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TiVo iOS app updated to v1.9 with a few new features, Android tablet app on the way

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PDT

TiVo iOS app updated to v1.9 with a few new features, Android tablet app on the way


TiVo iOS app updated to v1.9 with a few new features, Android tablet app on the way
The TiVo iOS app has been updated v1.9, and whether you're on iPad or iPhone there's a slew of new fixes and tweaks available. On both platforms, the Facebook login has been streamlined, there's To Do List / Season Pass management for Series3 DVRs, ability to create a WishList search and more....

HTC and Sprint ready to show off a new 'collaboration' April 4th, might be the O...

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PDT

HTC and Sprint ready to show off a new 'collaboration' April 4th, might be the One X


HTC and Sprint ready to show off a new 'collaboration' April 4th, might be the One X
We just got invited to a special party put on by Sprint and HTC on April 4th to witness the latest collaboration between the two companies. Could this be the LTE-capable One X we heard about yesterday? No matter what it is, Dan Hesse and Jason Mackenzie will be there, so you know it's going to be kind of a big deal....

GM turns the Chevy Volt into a race car

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PDT

GM turns the Chevy Volt into a race car


GM turns the Chevy Volt into a race car
If the Volt wins on Sunday will it sell on Monday?

Nokia Drive gets full offline access, Maps / Transport also updated

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Nokia Drive gets full offline access, Maps / Transport also updated


Nokia Drive gets full offline access, Maps / Transport also updated
For the smattering of hardcore argonauts on staff here at Engadget (guilty as charged), we've clung tightly to Android when it came time to navigate on the move. Why? Google Maps Navigation, that's why. To date, there's simply no better all-around navigational app from a global perspective -- one that gets updated daily in the cloud gratis, and one that provides at least basic roadways in pretty much every nation that's...

Oracle's final damage claim against Google well under $100 million

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Oracle's final damage claim against Google well under $100 million


Oracle's final damage claim against Google well under $100 million
My, my, my, how the mighty have fallen. In this case, the mighty is the roughly $6 billion Oracle initially sought in its suit against Google. By September of last year that number had dropped to a comparatively paltry $2 billion, which was still to high for presiding Judge William Alsup....

After Ditching Auctions, Mobile Marketplace EggDrop Hits Half A Million Downloads

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:04 PM PDT

After Ditching Auctions, Mobile Marketplace EggDrop Hits Half A Million Downloads


After Ditching Auctions, Mobile Marketplace EggDrop Hits Half A Million Downloads
EggDrop, essentially a mobile app alternative to Craigslist, is starting to pick up steam. The company now boasts half a million downloads of its app on iOS and Android, with $8 million in listings from across the 50 U.S. states and the U.K. (EggDrop's top two markets). The app originally launched last June, backed by $1 million in funding in a round led by BlueRun Ventures and SV Angel....

BMW looks back at 30 years of electomobility in 70 seconds [w/video]

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:17 PM PDT

BMW looks back at 30 years of electomobility in 70 seconds [w/video]


BMW looks back at 30 years of electomobility in 70 seconds [w/video]
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, BMW Every now and again, we get reminded that BMW has been working on all-electric powertrains for decades. In 2009, we put together a gallery of some of the automaker's electric prototypes through the years, like the electric 1602 you see above. In a new video, BMW compacts the work it has done on electromobility since the 1970s into a short video, just over a minute long. It was a...

14-inch Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook review (NP530U4B-A01U)

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:17 PM PDT

14-inch Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook review (NP530U4B-A01U)


14-inch Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook review (NP530U4B-A01U)
Samsung unveils 13- and 14-inch Series 5 Ultrabooks, starting at $899 (hands-on) Samsung unveils redesigned Series 5 laptops with 13- and 15-inch displays, starting at $1,399 Toshiba shows off 14-inch Ultrabook, we go hands-onPop quiz: which of the following is being marketed as an Ultrabook? Behind door number one, we have a 2.5-pound wisp of a laptop with a 13-inch screen, Core i5 CPU and 128GB SSD....

Sonos' new controller apps now available for kicking out those jams

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:17 PM PDT

Sonos' new controller apps now available for kicking out those jams


Sonos' new controller apps now available for kicking out those jams
Remember those revamped Sonos apps the company teased last week? Now they can be yours whenever you choose to update the software on your OS X or Windows computer. As well as a refreshed user interface, you'll get unified search, drag-and-drop functionality and one-touch party mode -- although it turns out, that last one doesn't suddenly make a party appear in your house....

Huawei MyTouch for T-Mobile, meet Mr. Blurrycam

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Huawei MyTouch for T-Mobile, meet Mr. Blurrycam


Huawei MyTouch for T-Mobile, meet Mr. Blurrycam
So the rumors about Huawei pushing out a duo of T-Mobile MyTouch devices just got a little beefier, now that the real deal has actually been given the Mr. Blurrycam treatment. Above and below are images grabbed by TmoNews that show off the non-QWERTY model, which are expected to come running on Android 2.3.6 and taking advantage of a WVGA display....

GoldSpot Shows You Mobile Video Ads If You’re On Wi-Fi Via New Bandwidth-Aware A...

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:28 PM PDT

GoldSpot Shows You Mobile Video Ads If You're On Wi-Fi Via New Bandwidth-Aware Ad Tech


GoldSpot Shows You Mobile Video Ads If You're On Wi-Fi Via New Bandwidth-Aware Ad Tech
Exclusive: GoldSpot Media has just unveiled its new "bandwidth-based ads", a licensable technology that lets advertisers deliver a single mobile ad unit that appears as a simple rotating banner to viewers on 3G or mobile data, but as an auto-playing partial screen overlay video to viewers on wi-fi. Debuted on a new Zyrtec pharmaceutical campaign, you can compare the formats for yourself by turning wi-fi on or off. GoldSpot's tech could drastically...

Opera's TV browser strides into Berryville, population one

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Opera's TV browser strides into Berryville, population one


Opera's TV browser strides into Berryville, population one
The lips of Intel's PR team have barely delivered the final superlative about its new Berryville set-top silicon, and already software houses are confirming support. In this case it's Opera, who has been quick to announce that its TV-based WebGL browser plays nice with the new Atom Media Processor CE5300 (to give it its full name), which given Opera's cross-platform proliferation, isn't surprising really....

Hawaii adds $350,000 to EV rebate program, extends it seven months

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Hawaii adds $350,000 to EV rebate program, extends it seven months


Hawaii adds $350,000 to EV rebate program, extends it seven months
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy With the state of Hawaii adding cash to its EV-rebate kitty, more electric-vehicle enthusiasts will likely be saying "Mahalo." Hawaii added $350,000 to its electric-vehicle rebate program and extended the deadline for buyers of EVs and electric-vehicle chargers to collect on such rebates by seven months to Nov....

AllThingsD: HP to fold Imaging and Printing division into Personal Systems Group

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PDT

AllThingsD: HP to fold Imaging and Printing division into Personal Systems Group


AllThingsD: HP to fold Imaging and Printing division into Personal Systems Group
HP might have at one point considered ridding itself of its high revenue but low earnings computing division, but AllThingsD has it on good authority that its profitable printing group will now be folded into it. Under the guise of consolidation, the union of both groups should streamline operations, as both currently expend sizable efforts targeting the same business and home consumers alike....

FreedomPop’s New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PDT

FreedomPop's New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data


FreedomPop's New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data
Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom's new FreedomPop project was initially shrouded in secrecy, but they've recently become a bit more talkative about how the company plans to offer "free wireless broadband" to their customers. FreedomPop CMO Tony Miller spilled the beans about the company's WiMax-based freemium wireless data service to Forbes, but left yet another question unanswered — what's the "innovative" new wireless device they've got in the works? Well, according to a high-level...

Win a chance to ride along with Engadget for a private briefing on Panasonic's 2...

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Win a chance to ride along with Engadget for a private briefing on Panasonic's 2012 home entertainment lineup!


Win a chance to ride along with Engadget for a private briefing on Panasonic's 2012 home entertainment lineup!
As you probably know, we're in a lot of exclusive, behind-closed-doors briefings of products that won't find their way to retail availability for months to come. We do our best in every post to give you the full experience and virtually bring you along with us, but for the first time we're doing something different....

Beats Audio is buying MOG music streaming service

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Beats Audio is buying MOG music streaming service


Beats Audio is buying MOG music streaming service
Looks like the rumors were all too true -- according to All Things D, Beats Audio is picking up MOG. For those unaware, MOG is yet another music streaming / subscription service, and while the feature set bests even the vaunted Spotify in many ways by including a Pandora-like playlist generator, it's had a tough time procuring the same hype machine....

Windows Phone Tango ROM leaks out, reveals support for more background tasks

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:51 AM PDT

Windows Phone Tango ROM leaks out, reveals support for more background tasks


Windows Phone Tango ROM leaks out, reveals support for more background tasks
Rumors point toward a probable Tango launch in China on the 21st of the month, but folks over at the XDA forums already have their eager palms on a "world first" ROM. The leaked Windows Phone goodies show support for more multitasking apps, getting a boost from the five that are currently supported in Mango to eight....

iPad Sales May Reach 66 Million In 2012

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:51 AM PDT

iPad Sales May Reach 66 Million In 2012


iPad Sales May Reach 66 Million In 2012
Following Apple's announcement yesterday of the new iPad's record weekend, which saw 3 million devices sold in three days, analysts are upping their predictions for the tablet's market share growth over the course of the year. In a note to investors, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray says the firm is now forecasting as many as 66 million sales of the new device in 2012, up from the earlier prediction of 60 million....

Apple snags a patent for the Smart Cover's magnetic know-how

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:51 AM PDT

Apple snags a patent for the Smart Cover's magnetic know-how


Apple snags a patent for the Smart Cover's magnetic know-how
No, it doesn't cover the totality of the Smart Cover itself (or any case that folds into a triangle), but Apple has now managed to obtain a patent for one of the accessory's key bits of functionality. First filed in July of 2011 and published by the USPTO today, the patent described as an "accessory device with magnetic attachment" details how magnets can be used in a particular manner to attach...

Despite The Name, Report Finds “Mobile Games” Are Played Most Often At Home

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:51 AM PDT

Despite The Name, Report Finds "Mobile Games" Are Played Most Often At Home


Despite The Name, Report Finds "Mobile Games" Are Played Most Often At Home
Casual and mobile games company Miniclip has teamed up with app monetization platform and ad server MoPub, today releasing a joint study on the behavior of mobile gamers, breaking the group down by age, gender, and content preference. The biggest surprise from the study came in this little nugget of user behavior wisdom: Despite its name and connotation, 44 percent of gamers play "mobile games" on the couch versus playing in...

Study: free apps drain 75 percent more power, badly built advertising to blame

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:51 AM PDT

Study: free apps drain 75 percent more power, badly built advertising to blame


Study: free apps drain 75 percent more power, badly built advertising to blame
It's often said there's no such thing as a free lunch and that's doubly the case for free apps. A team from Purdue University found that nearly quarters of the power used when you run an app like Angry Birds is actually used for adverts. It developed eprof, an app that investigates what processes are draining from your battery....

Zinio finally hits the PlayBook, becomes your Berry own magazine stand

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Zinio finally hits the PlayBook, becomes your Berry own magazine stand


Zinio finally hits the PlayBook, becomes your Berry own magazine stand
Zinio's had a comfortable spot sitting on the Android and iOS stores for months, but up until now, it'd been steering clear of a certain App World. Fast forward to today and the digital magazine service is staying true to its tweet, at last making its way to that 7-inch BlackBerry slate....

Development of Porsche 918 plug-in hybrid supercar progressing nicely

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Development of Porsche 918 plug-in hybrid supercar progressing nicely


Development of Porsche 918 plug-in hybrid supercar progressing nicely
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Porsche "This is most definitely not a Prius." So says ex-Autoblog staffer Damon Lavrinc in a story written for Wired. The non-Prius-esque vehicle to which he's referring? The Porsche 918. We know all about the concept and how it stole the show at the at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show....

Porsche 918 hybrid supercar rolls out of our dreams, onto the tarmac

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Porsche 918 hybrid supercar rolls out of our dreams, onto the tarmac


Porsche 918 hybrid supercar rolls out of our dreams, onto the tarmac
Concepts, concepts, darned concepts. Teasing us with their curvy lines, and never-to-be-seen futuristic promise. Every once in a while, though, one pops out from the drawing board and into reality -- the Porsche 918 hybrid supercar being one such example. We'll admit we drooled a little when we saw the initial shots, and trembled slightly at the real world concept outed at the Geneva Motor Show 18 months ago....

HTC, Where Innovation Is Bought (And That’s A Good Thing)

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

HTC, Where Innovation Is Bought (And That's A Good Thing)


HTC, Where Innovation Is Bought (And That's A Good Thing)
HTC's is the Cinderella story of the mobile market — they've gone from low-key provider of Windows Mobile hardware to Android-powered smartphone titan within the span of just a few years. Impressive as that is, HTC has done much more than just push out smartphones. In the past year alone, HTC has inked big deals with Beats Audio, Dropbox, and LogMeIn, with rumors of a potentially final MOG acquisition swirling around to...

Houston, We Have Liftoff: Human BirdWings Guy Finally Enjoys The Miracle Of Huma...

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Houston, We Have Liftoff: Human BirdWings Guy Finally Enjoys The Miracle Of Human Flight


Houston, We Have Liftoff: Human BirdWings Guy Finally Enjoys The Miracle Of Human Flight
While I am indeed guilty of being pretty fly for a white guy, it's never been able to help me achieve my life-long dream of actual flight. You know, in the air, like a bird. Or maybe like Superman or Captain Planet. Hence my excitement back in December when we caught wind of a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands who was pulling out all the stops to transform this dream into...

Mobile Photo Factory MoPho Adds Instagram Support, Now Offers 1-Cent Prints

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Mobile Photo Factory MoPho Adds Instagram Support, Now Offers 1-Cent Prints


Mobile Photo Factory MoPho Adds Instagram Support, Now Offers 1-Cent Prints
MoPho, the fun mobile printing app from Penguin Digital (with the ridiculous name), is rolling an update today that may include one its hottest features yet: 1 cent Instagram prints. The app, which allows you to smack your photos onto mousepads, mugs, key chains, t-shirts, and more – sort of like a mobile Cafe Press shop – is adding support for Instagram today....

Apple: don't worry about hot iPad reports, it's cool

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Apple: don't worry about hot iPad reports, it's cool


Apple: don't worry about hot iPad reports, it's cool
All this talk about overheating iPads isn't getting Apple all that excited, apparently. The company issued a fairly noncommittal response on the matter, stating that in spite of the tablet's LTE support, fast processing, battery life and resolutionary display magic, it still "operate[s] well within [Apple's] thermal specifications." That said, if anyone happens to have concern with regards to an overheated lap, "they should contact AppleCare." There may be a chance,...

New York Times nears half-million online subscriber mark, halves free article al...

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PDT

New York Times nears half-million online subscriber mark, halves free article allowance to celebrate


New York Times nears half-million online subscriber mark, halves free article allowance to celebrate
The New York Times just gave you more reason to consider making the jump to a paid online subscription -- beginning in April, that free article allowance will see a 50-percent cut, from 20 monthly articles to just 10. This modification comes one year after NYTimes.com launched its infamous content paywall, and following an announcement that the publisher has signed up 454,000 digital subscribers....