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Happy Earth Day, Happy Birthday

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 03:20 PM PDT

Happy Earth Day, Happy Birthday


Happy Earth Day, Happy Birthday
Filed under: Green Culture, AutoblogGreen Exclusive It's the 42nd Earth Day today, and we hope as many of you as possible were able to enjoy something natural, something earthy, something outside today. We certainly did, and we just wanted to stop in and make note of the Earth in some way before the day ends....

Switched On: When the smartphone giveth, Part 2

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 02:35 PM PDT

Switched On: When the smartphone giveth, Part 2


Switched On: When the smartphone giveth, Part 2
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. In case you missed it, Part I of this article can be found here Last week's Switched On discussed the Slacker Portable, Sony eMarker and TrafficGauge, three dedicated devices that didn't make it but saw their functionality ultimately realized via smartphones....

Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 01:50 PM PDT

Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0


Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0
Skype's fledgling Windows Phone app broke out of beta today, adding contact searching and landline calling to it's VOIP repertoire. The update comes just shy of two months of the Beta's introduction in February, and boasts a handful of minor improvements that should keep your calls connected. You'll still be making those calls yourself, however, as the full version doesn't yet have support for receiving calls in the background -- if...

Samsung countdown teases next Galaxy phone with anagram

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:32 AM PDT

Samsung countdown teases next Galaxy phone with anagram


Samsung countdown teases next Galaxy phone with anagram
Sammy's latest marketing ploy kicked off with a string of nonsense that could just as easily have come from the Sunday morning jumble: "Destination: tgeltaayehxnx," declared the Samsung Mobile Twitter account. Anagram wizards will read that as, "the next Galaxy," and wouldn't you know it, it's also the URL for a auspicious countdown clock....

HTC One S Review: Head-To-Head With The One X And iPhone 4S

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

HTC One S Review: Head-To-Head With The One X And iPhone 4S


HTC One S Review: Head-To-Head With The One X And iPhone 4S
I've been fiddling around with the HTC One S for a few days now, and I have to say it's stolen a little piece of my heart. The hardware is just about perfect, with a 4.3-inch qHD display and a slender aluminum unibody shell, and software like HTC's Sense 4 overlay and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich only sweeten the deal....

Helium-filled floating wind turbine, renewable energy with style

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Helium-filled floating wind turbine, renewable energy with style


Helium-filled floating wind turbine, renewable energy with style
There's no doubting that the cause of renewable energy is a noble one. But, ethics aside, it also gives birth to the occasional technical marvel. Altaeros Energies, a company from Massachusetts (with MIT and Harvard blood in its veins) has created one such curiosity. The prototype is a wind-turbine that doesn't just languish on a hill-top, cutting a line in the horizon....

Indulge Your Steampunk Urges By Tweeting In Morse Code With Your iPhone

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Indulge Your Steampunk Urges By Tweeting In Morse Code With Your iPhone


Indulge Your Steampunk Urges By Tweeting In Morse Code With Your iPhone
Google's promise of bringing morse code to our smartphones may have just been a cleverly crafted joke, but if you're just tickled by the concept's delightful sense of anachronism, a new iOS app called TeleTweet should definitely be on your radar. Released by the team from Shacked Software this past Friday, TeleTweet takes that same concept and runs in a completely different direction....

Thriving Amid An Explosion of UDID Alternatives

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Thriving Amid An Explosion of UDID Alternatives


Thriving Amid An Explosion of UDID Alternatives
Craig Palli is vice president of Client Services & Business Development at Fiksu (@fiksu), which helps brands boost iOS and Android mobile app ranking and secure large volumes of loyal users. You can find him on Twitter @cpalli. The mobile app industry is in a state of confusion in the wake of Apple's recent measures to wean developers from the UDID (Unique Device Identifier), a function broadly used for determining the effectiveness of mobile advertising. In...

New iPhone Unlock Should Work With Any Model

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT

New iPhone Unlock Should Work With Any Model


New iPhone Unlock Should Work With Any Model
iPhone unlocks are usually a tetchy experience – you have to have the right firmware on the right model iPhone at the right time. Now, however, thanks to a method that spoofs the activation server, you can unlock almost any iPhone semi-permanently. The system, called Subscriber Artificial Module or SAM, requires a jailbroken iPhone and Cydia....

Virgin and Boost to go 4G, makes Sprint's WiMAX feel wanted

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 08:31 AM PDT

Virgin and Boost to go 4G, makes Sprint's WiMAX feel wanted


Virgin and Boost to go 4G, makes Sprint's WiMAX feel wanted
If you were thinking "how wonderful, but..." when you learned that Boost was getting a new 4G handset, hold that thought. If reports from Technobuffalo are to be believed, both Boost and Virgin Mobile will be renewing their vows with host provider Sprint and getting access to its 4G spread....

Nevada hydrogen-station builder touts profits by making oxygen

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 06:18 AM PDT

Nevada hydrogen-station builder touts profits by making oxygen


Nevada hydrogen-station builder touts profits by making oxygen
Filed under: Hydrogen No vehicles? No problem. That's what one builder of a hydrogen-fueling station slated for Carson City, NV, is saying. H2 Technologies, which is looking to break ground on the station by July and open the station within a year, says the operation could be profitable even without any revenue from vehicles filling up....

Microsoft applies for low-powered interactive second display system patent

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 06:18 AM PDT

Microsoft applies for low-powered interactive second display system patent


Microsoft applies for low-powered interactive second display system patent
Oh patent applications... where creative ideas dance shoulder to shoulder with ill-conceived folly. Which do we have here today? We're not sure. What we are sure of, however, is that someone at Microsoft has applied for a patent that describes a device with two screens. Not that old chestnut, but the second screen being of lower-power, like e-ink, and displaying different information based on the state of the first one (i.e....

UK department store John Lewis launches broadband service, get in on the ground...

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 04:04 AM PDT

UK department store John Lewis launches broadband service, get in on the ground floor


UK department store John Lewis launches broadband service, get in on the ground floor
If you live in the UK, and were thinking "If only I could get my broadband from the same place I get my crystal tumbler set" then maybe now you can. Department store John Lewis, a favorite for wedding lists, furniture and homeware is branching out into the British ISP game....

New BeoPlay V1 shows up ahead of time, hearts and wallets flutter

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 02:35 AM PDT

New BeoPlay V1 shows up ahead of time, hearts and wallets flutter


New BeoPlay V1 shows up ahead of time, hearts and wallets flutter
We're more used to phones getting leaked ahead of time, but it's not always just the latest and greatest handset that sneaks its way into our inbox. Danish website Recordere has managed to get a cheeky glimpse of the new BeoPlay V1 TV from Bang and Olufsen. Pegged as the new "affordable" model from the Scandinavian manufacturer, it'll come in two flavors: the BeoPlay V1-32 and V1-40 (the numbers representing screen...

ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 review

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 12:23 AM PDT

ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 review


ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 review
ASUS outs lower-end Transformer Pad 300 tablet ASUS Transformer Pad 300 hands-on ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime review It doesn't feel like a year has passed since we reviewed the original ASUS Transformer and its innovative keyboard dock, but indeed time flies, and quite a bit has happened since then....

Huawei Ascend G 132 lands at FCC, unsurprisingly sports T-Mobile myTouch moniker

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 10:51 PM PDT

Huawei Ascend G 132 lands at FCC, unsurprisingly sports T-Mobile myTouch moniker


Huawei Ascend G 132 lands at FCC, unsurprisingly sports T-Mobile myTouch moniker
It's far from a secret that T-Mobile has been cooking up its next myTouch handset with Huawei (also known as the Ascend G 132), and now the phone has landed at the door of the FCC. According to the label location diagrams, it plays nice with HSPA, UMTS, GPRS, GSM and Edge, but there's no indication of whether this is the QWERTY variant we spotted at the company's headquarters....

Ask Engadget: best sub-$150 mechanical keyboard?

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 08:43 PM PDT

Ask Engadget: best sub-$150 mechanical keyboard?


Ask Engadget: best sub-$150 mechanical keyboard?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Andrew, who wants to get a proper keyboard, for doing serious business on. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com....

Google pushes IMM76I ICS build to HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus, reportedly quells connecti...

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 07:59 PM PDT

Google pushes IMM76I ICS build to HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus, reportedly quells connectivity woes


Google pushes IMM76I ICS build to HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus, reportedly quells connectivity woes
If you've been facing signal issues with your HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus since that recent Android 4.0.4 update, you'll be happy to know that Google's apparently readied a minor update that might help. A small amount of owners have noticed a new build of Android 4.0.4, listed as build IMM76I, showing up on their devices....

Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 07:59 PM PDT

Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012


Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, Verizon announced that its LTE service now covers two-thirds of the US population, and T-Mobile dropped its 'nice girl' image in attempt to position its HSPA+ network as a viable competitor to LTE....

Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 05:50 PM PDT

Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012


Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, Verizon announced that its LTE service now covers two-thirds of the US population, and T-Mobile dropped its 'nice girl' image in attempt to position its HSPA+ network as a viable competitor to LTE....

Youzee: Spain's streaming startup answer to Netflix

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 05:06 PM PDT

Youzee: Spain's streaming startup answer to Netflix


Youzee: Spain's streaming startup answer to Netflix
A new streaming service has shed its beta cloak, only this one isn't made for U.S. eyes. Youzee, a Madrid-based start-up, aims to offer Spaniards the best of both pay models, offering up a monthly subscription service alongside separate à la carte pricing. According to the company's site, its catalog of films and TV shows will be made available in a range of dubbed and subtitled versions to suite language and...

HTC EVO Design 4G coming to Boost Mobile 'end of this quarter'

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 03:42 PM PDT

HTC EVO Design 4G coming to Boost Mobile 'end of this quarter'


HTC EVO Design 4G coming to Boost Mobile 'end of this quarter'
Boost customers might soon be able to bite off another bit of Android, according to Pocket Now. It's reporting that the HTC Evo Design 4G will be landing on the prepay network before the end of this quarter. It was running Gingerbread when we first got our hands on it, but will apparently be landing with Ice Cream Sandwich squeezed into its 1.2GHz single-core configuration....