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- Next-gen Smart Electric Drive delayed until fall of 2012
- Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Grammy for 'significant contributions to music'
- GTA III goes on sale for the holidays, brings violence and cheer to Galaxy Nexus...
- FCC approves first white space device and database for Wilmington, NC
- Amazon stops blocking rival e-reading apps on Kindle Fire
- Restorations of Another Kind
- Audi’s New A1 Quattro Monster
- Nissan: batteries in the Leaf are tough, even after earthquake beating
- The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!
- Cowon Plenue Z2 PMP scurries into the FCC's database, hides its face from the au...
- RIM Denies BlackBerry 10 Delay Allegations: Claims Are “Uninformed”
- TinTin iPad Art Book Blurs The Line Between Books, Movies, And Apps
- Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center founder Jacob Goldman passes away at age 90
- Microsoft acknowledges Xbox Live 'Error 801540B7,' promises to resolve it ASAP
- Verizon FiOS TV's new media server scheduled for late 2012
- PlayStation Vita's North American launch details: 25 games, $10 to $50 apiece
- Shocker! Tablet ad requests up 700 percent during 2011
- Google Books for Chrome gets offline support, one less excuse for not reading th...
- Switched On: Open source, open issues for webOS
- 2012 Volkswagen Up! [w/video]
- UMG v. Veoh: victory has never been so pyrrhic
- Avatron’s Air Dictate App Makes Siri Take Notes On Your Mac
- AMD Radeon HD 7970 review roundup: supremely fast, relatively efficient
- Transistor pioneer Norman Krim dies at 98
- Verizon To Launch a Home Media Server In 2012, Plans To Eliminate Set-Top Box
- New Kia Ray is Korea's first production EV
- The Engadget Interview: Fusion Garage's Chandra Rathakrishnan
- Aussie bank debuts Kaching app, accompanying iCarte case for mobile payments on...
- German court's preliminary ruling says Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N isn't aping th...
- Can a Standard Panic Button Save Lives?
| Next-gen Smart Electric Drive delayed until fall of 2012 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST Next-gen Smart Electric Drive delayed until fall of 2012  Next-gen Smart Electric Drive delayed until fall of 2012 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, SMART Daimler is getting ready to beef up the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive for the third-gen version, but the new EV won't be arriving on schedule, according to new reports. The problem has something to do with the lithium-ion batteries. The cells are being made by Li-Tec and a Daimler spokeswoman told Automotive News that, "There are no technical or quality problems with the batteries, but we don't want... |
| Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Grammy for 'significant contributions to music' Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Grammy for 'significant contributions to music'  Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Grammy for 'significant contributions to music' It's pretty difficult to argue that both Apple's iPod and -- to an even greater extent -- its contentious iTunes software haven't had a massive impact on the music industry. The Recording Academy has decided to recognize this, naming the former CEO and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for a Trustees Award for "outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing capacity." It will be the second Grammy to celebrate Apple's contributions... |
| GTA III goes on sale for the holidays, brings violence and cheer to Galaxy Nexus... Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST GTA III goes on sale for the holidays, brings violence and cheer to Galaxy Nexus owners  GTA III goes on sale for the holidays, brings violence and cheer to Galaxy Nexus owners A classic title like Grand Theft Auto III isn't exactly at hard sell at $5 on your smartphone or tablet -- at $3 you're almost a fool not to snatch it up. Perhaps more importantly though, Rockstar has expanded support for the crime adventure to a trio of Android handsets -- the Droid Bionic, Galaxy S II and, the phone of the moment, the Galaxy Nexus.... |
| FCC approves first white space device and database for Wilmington, NC Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST FCC approves first white space device and database for Wilmington, NC  FCC approves first white space device and database for Wilmington, NC The FCC has approved the first device to use the much buzzed about "white spaces" between television broadcast frequencies to transmit data. The recipient of the honor is a receiver from Koos Technical Services that's designed to be a last-mile connection for surveillance cameras and telemetry systems. The radio will tap into database run by Spectrum Bridge to ensure it doesn't interfere with other broadcasts.... |
| Amazon stops blocking rival e-reading apps on Kindle Fire Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST Amazon stops blocking rival e-reading apps on Kindle Fire  Amazon stops blocking rival e-reading apps on Kindle Fire People just keep digging up interesting little tidbits in the latest Fire firware update. It may have killed the ability to root but, it did grant access to the Android Market website (even if you still can't install apps from it). Now some users have noticed that competing e-reader apps are available through the Amazon App Store.... |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST Restorations of Another Kind Restorations of Another Kind The fast and the funky redeemed by a talented Ohioan. |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST Audi's New A1 Quattro Monster Audi's New A1 Quattro Monster The 252-hp AWD go-fast hatchback is limited to a run of 333 cars. |
| Nissan: batteries in the Leaf are tough, even after earthquake beating Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:46 PM PST Nissan: batteries in the Leaf are tough, even after earthquake beating  Nissan: batteries in the Leaf are tough, even after earthquake beating Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan Nissan representatives have long been proud of the durability of the air-cooled, 24-kWh lithium-ion battery pack that stores energy in the Leaf. Given the recent troubles that the liquid-cooled pack in the Chevy Volt has given GM, it's perhaps not surprising that Nissan wants to reassure - carefully - the public that it still believes the Leaf pack is safe. The company has an extra reason for making this... |
| The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM! Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:46 PM PST The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!  The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM! Vacation? Ha! Vacation is for suckers. Tim and Brian are back, podcasting from their respective undisclosed locations, bringing you all kinds of holiday cheer in the form of the latest tech news with help from Darren. So nestle up with some nog and join us in the chat, after the break.Continue reading The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!... |
| Cowon Plenue Z2 PMP scurries into the FCC's database, hides its face from the au... Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:46 PM PST Cowon Plenue Z2 PMP scurries into the FCC's database, hides its face from the authorities  Cowon Plenue Z2 PMP scurries into the FCC's database, hides its face from the authorities See that? That's the backside of a new portable media player from a company know best for its legendary sound quality. Unfortunately, there's no extra information to be gleaned from Cowon's Plenue Z2 FCC filing, but it certainly appears as if this will be one of the company's larger players.... |
| RIM Denies BlackBerry 10 Delay Allegations: Claims Are “Uninformed” Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:01 PM PST RIM Denies BlackBerry 10 Delay Allegations: Claims Are "Uninformed" RIM Denies BlackBerry 10 Delay Allegations: Claims Are "Uninformed" I'll admit to lobbing a few mortars at RIM (alright, maybe more than a few), but it looks like things may be even worse than expected. BGR reported earlier today that RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis lied about the the reason their first BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed even later into 2012. Lazaridis said during RIM's recent earnings call that they were waiting for a specific dual-core LTE chipset to be available... |
| TinTin iPad Art Book Blurs The Line Between Books, Movies, And Apps Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:01 PM PST TinTin iPad Art Book Blurs The Line Between Books, Movies, And Apps TinTin iPad Art Book Blurs The Line Between Books, Movies, And Apps If you are a big TinTin fan, you probably know that Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of TinTin opens today in theaters. But if you are a really big fan, there is also a companion coffee table book called "The Art of The Adventures of TinTin." But don't get the $39.99 print edition.... |
| Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center founder Jacob Goldman passes away at age 90 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:01 PM PST Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center founder Jacob Goldman passes away at age 90 Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center founder Jacob Goldman passes away at age 90 Jacob Goldman, the man who helped found the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) as Xerox's chief scientist in 1970, has passed away at age 90. PARC holds a special place in gadget lore, as it was responsible for creating Alto, the first modern computer with a GUI and a mouse, the first WYSIWYG text editor, and Ethernet, among many other innovations.... |
| Microsoft acknowledges Xbox Live 'Error 801540B7,' promises to resolve it ASAP Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:01 PM PST Microsoft acknowledges Xbox Live 'Error 801540B7,' promises to resolve it ASAP  Microsoft acknowledges Xbox Live 'Error 801540B7,' promises to resolve it ASAP The recent Xbox Live Dashboard update was heralded as a boon amongst users, but unfortunately for some of you, the new version didn't just come bearing gifts. A number of people are experiencing an issue, more commonly known as "Error 801540B7," that's keeping them from getting their daily media fix by booting them from the Live network and locking its purchased-content doors.... |
| Verizon FiOS TV's new media server scheduled for late 2012 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:01 PM PST Verizon FiOS TV's new media server scheduled for late 2012  Verizon FiOS TV's new media server scheduled for late 2012 The fine folks at Verizon's Innovation Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts have posted a couple of videos of their efforts that include their vision of how Verizon plans to deliver TV to all the devices in your home, over both wired and wireless networks in HD, served off of a centralized media server.... |
| PlayStation Vita's North American launch details: 25 games, $10 to $50 apiece Posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:15 PM PST PlayStation Vita's North American launch details: 25 games, $10 to $50 apiece  PlayStation Vita's North American launch details: 25 games, $10 to $50 apiece Already pondering that long-awaited trip to Japan in order to snag a PlayStation Vita in advance? Hold your horses, vaquero. Sony has just given anxious US and Canadian gamers reason to look forward to a launch of their own by laying out the official software plan for 2012. We're told that February 22nd will be the day to remember, with a total of 25 titles being available alongside the console.... |
| Shocker! Tablet ad requests up 700 percent during 2011 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:15 PM PST Shocker! Tablet ad requests up 700 percent during 2011  Shocker! Tablet ad requests up 700 percent during 2011 Good news: all those new tablets you see reported on these pages aren't being stolen by elves; they're entering the human population at large and -- most Christmassy of all -- they're displaying ads. Google told TechCrunch that its AdMob platform saw eight billion ad requests from tablets during the month of November, compared to one lonely billion back in December 2010.... |
| Google Books for Chrome gets offline support, one less excuse for not reading th... Posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:15 PM PST Google Books for Chrome gets offline support, one less excuse for not reading the 'classics'  Google Books for Chrome gets offline support, one less excuse for not reading the 'classics' So, you can read all those tomes you've picked up through Google Books offline on your smartphone and tablet, but what about on your laptop? Well, if for some reason you've got the desire to power through Finnegans Wake in your browser (though, we're not really sure why you'd do that to yourself) we've got good news -- the Google Books app for Chrome now caches your titles for local reading.... |
| Switched On: Open source, open issues for webOS Posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:15 PM PST Switched On: Open source, open issues for webOS  Switched On: Open source, open issues for webOS Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. HP's decision to contribute webOS to the open source community represents, at the very least, a detour from the company's plans to "double down" on the operating system acquired from Palm, Inc. The good news for fans of the OS is that HP will continue to invest in the software's development, albeit probably not at the unsustainable rate at which... |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:29 AM PST 2012 Volkswagen Up! [w/video]  2012 Volkswagen Up! [w/video] Filed under: MPG, Volkswagen, First DriveVW Finally Rediscovers Its (Very) Small Car Roots Big old Volkswagen is back to thinking small, and it's finally doing it right. After two frankly awful attempts at supplying the rest of the world with cheap tin boxes called Fox and Lupo, company bosses have done some soul searching and this is the result: a tiny road warrior that's absolutely worthy of the 6.3-inch wide emblem on... |
| UMG v. Veoh: victory has never been so pyrrhic Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:29 AM PST UMG v. Veoh: victory has never been so pyrrhic  UMG v. Veoh: victory has never been so pyrrhic The US appeal court has ruled that "YouTube on steroids" site Veoh can't be sued for copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Judge Raymond Fisher said that rights holders (like UMG) were in a better place to identify infringing content than the video sharing site, putting the burden of finding and reporting dodgy vids on the record company's shoulders.... |
| Avatron’s Air Dictate App Makes Siri Take Notes On Your Mac Posted: 22 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST Avatron's Air Dictate App Makes Siri Take Notes On Your Mac Avatron's Air Dictate App Makes Siri Take Notes On Your Mac Perhaps best known for the Air Display iOS app, Avatron is at it again with new app called iOS dictation app called (what else?) Air Dictate. But of course, Avatron wouldn't just cook up a straightforward dictation app — there's a twist. Instead of just taking your voice input and transcribing it into a file on your iDevice, it actually syncs with your Mac and dumps the interpreted output into your text... |
| AMD Radeon HD 7970 review roundup: supremely fast, relatively efficient Posted: 22 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST AMD Radeon HD 7970 review roundup: supremely fast, relatively efficient AMD Radeon HD 7970 review roundup: supremely fast, relatively efficient AMD's next flagship graphics card was only announced a few hours ago, and it won't arrive on the gaming public's plate until January, but already the tech punditry has tasted it, tested it and spat out a soggy little piece of paper that reads: "the fastest single-GPU card in the world." What we're really looking for, though, is the type of performance that beats older rivals like NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580... |
| Transistor pioneer Norman Krim dies at 98 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:52 AM PST Transistor pioneer Norman Krim dies at 98  Transistor pioneer Norman Krim dies at 98 A man who helped make our world smaller died last week. As noted in the New York Times obituary linked below, Norman Krim didn't invent the transistor, but he was a driving force behind its use, having persuaded his employer, Raytheon, to manufacture them on a large scale. They were designed for use in hearings aids initially but, as IEEE Spectrum's Harry Goldstein explains, some later batches proved too "noisy" for... |
| Verizon To Launch a Home Media Server In 2012, Plans To Eliminate Set-Top Box Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST Verizon To Launch a Home Media Server In 2012, Plans To Eliminate Set-Top Box  Verizon To Launch a Home Media Server In 2012, Plans To Eliminate Set-Top Box Verizon will be rolling out a new Media Server product for its FiOS customers later next year, which will be a single hardware device that will eventually eliminate the need for a set-top box altogether. The server will be capable of streaming HD TV to all devices in the home, including the TV, of course, but also gaming systems, mobile devices and tablets like the iPad.... |
| New Kia Ray is Korea's first production EV Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST New Kia Ray is Korea's first production EV  New Kia Ray is Korea's first production EV Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Kia Kia has unveiled the automaker's very first production electric vehicle. The Kia Ray EV will offer buyers a range of around 86 miles depending on driving conditions and will include a fast-charge option that should top off the cells in around 25 minutes. Otherwise, expect the 16.4-kWh lithium-ion battery pack to take around six hours to charge on a 220-volt circuit.... |
| The Engadget Interview: Fusion Garage's Chandra Rathakrishnan Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST The Engadget Interview: Fusion Garage's Chandra Rathakrishnan  The Engadget Interview: Fusion Garage's Chandra Rathakrishnan If we learned anything from our last encounter with Chandra Rathakrishnan, it's that the Fusion Garage CEO is nothing if not candid when discussing his company's past failings. Of course, such admissions came amidst great deal of hype from the executive, who was, at the time, heralding the second coming of his company in the form of the Grid 10, Grid 4 and the innovative Grid OS that fueled the devices. It... |
| Aussie bank debuts Kaching app, accompanying iCarte case for mobile payments on... Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST Aussie bank debuts Kaching app, accompanying iCarte case for mobile payments on iPhone 4  Aussie bank debuts Kaching app, accompanying iCarte case for mobile payments on iPhone 4 This certainly isn't the first time we've seen an attempt to bring NFC to the iPhone, but the Commonwealth Bank of Australia certainly deserves kudos for integrating the iCarte case with its mobile payment app known as Kaching (think Ka-ching). Available as a standalone free application, Kaching allows users to send money to others, either via text message, email or through Facebook.... |
| German court's preliminary ruling says Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N isn't aping th... Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST German court's preliminary ruling says Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N isn't aping the iPad  German court's preliminary ruling says Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N isn't aping the iPad Round a few corners, a bit of nip-tuck and a tossed-on N. Oh, and probably just being sick and tired of the whole ordeal. We're assuming that's the recipe for getting the Cupertino-sourced gorilla off of Samsung's back, as a judge at the district court in Düsseldorf, Germany just issued a preliminary ruling that effectively clears the Galaxy Tab 10.1N from claims that it too mimics the iconic iPad.... |
| Can a Standard Panic Button Save Lives? Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST Can a Standard Panic Button Save Lives? Can a Standard Panic Button Save Lives? NHTSA proposal would create uniform on/off switch. |
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