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Onion Browser: A Mobile Browser For The Truly Paranoid

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:57 PM PDT

Onion Browser: A Mobile Browser For The Truly Paranoid


Onion Browser: A Mobile Browser For The Truly Paranoid
If, for whatever reason, you need to cover your tracks while you are browsing the web on your desktop, you have plenty of options to keep anonymous. Thanks to Orbot, Android users, too, have the option to use the Tor network to anonymize their web browsing sessions and avoid being monitored....

Walmart's website lets you Pay With Cash, strips away the 'convenience' of shopp...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:57 PM PDT

Walmart's website lets you Pay With Cash, strips away the 'convenience' of shopping online


Walmart's website lets you Pay With Cash, strips away the 'convenience' of shopping online
Here's an idea: order products online, and then pay using regular 'ol dollar bills. Intrigued? That's exactly what Walmart has begun offering on its website today with its new Pay With Cash service. It's no different from initiating a normal web order, save for being another -- and potentially convoluted -- option to hand over your funds and checkout....

Twitter app update brings improved discover, search and notifications to iOS and...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:57 PM PDT

Twitter app update brings improved discover, search and notifications to iOS and Android


Twitter app update brings improved discover, search and notifications to iOS and Android
It's not like there's any shortage of alternatives, but those sticking with the ooh-ficial Twitter app on iOS and Android woke up to a rather pleasant update today. Briefly, the company's promising improvements to discover, search and notifications, with the new build allowing users to view "Activity" -- described as a "stream of updates that shows which tweets are favorited or retweeted by the people you follow and which accounts those...

The Decline Of Android Foretells The Rise Of A Total Apple Monopoly

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:57 PM PDT

The Decline Of Android Foretells The Rise Of A Total Apple Monopoly


The Decline Of Android Foretells The Rise Of A Total Apple Monopoly
We have always built and destroyed monopolies. Companies often start out good but slowly turn, for lack of a better word, evil. The twin dark stars of profit and market share bring even the kindest companies into a collision course with failure. I'd say Apple is headed down that road. The company announced its 2012 Q2 earnings earlier this week and as MG pointed out, they're nearly as impressive as the previous...

Opera 12 opens its beta doors: improves performance and stability, adds new themes

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:08 PM PDT

Opera 12 opens its beta doors: improves performance and stability, adds new themes


Opera 12 opens its beta doors: improves performance and stability, adds new themes
Similar to that other, foxy browser, Opera reached numerical version 12 (although in beta form), promising to be as fast and smooth as it's ever been. Included in the new revision are a slew of under-the-hood enhancements, along with a few cosmetic alterations. For starters, Opera 12 now offers complete 64-bit compatibility for both Mac and Windows, while "experimental" hardware acceleration and WebGL support are also in tow....

Amazon's Q1 2012 earnings: net income down 35 percent to $130 million, net sales...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:08 PM PDT

Amazon's Q1 2012 earnings: net income down 35 percent to $130 million, net sales at $13.18 billion


Amazon's Q1 2012 earnings: net income down 35 percent to $130 million, net sales at $13.18 billion
It's no Apple-sized quarter, but you'd need to be on HGTV's Million Dollar Rooms a handful of times over to scoff at Amazon's Q1 2012 earnings. After reporting $177 million in net earnings last quarter (on $17.43 billion in revenue), the online sales behemoth has today registered $13.18 billion in net sales -- proudly reporting that said tally was up from the $9.86 billion in its Q1 a year ago....

CH Auto's Lithia EV strikes an Audi-like profile in China

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:20 PM PDT

CH Auto's Lithia EV strikes an Audi-like profile in China


CH Auto's Lithia EV strikes an Audi-like profile in China
Filed under: EV/Plug-in There's a certain German sports car that the designers at CH Auto might have been dreaming about before they penned the Lithia. We don't think this kind of inspiration is anywhere near criminal, though, and before anyone broaches the topic of Chinese design, they should know that the CH Auto's design chief is an ex-General Motors man: Dan Darancou, who has work on the Buick Invicta Concept and the...

ComScore pegs Kindle Fire at more than 50 percent of the Android tablet market

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:20 PM PDT

ComScore pegs Kindle Fire at more than 50 percent of the Android tablet market


ComScore pegs Kindle Fire at more than 50 percent of the Android tablet market
We've seen some pretty clear indications that the Kindle Fire was rapidly gaining market share among Android tablets, and ComScore is now out with a new report that indicates it recently crossed a big milestone. According to the research firm, the Fire's market share fully doubled from December to February, with it standing at 54.4 percent as of the end of the month....

The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:20 PM PDT

The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!


The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!
We've got Brian and Terrence in the studio today, and we'll be beaming Tim in through the magic of Skype -- assuming, of course, that he hasn't been carried away by some Albany-based beehive. You can join us too, after the jump.Continue reading The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!...

ComScore: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half The U.S. Android Tablet Market...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:20 PM PDT

ComScore: Amazon's Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half The U.S. Android Tablet Market (And All The Mindshare?)


ComScore: Amazon's Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half The U.S. Android Tablet Market (And All The Mindshare?)
On the same day that Amazon will be releasing its quarterly earnings, some research from comScore underscores just how far the company has come since launching its Kindle Fire tablet in November 2011. The researchers say that as of February 2012, Amazon's Kindle Fire now accounts for 54.4 percent of all Android tablets in the U.S....

Apple working on 21,468 square-foot cafeteria in Cupertino, wants employees' cha...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Apple working on 21,468 square-foot cafeteria in Cupertino, wants employees' chatter to be safe


Apple working on 21,468 square-foot cafeteria in Cupertino, wants employees' chatter to be safe
How do you keep your employees chit chat from spilling the beans on your next one more thing? You force the beans to be served in an employee-only 21,468 square-foot cafeteria -- that's how. According to Mercury News, Apple just got the go-ahead from the Cupertino Planning Commission on its scheme to build a colossal two-story bistro exclusively for staff members....

Experience The Wonder Of Streaming Piracy With iOSLiveTV.com

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Experience The Wonder Of Streaming Piracy With iOSLiveTV.com


Experience The Wonder Of Streaming Piracy With iOSLiveTV.com
This is so illegal that we can probably expect to see it fold in a matter of hours, but if you're really hankering for some Russian or German TV right now – or some hott sexxxy Penthouse action – iOSLiveTV has you covered. The site is formatted for iOS and Android and features a number of live TV channels including some adult selections. The whois record for the site is fairly useless: Domain...

Republic Wireless now issuing invites for summer beta program: is your name on t...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:29 PM PDT

Republic Wireless now issuing invites for summer beta program: is your name on the list?


Republic Wireless now issuing invites for summer beta program: is your name on the list?
Republic Wireless is now issuing the cellphone equivalent of Willy Wonka's golden tickets: an invite to its forthcoming beta. When you've been assigned a wave, you'll then be placed on a wait list, only told a week before you have to place cash on the barrel for a handset. Our tipsters have told us that the company is pitching (via a survey, of course) to hit three price points for customers,...

Adafruit wants to help you hack your Raspberry Pi

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Adafruit wants to help you hack your Raspberry Pi


Adafruit wants to help you hack your Raspberry Pi
So you shelled out a cool $25 to get your hands on the Raspberry Pi -- and, after some hiccups, the thing actually shipped. Now what? Adafruit's got your back. The DIY-friendly company announced that it's getting ready to release its Prototyping Pi Plate Kit, which will help you leverage the little Linux box for some of those home-baked embedded computer projects you're itching to start....

Samsung applies for patent on emotional recognition, wants to feel out how you'r...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Samsung applies for patent on emotional recognition, wants to feel out how you're feeling


Samsung applies for patent on emotional recognition, wants to feel out how you're feeling
Samsung might not give off the immediate impression of a warm, fuzzy company, as it really comes off more like a faceless device-manufacturing juggernaut, but that doesn't stop it trying to get a handle on what people are feeling. According to a recent patent application, the company is putting together a method of recognizing the emotions of an individual based on action units (AUs)....

OnSports Raises $2M Led By Floodgate To Be The Mobile Watercooler For Sports Fan...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT

OnSports Raises $2M Led By Floodgate To Be The Mobile Watercooler For Sports Fanatics


OnSports Raises $2M Led By Floodgate To Be The Mobile Watercooler For Sports Fanatics
In both sports and the tech industry, you win some and you lose some. Even though OnSports chief executive Aaron Krane got a nasty black eye this week in a pick-up basketball game, his company just closed a $2 million round led by Mike Maples' Floodgate fund. The company, also known as Hitpost, makes this mobile app OnSports which has live discussions, polls and news about sports....

Best Buy Connect no longer accepting new activations, service to end June 1st

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Best Buy Connect no longer accepting new activations, service to end June 1st


Best Buy Connect no longer accepting new activations, service to end June 1st
Remember Best Buy Connect? If so, you'll soon have a few more megabytes of humanized DDR3 freed up, as it appears that the retail giant is ready to put the kibosh on its own branded mobile broadband service nearly two years after it was first unveiled. According to the internal memo shown in the above screenshot, new activations are no longer allowed effective immediately, and the service for legacy customers will...

Behind the Scenes: Subaru’s BRZ

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Behind the Scenes: Subaru's BRZ


Behind the Scenes: Subaru's BRZ
Video showcases development behind Subaru's new lightweight sports coupe.

SAE Congress: Chevy Volt OnStar 4G LTE Research Vehicle is networked to the gills

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

SAE Congress: Chevy Volt OnStar 4G LTE Research Vehicle is networked to the gills


SAE Congress: Chevy Volt OnStar 4G LTE Research Vehicle is networked to the gills
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GM, SAE World Congress First displayed at CES earlier this year, GM brought its 4G LTE Chevrolet Volt demonstration vehicle to the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit this week. The car marries GM's OnStar telematics system with Verizon's 4G LTE data network to answer one question, according to OnStar's Dave Cheney: "If you had a high-bandwidth connection in a car at all...

Google Translate now serving over 200 million people per month

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Google Translate now serving over 200 million people per month


Google Translate now serving over 200 million people per month
This may surprise you, but as Google keeps adding languages to its translation service's repertoire, the number of folks using it continues to increase accordingly. Google Translate's about to celebrate its 6th anniversary of machine translation, and now boasts over 200 million users each month -- with 92 percent of those folks coming from outside the US....

DirecTV Everywhere brings streaming movies, TV shows to Android right now, iPhon...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

DirecTV Everywhere brings streaming movies, TV shows to Android right now, iPhone keeps waiting


DirecTV Everywhere brings streaming movies, TV shows to Android right now, iPhone keeps waiting
DirecTV's still-in-beta "Everywhere" streaming package only arrived on the iPad a month ago, and now the company has updated its app for Android phones with access to the same set of video-on-demand streaming movies and TV shows for viewing wherever subscribers might be. Interestingly this feature is arriving on Google powered devices before it hits the iPhone (neither one so far has added the in-home live TV streaming feature from the...

Sincerely Ink Launches In-App “Giving” Program, Lets You Send Cards With Charita...

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Sincerely Ink Launches In-App "Giving" Program, Lets You Send Cards With Charitable Donations


Sincerely Ink Launches In-App "Giving" Program, Lets You Send Cards With Charitable Donations
Sincerely is on a roll. The startup behind a ton of photo-printing and greeting card mobile apps, including Postagram, PopBooth, Sincerely Ink and Dotti, just launched the underpinnings its photo sharing network earlier this month with the debut of "Sincerely Magic," and today, the company is launching its first-ever partnership with non-profits in a program called "Sincerely Giving." If you're debating about which app you're going to use to send out your Mother's Day cards with this year...

Former Nokia Exec: Elop is struggling, shouldn't focus so heavily on Windows Phone

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Former Nokia Exec: Elop is struggling, shouldn't focus so heavily on Windows Phone


Former Nokia Exec: Elop is struggling, shouldn't focus so heavily on Windows Phone
Former Nokia executive Lee Williams admits that he's a bit of an "arm chair quarterback," but won't let such labels stop him from offering up some seriously pointed criticism of Stephen Elop, telling CNET that the CEO is "struggling," due in part to a lack of "overarching vision." Williams cites the company's shift in focus to Windows Phone as a cause of the companies woes, adding, It might have made sense...

Acer's Q1 2012: World's fourth biggest PC maker made just $11.2 million in profit

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Acer's Q1 2012: World's fourth biggest PC maker made just $11.2 million in profit


Acer's Q1 2012: World's fourth biggest PC maker made just $11.2 million in profit
Acer's Q1 financial report reveals that the fourth biggest PC maker in the world is feeling weak after posting a very modest profit -- three months after it declared a $212 million loss for 2011. Turnover for the first three months of this year was NT$113 billion ($3.8 billion) and profits after tax were NT$331 million ($11.2 million)....

Sony Tablet S gets a wedge of Ice Cream Sandwich

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Sony Tablet S gets a wedge of Ice Cream Sandwich


Sony Tablet S gets a wedge of Ice Cream Sandwich
We're not gonna act all surprised, or anything -- Sony's been talking up Android 4.0's arrival on its Tablet S for some time now. For those who have been waiting with bated breath for the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade on their oddly-shaped tablet, however, that time is now. Connect your device to WiFi and a system upgrade should prompt you to join the wild world of 4.0....

Google sells SketchUp to Trimble Navigation for undisclosed sum

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Google sells SketchUp to Trimble Navigation for undisclosed sum


Google sells SketchUp to Trimble Navigation for undisclosed sum
While we're probably more accustomed to Google buying assets than selling them 'round here, every now and again the search giant does shed some skin. El Goog's 3D modeling platform, SketchUp, is to be sold to Trimble Navigation for an undisclosed sum reports Reuters. Trimble says it's hoping to use the acquisition to enhance its office-to-field platform....

Samsung Galaxy S Advance gets April 30th release date in UK, needs more suffixes

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Samsung Galaxy S Advance gets April 30th release date in UK, needs more suffixes


Samsung Galaxy S Advance gets April 30th release date in UK, needs more suffixes
Pitched spec-wise somewhere between Samsung's first Galaxy S and its very popular sequel, think of the Galaxy S Advance as the original, reimagined for a new generation -- a generation that remembers only a few years back. The attractive Super AMOLED display with dual-core bones caught our eye at MWC a few months earlier and will finally arrive on rain-soaked British shores on April 30th at the like of Phones 4u...

Griffin outs SmartTalk Solar helps you drive off that moon tan

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Griffin outs SmartTalk Solar helps you drive off that moon tan


Griffin outs SmartTalk Solar helps you drive off that moon tan
Griffin is launching the SmartTalk Solar, a hands-free speakerphone for the car that draws its energy from that orange glowing thing in the sky. A transparent sled with suction cups sticks it to your windshield, connecting to any Bluetooth-enabled cellphone you have on your person. Calls are answered at the push of a button and it'll also act as a microphone for your voice dialing or Siri-based shenanigans....

Spinach-based solar cells get $90,000 development funds from EPA, Popeye delighted

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Spinach-based solar cells get $90,000 development funds from EPA, Popeye delighted


Spinach-based solar cells get $90,000 development funds from EPA, Popeye delighted
A biohybrid solar panel that substitutes expensive silicon components for a spinach protein has been granted some substantial Phase II funding from the EPA. Students from the Vanderbilt School of Engineering managed to stand out from 44 other university teams vying for funding at the National Sustainable Design Expo held in Washington DC....

Killacycle battles Predator head-to-head, new record set

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Killacycle battles Predator head-to-head, new record set


Killacycle battles Predator head-to-head, new record set
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, On Two Wheels, Racing The weather wasn't cooperative for the EV drag racing faithful at the recent Bookman's Spring Thaw, but with the largest assemblage of top machines and drivers on hand ever, even a little rain and wind couldn't completely get in the way of some battery-powered racing awesomeness....