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Infiniti Emerg-E Photos Released

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:54 PM PST

Infiniti Emerg-E Photos Released


Infiniti Emerg-E Photos Released
The hybrid sports car concept will debut at the Geneva Motor Show.

Must See HDTV (February 27th - March 4th)

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:54 PM PST

Must See HDTV (February 27th - March 4th)


Must See HDTV (February 27th - March 4th)
Our sports options may be a bit more limited this week (hope you like basketball and hockey), but while the Daytona 500 tries to get under way, there's a few other items to keep an eye on in this week's listings. One of our favorites is coming back on the air, while a couple of brand new shows also compete for our attention....

Intel reportedly delays Ivy Bridge launch until June, manufacturing process to b...

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:54 PM PST

Intel reportedly delays Ivy Bridge launch until June, manufacturing process to blame


Intel reportedly delays Ivy Bridge launch until June, manufacturing process to blame
Looking forward to splurging for some tech decked out with Ivy Bridge? Well, you may have to wait a bit longer. Financial Times is reporting that Intel's new 22nm processor has been pushed from April to June. The site caught up with executive VP and chairman of Intel China Sean Maloney who said that the manufacturing methods used to make the heir to Sandy Bridge was to blame for the change...

TI reveals more OMAP 5 details at MWC 2012

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:54 PM PST

TI reveals more OMAP 5 details at MWC 2012


TI reveals more OMAP 5 details at MWC 2012
Well, if our hands-on at CES didn't sell you on TI's next-gen OMAP 5 platform, perhaps some more specs revealed recently at MWC 2012 will. We've known about its dual Cortex-A15 and Cortex-M4 architecture since this time last year, but we didn't know that those M4 cores are there to handle real-time processing of multimedia -- like video encoding and decoding -- which TI claims can provide up to ten percent...

AMD rolls out two new Bulldozer chips, cuts price of the FX-8120 to celebrate

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:10 PM PST

AMD rolls out two new Bulldozer chips, cuts price of the FX-8120 to celebrate


AMD rolls out two new Bulldozer chips, cuts price of the FX-8120 to celebrate
Like Hugh Hefner (probably), AMD took a good hard look at its lineup this week and decided it was high time to add a pair of models. Two new Bulldozer-powered FX CPUs will join the pantheon of world-record beating chips in the company's constant fight against the forces of Intel....

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

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:10 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....

Mercedes-Benz updates A-Class infotainment system, focuses on iPhone and Siri in...

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:10 PM PST

Mercedes-Benz updates A-Class infotainment system, focuses on iPhone and Siri integration


Mercedes-Benz updates A-Class infotainment system, focuses on iPhone and Siri integration
Ever wish your car's infotainment system played nice with your iPhone 4S right out of the gate? Well, Mercedes-Benz is doing just that will an update to the COMAND system in A-Class autos. With the aid of two apps -- Digital DriveStyle and Drive Kit Plus for iPhone -- you'll be able to access your Apple smartphone's contents via a built-in display and navigate that iTunes library with an armrest-mounted Controller....

AT&T’s Latest Boondoggle Is To Let App Makers Pay For Users’ Data

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

AT&T's Latest Boondoggle Is To Let App Makers Pay For Users' Data


AT&T's Latest Boondoggle Is To Let App Makers Pay For Users' Data
The Wall Street Journal reports that AT&T will start to give app makers the option of being charged for the data their users are gobbling up while playing with the app. Let me just start out by calmly saying that this is absolutely ridiculous, and I'd like to call for a People vs....

Audi to Test Electric A3 in US

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Audi to Test Electric A3 in US


Audi to Test Electric A3 in US
The A3 e-tron is a precursor to Audi plug-in hybrids.

Facebook Mobile Operator Billing Opens App Economy To The Credit Card-less

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Facebook Mobile Operator Billing Opens App Economy To The Credit Card-less


Facebook Mobile Operator Billing Opens App Economy To The Credit Card-less
The mobile web, not the smartphone or traditional web, is Facebook's most popular interface. Now those hundreds of millions of users, including prepaid mobile customers in emerging markets who lack credit cards, will be able to make in-app purchases and earn Facebook money thanks to its announcement of mobile operator billing for Credits virtual currency purchases....

Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC


Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC
Wow. We expected a lot of news out of Mobile World Congress but who knew HTC would have so. freaking. much. I was having trouble keeping track of it myself, so for the good of the both of us, I thought it might be fitting to bundle all this news up into something a tad more easily digestible. And off we go… The first thing you should know is that HTC is changing up...

Audi announces A3 e-tron Electric Vehicle Pilot Program at TED [w/video]

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Audi announces A3 e-tron Electric Vehicle Pilot Program at TED [w/video]


Audi announces A3 e-tron Electric Vehicle Pilot Program at TED [w/video]
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Audi Audi has taken to the stage at this year's TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California to announce its first e-tron pilot program for the U.S. Audi will be deploying a fleet of all-electric A3 hatchbacks in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Denver later this year to test the hardware underpinning its future electric vehicle efforts....

Stay of Execution — Evi May Stay In App Store If It Doesn’t Look Like Siri

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Stay of Execution — Evi May Stay In App Store If It Doesn't Look Like Siri


Stay of Execution — Evi May Stay In App Store If It Doesn't Look Like Siri
Only yesterday we reported that Evi, a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app (link) which was incredibly Siri-like – and some say it's better – had gotten a call from Apple that it was about to be pulled from the App store. Why? For being – as far as we could figure out – too much like Siri, and maybe, well, just too good. Today, the buzz at Mobile World Congress...

iPad 3 rumor roundup

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

iPad 3 rumor roundup


iPad 3 rumor roundup
If Apple's usual release schedule is to be believed (as it usually is), we're just about due for another iPad. Naturally, the rumor mill has amped up accordingly -- in fact, given the amount of news we've seen hit the wire regarding the phantom product, the only thing that would genuinely surprise us would be if Cupertino just opted to pull out of the tablet space altogether....

Jay Z and Kanye's flame-throwing Maybach being auctioned for charity

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Jay Z and Kanye's flame-throwing Maybach being auctioned for charity


Jay Z and Kanye's flame-throwing Maybach being auctioned for charity
Needs work.

RealVNC teams up with Sony to bring Android apps to the dashboard

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

RealVNC teams up with Sony to bring Android apps to the dashboard


RealVNC teams up with Sony to bring Android apps to the dashboard
Sony and RealVNC have announced a partnership that aims to liberate your smartphone's applications and content, bringing the wares to your car's dashboard. Once a VNC-enabled vehicle and Android handset are paired, users can access and manipulate the device's applications, music library and stream web content directly to the car's infotainment system....

Best Buy pulling iPad 2 from display to make way for iPad 3?

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Best Buy pulling iPad 2 from display to make way for iPad 3?


Best Buy pulling iPad 2 from display to make way for iPad 3?
Pretty much all signs point to the arrival of a new iPad in the very near future -- in fact, more specific reports have the tablet getting the official unveil next week. With that in mind, it certainly makes sense that a store like Best Buy would be taking the last gen product off its displays....

Pinweel Launches Group Photo App, Wants Caterina Fake To Cut It Out With “Pinwheel”

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 12:29 PM PST

Pinweel Launches Group Photo App, Wants Caterina Fake To Cut It Out With "Pinwheel"


Pinweel Launches Group Photo App, Wants Caterina Fake To Cut It Out With "Pinwheel"
Do you really need another photo-sharing app on your iPhone? The founders of a startup called Pinweel think you do — specifically, one that's focused on group sharing. I've been playing with Pinweel this morning, and I have to admit that it's a good-looking app. There's a simple, colorful interface, with nice touches like the fact that the photographer's profile picture shows up at the bottom corner of each image....

Mercedes Brings Siri to the A-Class

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 12:29 PM PST

Mercedes Brings Siri to the A-Class


Mercedes Brings Siri to the A-Class
The car will be the first to offer iPhone's voice recognition.

The Engadget Interview: Nokia VP of Industrial Design Stefan Pannenbecker

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 12:29 PM PST

The Engadget Interview: Nokia VP of Industrial Design Stefan Pannenbecker


The Engadget Interview: Nokia VP of Industrial Design Stefan Pannenbecker
Today at Mobile World Congress we spent a few minutes talking with Stefan Pannenbecker, VP of Industrial Design at Nokia about Espoo's past, present and future handsets -- including the just announced 808 PureView, Lumia 610 and Asha 302, as well as the Lumia 900 we played with at CES....

London's Eco-Routemaster launches today, magical mystery tour ends in Clapton

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 12:28 PM PST

London's Eco-Routemaster launches today, magical mystery tour ends in Clapton


London's Eco-Routemaster launches today, magical mystery tour ends in Clapton
Very lucky commuters using the number 38 between Victoria and Hackney will find themselves touring the nation's capital on the first of London's new Eco-Routemasters. The first paying passengers journey aboard the vehicle at midday today, which was designed in London and built in Ireland, ending a process that started in July 2008....

GM-backed Envia claims huge advance in cheaper, better batteries for 300-mile EVs

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST

GM-backed Envia claims huge advance in cheaper, better batteries for 300-mile EVs


GM-backed Envia claims huge advance in cheaper, better batteries for 300-mile EVs
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, GM, USA Looking for signs that the automotive landscape may be changing sooner than most people realize? Here's one. Envia Systems, a start-up battery company that counts General Motors as a significant investor, has announced it has produced a cell with an energy density of 400 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg)....

AT&T service in the works to let app developers pay for users' data use

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST

AT&T service in the works to let app developers pay for users' data use


AT&T service in the works to let app developers pay for users' data use
AT&T has been making news all over MWC in the past couple of days. The most recent report from The Wall Street Journal says that Ma Bell is planning a service that will enable app devs and other content providers to pay the carrier for subscriber's data usage. AT&T's head of network and technology said today that "A feature that we're hoping to have out sometime next year is the equivalent...

Panasonic, DoCoMo, NEC and Fujitsu create IP for multi-standard LSI chip; suppor...

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 11:35 AM PST

Panasonic, DoCoMo, NEC and Fujitsu create IP for multi-standard LSI chip; supports LTE, GSM, W-CDMA and HSPA+


Panasonic, DoCoMo, NEC and Fujitsu create IP for multi-standard LSI chip; supports LTE, GSM, W-CDMA and HSPA+
Marvell was first to introduce a single-chip LTE world modem with support for multiple mobile standards late last year, and now Panasonic Mobile Communications, NTT DoCoMo, NEC and Fujitsu have developed intellectual property (hardware and software) for something similar of their own. Specifically, the quartet has gone further with the chip aspect, though....

Intel's Xolo X900 by Lava hands-on

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 11:35 AM PST

Intel's Xolo X900 by Lava hands-on


Intel's Xolo X900 by Lava hands-on
Intel's Medfield-based Android smartphones have been buzzed about for sometime now, but until this past CES, we hadn't actually seen one of these unicorns en vivo. No longer, as the chip manufacturer outed a trio of those very handsets today at its MWC event. Of particular note is the Xolo by Lava, a 4.03-inch, single-core unit running a mostly stock build of Gingerbread and destined for the Indian market....

Facebook: Privacy Needs To Be Just As Easy To Control On Mobile As On The Web

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST

Facebook: Privacy Needs To Be Just As Easy To Control On Mobile As On The Web


Facebook: Privacy Needs To Be Just As Easy To Control On Mobile As On The Web
Facebook, currently in a quiet period as it prepares for its IPO, is stone-cold silent on whether it really will ever launch a mobile device, and whether it plans to launch mobile advertising to complement its main revenue driver on desktops. But that does not mean it is sitting still on mobile  — the company's biggest area of growth at the moment. In an interview today in Barcelona with TechCrunch after a keynote...

Chinese government says 'no' to foreign cars

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST

Chinese government says 'no' to foreign cars


Chinese government says 'no' to foreign cars
Looking to bolster domestic industry.

FBI deactivates about 3,000 GPS tracking devices, loses sight of your car

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST

FBI deactivates about 3,000 GPS tracking devices, loses sight of your car


FBI deactivates about 3,000 GPS tracking devices, loses sight of your car
Following a January ruling by the US Supreme Court, the FBI has deactivated some 3,000 GPS units that were potentially infringing on the Fourth Amendment. The decision seems to be making waves in the U.S. Justice Department. Andrew Weissmann, FBI General Counsel, says some of the devices have been difficult to retrieve, as the vehicles they were once tracking now move undetected....

Motorola pits Voice Actions against Siri, claims to take the title belt (video)

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST

Motorola pits Voice Actions against Siri, claims to take the title belt (video)


Motorola pits Voice Actions against Siri, claims to take the title belt (video)
Siri may be the media darling and, admittedly she's the one with the winning personality. But Motorola wants to remind you that Android has a voice control app of its own and argues it's better than its iPhone 4S exclusive competition. In a series of videos, which we've embedded after the break, Moto pits Voice Actions against Siri on a trio of handsets -- the Atrix 2, Photon 4G and Electrify....

Orange Santa Clara packs Intel power, we go hands-on at MWC 2012

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST

Orange Santa Clara packs Intel power, we go hands-on at MWC 2012


Orange Santa Clara packs Intel power, we go hands-on at MWC 2012
Hot on the heels of Intel's big event, we've finally got our hands on Orange's Medfield smartphone. The Santa Clara is powered by the Intel Atom Z2460 1.6GHz processor, clocked at 1.6GHz. It does have 2011's Gingerbread kind of Android, but Orange is promising to bring ICS to the phone soon after launch -- in fact an Intel spokesperson told us that it's already had Android 4.0 running on these devices....