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Kevin Rose’s Oink Hits The App Store

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Kevin Rose's Oink Hits The App Store


Kevin Rose's Oink Hits The App Store
Oink, the first app from Milk, Kevin Rose's startup lab is now available in iTunes. Oink is an app that lets you rate things at different places, and uses social reputation to help others figure out who to trust about what topics. Rose gave a preview of Oink a couple weeks ago at the Web 2.0 Summit....

Nokia Lumia 800 review

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PDT

Nokia Lumia 800 review


Nokia Lumia 800 review
You might hear it said that Nokia is on a knife-edge, and that this old king of mobiles will live or die based on the success of its latest flagship phone. We love melodrama as much as the next guy, but such talk is overplaying it. Sure, the great manufacturer has its troubles, and yes, the Lumia 800 bears a heavy burden of responsibility on its 3.7-inch shoulders....

HTC Rezound hands-on

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PDT

HTC Rezound hands-on


HTC Rezound hands-on
As expected, the HTC made the Rezound official at today's event in New York. Also, as expected, this is one multimedia-centric phone we're looking at here, starting with its big and bright 4.3-inch 720p display. Despite its decently large screen size, the phone is surprisingly light and feels nice in the hand....

Hands-On With The HTC Rezound For Verizon: Fat And Fast

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PDT

Hands-On With The HTC Rezound For Verizon: Fat And Fast


Hands-On With The HTC Rezound For Verizon: Fat And Fast
With leaks galore and this afternoon's announcement, there's not much reason to rehash HTC Rezound deets. So I'll just cut to the chase and hit you guys with some first impressions. As you must already know, the Rezound touts a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and was snappy enough to prove it....

New use for an old technology brings touch input to... almost anything

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PDT

New use for an old technology brings touch input to... almost anything


New use for an old technology brings touch input to... almost anything
Imagine, if you will, a world where everything from the clothes on your back to the glass in your hand was a touch-enabled device. We're not there yet, but thanks to researchers at the University of Munich and the Hasso Plattner Institute, we're closer to just such a touchy-feely future....

Updated 2013 VW CC Set for LA Auto Show

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PDT

Updated 2013 VW CC Set for LA Auto Show


Updated 2013 VW CC Set for LA Auto Show
Volkswagen offers first look at the stylish coupé's makeover.

Most Outrageous Rides at SEMA 2011

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PDT

Most Outrageous Rides at SEMA 2011


Most Outrageous Rides at SEMA 2011
The 10 craziest, most innovative vehicles at SEMA 2011.

Where does the Volt go from here?

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Where does the Volt go from here?


Where does the Volt go from here?
Filed under: At Witz End I wrote last time that I had done two recent stories for popularmechanics.com having to do with the Chevrolet Volt. The first was on Volt (and Nissan Leaf) sales - both still limited by supply, not demand, as production and distribution ramps up. For the second, I was asked to clean my crystal ball and predict the future for Volt, and extended range EVs in general. There are...

Meet Verizon’s New HTC Rezound

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Meet Verizon's New HTC Rezound


Meet Verizon's New HTC Rezound
The HTC Rezound (formerly the Vigor) has been on our radar for what seems like forever now, but we're here in New York City for HTC's big event, and they have just officially pulled back the curtains on their next Verizon-bound smartphone. One of the first things you notice about the Rezound that it bucks the recent trend of super-slim smartphones....

HTC Rezound for Verizon unveiled

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PDT

HTC Rezound for Verizon unveiled


HTC Rezound for Verizon unveiled
HTC's Rezound first leaked its way into our gadget-lusting hearts in late summer. Then bearing the virile Vigor codename, we suspected a heartily specced, Beats Audio-branded destiny for the device. And today's official unveiling doesn't disappoint, setting this handset on a 4G course for Verizon's LTE airwaves. Thanks to the company's financial handshake with Dr....

Live from HTC's Beats Audio product launch!

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Live from HTC's Beats Audio product launch!


Live from HTC's Beats Audio product launch!
Who's ready for some hot HTC smartphone action? We know we are. This party's about to get started, and HTC is bringing the Beats. Can the Rezound be too far behind? 09:30AM - Hawaii (November 3rd) 12:30PM - Pacific (November 3rd) 01:30PM - Mountain (November 3rd) 02:30PM - Central (November 3rd) 03:30PM - Eastern (November 3rd) 07:30PM - London (November 3rd) 08:30PM - Paris (November 3rd) 11:30PM - Moscow (November 3rd) 04:30AM - Tokyo (November 4th)Continue reading Live from HTC's...

Hyperspectral camera captures 1,000 colors, identifies contaminants

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Hyperspectral camera captures 1,000 colors, identifies contaminants


Hyperspectral camera captures 1,000 colors, identifies contaminants
Putting our dinky point-and-shoots to shame, researchers at Tel Aviv University have created a hyperspectral HSR camera that detects more than 1,000 colors -- something that can be used to pinpoint contaminants or hazards in the environment. According to lead scientist Professor Ben-Dor, different elements produce different colors, helping researchers identify hazards or contaminated soil without being forced to bring samples back to the lab....

Siri Experiencing Its First Extended Outage

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Siri Experiencing Its First Extended Outage


Siri Experiencing Its First Extended Outage
Maybe we need a new website, IsSiriDownForEveryoneOrJustForMe.com, because it looks like Siri is experiencing its first extended outage, according to several tipsters, tweets, and our own internal tests. When you try to use Siri on the iPhone 4S right now, the usually perky virtual assistant just responds: "Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network" and does nothing. According to iSmashPhone, who spotted this news first, people are beginning to tweet...

Google search promises to get fresh with you

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Google search promises to get fresh with you


Google search promises to get fresh with you
After weathering some less than enthusiastic receptions to Gmail and Google Reader revamps, not to mention the long awaited launch of a Gmail app for the iPhone, the Google upgrade train just keeps on rolling along. This time out, Mountain View is targeting its real bread and butter: search. Google is harnessing its Caffeine indexing system to offer up fresher results -- a change that will apparently affect around 35 percent...

Amazon Flow strikes low blow to brick and mortar, converts barcode scans to onli...

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Amazon Flow strikes low blow to brick and mortar, converts barcode scans to online sales


Amazon Flow strikes low blow to brick and mortar, converts barcode scans to online sales
Remember when you had to "walk" to a "store" to buy things? Our grandkids are gonna weep uncontrollably when we explain queuing up at Our Price to buy VHS tapes. We'll recall the date the final nail was driven into brick and mortar's coffin: November 2nd, 2011 -- the day Amazon's A9 released Flow free on the App store....

Judge: Tesla will need to prove financial damage to win suit

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:19 AM PDT

Judge: Tesla will need to prove financial damage to win suit


Judge: Tesla will need to prove financial damage to win suit
Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors, UK Tesla's much publicized lawsuit against Top Gear has not been going well for the upstart electric car company. The British judge hearing the case tossed out the automaker's libel claim, and now this. According to The Guardian, Justice Tugendhat has issued a written judgment ordering Tesla to show how it has been financially damaged by the BBC's popular car show. To put it quite simply, the...

Galaxy Nexus gets rooted, forums burst into applause

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:19 AM PDT

Galaxy Nexus gets rooted, forums burst into applause


Galaxy Nexus gets rooted, forums burst into applause
To root or not to root -- that's never really been a question for Nexus owners. Google's purebred Android phones are by nature developer-friendly and ship with a painless ability to unlock their bootloaders. So, it comes as no great surprise that well-known modder Modaco has achieved this very feat on the Galaxy Nexus, although it is nice to this Ice Cream Sandwich flagship upholding tradition....

Motorola Xoom 2 hands-on (video)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Motorola Xoom 2 hands-on (video)


Motorola Xoom 2 hands-on (video)
Motorola has just unveiled two new tablets in Europe, and we've managed to get our grubby mitts on them. This one is the Xoom 2, the (almost) same-size successor to Moto's first Android tablet. Matching its older sister's 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass screen, there's now an all-over splash resistant coating (inside and out), with those intriguing cut-off corners we've seen already there to aid the ergonomics of handling the slab....

Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition hands-on (video)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition hands-on (video)


Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition hands-on (video)
Motorola's second new tablet today has decided it shrink itself down to more manageable 8.2-inch capacitive screen. Like the Xoom 2, it still measures up at 0.35 inches thick -- to check we brought our iPhone along to compare. The Media Edition weighs in at under one pound, but packs in the same 1.2GHz processor and Gorilla glass coating of its bigger sister....

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus now shipping from Amazon, confirmed to use Exynos SoC

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus now shipping from Amazon, confirmed to use Exynos SoC


Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus now shipping from Amazon, confirmed to use Exynos SoC
We've known all along that the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus packs a dual-core 1.2GHz processor of some sort, but Samsung's only just now finally confirmed to AnandTech that the 7-inch tablet does indeed use an Exynos system on a chip. That's the very same SoC found in the company's Galaxy S II smartphone, so we should be looking at some similar performance from the tablet....

Samsung, RealD pact for ZScreen passive glasses 3D TVs falls apart

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:33 AM PDT

Samsung, RealD pact for ZScreen passive glasses 3D TVs falls apart


Samsung, RealD pact for ZScreen passive glasses 3D TVs falls apart
Back at CES, Samsung's business display unit and RealD announced a deal to build passive glasses compatible 3D TVs with sharper resolution than FPR, since the active shutters are built into the screen itself. Turns out, that promise won't be fulfilled. In its Q2 earnings report released yesterday, RealD confirmed that the agreement fell through since Samsung's "initiative to manufacture panels......

ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:33 AM PDT

ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight


ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight
While the FCC already had its wicked way with ASUS' Transformer Prime, its intimate inner workings have now been spilled over at Wireless Goodness. Nestled between NAND memory from Hynix and some Elpida RAM is NVIDIA's great tablet hope, its new quad-core chip. The full gallery of shots has disappeared from the FCC site, but silicon fans can still check out the chipboards in full glory at the source link below. ASUS...

Sina Weibo comes to entice business, not to bury Twitter

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:47 AM PDT

Sina Weibo comes to entice business, not to bury Twitter


Sina Weibo comes to entice business, not to bury Twitter
Sina Weibo, China's most popular micro-blogging service is on the cusp of launching an English language version. Twitter addicts won't be forced to choose between the two: it's not for them. No, this westward drive is to encourage businesses to connect to Chinese users -- Neil Bush, head of TX Oil already uses the service to drum up clients in the far east....

HTC Rezound shows off its Vigor with leaked press shots, Beats Audio demo, HD vi...

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:47 AM PDT

HTC Rezound shows off its Vigor with leaked press shots, Beats Audio demo, HD video samples


HTC Rezound shows off its Vigor with leaked press shots, Beats Audio demo, HD video samples
HTC's set to unveil its newest mobile creation in a just a few hours, and you can bet that it's likely the 4G LTE-enabled Rezound seen above. In the past few weeks, we've seen a purported pre-release unit and even some colorful renders, but today Pocketnow has snagged what appears to be the first official press shots of this rumored 1.5GHz device....

DirecTV adds more subscribers than ever, will push live streaming, HD UI, and mu...

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:47 AM PDT

DirecTV adds more subscribers than ever, will push live streaming, HD UI, and multiroom DVRs


DirecTV adds more subscribers than ever, will push live streaming, HD UI, and multiroom DVRs
The numbers are in for DirecTV's third quarter and it looks like Deion Sanders isn't just a HOF shutdown corner, he's also an excellent pitchman. The satellite company had a net addition of 327,000 subscribers in the US, which it credited to offering free NFL Sunday Ticket for the first year as a lure....

Michel Motorsports Gitano debuts with EVDrive range-extended craziness

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PDT

Michel Motorsports Gitano debuts with EVDrive range-extended craziness


Michel Motorsports Gitano debuts with EVDrive range-extended craziness
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, SEMA Show, Pacific Region, UK, USA Michel Motorsports has chosen the SEMA 2011 convention to debut the Gitano, its first original design effort. The Filipino company has spent its first 23 years building replicas of classic sportscars, and that history has clearly influenced this rear-wheel-drive coupe....

Beijing's rolling out city wide 'free' public WiFi, just hand over your phone nu...

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PDT

Beijing's rolling out city wide 'free' public WiFi, just hand over your phone number


Beijing's rolling out city wide 'free' public WiFi, just hand over your phone number
Heads-up, locals: China's Mobile, Unicom and Telecom carriers are building a city-wide public WiFi network across Beijing. Residents will enjoy free 2Mbps internet for up to three years, if they sign up to the "My Beijing" service. Like most things that are gratis, there's a catch: you have to submit your phone number in exchange for access....

EMI Presses Play On Digital Innovation; Opens Its Catalog To App Developers

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PDT

EMI Presses Play On Digital Innovation; Opens Its Catalog To App Developers


EMI Presses Play On Digital Innovation; Opens Its Catalog To App Developers
The music industry industry has taken some questionable stances on digital technology over the years. To call it resistant to change probably wouldn't be stepping too far out of line. That's why, as music fans, we love to hear about cases in which the music industry demonstrates forward thinking and proactively constructs policy that takes new technologies and distribution media into account....

Ultrathin LG U1 to be company's first Ice Cream Sandwich device?

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Ultrathin LG U1 to be company's first Ice Cream Sandwich device?


Ultrathin LG U1 to be company's first Ice Cream Sandwich device?
Skinny? Check. Thin bezel? Present. Black and rectangular? Roger. This as-yet unconfirmed sliver of a phone is purportedly LG's first Android 4.0 device. Specifications remain even foggier than these pictures, but we can glean an eight-megapixel shooter with flash and a profile that looks like a possible second-generation Optimus Black, with design litigiously close to Samsung's Galaxy S II....

Australia to Issue Super Hero License Plates

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Australia to Issue Super Hero License Plates


Australia to Issue Super Hero License Plates
Drivers down under get to 'hero up' their cars.