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Pennsylvania turnpike plazas will all get DC fast charging stations for EVs

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:23 PM PST

Pennsylvania turnpike plazas will all get DC fast charging stations for EVs


Pennsylvania turnpike plazas will all get DC fast charging stations for EVs
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, USA Ready to take your all-electric car on a road trip? If you're headed along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 2013 might just be your year. The plan is to install EV charging stations in all 17 of the service plazas along the highway by June 30 of that year....

Nokia reveals CES 2012 press event, Windows Phone the obvious focal point

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:23 PM PST

Nokia reveals CES 2012 press event, Windows Phone the obvious focal point


Nokia reveals CES 2012 press event, Windows Phone the obvious focal point
"The exciting thing is, we've only just begun." That was the closing remark of then-CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo as he wrapped up Nokia's 2010 CES keynote, and while the words ring true today, we're guessing that what has transpired in Espoo between then and now wasn't exactly on his radar at the time....

The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Is Dead

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:32 PM PST

The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Is Dead


The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Is Dead
We heard earlier today that AT&T and T-Mobile couldn't find buyers for assets that could help make their merger a reality, but now there's no need to worry about it: AT&T has just announced that the deal is officially dead. In a recent release (reproduced in full below), AT&T points at the FCC and the U.S....

ITC sides with Apple, bans sale and import of some HTC phones

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:32 PM PST

ITC sides with Apple, bans sale and import of some HTC phones


ITC sides with Apple, bans sale and import of some HTC phones
The ITC has issued a ruling in favor of Apple Inc., banning the sale and import or certain HTC phones in the US. The ruling, which was widely expected to finally be handed down today after being delayed twice, finds that HTC violates a patent held by the Cupertino company regarding formating of data (such as phone numbers) in otherwise unstructured documents (such as emails) allowing users to interact with them. Developing...ITC...

AT&T abandons T-Mobile merger plans

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:32 PM PST

AT&T abandons T-Mobile merger plans


AT&T abandons T-Mobile merger plans
AT&T has officially given up on its plans to buy out T-Mobile. In a statement, the company said it had agreed with Deutsche Telekom to cease pursuing a merger, which has come under increasing scrutiny from both the government and advocacy groups. The failed attempt to snatch up its smaller, German-owned competitor will ultimately cost Ma Bell $4 billion and it's not paying those dues without some grumbling....

Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 5:30PM

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:32 PM PST

Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 5:30PM


Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 5:30PM
It's Monday, and almost as regular an occurrence as the day itself, we're here to help by letting you listen into the recording booth when the Engadget HD podcast goes to mp3 at 5:30PM. Please be a part of it by reviewing the list of topics after the break, then participating in the live chat as you listen in.Continue reading Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 5:30PMJoin the...

Toyota raises prices on 2012 Prius by between $480 and $1,045

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

Toyota raises prices on 2012 Prius by between $480 and $1,045


Toyota raises prices on 2012 Prius by between $480 and $1,045
Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota The slightly tweaked 2012 Toyota Prius is getting one more refinement: a price increase (as it does almost every year, see here, here and here). The Prius Liftback (which is the new name for what us old-timers used call the regular Prius) now starts at $24,000 for the Prius Two version while the Prius Five starts at $29,805 (plus a delivery, processing and handling fee of $760)....

VMware View delivers virtual Windows machines on Linux, OS X and Kindle Fire

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

VMware View delivers virtual Windows machines on Linux, OS X and Kindle Fire


VMware View delivers virtual Windows machines on Linux, OS X and Kindle Fire
There are very few places left in this world where you can't access a virtualized Windows PC. VMware has its, well, wares available on almost every platform imaginable. Its View client, for connecting to remotely-hosted enterprise servers has become a particularly integral part of the company's plan to put powerful virtualization tools at the tips of your fingers....

Pinoky makes it easier to pretend like your stuffed animals are real friends (vi...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

Pinoky makes it easier to pretend like your stuffed animals are real friends (video)


Pinoky makes it easier to pretend like your stuffed animals are real friends (video)
Seated above, from left to right, are Ms. Snuggleberry, Mr. Cuddlekins, and Professor Puddles. They congregated atop this egg yolk for what they thought would be another customary meeting of Mammalian Malice -- a vaguely neo-Jacobean slam poetry collective founded in the aftermath of the Crimean War. Little did they know, however, that they were walking straight into Yuti Sugiura's trap....

VidaBox Media Servers add metadata support for XBMC, Popcorn Hour and others

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

VidaBox Media Servers add metadata support for XBMC, Popcorn Hour and others


VidaBox Media Servers add metadata support for XBMC, Popcorn Hour and others
We wouldn't expect for upper-crust aimed media server setups like the ones offered by VidaBox to play nicely with the common rabble, but apparently that's just what is going on. With the click of a check box, its "Drop-n-Rip" Blu-ray and DVD archiving now includes cover art and other metadata compatible with third party streamers including Popcorn Hour, HDI Dune, TViX, XBMC, Sage TV and others....

Bonnes Nouvelles! Word Lens Parle Français

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

Bonnes Nouvelles! Word Lens Parle Français


Bonnes Nouvelles! Word Lens Parle Français
Remember Word Lens? That crazy, awesome mobile application that translated words inside of images, like road signs, posters, menus, and the like, from Spanish to English (and vice versa)? Well, now the app has added a third language to its repertoire: French. With the most recent app update, Word Lens can translate from English to French and back again, but not between French and Spanish. A year ago, Word Lens was all the...

CrunchDeal: Jetpack Joyride For iOS Goes Free For A Day

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

CrunchDeal: Jetpack Joyride For iOS Goes Free For A Day


CrunchDeal: Jetpack Joyride For iOS Goes Free For A Day
While we couldn't possibly cover every app that does the whole free-for-a-day thing, this one is particularly good. Jetpack Joyride, the stupidly addictive side-scrolling action game from Halfbrick (the folks behind Fruit Ninja), is free on the App Store until the clock strikes midnight tonight. So, what makes this one particularly worthwhile?...

Nokia Hates Christmas: Phone Giant Bans Santa Game From Chinese Event

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

Nokia Hates Christmas: Phone Giant Bans Santa Game From Chinese Event


Nokia Hates Christmas: Phone Giant Bans Santa Game From Chinese Event
Nokia played Grinch this year by barring a small, Lapland-based maker of iOS games from a Santa Claus Foundation delegation at Wanda Plaza in Beijing, China. The delegation, consisting of a number of Finnish tech companies, including Nokia, was to show off the best tech Lapland had to offer. The smaller company, Lapland Studio Ltd, created a game called Elf Rescue in honor of the studio's nearest neighbor, Old St....

Sony issues appology and software update for first batch of Vitas (video)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

Sony issues appology and software update for first batch of Vitas (video)


Sony issues appology and software update for first batch of Vitas (video)
The PlayStation Vita has just barely hit the market in Japan, and it's already off to a rocky start with consumers. Only a matter of hours after the first unit was sold, users started complaining of software bugs, unresponsive touchscreens and complete system freezes. It's actually quite normal for new consoles to have a rough first few days with their new owners, but the speed at which it went from a...

NASA finds smallest ever black hole by its 'heartbeat' (video)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

NASA finds smallest ever black hole by its 'heartbeat' (video)


NASA finds smallest ever black hole by its 'heartbeat' (video)
NASA's found the smallest black hole its ever seen, thanks to the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) -- weighing three times less than our own sun, it's near the bottom weight limit for the super-heavy phenomena. It was discovered by its unique "heartbeat", an X-Ray emission that takes place when gas sucked from a nearby star is swirled around the event horizon until friction causes it to super-heat....

Saab Files for Bankruptcy

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

Saab Files for Bankruptcy


Saab Files for Bankruptcy
Swedish automaker on the brink after GM vetoes Chinese rescue.

Try out Plugless Power to wirelessly charge your EV, get free electricity for si...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:55 AM PST

Try out Plugless Power to wirelessly charge your EV, get free electricity for six months


Try out Plugless Power to wirelessly charge your EV, get free electricity for six months
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in The marriage-saving ability of recharging an electric vehicle wirelessly has got a lot of things going for it, but for now this sort of technology is expensive and still requires more testing. Therefore, Evatran, the company behind the Plugless Power brand of wireless recharging units, is offering the first 500 people to sign up for its service six months of free electricity....

Sunday Is The Best Day To Launch Your Mobile App

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:55 AM PST

Sunday Is The Best Day To Launch Your Mobile App


Sunday Is The Best Day To Launch Your Mobile App
According to new research from mobile analytics service Mobilewalla, Sunday is the best day to release a mobile app, but Wednesday is the most popular day among developers. The company studied the apps released in the iTunes App Store and Android Market over a 17-week period between May 16th and September 8th, 2011, to determine its findings....

Find My Car Smart app uses Bluetooth 4.0 to help iPhone 4S owners do the obvious

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:55 AM PST

Find My Car Smart app uses Bluetooth 4.0 to help iPhone 4S owners do the obvious


Find My Car Smart app uses Bluetooth 4.0 to help iPhone 4S owners do the obvious
Do you have an iPhone 4S? Do you drive a car? Do you have amnesia? If you answered yes to at least two-and-a-half of these questions, you'll probably be interested in Find My Car Smart -- a Kickstarter project that wants to help dudes find their cars, with the help of Bluetooth 4.0 technology....

Verizon Galaxy Nexus car dock lacks three-pin connection of its HSPA twin, requi...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:55 AM PST

Verizon Galaxy Nexus car dock lacks three-pin connection of its HSPA twin, requires manual micro-USB connection


Verizon Galaxy Nexus car dock lacks three-pin connection of its HSPA twin, requires manual micro-USB connection
While Verizon customers are happily lording it over their HSPA-bound counterparts with those LTE speeds, they may be less happy to hear about the lower-grade car dock they've been saddled with. Setting you back $40 , the dock is a protective bracket for your phone that attaches to your windscreen with a suction cup....

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin to pull less power than predecessors

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:55 AM PST

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin to pull less power than predecessors


Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin to pull less power than predecessors
We won't be seeing the finished version of Ubuntu's next release for a few months, but the folks at Canonical are hard at work making Precise Pangolin the very best it can be. Version 12.04 is an LTS release, meaning only refinements are in store for the OS, but apparently one of the areas targeted for improvement is power consumption. In a post on his blog, Ubuntu kernel engineer Colin King explained...

McQueen Le Mans Suit Sells for $990G

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:55 AM PST

McQueen Le Mans Suit Sells for $990G


McQueen Le Mans Suit Sells for $990G
A race suit worn by Steve McQueen in the Le Mans movie has been sold in a California auction for $800,000 plus a further $184,000 in premium fees and taxes.

The Value Of The Bleeding Edge: Thoughts On A Nexus Tablet

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

The Value Of The Bleeding Edge: Thoughts On A Nexus Tablet


The Value Of The Bleeding Edge: Thoughts On A Nexus Tablet
Just a few days after the Galaxy Nexus landed in the United States, it appears that Google's next foray into the consumer electronics space may be a little bigger. According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Google's Eric Schmidt has let slip that Google plans to throw its considerable weight behind a tablet within the next six months. If you're looking for details, prepare to be disappointed....

Bing almost catches up with Yahoo! in latest ComScore US figures

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

Bing almost catches up with Yahoo! in latest ComScore US figures


Bing almost catches up with Yahoo! in latest ComScore US figures
Bing already claimed its title as the world's second favorite search engine, but in the US it has continued to lag in third place behind Yahoo!. The gap is closing rapidly, however, with ComScore's latest stats revealing a 15.0 percent share for Redmond versus Yahoo!'s 15.1 percent. What's more, those figures don't reflect mobile search, which must surely be a growth area for Bing as Windows Phone gathers American followers....

Verizon confirms Galaxy Nexus 'signal strength issue,' says a fix is in the works

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

Verizon confirms Galaxy Nexus 'signal strength issue,' says a fix is in the works


Verizon confirms Galaxy Nexus 'signal strength issue,' says a fix is in the works
Well, there's good news and bad. Per usual, we'll kick it off with the latter. The LTEified version of the Galaxy Nexus has signal problems. Or, more specifically, a "signal strength issue." According to Verizon Wireless' Support account on Twitter, the issue is currently being investigated, and while there's no ETA at the moment, a software update is "being developed" to remedy it....

Ekso Bionics' exoskeleton used to let paraplegics walk (video)

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

Ekso Bionics' exoskeleton used to let paraplegics walk (video)


Ekso Bionics' exoskeleton used to let paraplegics walk (video)
It's not just nuclear-powered super soldiers who will use exoskeletons -- it can also be used to help those with physical disabilities. The Kessler Foundation grabbed one of Ekso Bionics' Ekso units and gave six people with severe spinal injuries, including a tetraplegic, the chance to walk. It's part of a trial study to examine the effects of walking for wheelchair-users, to see if it's better for their overall health or...

PlayStation Vita gets the teardown treatment, offers a look inside before Februa...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

PlayStation Vita gets the teardown treatment, offers a look inside before February release


PlayStation Vita gets the teardown treatment, offers a look inside before February release
If you've been poring over the PlayStation Vita's US manual, here's a peek under the hood to fuel your mobile gaming fire. The folks over at PocketNews have popped open Sony's highly anticipated handheld thanks to the official Japanese release over the weekend. We're hoping to have our hands on one shortly for a full review, but until then, hit the gallery below for a look at the inner-workings of the...

NFL renews TV deals with CBS, Fox, NBC for nine more years, money reportedly inv...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:10 AM PST

NFL renews TV deals with CBS, Fox, NBC for nine more years, money reportedly involved


NFL renews TV deals with CBS, Fox, NBC for nine more years, money reportedly involved
Yeah, the NFL's really great and everything, but you know what would make it even greater? More. Money. Fortunately for Roger Goodell & Co., that's exactly what the league is due to receive, thanks to a slate of TV deals signed last week. The agreements, set to go into effect at the end of the 2013 season, effectively renew the NFL's current agreements with CBS, Fox and NBC, extending the league's...

2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:16 AM PST

2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco


2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco
Filed under: Hybrid, MPG, ChevroletMeeting The Next-Generation Chevrolet Mid-Size It's been a very long time since the midsize market went easy on American automakers, and recent years have conspired to make an uphill sales slog even steeper with a rash of new and redesigned models. Kia and Hyundai have taken up arms by offering buyers the stylish and efficient Optima and Sonata in an effort to dethrone longtime D-segment stalwarts like the...

Two days in the desert with Apple's lost founder, Ron Wayne

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:16 AM PST

Two days in the desert with Apple's lost founder, Ron Wayne


Two days in the desert with Apple's lost founder, Ron Wayne
"I have to ask you something," Ron Wayne begins, as we stand to leave his office, signaling the close of our day-long conversation. He takes a slightly dramatic pause, adding, "compared to other people, is my life really that interesting?" This isn't modesty, this is earnestness. Wayne is genuinely curious about what makes his 77 years on earth so fascinating to have warranted my traveling across the country in order to...