. this fall, complete with a range of four- and six-cylinder engines. Globally, the M-Class will be offered in ML250 BlueTec, ML350 BlueTec and ML350 BlueEfficiency designations. The base ML250 will be powered by a 2.1-liter diesel four-cylinder, while the ML350 BlueTec uses Merc's reworked 3.0-liter diesel V6, which... |
| Nintendo's Iwata talks about Wii U's place in the living room Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:19 PM PDT Nintendo's Iwata talks about Wii U's place in the living room  Nintendo's Iwata talks about Wii U's place in the living room Nintendo took some inspiration from the TV remote for its Wii controller, and it apparently thinks its new Wii U controller could well be the "TV remote of the future." That's just one tidbit from All Things D's sitdown with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who also talked more broadly about the Wii U's new role in the living room.... |
| Keepin' it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video) Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:19 PM PDT Keepin' it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video)  Keepin' it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video) Is that 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255-powered Xperia Arc just too darn fast? We may have just the KIRF you're looking for. A simple phone with a simple name: the "DR." This petite pretender shaves 0.2-inches off of the Arc's 4.2-inch display, adding only 0.03mm of thickness along the way. Forget that Adreno 205 graphics processor, this baby runs on a Meditek MTK6516 ARM compatible processor, a setup often mistakenly advertised as dual-core... |
| Going for real and simulated drives to find your personal best MPG Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT Going for real and simulated drives to find your personal best MPG  Going for real and simulated drives to find your personal best MPG Filed under: EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, At Witz End Got a minute? Go to My Demo Drive for a mini-education on how much gas you can save by driving a mid-size gas-electric hybrid compared to a similar-size conventional car, with and without "start-stop." A fuel-saving system that stops the engine at rest and restarts it when the brake is released, start-stop is increasingly popular in Europe but still rare in North America largely... |
| Garmin to purchase Navigon, plans to complete acquisition by late July Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT Garmin to purchase Navigon, plans to complete acquisition by late July  Garmin to purchase Navigon, plans to complete acquisition by late July News of Garmin's plans to acquire Navigon leaked out earlier this month, but we now have official word that the GPS giant will bring the smaller German company under its wing beginning in late July. Pending regulatory approval, the deal would have Navigon, one of the largest GPS brands in Europe, functioning as a subsidiary of Garmin, which has a much stronger presence in North America.... |
| Apple retail chief Ron Johnson takes his empire-building genius to J.C. Penney Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT Apple retail chief Ron Johnson takes his empire-building genius to J.C. Penney  Apple retail chief Ron Johnson takes his empire-building genius to J.C. Penney You may not know the name Ron Johnson, but you're definitely familiar with his work -- this is the man who built Apple's retail empire. Eleven years ago Jobs brought Johnson on to create the first Apple store, stealing him away from his position at Target. Now the man who brought you the Genius Bar and roaming, iPhone-wielding sales reps is moving on, and taking his expertise to the department store... |
| Samsung’s “Attempt To Harass” Apple Gets Rough Response Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT Samsung's "Attempt To Harass" Apple Gets Rough Response  Samsung's "Attempt To Harass" Apple Gets Rough Response Remember that one time when Samsung asked Apple to hand over the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 for legal inspection, just in case the companies' future products crossed the line between similar and strikingly similar yet again? Well, Apple didn't like that very much, and has called the request "copyist." It all started back in April, when Apple saw some bothersome similarities between Apple's iPad 2 and iPhone 4 and certain products... |
| 22-Year-Old F1 Heiress to Buy $150 Million Home Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT 22-Year-Old F1 Heiress to Buy $150 Million Home 22-Year-Old F1 Heiress to Buy $150 Million Home The long-running drama over the sale of the highest-priced home in the US appeared to be heading to its finale Monday. |
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| Daimler to Soon Decide Maybach’s Fate Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT Daimler to Soon Decide Maybach's Fate Daimler to Soon Decide Maybach's Fate Kill the superluxury sedan or team with Aston Martin on a new car? |
| Corvette Gets Price Hike for 2011 Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT Corvette Gets Price Hike for 2011 Corvette Gets Price Hike for 2011 Prices for equipment groups and options are also increasing. |
| Report: Cities in UK may ban heavily polluting vehicles Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:24 AM PDT Report: Cities in UK may ban heavily polluting vehicles  Report: Cities in UK may ban heavily polluting vehicles Filed under: Legislation and Policy, Europe/EU, UK Back in June of 2010, the picturesque city of London recorded its 36th "bad air" day of the year. That was a problem since European Union (EU) guidelines allow just 35 "bad air" days a year, so reaching that unfortunate level by the sixth month of 2010 meant that London was in violation of the law. It's not just London though.... |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:24 AM PDT Astro MixAmp 5.8 review  Astro MixAmp 5.8 review We all know that cabled cans are king when it comes to tonal accuracy. The convenience of cord cutting can't be denied, however, and there are ways to free your headphones from their physical bonds. Astro's Mixamp 5.8 is a system designed to make your wired 'phones wireless, but does it sacrifice sound quality for the sake of convenience?... |
| A Campground Grows...in Brooklyn? Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:24 AM PDT A Campground Grows...in Brooklyn? A Campground Grows...in Brooklyn? Many visitors to New York plan their trips to include shopping, a Broadway show and a hotel with fresh, clean sheets. Sleeping bags under the stars? Not so much. |
| Google announces Search by Image, Search by Voice for desktop Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:46 AM PDT Google announces Search by Image, Search by Voice for desktop  Google announces Search by Image, Search by Voice for desktop Google's done a ton of talking about search at its Inside Search event today, and two of the biggest new developments are on the desktop. It's just announced that Android-style Search by Voice is headed to desktop web browsers (with support for English only, initially), and that it will be joined by a new Search by Image feature.... |
| New York Times, OpinionLab sue Lodsys seeking declaratory judgement Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:46 AM PDT New York Times, OpinionLab sue Lodsys seeking declaratory judgement  New York Times, OpinionLab sue Lodsys seeking declaratory judgement Indie developers turned to the Web hours after receiving warning letters from Lodsys last month, but larger devs took a more traditional approach, leaving the communication and finger-pointing to lawyers instead. Two such companies, the New York Times and OpinionLabs, came to light after filing suit against the patent troll yesterday, seeking declaratory judgements to invalidate Lodsys's patents.... |
| Why spare tires may soon fall prey to better fuel efficiency Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:07 AM PDT Why spare tires may soon fall prey to better fuel efficiency  Why spare tires may soon fall prey to better fuel efficiency Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, Chevrolet, Nissan Chevy Cruze Eco tire inflator Once upon a time, all vehicles came with a spare tire. Be it a donut or a full-size spare, vehicles left the assembly line ready to tackle the U.S.' potholed-roads. Now, most vehicles come with either run-flat tires or some sort of tire inflation system, similar to the Chevy Cruze Eco's inflator pictured above. Why no spare tire?... |
| HTC Desire tries to catch Gingerbread, can't keep up Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:07 AM PDT HTC Desire tries to catch Gingerbread, can't keep up  HTC Desire tries to catch Gingerbread, can't keep up After months attempting to bring the Desire up to speed with Android 2.3, HTC is throwing in the towel, and it doesn't have much more than a comments section full of disappointed handset owners to show for it. The UK branch of the phone manufacturer announced via its Facebook page that attempts to upgrade the Nexus One-esque smartphone to Gingerbread have proven fruitless, due to a lack of internal memory on... |
| Fun Fact: Your Headphone Remote Works As A Camera Shutter Button in iOS 5 Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:07 AM PDT Fun Fact: Your Headphone Remote Works As A Camera Shutter Button in iOS 5  Fun Fact: Your Headphone Remote Works As A Camera Shutter Button in iOS 5 When Apple was showing off iOS 5′s myriad new features, they mentioned one neat little trick that the camera app had up its sleeve: you could now fire off pictures with the device's volume down button. You know what else has a volume down button? Your iPhone headphones. Surely, there's some technical reason why the volume down button on your headphones wouldn't ….... |
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