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- HBO GO teases vocal controls via Kinect, coming soon to Xbox 360 (video)
- Walmart to start selling new iPads at midnight local time
- Updated Kindle iOS App Appears Just In Time For The New iPad
- The Mighty Eagle Himself, Peter Vesterbacka, Offers First In-Depth Demo Of Angry...
- Electric vehicles attacked with same criticisms as hybrids 10 years ago
- The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM ET!
- 1080p-capable Apple TV ships a day early, just in time to AirPlay with your new...
- Sprint Galaxy Nexus gets approved by FCC, one step closer to daylight
- Kindle, Evernote, Vimeo and more get optimized for the iPad's Retina display
- Acer Iconia Tab A200 review
- No Card Needed: PayPal Here’s Frictionless Payments Powered By Mobile Payment St...
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- Archos 80 G9 Turbo slate shipping now, Ice Cream Sandwich on board
- Review: 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid
- VW confirms late 2013 launch date for all-electric Golf
- Want to work for Engadget? We're hiring a copy editor!
- PayPal Here mobile card reader: it's like Square, but with way more frozen accounts
- AllThingsD: Google diggs Kevin Rose
- InvoiceASAP Rolls Out Mobile Invoicing With Support For QuickBooks Sync, Card.io
- Microsoft patent application details branded web browser frame
- Translogic drives Fisker Karma through firestorm of controversy, emerges unscathed
- DARPA envisions disposable SeeMe satellites for on-demand reconnaissance
- Samsung, LG and Pantech, among others, fined $40 million in Korean price fixing...
- Medio Debuts Cloud-Based Analytics Platform For Customer Insights On Connected D...
- Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title For Western Audi...
- Visualized: BRD RedShift MX poses for the camera, shows off its rugged good looks
- App Location Analytics: Placed Exits Stealth Mode With $3.4M In Its Pockets
- iFixit begins surgery on new iPad
- Meizu Flyme Store surpasses 100 million downloads, now boasts 10,000 apps
- Samsung, LG, Korean Carriers Fined For Mobile Price Fixing Scheme
| HBO GO teases vocal controls via Kinect, coming soon to Xbox 360 (video) Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:24 PM PDT HBO GO teases vocal controls via Kinect, coming soon to Xbox 360 (video)  HBO GO teases vocal controls via Kinect, coming soon to Xbox 360 (video) We knew it'd be arriving on April 1st, but now we're actually longing for it. HBO has just released a half-minute teaser propping up the impending release of HBO GO on Xbox 360, and while it's available on a plethora of other platforms, being able to verbally command HBO (through Kinect, of course) to play your favorite shows just takes the enticement up another level.... |
| Walmart to start selling new iPads at midnight local time Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:24 PM PDT Walmart to start selling new iPads at midnight local time  Walmart to start selling new iPads at midnight local time Well, it looks like you won't have to wait until 8:00am tomorrow to possibly get your hands on the new iPad after all. Walmart has now confirmed that it will begin selling the 16GB WiFi-only model tonight at 12:01am local time at all of its 24-hour stores. That includes both the black and white versions, as well as the now $399 iPad 2 if the whole Retina display thing isn't for... |
| Updated Kindle iOS App Appears Just In Time For The New iPad Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:24 PM PDT Updated Kindle iOS App Appears Just In Time For The New iPad  Updated Kindle iOS App Appears Just In Time For The New iPad For all the cool things an iPad can coaxed into doing, I find myself using mine to read more than anything else (rewatching old episodes of Doctor Who on Netflix is a close second). I've been begun to use it more than my trusty Kindle, and thanks to the timely 3.0 update for the iOS Kindle app, organizing and managing all of those books I've bought feels a lot snappier. Take navigating... |
| The Mighty Eagle Himself, Peter Vesterbacka, Offers First In-Depth Demo Of Angry... Posted: 15 Mar 2012 02:24 PM PDT The Mighty Eagle Himself, Peter Vesterbacka, Offers First In-Depth Demo Of Angry Birds Space  The Mighty Eagle Himself, Peter Vesterbacka, Offers First In-Depth Demo Of Angry Birds Space I've been excited about Angry Birds Space since before I even knew about it. It's like that awful Savage Garden song: "I think I dreamed it into life." The only thing is that I didn't dream it into life; Peter Vesterbacka and his amazing team at Rovio did. And after getting a sneak peek at the latest and greatest Angry Birds, I can confidently say that this will be the best... |
| Electric vehicles attacked with same criticisms as hybrids 10 years ago Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:37 PM PDT Electric vehicles attacked with same criticisms as hybrids 10 years ago  Electric vehicles attacked with same criticisms as hybrids 10 years ago Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GM, Nissan, Toyota, USA Electric-drive vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt are getting hammered by a lot of critics for a lot of different reasons. What's interesting is that many of the public policy criticisms were also hurled at hybrid-electric vehicles a decade ago, signaling that EVs and plug-ins may follow a similar adoption path as hybrids. Motley Fool reports that groups such as the libertarian Cato Institute once... |
| The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM ET! Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:37 PM PDT The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM ET!  The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM ET! Tim and Brian are back in town, and they'll be joined in-studio by Dana. What variety of M&Ms will she eat this week? How will Brian avoid getting everyone sick with that nasty head cold he brought back from the Nevada desert? To find out the answer to all of this and more, join us at 6PM, after the break.Continue reading The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM ET!The Engadget... |
| 1080p-capable Apple TV ships a day early, just in time to AirPlay with your new... Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:37 PM PDT 1080p-capable Apple TV ships a day early, just in time to AirPlay with your new iPad  1080p-capable Apple TV ships a day early, just in time to AirPlay with your new iPad Did you hop on the pre-order train for the third generation Apple TV, right after the Cook-note? Might want to check that doorstep, as a metric ton of you -- including reader Joel above -- have written in to say you're new hockey-puck streaming boxes have arrived. For those keeping score, that's a day ahead of the announced March 16th ship date, meaning lucky souls can get a little downtime with... |
| Sprint Galaxy Nexus gets approved by FCC, one step closer to daylight Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:37 PM PDT Sprint Galaxy Nexus gets approved by FCC, one step closer to daylight  Sprint Galaxy Nexus gets approved by FCC, one step closer to daylight The Samsung SPH-L700. It may sound like a silly combination of letters and numbers, but it just so happens to be the model number for Sprint's version of the Galaxy Nexus -- and it's officially made it through the prying eye of the FCC, still on track for a launch in the first half of 2012.... |
| Kindle, Evernote, Vimeo and more get optimized for the iPad's Retina display Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:50 PM PDT Kindle, Evernote, Vimeo and more get optimized for the iPad's Retina display  Kindle, Evernote, Vimeo and more get optimized for the iPad's Retina display As we saw the iPhone 4's release, a massive bump in screen resolution means that plenty of apps need to be updated to fully take advantage of all those extra pixels, and today has seen a few big name ones get optimized for the new iPad's Retina display. The biggest of those is Amazon's Kindle app, which now promises sharper fonts than ever, along with a few other changes including the... |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PDT Acer Iconia Tab A200 review  Acer Iconia Tab A200 review It's a tired promise for too many gadgets: Ice Cream Sandwich, just like the Gingerbread man before it, is coming... soon. You have to hand it to Acer, then, for bypassing those vague release schedules and actually pushing out a software update to the A200 on schedule. And though its specs are fairly run-of-the-mill (a 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 display and 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 SoC), it could nonetheless be a... |
| No Card Needed: PayPal Here’s Frictionless Payments Powered By Mobile Payment St... Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PDT No Card Needed: PayPal Here's Frictionless Payments Powered By Mobile Payment Startup Card.io  No Card Needed: PayPal Here's Frictionless Payments Powered By Mobile Payment Startup Card.io PayPal today unveiled its new global payment platform for SMBs, PayPal Here, which brings the veteran payments solution into local stores with a new mobile app-card reader solution to rival Square. The in-store payment solution, which begins rolling out to merchants today, features a triangular card-reader, or dongle, that merchants can use to swipe cards of all varieties to start accepting mobile payments on-the-go.... |
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| Archos 80 G9 Turbo slate shipping now, Ice Cream Sandwich on board Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PDT Archos 80 G9 Turbo slate shipping now, Ice Cream Sandwich on board  Archos 80 G9 Turbo slate shipping now, Ice Cream Sandwich on board Archos has been pushing out an array of slates ranging from kid-friendly to Prime contenders, leaving you with a plethora to choose from. One of which, is a souped-up variant of that 80 G9 we showed you a while back. The Archos 80 G9 Turbo ICS, to call it by its full name, is now ready to leave its warehouse status behind and head toward your front door.... |
| Review: 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Posted: 15 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PDT Review: 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Review: 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Can Hyundai's first hybrid hang with the big boys? |
| VW confirms late 2013 launch date for all-electric Golf Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PDT VW confirms late 2013 launch date for all-electric Golf  VW confirms late 2013 launch date for all-electric Golf Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Volkswagen As we said when we first drove the Volkswagen Golf blue e-motion, Volkswagen is taking its time getting into the all-electric game. Given the tremendous ups and downs that electric vehicles and EV start-up companies are going through, maybe making sure you have a car where everything is working smoothly - to say nothing about getting the infrastructure in place - isn't such a bad idea.... |
| Want to work for Engadget? We're hiring a copy editor! Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PDT Want to work for Engadget? We're hiring a copy editor!  Want to work for Engadget? We're hiring a copy editor! Do you love gadgets? Do you hate typos? Do you have experience working as a copy editor or proofreader? Are you looking for work? Lucky you! We're looking for a dedicated freelancer to join our team and kill those dreadful dangling participles. Here's what we're looking for: A Copy Editor / Proofreader: Part-time (freelance) living in or around New York City or San Francisco with at least two years experience working... |
| PayPal Here mobile card reader: it's like Square, but with way more frozen accounts Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PDT PayPal Here mobile card reader: it's like Square, but with way more frozen accounts  PayPal Here mobile card reader: it's like Square, but with way more frozen accounts Hear that? That's the sound of coins hitting the mental floor at a breakneck pace, and if PayPal's meteoric success is any indication of how it'll do in mobile... well, stockholders should be pleased. Nearly three years after first hearing of Jack Dorsey's Square (formerly 'Squirrel') project, the most hated division of eBay is coming out with a rival.... |
| AllThingsD: Google diggs Kevin Rose Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PDT AllThingsD: Google diggs Kevin Rose  AllThingsD: Google diggs Kevin Rose You might know Kevin Rose from his days at TechTV, as the cofounder of the social news website digg.com, or from his awesome drunken (and sometimes quotable) ramblings on his former video podcast diggnation. However, per AllThingsD, it appears that Rose, and perhaps a bunch of his cohorts at his latest gig, Milk, have been poached to work at the Google mothership.... |
| InvoiceASAP Rolls Out Mobile Invoicing With Support For QuickBooks Sync, Card.io Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PDT InvoiceASAP Rolls Out Mobile Invoicing With Support For QuickBooks Sync, Card.io  InvoiceASAP Rolls Out Mobile Invoicing With Support For QuickBooks Sync, Card.io Cloud-based invoicing platform (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) InvoiceASAP is out with some very welcome news for business owners and their accountants today: integration with QuickBooks. The new functionality works with both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, but here's the killer feature – the proprietary solution supports syncing with QuickBooks as far back as 2004.... |
| Microsoft patent application details branded web browser frame Posted: 15 Mar 2012 10:30 AM PDT Microsoft patent application details branded web browser frame  Microsoft patent application details branded web browser frame Originally filed in the halcyon days of 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has just published a web browser-centric patent application from the fine folks in Redmond. Microsoft's "Branded Browser Frame" app details a "computer-readable storage media" that can be specifically executed (presumably by surfing over to a website that's capable of handling said execution), and then used to present a varying interface based on what the underlying instructions... |
| Translogic drives Fisker Karma through firestorm of controversy, emerges unscathed Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT Translogic drives Fisker Karma through firestorm of controversy, emerges unscathed  Translogic drives Fisker Karma through firestorm of controversy, emerges unscathed Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Fisker, Videos The Fisker Karma is the automotive embodiment of both Marilyn Monroe and Rodney Dangerfield. Marilyn because it's damn sexy, with lots of wonderful curves in all the right places, and Mr. Dangerfield because, well, it gets no respect, no respect at all. There are good reasons for both of these personifications. While it is, indeed, drool-worthy in the "looks" department, its environmental credentials suffer from less-than-mediocre EPA... |
| DARPA envisions disposable SeeMe satellites for on-demand reconnaissance Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT DARPA envisions disposable SeeMe satellites for on-demand reconnaissance  DARPA envisions disposable SeeMe satellites for on-demand reconnaissance A new project from DARPA could successfully bring satellites to the same throwaway status as paper cups and Charlie Sheen's income (#winning). At $500,000 a pop, the orbitals would hardly be chump change, but the Pentagon insists these airborne systems could provide reconnaissance within 90 minutes of deployment and would deliver valuable tactical information to areas not covered by current satellites.... |
| Samsung, LG and Pantech, among others, fined $40 million in Korean price fixing... Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT Samsung, LG and Pantech, among others, fined $40 million in Korean price fixing scam  Samsung, LG and Pantech, among others, fined $40 million in Korean price fixing scam The truth in advertising is that there is none -- it's mostly all smoke and mirrors. But sometimes those illusory promises have real-world criminal intent behind them, like this latest ruling from the Korean government's corporate regulator. In a decision handed down earlier today, that governing body found mobile phone makers LG, Samsung and Pantech, in addition to operators KT, SK Telecom and LG Upius guilty of price fixing.... |
| Medio Debuts Cloud-Based Analytics Platform For Customer Insights On Connected D... Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT Medio Debuts Cloud-Based Analytics Platform For Customer Insights On Connected Devices  Medio Debuts Cloud-Based Analytics Platform For Customer Insights On Connected Devices Predictive analytics company Medio Systems is debuting a brand new product suite for businesses, called inGenius Suite. Basically, the inGenius processes massive amounts of big data to identify possible revenue opportunities in customer usage patterns on connected devices. inGenius uses a set of predictive analytics algorithms to gather and analyze real-time information, such as location, device type, and application usage, with customer propensities and interest.... |
| Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title For Western Audi... Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title For Western Audiences  Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title For Western Audiences GREE, the $5.9 billion Japanese mobile gaming company making a big push in international markets, debuted its first-ever title designed by U.S. talent for Western audiences today. Taking the evergreen zombie theme that has fueled countless mobile gaming hits, GREE's game "Zombie Jombie" is designed from the perspective of zombies who must battle humans.... |
| Visualized: BRD RedShift MX poses for the camera, shows off its rugged good looks Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT Visualized: BRD RedShift MX poses for the camera, shows off its rugged good looks  Visualized: BRD RedShift MX poses for the camera, shows off its rugged good looks Remember our testdrive of the RedShift SM through the hills near San Francisco? Well, if that didn't get you revved up for BRD's electric duo, perhaps these new studio shots of the MX can help. The folks in Northern California have passed on a few shots of the upcoming RedShift MX motocrosser that is expected to pull into garages later this year.... |
| App Location Analytics: Placed Exits Stealth Mode With $3.4M In Its Pockets Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT App Location Analytics: Placed Exits Stealth Mode With $3.4M In Its Pockets  App Location Analytics: Placed Exits Stealth Mode With $3.4M In Its Pockets With the number of apps growing by the day, companies offering analytics on how they are performing have taken on a new focus, and the recent acquisition of Chomp by Apple has put the area positively on the map. Now a company is emerging, Placed, that is zoning in on one area of app analytics in particular: location.... |
| iFixit begins surgery on new iPad Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT iFixit begins surgery on new iPad  iFixit begins surgery on new iPad Need something to keep you occupied as you wait in line for the latest iPad? What better way to wile away the time waiting for its 8AM release in your part of the world than watching someone else tear apart their brand new tablet? iFixit has already managed to get its hands on the "resolutionary" new product with help from some time zone trickery, and is digging into the slate as... |
| Meizu Flyme Store surpasses 100 million downloads, now boasts 10,000 apps Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT Meizu Flyme Store surpasses 100 million downloads, now boasts 10,000 apps  Meizu Flyme Store surpasses 100 million downloads, now boasts 10,000 apps It looks like Apple isn't the only company that has some boasting to do for its app store. Meizu, the company behind the eponymous Meizu MX smartphone and the Flyme OS (based on Android), has just shouted from the figurative rooftops that its Flyme Store has now surpassed 100 million downloads.... |
| Samsung, LG, Korean Carriers Fined For Mobile Price Fixing Scheme Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT Samsung, LG, Korean Carriers Fined For Mobile Price Fixing Scheme  Samsung, LG, Korean Carriers Fined For Mobile Price Fixing Scheme What happens when Korea's biggest wireless carriers and Korea's biggest phone manufacturers get caught offering bogus wireless phone deals to their customers? Well, according to the Yonhap News Agency, Korea's Fair Trade Commission gets pissed off and slaps those companies with a huge fine — 45.3 billion won ($40.2 million) — for "price fixing and consumer fraud." If the fines are any indication, then carrier SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics were the... |
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