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U.S. to beat Brazil as world's leading ethanol exporter

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 03:01 PM PDT

U.S. to beat Brazil as world's leading ethanol exporter


U.S. to beat Brazil as world's leading ethanol exporter
Filed under: Ethanol, South/Latin America, USALagging U.S. sales of E85, lax trade restrictions and Brazil's worst sugarcane harvest of the last decade will allow the United States to overtake the South American nation as the world's leading ethanol exporter during the second half of 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced last week....

Formula One Champ Sebastian Vettel Designs a Crossover

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Formula One Champ Sebastian Vettel Designs a Crossover


Formula One Champ Sebastian Vettel Designs a Crossover
FX50 gets personalized by the champ.

Bright Ideas for Rooms With Double Exposure

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Bright Ideas for Rooms With Double Exposure


Bright Ideas for Rooms With Double Exposure
For a more successful room, bring in daylight from two directions

Eyeborg filmmaker fires up eye-cam to document cutting edge prosthetics (video)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 01:44 PM PDT

Eyeborg filmmaker fires up eye-cam to document cutting edge prosthetics (video)


Eyeborg filmmaker fires up eye-cam to document cutting edge prosthetics (video)
In late 2008 filmmaker Rob Spence, caught our attention when he announced his plan to jam a video camera in his skull to replace an eye he lost to an unfortunate accident. Instead of connecting the camera to his brain, Spence sought to become a so-called "lifecaster," recording the feed on an external device....

HTC HD2 keeps spry with Mango RTM and custom ROM, looks to clear final hurdle (v...

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:45 AM PDT

HTC HD2 keeps spry with Mango RTM and custom ROM, looks to clear final hurdle (video)


HTC HD2 keeps spry with Mango RTM and custom ROM, looks to clear final hurdle (video)
You likely know the HTC HD2 as the phone that just can't be held in the past. While it started life with Windows Mobile 6.5, it's since met better fortunes with Android, Meego, and most recently... NoDo. Now, after the leak of Windows Phone Mango RTM, things are about to heat up once again....

Volkswagen to invest $1.4 billion in offshore wind farms, other sources of renew...

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Volkswagen to invest $1.4 billion in offshore wind farms, other sources of renewable energy


Volkswagen to invest $1.4 billion in offshore wind farms, other sources of renewable energy
Filed under: Etc., Solar, Volkswagen, Europe/EUVolkswagen is getting ready to open its pocketbook in a thunderous way. Financial Times Deutschland reports that VW will turn its eye for renewable energy to the sea, wind and sun, joining in on VW group partner Audi's ongoing renewable energy projects. VW will reportedly dish out two billion euros ($1.4 billion U.S....

Galaxy S II LTE and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE announced, set to debut at IFA

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Galaxy S II LTE and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE announced, set to debut at IFA


Galaxy S II LTE and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE announced, set to debut at IFA
Well, if you thought Samsung was done tweaking the Galaxy S II, you were very mistaken. The Korean company is getting ready to unveil the Galaxy S II LTE at IFA in Berlin this week, alongside an LTE version of it's still elusive Galaxy Tab 8.9 -- and we'll be there to get some hands on time....

Sony PRS-T1 e-reader spotted on Dutch retail site for 165 euros

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 08:29 AM PDT

Sony PRS-T1 e-reader spotted on Dutch retail site for 165 euros


Sony PRS-T1 e-reader spotted on Dutch retail site for 165 euros
It's nigh on a month since we caught the WiFi-toting Sony PRS-T1 flitting its way through the FCC. Now the unannounced e-reader has popped up again -- this time on a Dutch seller's webpage with some pics, specs and a price of €165 (or $240 after a straight currency conversion)....

Refresh Roundup: week of August 22, 2011

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 07:09 AM PDT

Refresh Roundup: week of August 22, 2011


Refresh Roundup: week of August 22, 2011
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix....

Hertz Global Electric Vehicle programs expands to China

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 05:49 AM PDT

Hertz Global Electric Vehicle programs expands to China


Hertz Global Electric Vehicle programs expands to China
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, China, BYDHertz Rent-a-Car has announced the expansion of its Global Electric Vehicle initiative to China, making Hertz the first rental agency to offer plug-in vehicles on three continents (North America, Europe and Asia). To make rental electric vehicles feasible in China, Hertz is taking a three-pronged approach: Hertz commenced an alliance with General Electric Industrial Solutions China to develop an infrastructure for electric vehicles. Hertz will participate in the China (Shanghai)...

Droid Bionic pops up on Motorola site, looks set for September 8 release

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 05:10 AM PDT

Droid Bionic pops up on Motorola site, looks set for September 8 release


Droid Bionic pops up on Motorola site, looks set for September 8 release
Between the leaked ads, blurry photos and walkthrough videos, it seems that we've seen Motorola's reworked Droid Bionic pretty much everywhere but in the hands of consumers. Looks like the company is ready to take one more baby step toward that eventuality, with what appears to be an official Bionic Twitter account (we're working to get confirmation) indicating a September 8th release date, while a product page with some new shots...

Nichicon lays claim to the world's smallest EV chargers with NGQ-202, NGQ-203 mo...

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 03:51 AM PDT

Nichicon lays claim to the world's smallest EV chargers with NGQ-202, NGQ-203 models


Nichicon lays claim to the world's smallest EV chargers with NGQ-202, NGQ-203 models
Although it'll still be hard to misplace in your pile of electronics, a company called Nichicon has launched what it says is the world's smallest chargers for electric vehicles, the NGQ-A202 and the NGQ-A302. By using what the company calls advanced module technology, it was able to shrink its EV charger down by 50 percent to around 59 x 13.8 x 23.6 inches, also reducing the weight by up to 66...

OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD lineup updated with smaller 60GB option for $130

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:38 AM PDT

OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD lineup updated with smaller 60GB option for $130


OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD lineup updated with smaller 60GB option for $130
Looking for a peppy SSD to turbo charge your workflow and don't need a whole lot of storage capacity? Back in June, Other World Computing introduced its speedy SandForce-endowed Mercury Electra 6G SSDs with a base model priced at $230 for 120GB. Now the company's added a cheaper option to keep things fast and your wallet happy....

Native Or Web? Bizness Apps Adds HTML5 Platform To Let SMBs Create Their Own App...

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:41 PM PDT

Native Or Web? Bizness Apps Adds HTML5 Platform To Let SMBs Create Their Own Apps — For Both


Native Or Web? Bizness Apps Adds HTML5 Platform To Let SMBs Create Their Own Apps — For Both
Bizness Apps, the startup that gives small businesses the tools to quickly and easily build mobile apps, launched in October 2010 and has been growing like gangbusters, reaching over 1,000 applications, 10 languages, and over 20 countries in less than 9 months. It also recently partnered with WuFoo to give SMBS the ability to create and seamlessly add contact forms, online surveys, and invitations to their apps....

Iced-out diamond planet catches astronomers' eyes

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 09:24 PM PDT

Iced-out diamond planet catches astronomers' eyes


Iced-out diamond planet catches astronomers' eyes
If you thought Kim Kardashian's engagement ring was a ridiculous rock, you haven't seen the ludicrously large diamond planet, J1719-1438. Scientists at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne recently spotted this celestial body that's so dense, it's believed to be crystalline carbon -- i.e. a ginormous diamond similar in size to Jupiter....

Smart Mobile And The Thin Cloud

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:45 PM PDT

Smart Mobile And The Thin Cloud


Smart Mobile And The Thin Cloud
Editor's note: Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Ventures and CEO of newly funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. —All that is solid melts into air. There will be no web 3.0! When HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that the company was seeking options for its consumer PC business and abandoning the hardware mobile business its stock dropped 20%....

Ask Engadget: best (Windows) Home Server and universal remote solution?

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:06 PM PDT

Ask Engadget: best (Windows) Home Server and universal remote solution?


Ask Engadget: best (Windows) Home Server and universal remote solution?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Tim, who's looking to take his living room (and digital life, by the sound of it) into the future....

Digital Projection debuts new native ultrawidescreen projector

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:49 PM PDT

Digital Projection debuts new native ultrawidescreen projector


Digital Projection debuts new native ultrawidescreen projector
1080p projectors and displays are sweet, but since movie lovers are watching content in ratios closer to 2.35:1 than the 16:9 layout of tradition HD projectors and PJs and wasting precious pixels Digital Projection International's latest beamer is set up to be all about ultrawidescreen. The dVision Scope 1080p is 2560 x 1080 out of the box, no anamorphic lens necessary....

Samsung pushes Galaxy S II launch back a day due to Hurricane Irene

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:10 PM PDT

Samsung pushes Galaxy S II launch back a day due to Hurricane Irene


Samsung pushes Galaxy S II launch back a day due to Hurricane Irene
It looks like you'll have to wait an extra day to learn what you already know: the Galaxy S II -- aka, the Attain, Hercules and Epic 4G Touch -- is about to launch on AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. Samsung's pushed Monday's New York press event back a day due to that little east coast storm you may have read something about....

Engadget Mobile Podcast 101 - 08.27.2011

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 04:50 PM PDT

Engadget Mobile Podcast 101 - 08.27.2011



Engadget Mobile Podcast 101 - 08.27.2011
After the two most craziest weeks ever in the history of the mobile technology news universe, it's important to step back and just take stock of everything: a survey course, if you will. That's why we've created Engadget Mobile Podcast 101, your first stop on the road to an otherworldly state we call CMA: Complete Mobile Awareness....

Nissan accelerates Leaf availibility in Chicago to launch this fall

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 04:12 PM PDT

Nissan accelerates Leaf availibility in Chicago to launch this fall


Nissan accelerates Leaf availibility in Chicago to launch this fall
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan On Thursday, Nissan America officials joined Governor Pat Quinn and the city of Chicago in announcing an accelerated Illinois rollout of the Leaf for this fall. Why the hurry up? Well, because the state of Illinois is ready, Leaf-ready. Back in February, Governor Quinn announced an investment of $1 million to install a "state-of-the-art" charging infrastructure for electric vehicles throughout the Chicagoland area, matching $1 million in Clean Cities...

Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Saw Nearly $50 Million In Revenue In 2010

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 03:33 PM PDT

Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Saw Nearly $50 Million In Revenue In 2010


Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Saw Nearly $50 Million In Revenue In 2010
We've known that mobile ad network Millennial Media more than tripled revenue in 2010 from 2009 and achieved profitability. But we didn't know how much the mobile ad network brought in, until now. In the recent 2011 Inc 500 list, Millennial revealed that it saw $47.8 million in 2010 revenue, up over 3,000 percent from 2007 revenue of $1.5 million....

BeBook Club 'S' boosts speed, contrast, leaves off nothing for savings

Posted: 27 Aug 2011 03:33 PM PDT

BeBook Club 'S' boosts speed, contrast, leaves off nothing for savings


BeBook Club 'S' boosts speed, contrast, leaves off nothing for savings
The respectable, if not exactly mind-blowing, BeBook Club e-reader is getting an update and adding an "S." So, what exactly does the BeBook Club 'S' bring to the party? Well, one of them fancy Pearl e-ink screens for starters, but also storage (it now sports 1GB of internal flash) and speed (it's got a beefy new 800MHz CPU)....