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Leaked video promises Office 15 on a crane, on a train, in a boat, potentially w...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Leaked video promises Office 15 on a crane, on a train, in a boat, potentially with a goat


Leaked video promises Office 15 on a crane, on a train, in a boat, potentially with a goat
What's this, then? It's purportedly a leaked promotional video for Office 15, the upcoming version of Microsoft's perennial favorite software suite. Not surprisingly, the animated short, which was "pulled from beta software," talks up the software's cloud functionality. "It's your Office," says the chipper voice. "It goes wherever you go." That includes a number of motor vehicles and electronic devices, all the while being stored safely online....

Intel 330 Series SSDs official, prices start at $89

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Intel 330 Series SSDs official, prices start at $89


Intel 330 Series SSDs official, prices start at $89
Been holding off on stuffing solid state storage into your existing machine because of high prices or reliability issues? Bargain hunters, your SSD may have just arrived in the form of Intel's 330 Series SSDs. We got the low down on them weeks ago, but in case you forgot, Intels new 25nm NAND entry utilizes a SATA 6 Gb/s connection to deliver up to 500 MB/s sequential reads and 450 MB/s...

MGM delivers 600 movies to YouTube and Google Play, gives you one more place to...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:53 PM PDT

MGM delivers 600 movies to YouTube and Google Play, gives you one more place to watch Robocop


MGM delivers 600 movies to YouTube and Google Play, gives you one more place to watch Robocop
With Robocop currently in rotation on both Netflix and HBO Go, you're probably wondering, "where else can I get my daily dose of media and cultural criticism delivered by a trigger happy law enforcement cyborg?" Well, YouTube and Google Play apparently. MGM has struck a deal with the folks in Mountain View to bring 600 of its titles to the streaming services, including the aforementioned dystopian-Detroit sci-fi classic....

Electric Ford Focus to pace NASCAR race

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:53 PM PDT

Electric Ford Focus to pace NASCAR race


Electric Ford Focus to pace NASCAR race
First battery-powered car to lead the field.

Ford Focus will be first all-electric pace car in NASCAR

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:07 PM PDT

Ford Focus will be first all-electric pace car in NASCAR


Ford Focus will be first all-electric pace car in NASCAR
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Ford, Racing If you thought pacing a NASCAR race with a Ford Fiesta was an odd choice, prepare to be properly shocked. Ford has announced the company is once again heading out onto the nation's tri-ovals, this time with the Focus Electric. The automaker claims the battery-powered hatchback will be the world's first all-electric pace car when it leads the field at the Richmond 400 later this month....

The art of the gimmick: an interview with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT

The art of the gimmick: an interview with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne


The art of the gimmick: an interview with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne
The Flaming Lips have never done anything small, from the "Parking Lot Experiments" of the mid-90s to this year's Record Store Day album, "The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends." Set for an April 21st release, the limited edition vinyl record features an odd cast of characters, including Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, Nick Cave and Ke$ha, many of whom have lent their actual blood to the record....

Mobile Gaming Startup Funzio Is Raising $50M At A $350M Valuation

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Mobile Gaming Startup Funzio Is Raising $50M At A $350M Valuation


Mobile Gaming Startup Funzio Is Raising $50M At A $350M Valuation
In what will be a bellwether for the mobile gaming industry after Zynga's deal to buy OMGPOP, Funzio is looking to raise $50 million at a $350 million pre-money valuation, according to sources familiar with the talks. The company declined to comment. Funzio is the maker of Crime City and Modern War, both graphical RPGs that have held top ranks on the grossing charts on iOS....

Google finally grabs Gmail domain and trademark in Germany: users can drop the '...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Google finally grabs Gmail domain and trademark in Germany: users can drop the 'oogle'


Google finally grabs Gmail domain and trademark in Germany: users can drop the 'oogle'
Google has offered its email client to willing Germans since 2005, however the typical Gmail domain had already been snapped up by a local businessman in Germany and the company had to plump for the longer googlemail.de addresses. Now, according to the Financial Times, both the Gmail trademark and domain were transferred across to Google earlier this month, although there are no specifics as to how much money changed hands in...

Tupac hologram performs at Coachella, keeps all eyez on him

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Tupac hologram performs at Coachella, keeps all eyez on him


Tupac hologram performs at Coachella, keeps all eyez on him
Have you been getting a kick out of Coachella's jams and arts in Indio, California? Or, did you decide to peacefully enjoy it from home via YouTube's site? Either way, you may have heard Tupac made an on-stage holographic appearance over the weekend, performing Hail Mary and 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted alongside Snoop Dogg....

MagicPlan 2.0 Arrives: Create Instant Floor Plans Using Your iPhone Or iPad’s Ca...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:19 PM PDT

MagicPlan 2.0 Arrives: Create Instant Floor Plans Using Your iPhone Or iPad's Camera


MagicPlan 2.0 Arrives: Create Instant Floor Plans Using Your iPhone Or iPad's Camera
Augmented reality isn't always totally pointless. Sorry if you think it's hugely useful to see an augmented view of tweets around you just by holding up your phone, but I like to find slightly more advanced applications using the technology. One such app, MagicPlan, fits that description. From the two-year old startup Sensopia, the MagicPlan iOS app is rolling out version 2.0 of its floor plan capturing application today, which allows you...

Blackmagic Cinema Camera packs 'feature film' 2.5K quality, touchscreen for $2,995

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:19 PM PDT

Blackmagic Cinema Camera packs 'feature film' 2.5K quality, touchscreen for $2,995


Blackmagic Cinema Camera packs 'feature film' 2.5K quality, touchscreen for $2,995
While Canon, Sony and Red have already stolen the show with new camera announcements here at NAB 2012, Blackmagic Design is trying to carve out a niche for its new Cinema Camera. Priced at $2,995, where the company sees this as differing from the competition is its ability to capture film quality video on its 2.5K sensor and output it to CinemaDNG RAW, ProRes and DNxHD file formats....

RED Dragon 6K sensor upgrade eyes-on

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:19 PM PDT

RED Dragon 6K sensor upgrade eyes-on


RED Dragon 6K sensor upgrade eyes-on
"Obsolescence Obsolete" -- that's RED's tagline for the just-announced Dragon sensor upgrade, which is set to bring 6K resolution to EPIC and Scarlet cameras beginning later this year. The sensor module was on display at the company's NAB booth today, under a backlit case that could only have been designed to make photographing the new chip a near-impossible task....

UCS: no matter where you live, driving electric saves money, emissions

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

UCS: no matter where you live, driving electric saves money, emissions


UCS: no matter where you live, driving electric saves money, emissions
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid It's easy to understand that, if you power your vehicle with electricity, you don't need to use as much gasoline. But, how much do you actually save, in terms of fuel costs and greenhouse gas emissions if you plug in instead of gas up? A new report, released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists, called "State of Charge: Electric Vehicles' Global Warming Emissions and Fuel-Cost Savings across the...

Reed Hastings takes Comcast to task for skirting net neutrality

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

Reed Hastings takes Comcast to task for skirting net neutrality


Reed Hastings takes Comcast to task for skirting net neutrality
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings let loose a mini rant on Facebook Sunday, setting his sites squarely on Comcast and its data accounting practices. Highlighting one of the arguments for net neutrality, Hastings pointed out that viewing streaming videos using the Comcast Xfinity app on his Xbox doesn't count against his monthly cap, but other services do....

Dreamworks Animation joins Walmart's disc to digital program

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

Dreamworks Animation joins Walmart's disc to digital program


Dreamworks Animation joins Walmart's disc to digital program
DreamWorks Animation has signed up with Walmart's VUDU-powered disc to digital service. From today, you can take any of the studio's movies (such as Shrek or Kung-Fu Panda) and have them converted to standard quality video for $2 or a HD version for $5. There's no word on if DreamWorks proper would sign up, but given the complex nature of its ownership, we won't hold our breath.Continue reading Dreamworks Animation joins...

REDray 4K cinema laser projector and player eyes-on

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

REDray 4K cinema laser projector and player eyes-on


REDray 4K cinema laser projector and player eyes-on
There's no better way to control the visual experience from shoot to show than to create the camera and the projector. That's likely the thinking behind the REDray, the 4K laser cinema projector making an appearance at the company's NAB booth today. The device supports 2D and passive 3D (up to 120fps in 3D mode), with 4K projection for each eye and has a rated laser life of over 25,000 hours....

Path For Families? Kidfolio Brings Private Social Networking For Parents To iPhone

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Path For Families? Kidfolio Brings Private Social Networking For Parents To iPhone


Path For Families? Kidfolio Brings Private Social Networking For Parents To iPhone
Hey look: another private, micro social networking service has just launched. From Alt12 Apps, which moms know better as the maker of the BabyBump app, there now comes a new mobile-only private social networking service for parents called Kidfolio. The app, which is celebrating its public release today, offers parents tools for private sharing – mainly photos of children – which can be organized into a scrapbook-like timeline by ages and...

Raspberry Pi boards begin shipping today (video)

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Raspberry Pi boards begin shipping today (video)


Raspberry Pi boards begin shipping today (video)
The moment has finally arrived: Eben Upton's Linux-powered dream of a super-cheap PC that could revolutionize the way we teach computer science begins shipping from today. RS Components and Allied Electronics have begun to mail the dinky devices out to the lucky pre-order customers who managed to get through before the overwhelming interest forced the servers offline....

Ford Escape Price Too Good to Be True

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Ford Escape Price Too Good to Be True


Ford Escape Price Too Good to Be True
Ford plays a shell game with the base price of its 2013 Explorer.

Ford Escape Price Too Good to Be True

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Ford Escape Price Too Good to Be True


Ford Escape Price Too Good to Be True
Ford plays a shell game with the base price of its 2013 Explorer.

We're live from NAB 2012 in Las Vegas!

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:55 AM PDT

We're live from NAB 2012 in Las Vegas!


We're live from NAB 2012 in Las Vegas!
Three months ago to the day, we were packing up our CES trailer and making a run for the airport, expecting another year to pass before our return to Sin City. But now, as the National Association of Broadcasters' annual trade show has begun overlapping with the consumer electronics market -- from a gear perspective, at least -- we've decided to make our way back to the desert, calling this oasis...

Microsoft job ads hint at a browser-based version of Skype based on HTML5

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Microsoft job ads hint at a browser-based version of Skype based on HTML5


Microsoft job ads hint at a browser-based version of Skype based on HTML5
There's something thrilling about using job postings to parse a company's strategy, especially when the advert is so gosh darn low on secrecy. Take Microsoft, for instance, which posted four openings for developers to work on its Skype for Browsers project. If that weren't self-explanatory enough, the various ads each explain that Microsoft is looking for code monkeys to help "bring [the] Skype experience on to the Web," a position that...

Openwave, ‘Inventors Of The Mobile Internet’, Sells Software Biz To Focus On Pat...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Openwave, 'Inventors Of The Mobile Internet', Sells Software Biz To Focus On Patents


Openwave, 'Inventors Of The Mobile Internet', Sells Software Biz To Focus On Patents
Mobile messaging, in its traditional sense, is on the decline, and the patent world is hot, hot, hot, and today one company that plays in both areas showed where it sees its stronger ties at the moment. Openwave, which calls itself the "inventor of the mobile internet" for the early role it played in developing mobile data technology, today announced it was selling its core software business — messaging and mediation...

Hyundai will make 'limited' number of fuel-cell vehicles this year, 'thousands'...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Hyundai will make 'limited' number of fuel-cell vehicles this year, 'thousands' by 2014


Hyundai will make 'limited' number of fuel-cell vehicles this year, 'thousands' by 2014
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hydrogen, Hyundai, Asia Hyundai has confirmed that it will make a "limited" number of hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEV) this year for testing purposes, with a goal of making as many as 10,000 FCEVs annually by 2015. The South Korean automaker is testing an FCEV based on the Tucson crossover which will be part of test fleets around the world during the next couple of years....

Report: HP's South Korean offices raided over alleged price fixing

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Report: HP's South Korean offices raided over alleged price fixing


Report: HP's South Korean offices raided over alleged price fixing
Korea Times is a publication that isn't shy of the odd bold statement and today it's claiming that HP's South Korean offices were raided on suspicion of price-fixing deals made with IBM and Oracle. The country's Fair Trade Commission seized documents, computer records and questioned employees over alleged price-rigging on public-sector contracts....

Sergey Brin says the internet is under attack by governments, Apple and Facebook

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Sergey Brin says the internet is under attack by governments, Apple and Facebook


Sergey Brin says the internet is under attack by governments, Apple and Facebook
One of the qualifications for scoring a CE-Oh no 'round here is actually being a CEO -- so Sergey Brin does not receive that honor. We will, however, draw attention to what some might call his hyperbolic ramblings. In an interview with the Guardian, Google's cool uncle said he was worried about the state of the internet and that his company could not have flourished in an online ecosystem like today's....

Bingo Bash-Maker BitRhymes Raises $1M For Casino-Style Games on Facebook, Mobile

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Bingo Bash-Maker BitRhymes Raises $1M For Casino-Style Games on Facebook, Mobile


Bingo Bash-Maker BitRhymes Raises $1M For Casino-Style Games on Facebook, Mobile
BitRhymes, the San Francisco-gaming startup behind a bingo game that has attracted about 400,000 daily active users on Facebook, has raised $1 million in angel funding. BitRhymes' rise comes at an interesting cross-roads for casino-style games on the Facebook platform. Not only are they becoming more popular, considering last month's release of Zynga Slingo, a combination of slots and bingo, there's also a chance they could become much more lucrative if the...

Best colors to paint your kitchen

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Best colors to paint your kitchen


Best colors to paint your kitchen
Here are a few choices to make your kitchen come to life.

Engadget Giveaway: win a pair of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Zeal Optic...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Engadget Giveaway: win a pair of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Zeal Optics Z3 Transcend GPS goggles!


Engadget Giveaway: win a pair of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Zeal Optics Z3 Transcend GPS goggles!
Nothing like a smooth action movie with Tom Cruise to inspire our latest giveaway, eh? This time Paramount Home Media Distribution is stepping up to the plate to celebrate tomorrow's release of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol on Blu-ray and DVD, and it's offering a pair of special edition Zeal Optics Z3 Transcend GPS goggles (by special edition, we mean the box is M:I-branded), as well as a copy of the...

Sprint’s $199 Galaxy Nexus Launches On April 22 With $40 Google Wallet Credit In...

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Sprint's $199 Galaxy Nexus Launches On April 22 With $40 Google Wallet Credit In Tow


Sprint's $199 Galaxy Nexus Launches On April 22 With $40 Google Wallet Credit In Tow
If they haven't already done it, Sprint customers in need of an upgrade should make it a point to circle April 22 on their calendars. Not only has Sprint chosen that day to launch their eco-friendly LG Viper, the nation's third largest wireless carrier has just confirmed on Twitter that the Galaxy Nexus will be available for $199 (with contract) that same day. As far as the device's hardware goes, hardly anything...