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Tesla teams with Athlon to lease Roadster, Model S in Europe

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Tesla teams with Athlon to lease Roadster, Model S in Europe


Tesla teams with Athlon to lease Roadster, Model S in Europe
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors, Europe/EU Tesla Roadster 2.5 - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has teamed up with Athlon Car Lease to establish a European vehicle-lease program for the automaker's Roadster and the Roadster Sport. Aimed at making electric vehicles more "available and affordable," the program's reach extends to include six European Union nations (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands) and, in late 2012, will add the...

Carriers To Obama: Give Us More Spectrum Access!

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Carriers To Obama: Give Us More Spectrum Access!


Carriers To Obama: Give Us More Spectrum Access!
President Obama announced back in February his support for a Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative, which he believed would (among other things) "benefit all Americans, bolster public safety, and spur innovation in wireless services, equipment, and applications." Under his plan, 500 MHz of spectrum would be freed up over the course of the next ten years in order spur on mobile broadband expansion and the development of 4G networks. Rather than leave...

Mobile Research Firm Zokem Acquired For Up To $24M

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Mobile Research Firm Zokem Acquired For Up To $24M


Mobile Research Firm Zokem Acquired For Up To $24M
Tearing through a mountain of mobile phone data isn't much fun, but someone has to do it — and it looks like it pays well enough. Just 4 years after its founding, mobile research firm Zokem has been snatched up for $11.7 million up front, with a potential payout of an additional $12 million through 2014. Their buyer?...

Motorola CEO: Droid Bionic Will Launch In September

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Motorola CEO: Droid Bionic Will Launch In September


Motorola CEO: Droid Bionic Will Launch In September
After six… Wait, let's make that seven months of uncertainty, we might finally have something solid to work with. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said in an interview with CNET that the Droid Bionic will land in September. Just so we're clear, that's nine months after the phone was announced at CES, five months after rumors circulated of its cancellation, and four months after Motorola promised it would arrive this summer via...

The Hot Dog, Summer's Timeless Treat

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

The Hot Dog, Summer's Timeless Treat


The Hot Dog, Summer's Timeless Treat
For the few moments it takes to inhale one, there is nothing else on earth but the smell, feel, and taste of that dog, fully unleashed.

Uncovering Colonel Sanders' Secrets

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Uncovering Colonel Sanders' Secrets


Uncovering Colonel Sanders' Secrets
It's been more than 30 years since Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders died. Now KFC wants to serve up the everyday stories that will preserve the colonel's rags-to-riches journey.

Hyundai Named America’s Most Appealing Car

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Hyundai Named America's Most Appealing Car


Hyundai Named America's Most Appealing Car
Industry sees highest-ranking ever in J.D. Power APEAL Study.

Bentley's 198 MPH Green Machine

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:14 PM PDT

Bentley's 198 MPH Green Machine


Bentley's 198 MPH Green Machine
Even fat cats are finding the need to trim down and change their image these days.

Auto industry getting ready for White House to announce 54.4 mpg proposal Friday

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Auto industry getting ready for White House to announce 54.4 mpg proposal Friday


Auto industry getting ready for White House to announce 54.4 mpg proposal Friday
Filed under: Legislation and Policy, USA Even though the debt ceiling debate is raging in full force in Washington, D.C., there is plenty of other important work going on, including - rumors suggest - that a formal announcement is coming tomorrow that the 2025 CAFE standard for cars and trucks will be set at 54.5 miles per gallon. The number seems to make most automakers happy....

Motorola Mobility Beats The Street, Shipped 440k Xoom Tablets, 4.4M Smartphones...

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Motorola Mobility Beats The Street, Shipped 440k Xoom Tablets, 4.4M Smartphones In Q2


Motorola Mobility Beats The Street, Shipped 440k Xoom Tablets, 4.4M Smartphones In Q2
Motorola Mobility just released its Q2 earnings and it's loaded with fun stats. First off, the company posted $3.3 billion in net revenue with non-GAAP earnings of nine cents a share. That's up 28% over last year's second quarter and beats the Wall Street's estimate of just six cents a share....

Motorola Mobility reports $56 million net loss in Q2, $3.3 billion in revenue

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Motorola Mobility reports $56 million net loss in Q2, $3.3 billion in revenue


Motorola Mobility reports $56 million net loss in Q2, $3.3 billion in revenue
Motorola Mobility predicted a dark road ahead following the announcement of its 2010 Q4 earnings, and its Q2 earnings seem to be right on track. The company reported total net revenues of $3.3 billion in the second quarter, up 28 percent year-over-year, but saw a net loss of $56 million, compared to earnings of $80 million in the second quarter of 2010....

MSI outs its latest GE620DX gaming laptop, orcs prepare for virtual slaughter

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT

MSI outs its latest GE620DX gaming laptop, orcs prepare for virtual slaughter


MSI outs its latest GE620DX gaming laptop, orcs prepare for virtual slaughter
Spilled Mountain Dew on your last laptop during that marathon session of Starcraft II? MSI's got your back buddy, with its newly announced GE620DX. There's a serious bit of dedicated gaming punch lying under this notebook's brushed metal finish thanks to its 2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M card and the audio tag team of MSI Premium Sound and THX's True Studio Pro....

Is This The iPhone 5?

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT

Is This The iPhone 5?


Is This The iPhone 5?
iPhone fans, start drooling. Skeptics, have your grains of salt at the ready. An iPhone 5 — or at least something closely fitting the rumored description of the iPhone 5 — has just been spotted… on a train, of all places. The shot up above (and the ever-so-slightly-different one below) comes from 9to5Mac, who received them from a tipster who claims to have spotted the device on his way home from work. Alas,...

2012 Ford Explorer Gets 28 MPG

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT

2012 Ford Explorer Gets 28 MPG


2012 Ford Explorer Gets 28 MPG
That's highway with the turbo 4-cylinder EcoBoost engine; 20 mpg city.

Automotive Metal of the Future?

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT

Automotive Metal of the Future?


Automotive Metal of the Future?
A Detroit man may have created a process for superstrength steel.

The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:11 PM PDT

The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!


The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!
We're back and reasonably well-rested for another action-packed episode of The Engadget Podcast. This time out, Tim and Brian are joined by our very own Richard Lawler and Dana Wollman to talk about the week's news, reviews, and delicious hamburgers, probably.Continue reading The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!...

North Carolina's Breathtaking Whitewater Falls

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:11 PM PDT

North Carolina's Breathtaking Whitewater Falls


North Carolina's Breathtaking Whitewater Falls
Don't underestimate the beauty of North Carolina in the summertime.

Ultra-pure material lets electrons discover each other on the quantum dance floor

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Ultra-pure material lets electrons discover each other on the quantum dance floor


Ultra-pure material lets electrons discover each other on the quantum dance floor
These guys aren't Purdue University professors, they're DJs. That thing on the left? It isn't a high-mobility gallium-arsenide molecular beam epitaxy system, it's their decks. It creates an ultra-pure material so perfectly latticed that it traps electrons between its layers and stops them bouncing around like drunken fools at the high school prom....

Toyota named "World's Greenest Brand" by Interbrand

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Toyota named "World's Greenest Brand" by Interbrand


Toyota named "World's Greenest Brand" by Interbrand
Filed under: Hybrid, Manufacturing/Plants, MPG, Honda, Toyota Toyota is the "World's Greenest Brand," so says international consultancy firm Interbrand in its first-ever "Best Global Green Brands" list published just days ago. By taking into account environmental performance and public perception of a brand's environmental sustainability - its so-called "green profile" - Interbrand put Toyota's "Green Performance Score" at the best in the biz at 64.19. The Interbrand report says Toyota is a "leading...

Lockheed Martin's HALE-D airship learns to fly, makes a crash landing

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Lockheed Martin's HALE-D airship learns to fly, makes a crash landing


Lockheed Martin's HALE-D airship learns to fly, makes a crash landing
Because dirigibles were such a great idea the first, completely non-disastrous time around, Lockheed Martin and the US Army have teamed up to bring the quaint technology back into our hyper-modern era. The lighter-than-air vehicle got a new lease on unmanned flight life when it launched yesterday from its base in Akron, Ohio....

Danish city vetoes Better Place chargers because they're the wrong color

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Danish city vetoes Better Place chargers because they're the wrong color


Danish city vetoes Better Place chargers because they're the wrong color
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Europe/EU The city council of Frederiksberg (the fifth largest city in Denmark) has vetoed the installation of Better Place charging stations for an unusual and kind of ironic reason. Frederiksberg's council states that Better Place's gray and blue charging stations violate the city's aesthetic policy, which states that all curbside equipment must be green. Jan E....

AUO VP says large OLED TVs won't be feasible for commercial use until 2014

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

AUO VP says large OLED TVs won't be feasible for commercial use until 2014


AUO VP says large OLED TVs won't be feasible for commercial use until 2014
Eager to get your hands on a big-screen OLED TV? Then it looks like you may still have to wait a few more years -- at least according to Paul Peng, the executive vice president of display manufacturer AU Optronics (otherwise known as AUO). While the technology has been getting cheaper and more efficient as of late, he says that the production costs are still too high and yield rates too...

Windows Phone Mango Twitter integration shown off, hashtagged (video)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:57 AM PDT

Windows Phone Mango Twitter integration shown off, hashtagged (video)


Windows Phone Mango Twitter integration shown off, hashtagged (video)
Sadly, Twitter integration wasn't part of the package when we checked out Windows Phone Mango at the end of last month. The feature has finally been rolled out in the latest developer build of the forthcoming mobile operating system, and WinRumors has taken it for a spin on video. Thrill at the simple setup process through Windows Live....

Plug-in hybrid Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks coming in 2013

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:25 AM PDT

Plug-in hybrid Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks coming in 2013


Plug-in hybrid Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks coming in 2013
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Ford 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty - Click above for high-res image gallery Azure Dynamics has signed an agreement with Ford whereby Azure will integrate its plug-in hybrid technology into Ford's F-Series Super Duty trucks. Working in collaboration with Ford, Azure's plug-in hybrid technology will debut on the F-550 Super Duty chassis cab in early 2013....

Engadget Android app updated, now with Honeycomb support!

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:25 AM PDT

Engadget Android app updated, now with Honeycomb support!


Engadget Android app updated, now with Honeycomb support!
An Engadget app? On your Honeycomb tablet? It's more likely than you think. We've heard your e-mails and your tweets and your various requests for an app that will truly make the most of your pixels, and now you've got it. Version 1.1.12.1 of our offering has been released to the Android Market and with that comes support for your Transformers, your Galaxy Tab 10.1's, and your Iconia Tab A500's --...

Ajiro bamboo tricycle is an emissions-removing three-wheeled dream

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Ajiro bamboo tricycle is an emissions-removing three-wheeled dream


Ajiro bamboo tricycle is an emissions-removing three-wheeled dream
Filed under: Etc., On Two Wheels Dreamed up by Monash University industrial design student, Alexander Vittouris, the Ajiro bamboo tricycle is one of the most intriguing modes of transport we've ever seen. On looks alone, the Ajiro is impressive. But it's Vittouris' approach to design that could revolutionize the world. You see, rather than wasting energy bending bamboo into useable shapes, Vittouris manipulates the stalks as they grow by tensioning them over a...

CircuitBee lets you share schematics, like Scribd for soldering aficionados

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

CircuitBee lets you share schematics, like Scribd for soldering aficionados


CircuitBee lets you share schematics, like Scribd for soldering aficionados
Instructables is great, don't get us wrong, but if you're just looking for a sweet new Arduino project or a super-charged Atari Punk Console, wading through the piles of Lego swords and wreath-making tips can be frustrating. Enter CircuitBee, a document sharing site dedicated to one thing, and one thing only -- schematics....

Skyfire’s VideoQ Lets You Save Flash Videos To Watch On Your iPhone Later

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Skyfire's VideoQ Lets You Save Flash Videos To Watch On Your iPhone Later


Skyfire's VideoQ Lets You Save Flash Videos To Watch On Your iPhone Later
Until Adobe and Apple work out their differences (Yeah, right) or the entire Internet miraculously switches to using HTML5 for all video content, the Skyfire browser will always have one steadfast selling point: through some on-the-fly conversion magic, it can play back Flash video content on iOS devices. The problem: outside of its Flash shortcomings, Safari is great....

Hyundai Named America’s Most Appealing Car

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Hyundai Named America's Most Appealing Car


Hyundai Named America's Most Appealing Car
Industry sees highest-ranking ever in J.D. Power APEAL Study.

Mango quietly enables music streaming from SkyDrive, hides amongst your spreadsh...

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:21 AM PDT

Mango quietly enables music streaming from SkyDrive, hides amongst your spreadsheets


Mango quietly enables music streaming from SkyDrive, hides amongst your spreadsheets
Here's a little feature that Microsoft quietly sneaked into Mango -- you can stream music straight from your SkyDrive account. With the latest WP7 update comes some nice integration with Redmond's cloud storage service, but it's not just for pulling up spreadsheets. You can navigate to any folder and, if you tap on an compatible sound file, it'll start playing the tune in the music app....