If you ever drive through Northern France, you’ll see a lot of butchers that sell horse meat. You’ll also see a lot of glue factories. The two are very definitely linked — but why is it that horses make good glue? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/w9W1jJXKSPw/why-horses-make-good-glue MICROSOFT MICROSEMI MICROS SYSTEMS MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY METHODE ELECTRONICS

The LapGear Smart-e universal tablet lapdesk is a padded holder for your favorite tablet device for comfortable couch or bed surfing. It offers an adjustable stand with a ledge that will keep your device from sliding around while you’re using it. The version pictured above sells for $35. A deluxe version that includes storage for [...]

We make fun of the dead tree industry as much as anyone and though The New York Times has its faults, it’s still The Times. The Gray Lady. The newspaper of record. And you, dear reader, should read it more. And yes, I know newspapers are dying and print doesn’t make any sense anymore but [...]

HTC may be building its own streaming music service, according to reports. Tech blog GigaOM says its "sources familiar with the company's plans" indicate that HTC is working with Beats Audio co-founder Jimmy Iovine to create the service, which will be the default music player on future HTC devices. This would put the manufacturer in competition [...]

Here’s one for the “How on Earth did nobody think of this before?” files. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/3lMO7K3LHfA/brilliant-video-star-shoots-a-music-video-for-any-song-on-your-iphone PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS PEROT SYSTEMS PALM OSI SYSTEMS ORACLE OPENWAVE SYSTEMS ON SEMICONDUCTOR NVIDIA NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS NOVELLUS SYSTEMS NOVELL

When TweetDeck landed in the Chrome Web Store, it seemed like an indication that it might eventually evolve into a pure HTML5 Web app. Now it looks as though that’s exactly what’s going to happen, with TweetDeck announcing that a new, not-just-for-Chrome Web client is ready for beta testing. It’s a natural progression for TweetDeck, [...]

I grew up under the shadow of the spectre of nuclear war. In the 1980s, popular culture was rife with the imagery of nuclear annihilation—from The Day After, to Threads, to Smiths songs. But nothing approached Dr. Strangelove. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/H5WTqqaiuhs/this-shot-of-slim-pickens-is-the-bomb MILLICOM INTL CELLULAR

I lost my bag on Halloween night. It had two laptops—one of which was a review unit—a bunch of notes, and all the rest of my life in it. It was one of the worst and most helpless things I’ve ever felt. Last night I did it again. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lK5x8rFYsMw/i-lost-3-laptops-in-4-months-and-this-post-is-my-penance INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL [...]

Those benevolent armchair philanthropist Redditors are at it again! Four days ago a ‘self’ post extolling the potential virtues of a Backup Day exploded with 2500 upvotes and 1000 comments — and now World Backup Day 2011 is actually happening. On March 31, as part of the global data-saving initiative, you are encouraged to back [...]

Digitimes has reported that Samsung, HTC, LG and Nokia are launching new smartphones in Q2 2012 instead of Q1 in order to avoid direct competition from Apple’s iPhone 4S. Analysts, however, tell us that the product roadmaps of these companies aren’t being influenced by Apple’s runaway success. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/smartphones-holding-off-q2/ ADOBE SYSTEMS ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE [...]

  Welcome to the best Android Phones as of Feb. 1, 2012. Or you can call them our favorite Android phones. Or the top Android phones. Really, call them whatever you want. Here's what you're getting: Our unabashed, unapologetic and unequivocal list of what we consider to be the best Android smartphones available on the [...]

No matter if you work at the IT department or not, you probably have unlocked or help unlock some of this achievements, whether it’s the “Have you tried to restart?” or “The Network is down.” We all have been there. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/w5PTpV_8eos/have-you-ever-unlocked-any-of-these-computing-achievements ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC ARTS ECLIPSYS EASTMAN KODAK CO [...]

Today, Foodspotting, formerly the “Instagram of food,” is adding another level of utility to its app: dish recommendations. A feedback-based recommendation engine pairs with heavier social media integration to help make deciding what to order a much simpler task. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/foodspotting-app-rec-updates/ KLATENCOR KONINKLIJKE KPN LAM RESEARCH LIBERTY GLOBAL LM ERICSSON LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL MCAFEE MAXIMUS MANTECH [...]

Google, according to reports from “a dozen executives working at key companies in the Android ecosystem” is finally locking down the open source and easily-fragmented Android operating system. As it currently stands, Google hands over the ‘final’ code for each version of Android, and OEMs and developers then spend some time customizing the OS to [...]

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it’s now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system’s hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of [...]

Using some early numbers from both StatCounter and Net Applications, Mozilla’s noisiest hominid, Asa Dotzler, has illustrated Firefox 4′s meteoric rise to around 5% of Web browser global usage share. Internet Explorer 9, which launched two weeks ago, seems to be enjoying a much more casual stroll in the park with just 1.5% of the [...]

Corel seems to be on a roll lately; after releasing WinZip System Utilities just last week, this morning the company announced VideoStudio Pro X4. VideoStudio Pro is aimed at home users and small business professionals who want to create professional-looking videos, but without the hassle, steep learning curve and price of Adobe Premiere Pro and [...]

Homer Simpson has been available as a TomTom Voice Skin for a few years now, but other characters are finally getting their due as both Marge and Mr. Burns are now available to guide you to your destination. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/OrhjU2xq1B0/turn-your-tomtom-into-marge-or-mr-burns++excellent ITRON IRON MOUNTAIN INORATED IOMEGA INTUIT INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS [...]

US Cellular’s had its LTE network in the oven for quite some time, and we knew it was going to be showing up sometime next month. The missing part of the equation, however, was which devices would ring in the celebration. The carrier finally answered the mystery question: the first tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab [...]

Evernote, the popular multi-platform ‘digital memory’ app, has done some serious re-tooling of its Web interface. In addition to a more polished UI that more closely mirrors the look of Evernote on the desktop, the update brings features like notebook stacks and snippet view to the Web. Auto-saving is now enabled as well, and you [...]

Digitimes has reported that Samsung, HTC, LG and Nokia are launching new smartphones in Q2 2012 instead of Q1 in order to avoid direct competition from Apple’s iPhone 4S. Analysts, however, tell us that the product roadmaps of these companies aren’t being influenced by Apple’s runaway success. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/smartphones-holding-off-q2/ VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY VIRGIN MEDIA VIEWSONIC VERISIGN [...]

I?m torn about the PFE 232 Earphones from Phonak Audeo. They are about the best sounding universal-fit earphones I?ve yet heard. They are well made, extremely comfortable, customizable (more on that later), and have replaceable cables. But wow, are they expensive. There is no getting around that. It?s an elephant in the room you can?t [...]

Google Voice Search has just introduced localizations for Latin America, Indonesia and Malaysia, enabling native language search for hundreds of millions of users. Google’s official blog post offers some interesting insights into the process of collecting and analyzing the speech data needed to expand support. Thousands of hours were spent gathering voice samples and choosing [...]

Google Voice Search has just introduced localizations for Latin America, Indonesia and Malaysia, enabling native language search for hundreds of millions of users. Google’s official blog post offers some interesting insights into the process of collecting and analyzing the speech data needed to expand support. Thousands of hours were spent gathering voice samples and choosing [...]

Amazon, purveyor of fine mini-tablets and concrete mix and other sundries, announced today how much money it made last year and where and why. The only problem? Like most earnings reports, it’s completely indecipherable. Let’s try to break down what happened and why it matters. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FbANVNOO-W4/amazons-earnings-report-translated-into-english PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS PEROT SYSTEMS PALM [...]

One of my favorite sets of headphones just got a little bit favorite-er. The Koss PortaPro dates back to those dark ages of stonewashed denim and shoulder pads, the 1980s. The simple folding cans, with their thin metal headband and amazing-sounding earpieces have always been a bargain at $50, both comfortable and open enough to [...]

The State of Delaware has bust out a grant of $920,000 for DuPont’s obsessed project to bring OLED TVs to the masses. It’s building a facility at the Stine-Haskell Research Center in Newark with the chemicals-giant stumping $30 million out of its own back pocket. The new unit will employ 35 people to investigate the [...]

When asked today about how Apple was handling the competition from lower-priced tablets—specifically the Kindle Fire—Apple CEO Tim Cook said, effectively, that it isn’t a competition at all. Which would sound like hubris, if the numbers didn’t back him up so strongly. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Hyoth9KezZQ/apple-will-worry-about-ipad-competition-when-there-is-any LIBERTY GLOBAL LM ERICSSON LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL MCAFEE MAXIMUS MANTECH INTERNATIONAL [...]

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place. Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, [...]

A jailbreak of iOS 4.3.1 is now possible with both PwnageTool on Mac, and Sn0wbreeze on Windows. RedmondPie — who else? — has some handy guides that you can follow for all iOS 4.3.1 devices on Windows, for iPhone 4 on OS X, iPad 1 on OS X, iPhone 3GS on OS X, and iPod [...]

It has emerged that the underlying cause of RSA’s SecurID gaffe was the recently-reported zero-day vulnerability found in Adobe’s Flash Player. The exploit, which used specially-crafted Flash embedding in Excel spreadsheets, was first reported on March 15 and has since been fixed. RSA was hacked sometime in the first half of March when an employee [...]

We bet some of you over in the UK were just a wee bit little jealous when it was revealed that we here in the good ol’ U-S-of-A would be getting first dibs on the Lumia 900 (a little payback for keeping the 800 all to yourselves). Well, lucky for you, we’re not so greedy [...]

Pastebin is a very popular website aimed at coders and other nerdy types, which allows them (or should I say, us) to paste and share snippets of code with lovely syntax highlighting. It has recently undergone a major overhaul which includes the release of a brand new Windows client. The new client lets you create [...]

Electric bikes just got a cool new poster boy. This deceptively battery-powered bike is a sequel, matching the five-speed transmission found on the original, but now gifted with a shadowy new look and some appealing chrome licks. The Brutus 2.0 also plumps for a lithium battery over the lead battery of earlier models. A chain [...]

Home Security products are expensive and created by developers that have no interest in making things easy for end users. Instead, pull that old iPhone out of a drawer and make it the spy cam you’ve always wanted. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FeItCt8Pfxc/transform-your-old-iphone-into-a-home-surveillance-cam SALESFORCE COM SAIC ROCKWELL AUTOMATION RF MICRO DEVICES RED HAT RADISYS RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST [...]

In my Google 2 step authentication article, I covered extra security you could place on your Google account (come on, you’ve all implemented it now haven’t you ? ), but key-loggers can still get your username and password when logging onto a public unsecured computer, and the less information you give away the better. While [...]

It looks like AT&T is ready to uphold its end of the bargain. As promised, the GSM giant is poised to hand over spectrum to T-Mobile valued at $1 billion as a result of the proposed merger failing, and once again the FCC is the gatekeeper that holds the keys to the success of the [...]

To say that Bob Marley became a musical icon after his untimely death at 36 from cancer is a massive understatement. Marley almost singlehandedly helped make reggae music a worldwide phenomenon that is still popular today. The name Marley is synonymous with reggae, and his estate has parleyed his popularity into a line of audio [...]

Yes, that shiny Bose dock does look out of place in your workshop. But you know what would look awesome? A homebuilt blaster made out of a shiny red toolbox. This video shows you how to do it. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/4_XV_Wguv4U/how-to-make-a-boombox-out-of-a-toolbox GRUPO IUSACELL HARRIS HCL TECHNOLOGIES HEWLETTPACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER HON HAI PRECISION IND HYNIX [...]

We can’t say we were overly concerned about busting through the Vita’s 2GB monthly data threshold when the handheld’s 3G variant hits AT&T next month, but the network, it seems, isn’t taking any chances. According to the Vita’s AT&T page, Ma Bell’s making sure you’ll never be blocked from nabbing those download-capped PlayStation Minis by [...]

Security vendor McAfee, which is now owned by Intel, is rolling out a patch for three flaws in its Endpoint Protection Software as a Service offering. All three flaws are in ActiveX controls. One tricks the control into executing commands supplied by an attacker, the second lets attackers write to files on disk and the [...]

Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have posted a second look at some of the early changes which have surface in Windows 8 milestone 3. First there was the restyled Welcome Screen, and now it appears that Microsoft is toying with bringing the Ribbon UI to Explorer. The Ribbon, like in Microsoft Word and Excel, is [...]

The Gillmor Gang ? John Borthwick, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor ? on SOPA, Google +, and the End of Software Mayan 2012 Edition. Not one of my best efforts, but the Gang more than picked up the slack. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-kATxd7lios/ GOOGLE GRUPO IUSACELL HARRIS HCL TECHNOLOGIES HEWLETTPACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER HON HAI [...]

Those benevolent armchair philanthropist Redditors are at it again! Four days ago a ‘self’ post extolling the potential virtues of a Backup Day exploded with 2500 upvotes and 1000 comments — and now World Backup Day 2011 is actually happening. On March 31, as part of the global data-saving initiative, you are encouraged to back [...]

We’ve all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that’s hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won’t hurt either. That’s a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How [...]

Airports can be a daunting place to navigate, and trudging to your gate can be time consuming and exhausting. And since Segways are downright obnoxious, I like Gustavo Brenck’s Gig Pack concept which straps a collapsible scooter to your backpack. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/JjeBo_yrGME/backpack-scooter-has-already-made-my-essential-travel-gear-list DLINK DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS DIRECTV GROUP ELPIDA MEMORY EMC FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION [...]

We all know that custom-fitted earphones are going to give you the best fit, isolation, and stay in place better than your standard supplied headphones, but this normally involves a trip to the audiologist and normally isn’t a cheap solution. Fuze supplies custom earphones in a DIY kit that takes around 15 minutes to fit. You can [...]

CES 2012. It’s over, but it’ll leave a lasting impression on us all. And by “lasting,” we mean “eternal.” It’ll also go down as the most attended CES ever, with more exhibitors and more product launches than ever before. Engadget as a team hit more news than ever before, covered more hands-ons than ever before [...]

While I have my home’s wooden floor covered in Chinese, Persian and Turkish rugs, I’d love to exchange them all for digital interactive rugs like this. One of them full of swimming crocodiles. [Buzzfeed] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/op-hyTHSD4U/the-rug-i-would-like-to-have-at-home L1 IDENTITY SOLUTIONS KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY KEY JDS UNIPHASE JDA SOFTWARE GROUP JACK HENRY and ASSOCIATES IXYS ITRON [...]

Youtube video link for mobile viewing   Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Intel and Motorola enter into 'multi-year agreement', Intel-powered Moto devices coming in 2012 All of the Android Central CES 2012 Coverage Android Central Podcast First Look: Full Video Walk Through of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2 Native Email, [...]

Over the last few days, a mass SQL injection attack has been quickly gathering speed. Just three days ago only 28,000 URLs were affected, but at the time of writing, there could be up to 3.8 million infected URLs. Websense has a complete write up the attack, dubbed ‘LizaMoon,’ but here’s the basic gist: it [...]

Facebook has announced that its two mobile sites — m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com — have been unified, bringing a simpler mobile experience to Facebook users. And there are a lot of those — a quarter billion, according to Facebook. Smartphone users won’t be losing any functionality because of the consolidation. If your phone supported the enhacned [...]

A quick heads up that the folks from ShopAndroid.com just put the Verizon Galaxy Nexus battery — that's the stock, Samsung, NFC-enabled 1850 mAh battery — onto the shelves. It's going for $34.95 and is the same battery you'll get when you buy the phone. And now you can have a spare, straight from your [...]

If you can live without an amazing view, you can save a lot of money when renting an apartment. But why make that tradeoff? With these Better View blinds you can have the best of both worlds. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/cEPiaZsF3LI/these-window-blinds-provide-a-better-view-when-closed ON SEMICONDUCTOR NVIDIA NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS NOVELLUS SYSTEMS NOVELL NETWORK APPLIANCE NETGEAR NCR NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR NATIONAL [...]

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week Inhabitat hit the streets of Detroit to bring you the hottest hybrid vehicles and electric cars from the 2012 North American International Auto Show! We saw automakers unveil [...]

As you may know, you can search for photos by dropping a picture on Google Images. It shows you images that are equal or similar to yours. This is what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2,951 times. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/yYJqCxi1wpg/recursive-google-image-search-is-mindflippingly-nuts INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS INTEL [...]

We get mailed a lot of stuff at TechCrunch and sometimes a good item will slip through the cracks. This iRiffPort has been sitting in my pile of gear since it came out in October. I wrote a review. Shot some photos. It was all ready to roll and then somehow it got misplaced and [...]

Automakers are racing the put the mobile in automobile as they connect our vehicles to the cloud and increasingly blur the line between cars and consumer electronics. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/cars-connect-with-apps-the-cloud-at-ces/ DST SYSTEMS DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES DIODES INORATED DIEBOLD DELL CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR ACCENTURE

YouTube users may now upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week, but the site once hosted less than a hundred clips. And the very first, prescedent-setting video was…about elephants? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/V32TZjBlVR4/this-was-the-first-video-ever-uploaded-to-youtube HEARTLAND PAYMENT SYSTEMS GOOGLE GOOGLE FORMFACTOR FISERV FIRST SOLAR FINISAR FEI COMPANY FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL FAIR ISAAC FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS F5 [...]

Good news, everyone! The NFL Mobile app is finally working correctly on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. The app actually got its update fix last night, but the login was still borked for a lot of people. (Or at least us, and we count double.) Anyhoo, all is well, you should be able to log in, [...]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab has become recommended as a genuine competitor for the Apple iPad. The tablet computer is operating the newest edition of the Google Android Operating system, which is continuously increasing in acceptance, and contains most of the advantages in its favor. It?s a substantial improvement on the newest generation of Galaxy tablet [...]

Everybody is excited by OnOne?s DSLR Remote HD launch as an iPad App. What was previously available only for the Iphone and Ipod Touch is now with the iPad as well. The most obvious advantage for this app is that with the iPad?s generous screen area, the program is no longer just a fancy remote [...]

For today only, the TiPb Store has the Ventev EcoCHARGE Travel Charger for iPhone on sale for only $12.95!. Get them before they’re gone! Get the Ventev EcoCHARGE Travel Charger … Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/LOg7i_R-Wyk/story01.htm ACCENTURE ACER ADOBE SYSTEMS ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL ANIXTER INTERNATIONAL APPLE COMPUTER

Fifteen years ago the Internet was revolutionizing global communications and computing so companies were looking for the most advanced markets to test their technologies. Locales such as Korea and Singapore portended the future. Today, no less than reinvention of healthcare is taking place. A key question is which locales will provide a similar testbed for [...]

Roku unveiled Wednesday a new smart-TV product that ditches the familiar (and room-cluttering) set-top box design for a simple stick the size of a USB thumb drive. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/roku-streaming-stick-smart-tv/ ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL ANIXTER INTERNATIONAL APPLE COMPUTER APPLIED MATERIALS ARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ARROW ELECTRONICS ASML HOLDING ASUSTEK COMPUTER

If you’re a member of the little green army, chances are you’ve either rooted your phone or tablet, have at least thought about it. If you’re one of the latter? It’s time to take the plunge. And here are ten good reasons why you should do it today. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ud9i2Q0_Qo8/10-reasons-to-root-your-android-device DELL CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR ACCENTURE [...]

According to the Wikipedia entry, smoking a shisha (or hookah) is sooo 16th century. Fire, smoke, water, trees and tobacco–the experience is almost elemental. But the Shishavac wants to brings things up to date, shopping-channel style. A shisha is a water pipe used to smoke flavored tobacco. Similar in principle to a water bong, the [...]

If you used Windows XP for a long time (who didn’t?), one of the biggest changes when moving to Windows 7 or Vista was the massively-altered Explorer. While the new Explorer introduces some useful new features, it also removed just as many — which is where Classic Shell comes in! We’ve covered Classic Shell before, [...]

Twenty years ago, Zhongguancun was but farming fields and small houses, far from the city center of Beijing. The ‘cun’ at the end of Zhongguancun literally means ‘village’. As with much else in China, the change has come lightening fast. Today, Zhongguancun is China’s closest equivalent to Silicon Valley. It’s host to electronics super malls, [...]

If you’re a baseball fanatic, the MLB At Bat app is a must-have. It’s packed with live updates, scores, stats, news, and videos — and right now there’s another great reason to pick up At Bat. Pony up for At Bat and you’ll get to enjoy MLB.tv free for the entire month of April. The [...]

Weather Underground has long been a go-to source for weather information online. And now, finally, we have a proper Weather Underground Android app. The main view is a nicely laid out three-panel screen.  The top section shows the current temperature, "feels like" temp, wind speed and direction, humidity and a thumbnail image of what it's [...]

“Best of the Web, Delivered: The Reddit Manual” [affiliate link] is a guide for readers who want to get the scoop on all coolest stuff on the internet before your friends do. This guide will help you learn to navigate Reddit, one of the most popular social news sites on the web. There are a [...]

Speedtest.net is pretty much the go-to site for quickly figuring out how fast (or slow) your connection really is and comparing the numbers your ISP boasts with what it actually delivers. And now it’s got a new coat of paint and a couple of neat features. In brief: New UI: The map widget is much [...]

Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they?re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related,… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/Pm2XaiKX01A/story01.htm PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS [...]

The recent developments and rumors about the new ipad 3 has left the market not sure of which way to go. Many predict that apple is bond to keep all secrets about the upcoming ipad 3 a secret. Apple Company does not deny or confirm the rumors about whether they will be an ipad 3 [...]

LG’s FPR 3DTVs already featured lighter, cheaper passive 3D glasses than their active shutter competition, but next year the company will push its advantage even further with these new models. The three options available include the F310 (at right, above) which it says weighs 20 percent less than last year’s default and are curved more [...]

Unless you buy in bulk, your run-of-the-mill office tape already comes with its own handy dispenser. While not as stylish as this Strip dispenser, it also doesn’t cost you $32 for what is essentially a flat piece of aluminum. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/sCUJt3uTRi0/ultra-minimal-tape-dispenser-is-unjustifiably-expensive INTUIT INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS [...]

Sticks is another one of those rare games where the intro is actually worth watching. It introduces you to office worker Bob, who is basically a wage slave fantasizing about a better existence. Then, on his way back home from another grueling day at the office, he passes a huge sign which says “Sticks.” This [...]

Welcome to our annual Brand New Camera Set Up Guide. A loved one loves you back enough that they bought you a brand new fancy camera. Now what? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/IyAlY4OGu5A/so-you-got-a-fancy-new-camera-heres-how-to-use-it INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS INTEL INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INGRAM MICRO INFORMATICA INFOCUS ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO

If you’re lucky enough to own an Xperia Play — Sony Ericsson’s new Gingerbread-powered smartphone-cum-gamepad — you can now buy PlayStation (PSX) titles from the Android Market. There are five titles currently available, all priced at £3.99: Syphon Filter, MediEvil, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, and Jumping Flash. They don’t have an American price yet, [...]

Got some Kindle hardware burning a hole in your pile of festive gifts? Well, British bookworms have been given some extra yuletide joy courtesy of Amazon UK which has also started a 12-day sale, focusing on its e-book wares. The site vows to add more digital reads each day and it looks like all the [...]

Is it a coincidence that a video showing researchers using one of GE’s 3D printers to make these ornaments has been switched to private? Because I want them to know that this is an awesome use of their R&D budget. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/63ENORoxWIQ/ges-research-lab-creates-3d-printed-jet-engine-ornamentsrd-money-well-spent SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS CDW CHINA MOBILE CISCO [...]

Back when I was a kid, I used to love crafting ornate puzzle boxes out of Lego. There would be just one way to open the box, by carefully shifting and rotating a bunch of pieces. Well, either that, or breaking the box in frustration. Interlocked takes that spirit and turns it into a beautiful [...]

Being badass doesn’t mean you’ll always be warm. Even Bane wears a winter coat in the latest Batman trailer. So here’s the answer to the question that’s been on our minds since Empire—how does Boba Fett stay warm? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/VK7Sv2JVEdI/how-a-bounty-hunter-battles-the-cold LSI LINEAR TECHNOLOGY LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LAWSON SOFTWARE LAND SOFTWARE LAM RESEARCH [...]

Brit Morin is the Founder and CEO of Brit, a new company focused on providing people with innovative ideas, software, and products for creative living. Subscription services have been around for more than a century. Generations before us were the first to enjoy subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and more. As a kid, I even remember [...]

Looks like LogMeIn Inc. has suddenly cottoned on to the freemium business model, deciding to offer its basic remote desktop app for iPhone and iPad entirely gratis. Previously, you had to hand over $29.99 for the simple pleasure of accessing your PC and Mac desktops via LogMeIn Ignition, but the new free version (simply ‘LogMeIn’) [...]

As an artist, if you choose to work in the medium of UV light and glowing tees instead of paint and canvas, be prepared to be frustrated. Because that masterpiece you spent five seconds sketching will fade almost as quickly. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/bAU3kSKqz2k/glowing-tee-lets-you-create-fleeting-custom-designs L1 IDENTITY SOLUTIONS KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY KEY JDS UNIPHASE JDA SOFTWARE GROUP [...]

The developer of iCab Mobile, a feature-rich alternative to the Safari Web browser on iPad and iPhone, has been ordered by Apple to remove its ability to download and install JavaScript modules. Presumably it’s not the fact that iCab can execute JavaScript that’s causing Apple to apoplectically puff and splutter, but rather its ability to [...]

Have you ever been reading a post about, say, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and caught yourself thinking “What were those dimensions again?” Or, maybe it’s something about the iPad 2 and you can’t recall the thing’s release date, or exactly how many different variations Apple has on offer? How about which of those two [...]

Bing’s new HTML5-and-CSS3-enhanced search interface, which was first demonstrated back in September 2010 to showcase the power of IE9, has started to roll out. The most notable addition to the new interface is is smooth page transitions — the fade in and out — and navigation tabs (maps, images, videos, etc.) now persistently float at [...]

Japanese Robot Company Proves Even The Weirdest, Biggest Mechs Can Sell Apple?s Cloud Product Officially Official And It?s Called iCloud This Stun Gun-Equipped Armored Glove Is Worthy Of Judge Dredd The Kisai RPM Tokyoflash Watch: Surprisingly Handsome, Made Of Acetate TDK Shows Off Transparent Bistable OLED Mobile Display Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/01/daily-crunch-mech-edition/ NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS MOTOROLA [...]

Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer Must-Have For Minecraft Fans: Grass Block Mousepad Review: ThinkGeek iCADE iPad Arcade Game Bowers & Wilkins Announce The Tiny PM1 Audiophile-Class Compact Loudspeaker Do Not Swallow: Olympus Releases Tiny E-PL Promotional Cameras Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/15/daily-crunch-landscape-portrait/ MICROSEMI MICROS SYSTEMS MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY METHODE ELECTRONICS MENTOR GRAPHICS IMS HEALTH IMATION [...]

In BattlePaint, you play a cube. In fact, you’re not even a cube — just a square. But boy, are you fast! And you can shoot in all directions. That’s important, because there are baddies coming in from all over the place. The “baddies” are swarms of other squares, in all sorts of pretty colors. [...]

Version 5.3 of Skype for Windows has just been released, with the main emphasis of the new release being improved call quality, and the quality of video received by mobile Skype users. Presumably one party of the video call must be using Skype for Windows 5.3, though. Beyond improved call quality, not much has changed. [...]

Fun fact: There are more versions of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus floating around, software-wise, than you're probably aware of, even when it comes to the GSM version. The basic rule here is that if you have the yakju version of the Galaxy Nexus, it's GSM, and mysid is CDMA/LTE, in the case of the Verizon [...]

It’s been a crazy year for the Engadget Show, but don’t count us out just yet. We’ve got one more exciting episode to hit you with before the year’s up. This time out, Tim travels to San Francisco, to check out the high performance BRD RedShift SM electric motorcycle and Zach H. takes a trip [...]

Softstep Keyworx Lets You Assign Macros To Your Feet Day 1: My Week In The Nissan Leaf ?Magi-Cam? Uses Mirrors As Camouflage To Spy On Vigilant Animals Hit Video Game Professor Layton To Go Social On Mobage This Year Ejacket: Bandai?s E-Money Case Plays Kamen Rider Sounds Every Time You Make a Purchase (Video) Source: [...]

Sprint may have stood by its use of Carrier IQ on its smartphones when the furor over the software erupted a couple of weeks back — while insisting all along that it was only used for network diagnostic purposes — but it’s now apparently had a change of heart. In a statement to Mobile Burn, [...]

One could argue that everyone in the 80s dressed like total douchebags. That’s probably true. I’m guilty of that (thanks mom!). But you can also argue that Apple users wearing Apple gear looked extra-douchebaggy with vagina cleaning foam on top. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/i78ocyYXVyQ/in-the-80s-apple-fanboys-were-douchebags-too LAND SOFTWARE LAM RESEARCH L1 IDENTITY SOLUTIONS KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY KEY JDS [...]

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plans to launch a service in 2012 that will enable you to pick who you sit next to on an airplane by visiting their Facebook or LinkedIn pages. “Meet & Seat” will be an opt-in service (similar to that already toyed with by Malaysia Airlines), so you can still fly anonymously [...]

You wouldn’t think Sweden, land of beauty and prosperity, would have trouble attracting visitors. But the tourism status quo wasn’t working, it appears, and the country is now letting ordinary folk run the Twitter account. It’s already a bad idea! More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/YkzIVrYRtY0/sweden-gives-full-control-of-official-twitter-account-to-candid-masturbator STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION SONUS NETWORKS SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS [...]

Cybersecurity experts have been murmuring for some time that the United States’ power supply is open to cyberattacks. “If someone were to think about attacking another nation, the first thing they’d do is take out the power grid, since it’s the hub around which other infrastructure spokes revolve,” said Patrick Miller, president and CEO of [...]

The last time we visited the lovely realm of hyperspectral imaging, it was with regards to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Now, researchers at the University of Vienna are toying with it for learning. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/7eDL3RlK7qQ/turn-your-puny-dslr-into-a-hyperspectral-beast FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SVCS FISERV GOOGLE GRUPO IUSACELL HARRIS HCL TECHNOLOGIES HEWLETTPACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER HON HAI [...]

Dust off your Trapper Keeper and strap on those brand new sneakers, because Android school is now in session. Yesterday, the Android Developers team announced the launch of Android Training — a set of online classes designed to help users create better apps. The tutorials, available for free, provide aspiring devs with step-by-step instructions and [...]

That’s Sean Wingrove-Smith from Walderslade, England, up above, and doctors were able to give him a new ear thanks to a procedure that sounds like a verse out of Genesis. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/RF0gaanUocE/kid-gets-a-new-ear-made-from-his-own-rib INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS INTEL INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INGRAM MICRO INFORMATICA INFOCUS ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO XILINX

Coby has announced an upcoming line of Android Internet tablets that will be among the first to feature the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” OS.  They’ll be introduced at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2012.  There will be a 7″, 8″, 9″, 9.7″, and 10″ model, and all will have the [...]

How fast can your camera shoot photos? 60 frames per second? Pah. 1,000 fps? Puh-lease. What’s that? You have a Phantom camera that’ll shoot one million fps? Whatever. MIT’s new camera will shoot one trillion frames per second. Let’s put that in some perspective. One trillion seconds is over 31,688 years. So if you shot [...]

The bandages are barely off after a recent nip-tuck and the internet’s biggest time sink is going under the knife again with its new YouTube EDU initiative. Imagine your favorite video site with all the fun stuff stripped off — it’s essentially that. Gone are comments and related videos, and all the non brain-enhancing stuff, [...]

LG aren’t letting up on the LTE hardware. While we’ve only just shaken hands with AT&T’s Nitro HD, this Verizon-branded 4G handset packs several design cues (and specifications) from its rival network cousin. The LG Spectrum has already appeared — albeit fleetingly — in a database listing and is likely to be the successor to [...]

The Toshiba Thrive is definitely an affordable option for people who would really like an excellent Google android Tablet computer. Having a good quality display screen resolution, many different storage space options along with a powerful NVidia Tegra Dual Core processor chip, this particular tablet computer might just turn into a competitor to the best-selling [...]

AllThingsD is reporting that Microsoft is replacing Andy Lees as head of its Windows Phone division… sort of. It looks like Terry Myerson, who has headed up engineering efforts for the group, will take over many of Lees’ responsibilities, though, he wont be inheriting his title. At least not just yet. In a memo seen [...]

The mobile app marketplace is exploding; there are now hundreds of thousands of apps on the iOS, Android and BlackBerry app markets. Heck, even Windows Phone 7 just crossed the 10,000 mark! But alas, not all apps are created equal; some are way, way better than others. Which leads me to today’s Ask DLS question: [...]

E3 2011 Is A Wrap! The Beercan Bot: Frighten Your Drunk Friends DIY Geodesic Dome On Kickstarter Weekend Giveaway: A B&N Nook Japanese Robo-Drone Will Interrogate Your Leia Will iCloud Fly Or Die? (TCTV) Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/11/daily-crunch-dome-edition/ RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST SOFTWARE QUANTUM QLOGIC PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS PEROT SYSTEMS PALM OSI SYSTEMS ORACLE OPENWAVE SYSTEMS ON [...]

Optimus Prime and his posse might be able to defend our planet from the Decepticons, but when it comes to helping you accessorize an outfit at the last minute, this is the only transformer you’re going to want to rely on. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/1QGGr8HINug/vest+scarf-transformer-wont-save-the-planet-just-your-outfit MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS MICROSOFT MILLICOM INTL CELLULAR MOBILE TELESYSTEMS NANYA TECHNOLOGY [...]

Review: Kobo eReader Touch Edition Video: A Massive OLED Globe Fit For, Well, A Museum The Opena iPhone 4 Case Hides/Showcases Your Drinking Habit SugarSync Adds Mobile Device Management To Send Files To Devices From The Web Chair + Skateboard = Isukebo Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/14/daily-crunch-space-bird/ TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITED TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES [...]

Mozilla’s Engineering Project Manager, Christian Legnitto, has detailed the release schedule for Firefox 5, 6 and 7. If all goes to plan, Firefox 6.0a1 will be released next week, April 12, and Firefox 7.0a1 in the middle of May. The final build of Firefox 5 should be released on June 21, exactly three months after [...]

It’s not really a secret the Microsoft had planned on bringing bits of Windows Phone 7′s Metro UI to Windows 8, but we haven’t seen a lot of really telling evidence. However, with the Windows 8 milestone 3 build now available to Microsoft Connect partners, it was really just a matter of time before we [...]

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from [...]

Just days before Google’s next flagship smartphone launch, Google and Verizon are locked in a public battle over mobile payments, with both companies vying for a foothold in the fledgling mobile e-commerce arena. The issue in question: Whether Google’s e-commerce app — dubbed Google Wallet — should appear on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the biggest [...]

You know how sometimes when you squint at a piece of toast really hard, at just the right angle, a fully realized flesh and blood Jesus is suddenly sitting on your coffee table? No? Uh… yeah, totally, me neither. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zaWOtlVXyzg/this-weeks-top-web-comedy-video-jesus-toast SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS SILICON LABORATORIES SI INTERNATIONAL SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC GAMES SANDISK [...]

College. Ugh. Nonstop, privileged toil. Growing up is sooooo hard. Days without sleep, binge-drinking, experimenting with bodies—it’s a miracle that anyone learns anything. These gifts won’t print a diploma, but they will help your student earn one. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lH9qIYrdU-s/sanity+saving-gifts-for-the-stressed+out-student SANDISK SALESFORCE COM SAIC ROCKWELL AUTOMATION RF MICRO DEVICES RED HAT RADISYS RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST [...]

Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft’s wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today’s installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Windows App Store, which will likely feature prominently in Windows 8. We’ve got our doubts about the authenticity of the image. In addition to showing several of [...]

Just a little under two months after its release candidate went live, Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 has been finalized and released into the wild. The new version of Microsoft’s slick, do-it-all server OS is a big step forward from its predecessor. Built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 base, Home Server 2011 features a [...]

The weekend’s so close you can almost taste it. It tastes like lollipops and sunshine. Let’s kick off the week’s end with a free-gaming-app Friday edition of app deals. Space mining seems like a good idea for a game. But in reality, with dwindling resources on Earth, you could be learning a valuable job skill. [...]

CNET is reporting that Verizon is set to release two 4G Android tablets before the end of the year. They’re the Motorola Xoom 2 tablets we heard about but re-branded as Verizon Droid Xyboard tablets. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/QHjHdZHReUo/say-hello-to-verizons-4g-lte-droid-tablets-aka-the-xoom-2 HCL TECHNOLOGIES HEWLETTPACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER HON HAI PRECISION IND HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES [...]

Select Microsoft Connect partners — major players like HP — have been given their first taste of Windows 8. According to various sources, the build string currently sits at 7971.0.110324-1900, which is the third milestone build of the successor to Windows 7. So far, there haven’t been many details revealed about Windows 8. An actual [...]

It seems like every day there’s a new case out for the iPhone, and today is no different.  Today I submit for your perusal a review of an aluminum bumper-style case from Japanese design firm Draco Design, the Draco IV.  Is there enough here to differentiate it from the competition, or is it just another [...]

Mozy is one of the most popular cloud backup services around, with more than one million users storing around 70 petabytes of data. Its popularity apparently put it on the acquisition radar of VMware — which has now made Mozy part of its virtualization empire. VMware’s official blog post makes it clear that the company [...]

We’ve already seen it pass through the FCC and pop-up in a family-friendly video, but today, Acer’s Iconia Tab A200 has finally received official status, courtesy of an announcement obtained by Netbook News. Powered by NVIDIA’s 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, the company’s latest Android slate comes with 1GB of RAM and boasts a “generous” 10.1-inch [...]

Here’s a funny one from the Tokyo Motor Show. Daihatsu’s squarish concept EV van, dubbed the FC ShowCase, is basically a spacious four-seater packing plenty of goodies: a giant wing door, some blue lights on the wheels, an LED panel on the left skirt, side-view cameras instead of mirrors, a funky touch panel steering wheel, [...]

Jackson Pollock is one of my favorite artists—the depth and delicateness of his paint dribblings is simply sublime. Argentinian art collective Mondongo carries on his artistic legacy but without paint. Instead, they use Plasticine—melted modelling clay. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6WsknZCPl_M/art-collective-melts-modelling-clay-into-stunning-portraits INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INVENTEC KDDI KLATENCOR KONINKLIJKE KPN LAM RESEARCH LIBERTY GLOBAL LM ERICSSON LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL [...]

Google Voice Search has just introduced localizations for Latin America, Indonesia and Malaysia, enabling native language search for hundreds of millions of users. Google’s official blog post offers some interesting insights into the process of collecting and analyzing the speech data needed to expand support. Thousands of hours were spent gathering voice samples and choosing [...]

Google, according to reports from “a dozen executives working at key companies in the Android ecosystem” is finally locking down the open source and easily-fragmented Android operating system. As it currently stands, Google hands over the ‘final’ code for each version of Android, and OEMs and developers then spend some time customizing the OS to [...]

A little Wine with your Linux computing session can keep you using your favorite Microsoft Windows programs. What is Wine? Wine is a compatibility layer that’s sometimes referred to as an emulator, though it’s not “that kind” of emulator, according to the project’s wiki. Wine doesn’t do any CPU emulation, hence the acronym “Wine Is [...]

The Entertainment Software Rating Board and CTIA have unveiled a new rating system for mobile software applications intended to help parents monitor activity as the number of children with smartphones and access to wireless content increases. The ESRB has had a similar system in place for video games since 1994. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73861.html HEARTLAND PAYMENT SYSTEMS [...]

I really like watches, especially unusual ones.  The Phosphor Appear Black Crystal Watch with Black Gloss Leather Strap is certainly unusual.  It reminds me of eInk screens in a way.  Instead of using LEDs to show the time, these watches turn over crystals to show a clear side or a colored side to create the [...]

The developer of iCab Mobile, a feature-rich alternative to the Safari Web browser on iPad and iPhone, has been ordered by Apple to remove its ability to download and install JavaScript modules. Presumably it’s not the fact that iCab can execute JavaScript that’s causing Apple to apoplectically puff and splutter, but rather its ability to [...]

The first issue of Action Comics sold for 10 cents in 1938 and featured a brand new hero: Superman. Fast forward 73 years and that same comic leaps to over $2 million dollars in a single bound. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/gWGxudxRoNk/supermans-debut-steels-title-of-worlds-most-expensive-comic CDW CHINA MOBILE CISCO SYSTEMS COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS COMCAST COMMSCOPE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS COMPAL ELECTRONICS COSMOTE [...]

hould Apple allow tethering apps in the App Store?Twice now, once with Netshare in 2008 and now again with iTether in 2011, Apple has initially approved and then turned around a rejected an app that let iPhone users tether for free. While some carriers in some… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/CDl-aRVLQCw/story01.htm L1 IDENTITY SOLUTIONS KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY KEY [...]

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Japanese Robot Company Proves Even The Weirdest, Biggest Mechs Can Sell Angry Birds Games And Videos Coming To A Roku Near You Idea Flight Turns iPads Into Presentation Platform We?re (Almost) Live At E3 2011 In Los Angeles George Plimpton?s Video Falconry Is A Real [...]

Missed a compelling piece of iPhone news, a great review, or a killer how-to? We’re not collecting absolutely everything in iPhone here — you can hit up TiPb.com/iPhone for that! — but we’re carefully picking what we think is the best of the last 7 days and presenting… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/MfPbfeYkxKA/story01.htm TERADATA TELETECH HOLDINGS TECHNITROL TAKETWO [...]

Spotify has grand visions for their streaming music service, which go beyond its current status as a self-contained, self-developed set of apps. They want to open the service up to any developer that wants to add content and functionality to the service. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nOW5MMRhX0A/spotifys-apps-make-it-more-than-just-a-service-its-a-platform INFORMATICA INFOCUS ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO XILINX WESTERN DIGITAL [...]

What if you could see color like Renoir, Rembrandt, Matisse, Dalí or Picasso? What if you could “borrow” their talents, taking your own photo in their colors? Well, you can. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you will. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b4dk0tFI5po/shooting-challenge-thieve-colors-from-famous-paintings RADISYS RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST SOFTWARE QUANTUM QLOGIC PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS PEROT SYSTEMS PALM [...]

Want a digital personal assistant like Siri but without all that iPhone? You’re not alone. Cluzee, a new app for Android, promises to fill that void. Unfortunately, Cluzee needs a little more time in temp school. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/qPZNX_7hTsw/siri-for-android-sucks-even-worse-than-siri-for-iphone CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR ACCENTURE ACER ADOBE SYSTEMS ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL [...]

Version 5.3 of Skype for Windows has just been released, with the main emphasis of the new release being improved call quality, and the quality of video received by mobile Skype users. Presumably one party of the video call must be using Skype for Windows 5.3, though. Beyond improved call quality, not much has changed. [...]

This morning, Corel released VideoStudio X4. We’ve already published a quick overview and hands-on of the application, and now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for: We’re giving away ten full licenses of this new version, each worth $99.99! To enter our random draw, you just have to leave a comment. Full terms and [...]

Ahh, Gogo, what a fantastic addition you’ve been to domestic airline travel. Besides keeping rowdy kids entertained with internet access, it affords well-traveled tech bloggers the ability to do what we do at 30,000 feet. And now, Gogo’s wondrous WiFi will do the same for international passengers thanks to Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite internet service. [...]

Rejoice! No longer will you have to fork over $700 for a Photoshop CS5 license! Adobe has unveiled a new subscription scheme where you can rent the entire Creative Suite, or individual packages, by the month, or for an entire year. Adobe Photoshop can be yours for $35 per month if you agree to rent [...]

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So this professor comes up with a new toilet cleaner that works by “eating” the dirt; or so he thinks. That’s how the plot starts for Tasty Planet. You play the role of the toilet cleaner, but you’re not really a toilet cleaner after all — you’re a blob of gray goo that can eat [...]

Images that circulated on Monday suggest an imminent follow-up to Motorola’s highly successful Droid smartphone. Technology blog Droid Life acquired images of what look like spec sheets for the Droid 4, the aptly named fourth iteration of Motorola handsets, offered by Verizon. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/motorola-droid-4-leaked-pics/ ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS CDW [...]

There was some smoke earlier today when word hit that Best Buy’s maybe pulling the plug on the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now we have the makings of a fire(sale). The Verge is reporting that RIM employees can now buy the PlayBook at steep, oh-god-please-take-it discounts. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/BWW1c2XHviw/the-great-blackberry-playbook-firesale-might-be-around-the-corner AVNET BHARTI AIRTEL BT GROUP CANON MEMC [...]

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from [...]

Those travel-savvy folks at Tom Bihn are at it again, having not long ago introduced their new Cadet minimalist laptop bag and now three more new travel items.  The Travel Tray is a container to keep track of your loose pocket-sized items during your journey.  It collapses flat and closes with a drawstring.  One size, [...]

“Dusting for prints” has been a mainstay of forensic investigations since the late 1880′s—employing a developer powder to add enough contrast for the fingerprint to show up in photographs. But what about latent prints or those on visually dense, multi-color surfaces? The Crime-lite ASV System can image them—with infrared lasers. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6XcKRkOR67Y/the-crime+lite-system-can-spot-a-culprits-invisible-fingerprints RESEARCH IN [...]

“Dusting for prints” has been a mainstay of forensic investigations since the late 1880′s—employing a developer powder to add enough contrast for the fingerprint to show up in photographs. But what about latent prints or those on visually dense, multi-color surfaces? The Crime-lite ASV System can image them—with infrared lasers. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6XcKRkOR67Y/the-crime+lite-system-can-spot-a-culprits-invisible-fingerprints MCAFEE MAXIMUS [...]

Best Buy launches a big sale on BlackBerry PlayBooks. “Everything’s fine guys!” says BlackBerry. Best Buy dumps its PlayBook stash and doesn’t seem interested in replacing them. “Um, guys? Is this what death feels like?” More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/e00FURCrgt4/does-best-buy-deleting-the-blackberry-playbooks-page-herald-the-end MAXIMUS MANTECH INTERNATIONAL MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES LSI LINEAR TECHNOLOGY LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LAWSON SOFTWARE LAND SOFTWARE [...]

There was some smoke earlier today when word hit that Best Buy’s maybe pulling the plug on the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now we have the makings of a fire(sale). The Verge is reporting that RIM employees can now buy the PlayBook at steep, oh-god-please-take-it discounts. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/BWW1c2XHviw/the-great-blackberry-playbook-firesale-might-be-around-the-corner ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL [...]

There are things you need to be afraid of when you’re a new parent. There’s gluten, pull cords, Disney products, and BHP, to be sure, but what about wild robotic strollers that look as if they’ll eat your wee ones in one snap of their plastic jaws? Luckily, the 4moms Origami stroller won’t close on [...]

Ever wonder what a jetpack is good for, besides fulfilling dreams and fighting Nazis? Well, Martin wants you to know there are, in fact, practical applications for its $86,000 personal propulsion system. According to the aviation company everyone from emergency responders to search and rescue teams to military personnel could find a place for the [...]

Google sneaks Chrome onto the iPad. You can kinda, sorta get Facebook Timelines without Facebook’s help. And if your sick of turkey, make your own pizza while sipping a delicious cocktail. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/I0PgjNPbvsE/ QUANTA COMPUTER RESEARCH IN MOTION ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS CDW CHINA MOBILE CISCO SYSTEMS COGNIZANT [...]

Mozilla Messaging, citing Mozilla’s increased focus on Web-borne communications, will be reintegrating with Mozilla Labs. The Messaging subsidiary was formed in 2008 to focus on Thunderbird, but given Mozilla Labs’ current focus on identity and contact management, it now makes sense for the groups to be merged. Thunderbird will be unaffected by the change — [...]

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 Simon, who seems interested in something a bit more… substantial than in-ear monitors, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. [...]

Before you get too excited, you can’t actually turn your iPad or iPhone’s “slide to unlock” feature into a twisting race course. What you see here is actually an interactive ad created by Audi for the iPad, promoting their magazine. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/em9CMobdgzU/audi-ad-turns-the-ipads-slide-to-unlock-into-a-twisting-driving-course ON SEMICONDUCTOR NVIDIA NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS NOVELLUS SYSTEMS NOVELL NETWORK APPLIANCE NETGEAR NCR [...]

Once upon a time, there used to be a DOS game with a caveman and a human powered helicopter. The caveman would shuttle around the screen, madly trying to get customers to where they wanted to go. Jetbus is not that game, but it’s obviously inspired by it. You’re driving a yellow school bus which [...]

This week on the Engadget Mobile Podcast: domination. All kinds, really: world, universe, marketplace. Come find peace inner peace in megalomania with your regular hosts and their bud Phil Nickinson from androidcentral.com. What else were you gonna do, go shopping? Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen, Joseph Volpe Guest: Phil Nickinson Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: [...]

As several of you noted in the comments to our post asking for cross-platform iOS/Android games, Words With Friends for Android does not provide the smoothest gaming experience… and that’s being rather charitable. You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of [...]

I’ve recently become a fan of Field Notes notebooks because they are small, made in the US and have a cool retro look that appeals to me. These notebooks are designed to be shoved in a pocket, which is convenient, but after while will probably cause the notebook to become bent or overly worn. Corter [...]

Pastebin is a very popular website aimed at coders and other nerdy types, which allows them (or should I say, us) to paste and share snippets of code with lovely syntax highlighting. It has recently undergone a major overhaul which includes the release of a brand new Windows client. The new client lets you create [...]

If you have an artistic temperament, but you weren’t blessed with steady hands or an eye for color, Konstruct might be the app for you. Not only does the iPhone app let you produce generative art using words, warbles and whistles, but it also uses augmented reality to bring your artistic creation to life. To [...]

Corel seems to be on a roll lately; after releasing WinZip System Utilities just last week, this morning the company announced VideoStudio Pro X4. VideoStudio Pro is aimed at home users and small business professionals who want to create professional-looking videos, but without the hassle, steep learning curve and price of Adobe Premiere Pro and [...]

Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you’re hooked. The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You [...]

Okay, I know what you’re thinking: chocolate on Download Squad? That’s right! That’s because Chocomize is one of the nerdiest ways to get chocolate online: it’s a website where you customize your own bar using a multi-step process. We’ve covered Chocomize before in our holiday gift guide, so when they reached out to us offering [...]

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it’s now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system’s hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of [...]

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox – that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background. When [...]

What better way to spend this post-turkey day than curling up with a brand new edition of Engadget Distro? This issue we cover Barnes and Noble’s creatively named Nook Tablet, HTC’s stellar new smartphone, the Rezound, and Toshiba’s Ultrabook contender, the Portege Z835. We’re also serving up a piping hot dish of a Samsung Galaxy [...]

Here we are again. It’s another Thanksgiving Day where most of us probably woke up to thoughts of turkey dinners, parades, football games and family visits. While you’re compiling your list for your Black Friday shopping adventures tomorrow, please don’t forget to spend a few minutes today to give thanks for all the important people [...]

Dell’s approach to letting customers configure their PCs can be a little daunting, so I applaud them for providing helpful advice. Except in this instance where an image implied that choosing a cheaper graphics card would mean a blurry desktop. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/jZLj7bR7UIU/dell-called-out-for-misleading-graphics-card-advice SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS CDW CHINA MOBILE CISCO SYSTEMS COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS [...]

Most of the watchband cases for the iPod nano have one thing in common – some part of the iPod comes into contact with your skin.  People who wear their iPods while exercising or working intensely find it eventually suffers damage from coming into contact with sweat.  Quad Mountain has developed a watchband for the [...]

Mozy is one of the most popular cloud backup services around, with more than one million users storing around 70 petabytes of data. Its popularity apparently put it on the acquisition radar of VMware — which has now made Mozy part of its virtualization empire. VMware’s official blog post makes it clear that the company [...]

Rejoice! No longer will you have to fork over $700 for a Photoshop CS5 license! Adobe has unveiled a new subscription scheme where you can rent the entire Creative Suite, or individual packages, by the month, or for an entire year. Adobe Photoshop can be yours for $35 per month if you agree to rent [...]

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place. Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, [...]

iSites — a zero-code cloud-based ‘app creator’ — can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed ‘InstantApp’, you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android and iOS, and as an HTML5 iPhone app. We haven’t looked at iSites before, but [...]

As we head into Thanksgiving and get ready to spend some time with family, we'd like just like to say we're thankful for all you Android Central readers out there. You folks are the ones that make our content here and in the forums happen and we appreciate that. That said; check out some of [...]

We’ve already seen Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, or ICS, run smoothly on a phone. But the real draw is seeing how well it performs on a tablet, as it’s the first version of Android designed to run on both smartphones and tablets. Well, the wait is over. On Tuesday, Nvidia released a video [...]

A small water utility in Illinois has been hacked, reportedly leading the FBI and the United States Department of Homeland Security to look into the matter. The attack came from Russia, according to control systems cybersecurity expert Joseph Weiss, who publicized the matter in his blog. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73805.html HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES [...]

Everywhere you look you see Ice Cream Sandwich being ported to one phone or another.  Anytime there's a version update to AOSP, it's fun to be an Android geek.  And every time it happens, and our great community of developers start porting it over to existing phones we start seeing apps that just aren't working [...]

You know those fridge magnet kits composed of a whole bunch of words? The ones you put all over your fridge door and then try to arrange into all sorts of juvenile and/or amusing sentences. Well, Farragomate is the social, webby version of that very same pastime. You get to play with a bunch of [...]

We’ve been excited about the new Muppets movie for months, and now it’s here. Have you seen it? We have! And we love it. And we love you too, so here’s a Muppets/Gizmodo ringtone—totally free. Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Muppetsgiving! More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/C0K2HEDBl1Y/download-the-muppets-gizmodo-ringtone-for-free ASML HOLDING ASUSTEK COMPUTER ATandT AUTODESK AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AVNET BHARTI AIRTEL BT [...]

Mimo Monitors has just announced their Magic Touch 10.1″ Capacitive Touchscreen.  While a touch screen is nothing new and neither is video via USB connection, the Magic Touch manages to combine both and can be connected using a single USB 2.0 cable.  Running  a resolution of 1024X600 it’s only fully touch compatible with Windows 7 and [...]

It’s one of the most popular online t-shirt stores, but just in time for the start of the holiday shopping rush Threadless is testing a small number of vending machines throughout its hometown of Chicago. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/r-MViwHVcgU/threadless-testing-vending-machines-for-those-who-still-dont-shop-online VERISIGN VERIFONE HOLDINGS VEECO INSTRUMENTS VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES UNITED ONLINE UNISYS TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITED [...]

No one wants to be coughing up turkey dust after eating your dry-as-a-bone bird. I know, I know, you cooked it in a bag and used your favorite aunt’s recipe that she swears that she only shared with you. So how could it go wrong? Maybe the one-size-fits-all cooking time and temperature that was printed [...]

There are two new studies out that confirm, once again, that drug-resistant staph or MRSA – normally thought of as a problem in hospitals and out in everyday life, in schoolkids, sports teams, jails and gyms – is showing up in animals and in the meat those animals become. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/cCfVOw_lAAI/more-mrsa-found-in-supermarket-turkey ORACLE OPENWAVE SYSTEMS [...]

Even though Ice Cream Sandwich is popping up everywhere since its source code was released to the public, we’ve got to give a shout out now that its been squeezed onto the original Google phone, HTC’s G1. The G1 was last seen sporting an unofficial Honeycomb port, and now jcarrz1 from XDA-Developers is showing off [...]

If Monday’s $250 iPhone Lens Dial was a little too rich for you, may I suggest taking a look at the Olloclip, an equally capable triple-lens add-on for the iPhone which is cheaper and smaller than the giant, turret-like Lens Dial case. Olloclip is an aluminum kit consisting of two main parts. The first is [...]

The Legend Of Zelda: A Generation?s Awakening Sega Toys? R2-D2 Homestar Planetarium Shows The Death Star Surveillant Society ?Rotary Mechanical? Cell Phone Concept Isn?t Practical, But It Looks Great 11 Great Last Minute Geeky Father?s Day Gifts Weekend Giveaway: Man Cave Gear For Pops Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/18/daily-crunch-moon-phase/ ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC ARTS ECLIPSYS EASTMAN KODAK CO [...]

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox – that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background. When [...]

Usually, when we start talking terahertz, it means one thing: lasers! But not today, friends. Today, we’re talking something with a little less flash and a little more potential for everyday use. ROHM, a Japanese electronics component manufacturer, has developed a chip measuring just 1.5mm by 3mm that can transmit data at up to 1.5Gbps [...]

We’ve rounded up 16 apps to help you sail through the holidays problem-free. So, whether you’re traveling, cooking, entertaining the kiddies, or doing some serious credit card damage in the malls or online, here are some suggestions that should make this, well, “festive” time of the year just a bit more palatable. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/holiday-survival-apps/ KDDI [...]

Even though the very newest gadgets and gizmos are our lifeblood, we’re also in love with products that achieved perfection ages ago. We’re dedicating a section of Gizmodo Gallery to iconic product designs so excellent that history won’t forget them. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lmwaax10W_o/past-perfect-at-gizmodo-gallery IMATION IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS IDT IBASIS HYPERCOM HEWLETT PACKARD CO HEARTLAND PAYMENT [...]

You hear that Samsung? HP’s number two. For now at least. The PC maker, which snuffed out its line of webOS devices not all that long ago, managed to grab the number two spot in the tablet race between January and October, according to analyst group, NPD. The news comes thanks in part, no doubt, [...]

One click; just one single well-aimed click. That’s all you get in Boomshine. That single click triggers a chain reaction; circles start exploding, and other circles colliding with the shockwaves explode as well, creating their own shockwaves, which then catch other circles. It’s been done before, yes, but this one is a great iteration. The [...]

Zoho has offered an iOS app for a while now — at least for the iPhone and iPod touch. Those of you who have been wanting to use the Zoho app on your iPad were out of luck, but that’s no longer the case. Zoho Docs 2.0 has landed in the App Store, and the [...]

The Kindle Fire just started shipping, and Amazon is of course ready with some cases for you.  It seems that Amazon is seeing the Fire as a reader instead of a tablet, at least based on the selection of covers.  It seems most of them are sleeves or book-style covers and not stands.  The Verso [...]

Despite its truly awful camera, the iPad 2 is what I take most of my photos with these days. Why? Because the photos are easy to share, and easy for me to browse and play around with. And Shoebox is an app that will help you to do that with all your old paper photos. [...]

After having already arrived on a host of Android slates, iPads and even TouchPads, Zinio’s reader app has now made its way to the newest tablet platform — the Kindle Fire. The magazine marketplace made its debut on the Amazon Appstore today, just in time for today’s grand launch. Available as a free download, Zinio [...]

Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they?re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related,… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/7o9vtXA-3Xg/story01.htm CANON MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS [...]

When someone tells me about a “platformer”, my first thought is that it’s probably a simple game that mainly revolves around running and jumping around, with a minimal plot. [Play a Zelda game! -Ed] Elephant Quest is one platformer that managed to prove me completely wrong. Yes, you do run and jump around, and you [...]

If you play Scrabble (or a scrabble-like game) from time to time, you may want to check out Scrabble Helper. This simple website is a godsend when you’re at a loss for words. Simply enter whatever letters you have, and the word you’d like to connect with. Scrabble helper comes up with a whole bunch [...]

The Moto Razr’s out today, which means the fine folks at iFixit tore it apart piece by piece like hungry direwolves to give us the scoop on what’s inside. Here’s what the found. (Spoiler: Kevlar and skinnyness) More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/rWDb3EXtOAQ/ PEROT SYSTEMS PALM OSI SYSTEMS ORACLE OPENWAVE SYSTEMS ON SEMICONDUCTOR NVIDIA NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS NOVELLUS SYSTEMS [...]

Kinda no way to sugar coat this: Logitech views the Revue and Google TV as a big fat failure, with CEO Guerrino De Luca telling investors and analysts this week that it "cost us dearly" — to the tune of some $100 million in profits. In a long and winding statement, De Luca tells of [...]

Since its release, Sprint has skirted around any discussion regarding the locked/unlocked status of the iPhone 4S SIM slot. Apparently the Sprint iPhone 4S SIM slots have been unlocked, but according to SprintFeed they’ll be locked starting today. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/2rTI_mN-6-M/before-today-all-sprint-iphone-4s-sim-slots-were-unlocked ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL ANIXTER [...]

iSites — a zero-code cloud-based ‘app creator’ — can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed ‘InstantApp’, you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android and iOS, and as an HTML5 iPhone app. We haven’t looked at iSites before, but [...]

Of Facebook’s 800 million active users, more than 350 million of them currently access Facebook through mobile devices, according to the company. October saw Facebook’s updated Messenger app, labeled 1.5, rolling out to iOS, Android and BlackBerry with updated features, including the ability to see when someone is typing, and verify that they haven’t fallen [...]

It's 1984 all over again, folks, and not in the scary way. The original Boulder Dash has come to the Android Market, bringing with it not one but five games (four accessible via in-app upgrades). It's got all of the classic Boulder Dash creatures and features, original retro graphics for the last three cave backs [...]

Plus, we've got 500 beta codes! There aren’t many truly successful free-to-play RPGs out there for mobile. As a WoW addict, Spacetime Studios certainly holds my interest with mobile MMORPGs Pocket Legends and Star Legends, but I’ll admit there are time issues involved like any other MMORPG. You just can’t get things done without a [...]

The newly refreshed Xbox.com is now live for one and all, offering its new Social area and beacons that were detailed previously. Of course, if you’re averse to commitment (or just like buying your Xbox Live subscription in the form of cards only when they’re on sale) the biggest new addition may be what your [...]

We barely recovered from Nokia’s futuristic concept buffet at Nokia World, but a new video has unearthed the deceptively named Humanform. Fortunately not shaped like a dolly, this teardrop device cooked up Nokia’s in-house labs supposedly uses some as-yet unexplained nanotechnology, with a bendable transparent display and a fully touch sensitive casing. The segmented design [...]

Check out our Nook Tablet hands-on! Retailer hhgregg this morning announced that along with Barnres & Noble, it, too, will be carrying the Nook Tablet, BN's second generation of its Android-based e-reader. It'll be priced the same — $249 — and accessories will be available as well. hhgregg also will be carrying the Android-based Nook [...]

SandForce-equipped SSDs are seemingly all the rage nowadays, but lest we forget that others, like Marvell, have some peppy controllers of their own. Step up Corsair, who’s just announced its new Marvell-equipped line of SATA 3 Performance Pro Series 6Gb/s SSDs. These 2.5-inch storage slabs can achieve 515 MB/s read and 440 MB/s sequential write [...]

The BlackBerry of the future may just unlock new doors — literally. This week, RIM inked a new partnership with Sweden’s own Assa Abloy, the company behind those NFC-enabled door locks we’ve seen in recent years. In a statement released Tuesday, Assa Abloy said it was working with the handset manufacturer to develop similar key [...]

The US Senate is slated to vote on a repeal of the FCC’s controversial net neutrality regulations today, just a few days before they’re scheduled to go into effect. Today’s vote, like most these days, is expected to be divided along party lines, with most Democrats standing in favor of the rules, and Republicans calling [...]

PenGo Creative has developed a stylus pen with interchangeable tips to give you the greatest control over your creativity.  The BrushPen comes with a 6mm rubber tip (the smallest tip on the market), an 8mm rubber tip, and a brush tip with actual bristles.  With the brush, you’ll feel like you’re actually painting on your [...]

Sure they’re “stylish and light,” but is that enough of a lure to rope you into the Lumia line’s Mangofied wares? You’d want something a little extra to compensate for the underspecced goods, like a spate of exclusive apps, perhaps. Well, the good news is you don’t have to buy what Espoo’s selling to get [...]

Dear Lifehacker,I love having a smartphone, and Wi-Fi’s nearly everywhere these days, so I’d rather not pay $30 a month for data. Sadly, most of the cellphone carriers require that I purchase a data plan. Is there any way I can get out of it? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ZHhaVfHJTcc/how-can-i-use-my-smartphone-without-a-data-plan MICROSOFT MILLICOM INTL CELLULAR MOBILE TELESYSTEMS NANYA [...]

Using some early numbers from both StatCounter and Net Applications, Mozilla’s noisiest hominid, Asa Dotzler, has illustrated Firefox 4′s meteoric rise to around 5% of Web browser global usage share. Internet Explorer 9, which launched two weeks ago, seems to be enjoying a much more casual stroll in the park with just 1.5% of the [...]

An iOS security exploit, unveiled by security researcher Charlie Miller, allows an app to download and execute unsigned code from a remote unknown server. What?s even more astonishing, to prove the exact details of this hack, Charlie Miller developed and submitted an app containing the exploit to Apple. The… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/zRKUszjy0mY/story01.htm INTEL INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INGRAM [...]

Yesterday we reviewed Sony’s HMZ-T1 3DTV Headset and while it provides a great 3D experience, it completely removes the viewer from the world around them. That’s not the case with Epson’s new see-through Moverio BT-100 video glasses. They allow for a private viewing experience while still allowing the wearer to keep an eye on their [...]

If you’re lucky enough to own an Xperia Play — Sony Ericsson’s new Gingerbread-powered smartphone-cum-gamepad — you can now buy PlayStation (PSX) titles from the Android Market. There are five titles currently available, all priced at £3.99: Syphon Filter, MediEvil, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, and Jumping Flash. They don’t have an American price yet, [...]

The folks from Big Blue Bubble have now taken the wraps off their latest in the Burn The Rope series for Android. Burn The Rope Worlds is now available for download in the Android Market and with it, you'll get four new Worlds to explore including Jungle, Mechanical, Fantasy and Space. Those four new Worlds [...]

How did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt get into the Waldorf-Astoria without alerting the paparazzi? A secret subterranean train station, obviously. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nG2nzCGlDQQ/this-hotels-secret-presidential-entrance-was-a-working-train-station SYNNEX SYMANTEC SYKES ENTERPRISES INORATED SYBASE SUN MICROSYSTEMS STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION SONUS NETWORKS SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS

Honda Asimo, the frighteningly realistic yet increasingly useless humanoid robot, has learned another new trick! It can pour drinks. Watch Asimo roll out a cart, open up a thermos, grab the cup, tilt the cup, pour, finish the pour and hand it off to a pretty lady. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/e5IEcjwgmFU/watch-a-honda-asimo-pretend-to-be-a-bartender-and-pour-drinks QUANTUM QLOGIC PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR [...]

Unlike the GoPro Hero2 which needs a housing to protect it from the elements, Oregon Scientific’s ATC Mini is waterproof right out of the box. Ready to capture your extreme underwater exploits to a depth of 66 feet, though at a disappointing 720P. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/HE_Xc7s33D0/waterproof-atc-mini-captures-extreme-sports-at-a-not-so-extreme-720p SUN MICROSYSTEMS STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION SONUS [...]

Here’s one for our knowledgeable commenters: I recently bought my girlfriend an iPad. I, on the other hand, own an Android device. And now we’re looking for games we can play using both devices. There’s no dearth of multiplayer games either for Android or for iOS. But finding multiplayer games that can cross the platform [...]

Okay, see that snaking line coming in from the right on the screenshot? That’s you. And see those large round circles? Those are supposedly grapefruits, only they won’t sit still – they keep moving up and down and cutting across your path. And if you touch one, you die! That’s what you have to deal [...]

Belkin is set to release a remote camera shutter controller for the iPhone according to information found in an FCC filing. The small accessory will work over a Bluetooth connection to your iPhone and it can activate the camera shutter or trigger video recording remotely. The camera… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/UTZ9eOouZwQ/story01.htm ARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ARROW ELECTRONICS ASML [...]

Color us skeptical on this one, but rumors are coming down the pipeline about an HTC phone called the Edge. It’s supposedly going to be the first Tegra 3-powered smartphone. According to Pocketnow, the device will supposedly offer a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU, 4.7-inch 720p HD display, 1GB of RAM, an 8MP rear camera with f/2.2 [...]

Today’s LogicBUY Deal is a bundle of two 24″ Dell ST2420L 1080p monitors for $389.99.  Features: full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, 250nit brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio, tilt adjustment stand, glossy front bezel, DVI-D (HDCP), VGA, and HDMI connectors. $519.98 ? $129.99 off  =  $389.99 with free shipping  This price is $195 per monitor and [...]

Everyone stay alert! Do a barrel roll! Or let Google do it for you. No, seriously. Go to Google and type in “Do a barrel roll” and watch, well, I won’t ruin it for you. (LMGTFY link) Alternatively you could type “z or r twice”, which is a reference to the maneuver in Star Fox. [...]

We’ve been waiting for honest-to-goodness tractor beams since Shatner was still sitting in the captain’s chair. Now—finally—NASA’s investing real cash money to spur the development of Zero Point technology. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/2jEF6ROo4Bw/nasa-drops-a-hundred-grand-on-tractor-beam-research COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS COMPAL ELECTRONICS COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOM DLINK DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS DIRECTV GROUP ELPIDA MEMORY EMC FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SVCS FISERV GOOGLE GRUPO [...]

With the webOS 3.0 SDK available for almost two months, HP has now given developers access to a beta download of webOS 3.0 — which powers the upcoming TouchPad and will likely ride along on HP desktops and laptops in the form of an emulator. Right now, the webOS 3.0 beta is only available to [...]

Mozilla Messaging, citing Mozilla’s increased focus on Web-borne communications, will be reintegrating with Mozilla Labs. The Messaging subsidiary was formed in 2008 to focus on Thunderbird, but given Mozilla Labs’ current focus on identity and contact management, it now makes sense for the groups to be merged. Thunderbird will be unaffected by the change — [...]

A great way to spruce up your Etsy product page is with 3D models of the items. But, problem is the process of generating these models can be prohibitively time- and money- intensive. HP’s new TopShot printer aims to change that. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FM8sYEA-Ods/hps-topshot-printer-is-all-that-and-a-3d-scanner RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST SOFTWARE QUANTUM QLOGIC PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS PEROT [...]

China has the most cell phone users in the world, and according to mobile app analytics firm Flurry, they’re using apps more than they ever have before. For their latest report, Flurry tracked mobile app sessions (essentially, instances of use) across 120,000 apps from January to October 2011. Among other things, they were able to [...]

Ghostie is a new side-scrolling iPhone game that has got me hooked. In this game, you must help the little square-shaped ghost, Ghostie, get past various obstacles and pits to complete each level. The screen is constantly scrolling and you have only one control – jump. I… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/3wfgBGoXz7g/story01.htm AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL ANIXTER [...]

Google Chrome 11 — which just recently made the move to the browser’s beta channel — has received a minor update that gives developers access to two new APIs. The first is a full-featured proxy API, which will, for example, allow users to set different proxy servers for normal browsing and Incognito mode. Proxy auto-config [...]

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from [...]

Apple’s Soho store is currently undergoing renovations which presumably means they’ll be replacing old glass with new glass. Yawn. As slick as Apple stores can be, I’m over it. I want something like Apple’s Covent Garden store in London. Something like this new temporary store in Soho. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Iq-3B7WLqxA/ METHODE ELECTRONICS MENTOR GRAPHICS IMS [...]

The Washington Post has highlighted some of the pieces at a new exhibit in the CIA‘s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The most striking one is this one: a letter written by Lieutenant Richard Helms on Hitler’s stationery. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/QWkMEOohaYk/the-letter-a-soldier-wrote-to-his-son-on-hitlers-stationary SPANSION SONUS NETWORKS SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS SILICON LABORATORIES SI INTERNATIONAL SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC GAMES [...]

If you or a friend have a baby, you need to start the young geekling off correctly with this Star Trek Enterprise Light-Up Feeding System from ThinkGeek.  The set includes a bib with motion-activated LEDs and a feeding spoon.  The Enterprise has an on/off switch and comes with three pop-off spoon attachments.  The bib and [...]

Mozilla, continuing its year-long crusade to speed up Firefox startup and shutdown times, has published a name and shame list of the Firefox’s slowest add-ons. The list is just one part of Mozilla’s new efforts to highlight slow add-ons, and to help developers make their add-ons more efficient. Over the next two weeks, ‘slow performance [...]

Arrested Development. It’s high effing larry us. Everyone know’s that. It’s also re effing dick you less how everyone in this entire world claims that they loved, adored and watched the Bluth family from the very beginning. Really mom? You watched it too!? And now I’m not accusing anyone of lying but if everyone who [...]

Google apparently is set to open a new office on the Gulf Coast, according to the Mobile Press-Register newspaper. We're not talking a sprawling, Mountain View-type campus, Dan Murtaugh writes on the paper's website, but, rather, a storefront office that will be part of an iniative to get more businesses to create mobile versions of [...]

Happy first birthday, Windows Phone 7! One year on, and the fledgling mobile operating system has 36,000 active developers in its AppHub community, 1.5 million downloads of its Developer Tools, and 11,500 apps in its Marketplace. Microsoft is quick to take a couple shots at competitors’ app stores, beating its chest about not re-counting tanslations [...]

Mozilla’s Engineering Project Manager, Christian Legnitto, has detailed the release schedule for Firefox 5, 6 and 7. If all goes to plan, Firefox 6.0a1 will be released next week, April 12, and Firefox 7.0a1 in the middle of May. The final build of Firefox 5 should be released on June 21, exactly three months after [...]

Nascar fans rejoice! Right out of the gates following the recent Google TV update announcement they have launched their own Nascar.com Live app into the market.  Promising access to HD on demand content as well as all manner of information on your favourite drivers, teams and circuits the first racing app for Google TV is squarely [...]

Samsung recently gave more details on the availability of the Galaxy Note across Europe. The device launched over the weekend in Germany, and will roll out across the UK and mainland Europe between now and Nov. 25 on a variety of carriers. Here's your country-by-country breakdown: Germany (out now) – Vodafone, DT, O2 Netherlands (Nov. [...]

Right on cue, Google has launched in-app payment support for Android applications. Developer testing began last week, and now many popular apps — like the ones pictured above — can begin charging users for add-on functionality, content, or whatever the heck else they feel is worthy of additional bits of your pocket change. If you [...]

If the sight of Boston Dynamics’ unstoppable Alpha Dog didn’t convince you of the coming robot apocalypse, then perhaps a glimpse of its bipedal relative, PETMAN, will. Last time we saw the two-legged bot, It was walking well enough, but it lacked the humanoid visage needed to infiltrate and overthrow. In the time since, however, [...]

Amazon’s recently-introduced Cloud Drive is a great place to store your files online. It offers 5 gigs of totally free space, and U.S. users also get access to the handy Cloud Player app (for Web and Android!) which streams music you upload to your Cloud Drive. The service could be a little easier to use, [...]

MacRumors and Heylookitsseric are both claiming Apple will be updating their Apple Store app to allow customers self-service checkout for off-the-shelf items like iPhone and iPad cases at Apple Retail. Apple is also updating its own Apple store app on iPhone/iPod to incorporate EasyPay that allows customers to … Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/hjUPilOJ2Fc/ UNISYS TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR TRIMBLE [...]

Looking to make a rebound in the ailing TV business, Sony has announced that it will split its television division into three. According to Reuters, the company is looking to keep operations in check with separate departments for LCD TVs, outsourcing and next-gen TVs. The company is wasting no time, as the move will take [...]

While not a game per se, I found Mitoza intriguing enough to spend quite some time with it. You start off with a seed, and are then presented with two choices: you can either click a flower pot, or click a cute little birdie. If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and [...]

Congratulations Bright House Networks customers, your off-brand Time Warner Cable experience now includes live TV streaming on your iPad. The Bright House TV tablet app has hit iTunes and is, unsurprisingly, a direct clone of the TWCable TV app, although it’s not the latest version as it doesn’t have parental controls yet. Otherwise it’s basically [...]

Darpa has done some incredible things—Internet, hayyy! But they also have a knack for the ridiculous. Case in point: approving these two designs for a flying car, which look like they were drawn by 2nd graders. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Zd5EvUi874s/the-government-is-broke-because-it-takes-these-idiotic-flying-cars-seriously APPLIED MATERIALS ARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ARROW ELECTRONICS ASML HOLDING ASUSTEK COMPUTER ATandT AUTODESK AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING [...]

Nokia’s big announcement isn’t until tomorrow, but it looks like some of the surprise has now been spoiled by a leak out of Nokia World in London. As you can see in the image above obtained by WinRumors, Nokia is apparently set to announce the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, both of which of course [...]

We’ve been looking at some pretty cool Kinect and Windows interactions for a while now, but we were hoping that the release of an official SDK would lead to even more coolness. Evoluce has stepped up, and is now offering Win&I — a full-featured gesture control system for Windows 7. The company claims that a [...]

From an aesthetic point of view, draping Apple products in carbon fiber is a staggeringly obvious idea. Staggeringly expensive, too—Apple’s never gotten past a concept. But if you can’t have carbon fiber iProducts, here’s the next best thing. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/hQmLImpzWa8/ MOTOROLA MOODYS MISCROSOFT OFFICE MICROSOFT MICROSEMI MICROS SYSTEMS MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY METHODE ELECTRONICS [...]

The developer of iCab Mobile, a feature-rich alternative to the Safari Web browser on iPad and iPhone, has been ordered by Apple to remove its ability to download and install JavaScript modules. Presumably it’s not the fact that iCab can execute JavaScript that’s causing Apple to apoplectically puff and splutter, but rather its ability to [...]

TripCase has rolled out their latest update bumping the app up to v2.4.1. Previously, the offline feature of the app was removed but has now made its triumphant return along with the ability to combine trips and keep better expense reports. If you're not yet familiar with TripCase, it's a pretty awesome app to be [...]

Those of you hoping for a little Sea Ray in your stocking may end up sorely disappointed, if this report from AdAge is correct about the timing of Nokia’s foundational Windows Phone. Chances are, it won’t be home for the holidays. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-hLzdUtR3I8/report-no-nokia-windows-phone-hotness-until-2012 DLINK DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS DIRECTV GROUP ELPIDA MEMORY EMC FIDELITY NATIONAL [...]

Sportiiiis from 4iiiis (geddit?) is a small HUD (heads-up display) which can be used with almost any pair of specs. The clip-on unit fits to the arm of your glasses and seven colored LEDs sit in your peripheral vision, just below your right eye. These LEDs can be programmed by computer or smartphone app to [...]

Ever wonder where your employees drove the company car?  Or if they are driving recklessly?  I?ve always wondered that so I thought a review of the CarChip Fleet Pro would solve all my problem. The CarChip Fleet Pro has an option for a GPS add-in which I?ve asked Julie to request from Davis Instruments but [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently commented on Yahoo’s present situation by saying “Sometimes you’re lucky.” He was referring to his company’s rebuffed attempt to buy Yahoo a few years ago for $47 billion. But that doesn’t necessarily mean he thinks owning Yahoo now would be a bad idea — perhaps all he meant was that [...]

As far as Tetris goes, most variations look quite similar. You’re usually looking at a “wall” of bricks directly from the front. Torus takes that notion and throws it away; as you might have guessed from the name (or screenshot), this Tetris clone is played on a ring-like 3D surface. You rotate the ring itself [...]

Remember The Gadget Show’s FPS simulator that we showed you last week? Armed with naught but a pre-release level of Battlefield 3 and £500,000 ($650,000), it transformed a Birmingham studio into the sort of game room only multi-billionaires can dream of (as long as the dreams involved getting shot back, the sim comes packing paintball [...]

Have you ever wondered what the Web was like before the Mosaic Web browser? If you were born in the last 20-odd years, or you only discovered your inner geek recently, did you miss out on monochrome monitors and the dial-up BBS era? Well, here’s your chance to get a sneak peek at history: grab [...]

Corel seems to be on a roll lately; after releasing WinZip System Utilities just last week, this morning the company announced VideoStudio Pro X4. VideoStudio Pro is aimed at home users and small business professionals who want to create professional-looking videos, but without the hassle, steep learning curve and price of Adobe Premiere Pro and [...]

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been exactly ten years since the iPod was first unveiled, ultimately changing the music industry forever. The iPod wasn’t the first, it wasn’t the smallest, it didn’t have the largest hard drive, but it did have an iconic style and simple to use interface that led march away from [...]

Update: Tech From 10 seems to be offline — but we have lots of images and a hands-on review if you want to see what the new Music app is like. In what is probably a bit of a big-G whoopsie, the folks at Tech From 10 woke up to find a new, test version [...]

I have been a mouse guy my whole life. I have had a contentious lifelong relationship with the touchpad on my laptops and have always gravitated to the mouse. I tried several trackball devices over the years thinking that perhaps I was missing something.  But the mouse always tugged at my heartstrings and pulled me [...]

Possible good news here if you've been eyeing the Motorola RAZR, and live outside the U.S. — Motorola has confirmed to the folks at Ausdroid that the RAZR will be the first Motorola phone to offer a bootloader unlock solution.  This comes with a "gotcha" though — carriers have the option to have this removed [...]

Is anyone tired of seeing the words "Galaxy Nexus on Verizon" yet?  I didn't think so.  We said it was coming.  We now know it's coming.  And here's even more reason to believe that it's coming November 10, just like we heard it would before.  While things are always subject to change, the screen you [...]

We have seen quite a few iPhone controlled helicopters appearing over the last few years, but the iHelicopter is taking it to an all new level. The iHelicopter can now launch missiles as it flys as it has two rockets loaded on each side. The range is a reasonably… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/ER4Azi4nb8o/ SYNTAXBRILLIAN SYNOPSYS SYNNEX SYMANTEC SYKES [...]

Today, our president said every soldier in Iraq is coming home, leading many to believe The War Is Over. Except it’s not. Getting humans out of there is great, but the fact is war today doesn’t need humans at all. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-rNzso2tFu0/drones-mean-the-iraq-war-is-never-over ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY AMPHENOL ANIXTER INTERNATIONAL [...]

What’re ten centimeters across, live 6 miles under water, and are incredibly toxic? The Xenophyophores of the Mariana Trench—the largest individual cells in existence More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6RHnpRdcSvQ/four+inch-long-amoebas-found-in-mariana-trench NOVELLUS SYSTEMS NOVELL NETWORK APPLIANCE NETGEAR NCR NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS MOTOROLA MOODYS MISCROSOFT OFFICE MICROSOFT MICROSEMI

In Florida—yes, LOVELY Florida—there exists a place where one can steal copper wire from things and exchange that copper wire for crack. How do I get there? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/dHhyjKdKZI4/did-you-know-you-can-trade-copper-for-crack VIEWSONIC VERISIGN VERIFONE HOLDINGS VEECO INSTRUMENTS VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES UNITED ONLINE UNISYS TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITED TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS TOTAL SYSTEM [...]

Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft’s wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today’s installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Windows App Store, which will likely feature prominently in Windows 8. We’ve got our doubts about the authenticity of the image. In addition to showing several of [...]

We’ve been dismissive of Apple HDTV rumors, even when we laid out a case for why it actually makes a lot of sense. But according to the new Steve Jobs biography, it turns out we may have been very wrong. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/qqASs5Qd8mQ/hints-of-apple-hdtv-arise-from-jobs-biography AUTODESK AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AVNET BHARTI AIRTEL BT GROUP CANON MEMC ELECTRONIC [...]

Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer Must-Have For Minecraft Fans: Grass Block Mousepad Review: ThinkGeek iCADE iPad Arcade Game Bowers & Wilkins Announce The Tiny PM1 Audiophile-Class Compact Loudspeaker Do Not Swallow: Olympus Releases Tiny E-PL Promotional Cameras Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/15/daily-crunch-landscape-portrait/ VOLT INFORMATION SCIENCES VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY VIRGIN MEDIA VIEWSONIC VERISIGN VERIFONE HOLDINGS VEECO INSTRUMENTS VARIAN [...]

Slowly but surely, Google is finding more and more ways to integrate Google+ into all of their other products. The latest tweak: a one-click button, smack dab in the middle of your search results, for adding the author of the relative content to a Google+ circle. Google has been fiddling with the integration of Google+ [...]

A few moments ago, version 2 of the Banshee music player for Linux was released, bringing with it a whole slew of new features, and the addition of an official — but alpha-quality — Windows build. The Mac OS X build of version 2 is due later today. The most notable new feature is support [...]

This morning, Corel released VideoStudio X4. We’ve already published a quick overview and hands-on of the application, and now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for: We’re giving away ten full licenses of this new version, each worth $99.99! To enter our random draw, you just have to leave a comment. Full terms and [...]

Trying to figure out how to take a high quality self-portrait with the iPhone, and the low-quality front-facing VGA camera just isn’t cutting it? One of the new features of iOS 5 is the ability to trigger the iPhone’s rear facing camera with the Volume Up… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/g2na0Bk5CTQ/ NINTENDO NOKIA NVIDIA ORACLE POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR PRICELINECOM [...]

Google’s Galaxy Nexus may be a lot of things: the fourth-coming of Android, an HD Super AMOLED showcase and iPhone 4S competitor. But weather forecaster? Alright, so it won’t give you hourly atmospheric updates with an air swipe, but the built-in barometer that’s got so many of us scratching our heads has a much different [...]

This nanny cam from Gadgets and Gear is cleverly hidden inside a charging dock that can actually be used to charge an iPhone, iPod, or even iPad.  The camera is on the front of the charging dock near the iCharge name.  A DVR is located in the power plug, and it records onto the included [...]

You know those fridge magnet kits composed of a whole bunch of words? The ones you put all over your fridge door and then try to arrange into all sorts of juvenile and/or amusing sentences. Well, Farragomate is the social, webby version of that very same pastime. You get to play with a bunch of [...]

Video: Complete Hand Recognition With 5-Finger Mouse Amenbo (Video) Konapun: Making Tiny, Inedible Food For Fun And Profit (?) The UNISROBO Robot Looks A Lot Like NEC?s PaPeRo ThinkGeek Now Selling The FastMac U-Socket, The USB Wallplug Gunbrella Will Get You Shot For Sure Audyssey Lower East Side Speakers Attempt To Mimic The LES In [...]

The head Android honcho over at Google, Andy Rubin, had a few choice words to say about the iPhone 4S’ personal assistant Siri. According to Rubin, we should spend more time talking with actual people than with our phones, and that Apple’s technology “isn’t a new notion.” More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/JsGO0bfbpE4/google-spend-more-time-talking-to-people-than-asking-siri-about-the-weather UNISYS TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR TRIMBLE NAVIGATION [...]

With Halloween rapidly approaching it is time to get in the spirit and spice up your device with a little Halloween flavor. One of the many fun features of Android is the ability to run live wallpapers, and what better way to show a little bit of Halloween fun than to have some skulls flying [...]

Apple has posted a picture of their celebration of Steve Jobs‘ life, which included executives like Tim Cook and Jony Ive, board members like Al Gore and Bill Campbell, and performances from artists like Norah Jones and Cold Play. Today, together, they bled in 6 colors. Source:

If you were thinking about buying Hulu, we’ve got some bad news for you. You’re a day too late with your bid. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/c_ir-bno2Co/hulus-no-longer-available-to-the-highest-bidder IRON MOUNTAIN INORATED IOMEGA INTUIT INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS INTEL INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INGRAM MICRO INFORMATICA

Despite these shaky economic times, people still have the time — and money — for modded Arduino kits, iPhone lens and air guitar mods. Kickstarter users have now pledged over $100 million to projects, with the number of backers leaping from around 250,000 in September last year to over one million. The crowd-funding site is [...]

There have been plenty of questions over whether or not the proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T is in the public interest. We’ve heard from competitors, senators, attorneys generals, and even the DOJ, who formally filed a complaint in federal court saying that “AT&T?s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low-priced rival would [...]

Select Microsoft Connect partners — major players like HP — have been given their first taste of Windows 8. According to various sources, the build string currently sits at 7971.0.110324-1900, which is the third milestone build of the successor to Windows 7. So far, there haven’t been many details revealed about Windows 8. An actual [...]

Not that they were a particularly well kept secret, but T-Mobile is finally ready to show off its two newest Android phones that are aimed at first-time smartphone buyers. The 4G-capable myTouch and myTouch Q are everything the leaks indicated, with the former sporting a 3.8-inch touch screen and the latter coming home with a [...]

Intellectual Ventures, led by former Microsoft exec and Modernist Cuisine mastermind Nathan Myhrvold, has taken Motorola to court over mobile products it says infringes upon patents it holds, including one for mobile devices contaning a CPU. Really?! More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/B8uUxwAzTn4/intellectual-ventures-is-now-patent-trolling-motorola QUANTA COMPUTER RESEARCH IN MOTION ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS [...]

Like it or not, unlimited smartphone data plans are quickly becoming a thing of the past. But if you’re jonesing for the new iPhone 4S and need uncapped, unlimited bandwidth, there’s still one carrier left that will deliver. Sprint spokeswoman Michelle Leff Mermelstein confirmed to AllThingsD that the carrier would offer unlimited data plans for [...]

Facebook, long a darling of cybercriminals looking to lure in unsuspecting cybersocializers, has partnered with content security vendor Websense to help protect members from links that lead to malware and malicious sites. That may prove good news to corporations, where many IT managers consider employees’ use of social media a security threat but where few [...]

Android's Facebook app just got an update for what the social network's calling "a whole slew of fixes." It's not saying what was fixed, but any bugfix update is a good one, we reckon. Download links are after the break. read more Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/KMm0qcpmHz0/facebook-app-gets-some-bugfixes COMPAL ELECTRONICS COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOM DLINK DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS DIRECTV GROUP [...]

Filmmaking is an exorbitant, costly hobby. But with the advent of DSLR video recording, it’s become much cheaper. Maybe not cheap but cheaper. And there are plenty of accessories that will help transform you into a savant. Here are 6: More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/4kGJsdvfpys/ INTEL INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INGRAM MICRO INFORMATICA INFOCUS ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO [...]

Behind The Scenes At The Impossible Project?s Resurrected Polaroid Facility ?The Best Chance To Beat Gasoline:? An Excerpt From Seth Fletcher?s Bottled Lightning The ZEHST Is The 3,000 MPH, Zero Emissions Airplane Of 2050 Japan Takes Top Spot From China: Fujitsu?s ?K? Is The World?s Most Powerful Supercomputer Finally, A Solar Powered Netbook Comes To [...]

The placebo effect is so strange and mysterious, how can fake pills trick ourselves out into feeling better? This video explains all the interesting properties of a placebo, like how one placebo can be half as effective as aspirin while another placebo can be half as effective as morphine. Watch it. [Laughing Squid] More » Source: [...]

When the end of her stint as Yahoo CEO came for Carol Bartz, it arrived via a phone call from the company’s chairman. That’s what she told employees in a profanity-free, company-wide email when she learned the news. Bartz was fired after nearly three years as Yahoo’s chief executive, having failed to turn around the [...]

No matter the gauge of the U-lock or the metallurgy of the chain looped around your frame, the lock securing that vintage Miyata to the parking meter will not stop a determined thief with the right tools. Enter the StayLocked Bicycle. The StayLocked secures the bike by making the lock part of the bike. If [...]

This must be the holy grail of hacking: a cheap, do-it-yourself flying drone that can break into Wi-Fi networks and turn computers into zombies that can be controlled remotely. The coolest part for evildoers: it makes the hacking untraceable. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/cNx5_jwpzHk/this-cheap-air-drone-can-break-into-your-computer-and-own-it MISCROSOFT OFFICE MICROSOFT MICROSEMI MICROS SYSTEMS MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY METHODE ELECTRONICS MENTOR [...]

Bots — like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave — are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru. Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types [...]

It was probably gonna happen sooner or later, but a new report from IDC confirms it: smartphones are now out-shipping feature phones in western Europe. According to the company’s statistics, only 20.4 million feature handsets were shipped to the Old World during the second quarter of this year, representing a 29 percent decrease from Q2 [...]

Version 5.3 of Skype for Windows has just been released, with the main emphasis of the new release being improved call quality, and the quality of video received by mobile Skype users. Presumably one party of the video call must be using Skype for Windows 5.3, though. Beyond improved call quality, not much has changed. [...]

My musical tastes, if you can call them that, are largely mainstream and boring. And that’s how I first came across Explosions in the Sky: I was watching a mainstream movie, and I was bored. Thank goodness. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/xaZeeKnJczs/listen-to-gizmodos-soundtrack-explosions-in-the-sky TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TERADATA TELETECH HOLDINGS TECHNITROL TAKETWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SYNTEL SYNTAXBRILLIAN SYNOPSYS SYNNEX SYMANTEC SYKES [...]

The iOS App Store is quite the volatile place. Even if you manage to fight your app up to the top of the charts, keeping it up there is an entirely new challenge. You’ve got to know exactly what’s working with your users ? and more importantly, you’ve got to be able to mix things [...]

The Eremos watch from Stauer features a stainless steel case (42mm diameter, 12mm thick) and a leather band.  That’s where the similarity to regular watches ends.  The Eremos is a regulator watch, which is a timepiece based on the observatory clocks of the 1800s that were so precise because they separated the hour and minutes [...]

I have a thing for physics games, and I’ve been known to post the occasional platformer or action game here and there. But Let it Slide is one of the brainiest games I’ve posted to date. The idea is very simple, and far from original: You get a board with pieces arranged in a particular [...]

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/xqXBSXOahO0/ CDW CHINA MOBILE CISCO SYSTEMS COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS COMCAST COMMSCOPE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS COMPAL ELECTRONICS [...]

Most people are familiar with the black Google+ bar that appears at the top of the browser window. Starting today, this black bar and the grey navigation bar underneath it now float on your screen. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/v5-mU-d-cQA/google%252B-bar-now-floats-on-your-screen SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS SILICON LABORATORIES SI INTERNATIONAL SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC GAMES SANDISK SALESFORCE COM SAIC ROCKWELL AUTOMATION RF [...]

And just like that, Palm’s baby was abandoned. Among the “other announcements” in today’s press release about the potential spinoff of its entire Personal Systems group (PCs, mobile devices, storage) is a note that the webOS ecosystem HP snagged for $1.2 billion a year ago is already being ditched. “In addition, HP reported that it [...]

It was once the case that computer viruses and other malicious software were written primarily by hobbyist hackers. Their motivations, for the most part, were simply bragging rights and the respect of their peers — desirable rewards, to be sure, but certainly not the sole focus of any career. The results of their efforts, meanwhile, [...]

AT&T confirmed today that it will slim down its text-messaging service plans, offering customers either unlimited messages for a flat monthly fee, or a pay-per-text service. The company is eliminating its middle-of-the-road option, a plan that allots customers 1,000 text messages for $10 monthly. “The vast majority of our messaging customers prefer unlimited plans,” an [...]

I have a thing for full-screen text editing. I use WriteMonkey for my creative writing needs, and VIM in a full-screen PuTTY session for my Web development work. That being the case, I’m all over the monospace, dark-background, focused editing scene. OmmWriter attempts to take that aesthetic and make it somehow more spiritual, with three [...]

When Amazon Appstore for Android launched last week, one of its primary features — Test Drive — was disabled just a few minutes after it opened. With no try-before-you-buy, no refund process, and 1-Click purchasing ready to strike at any moment, this caused some problems. Anyway, don’t despair: Test Drive is now enabled. Before you [...]

Until December, 2010, animal abuse in North Carolina only got you a slap on the wrist and no jail time.  In 2009, a weeks-old puppy was found in a local park after being horribly brutalized.  She managed to pull through thanks to care given by local vets and paid for by donations.  The male (I [...]

I see skateboarders carrying their boards on bike all the time, but usually they’re slung crosswise over the handlebars or the rear rack, which is both aesthetically jarring and potentially dangerous (the handlebar version, at least). A much better solution for this admittedly specialist problem is the Fairdale Pannier Skaterack, a special skateboard carrier which [...]

Lung cancer is really hard to detect early. So some scientists in Germany put their best sniffer dogs on the task. And you won’t believe this but it totally worked. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/2GbUMqZrTRU/dogs-can-smell-cancer-on-your-breath INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS INTEL INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INGRAM MICRO INFORMATICA INFOCUS ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it’s now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system’s hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of [...]

Review: The Barnes & Noble Nook Bre Pettis On The Colbert Report Datamancer Steampunk Laptop Us Available For Pre-Order Interview: Martin Rae, President Of The Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences Good News: The Vita Is Region-Free Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/10/daily-crunch-nook-nook-cranny/ SYKES ENTERPRISES INORATED SYBASE SUN MICROSYSTEMS STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION SONUS NETWORKS SONIC AUTOMOTIVE [...]

Gadgeteers I need your help!!! After some discussions about PalmPilot handhelds in the comments section I thought why don’t we do a weekly series about technology we used to use ? This will allow us all to reminisce about technologies past , show the young’ uns what we had to put up with ( “Luxury, [...]

Review: Kobo eReader Touch Edition Video: A Massive OLED Globe Fit For, Well, A Museum The Opena iPhone 4 Case Hides/Showcases Your Drinking Habit SugarSync Adds Mobile Device Management To Send Files To Devices From The Web Chair + Skateboard = Isukebo Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/14/daily-crunch-space-bird/ ATandT AUTODESK AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AVNET BHARTI AIRTEL BT GROUP CANON [...]

Over on the Internet Explorer Blog, Microsoft has posted results from an extensive comparison of the top five Web browsers. The goal: to determine whether Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10, Safari 5, or Opera 11 is able to squeeze the most life out of your laptop’s battery. A baseline was determined with test [...]

Office inventory management systems: Not exactly the world’s sexiest software to be sure. Yet, without inventory and asset management systems, many enterprises would likely work at a similar pace to the DMV. Currently, SMBs have no shortage of tools to choose from when selecting a software system for tracking office assets and inventory; however, most [...]

In terms of online communication, social media is the biggest trend in recent years. There are billions of participants around the globe as well as an array of forms: blogs, forums, wikis, multimedia content, social bookmarking and, of course, popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. What’s more, social media is strongly established as [...]

Video: Complete Hand Recognition With 5-Finger Mouse Amenbo (Video) Konapun: Making Tiny, Inedible Food For Fun And Profit (?) The UNISROBO Robot Looks A Lot Like NEC?s PaPeRo ThinkGeek Now Selling The FastMac U-Socket, The USB Wallplug Gunbrella Will Get You Shot For Sure Audyssey Lower East Side Speakers Attempt To Mimic The LES In [...]

George Plimpton?s Video Falconry Is A Real Thing If You Loved Your Child, You?d Buy Them This $300 High Chair. But You Don?t. UUDDLRLRBABA Start Bringing Your Room Together With These Arcade Style Light Switches Replace Those Flimsy Collar Stays With The Exuvius Titanium Multi Tool Review: HTC Flyer Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/04/daily-crunch-falcon-edition/ FIRST SOLAR FINISAR FEI [...]

In terms of finding the right kind of accessories for the iPad, no person in the world would settle for less when it comes to quality, durability, functionality and dependability. With these things in mind, it is important for every user to know exactly what to find in the market, because it would be a [...]

Google has intervened in an ongoing intellectual property dispute between smartphone application developers and a patent-holding firm, Wired.com has learned, marking the Mountain View company’s first public move to defend Android coders from a patent troll lawsuit that’s cast a pall on the community. The company says it filed a request with the United States [...]

Reminiscent of Ghostbuster‘s Marshmallow Man, new Goodyear tires might just Stay-Puft on their own. The company is developing Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) tires with built-in pumps to keep themselves at the perfect pressure. The reason? Even slightly under-inflated tires can drop your mileage by 3.3 percent, costing you cash at the pump. For highway-hustling commercial [...]

There are two ways to look at the World’s Smallest Brewery, which opened in Coney Island yesterday. On one hand, it’s one more in an unending string of largely-unsustainable hipster businesses, since it produces just one gallon of beer at a time. On the other hand? Beer by the gallon! More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Ywpc9IPk3_8/i-want-to-drink-the-worlds-tiniest-brewerys-entire-output AUTOMATIC DATA [...]

Looking for a little FCC Friday rapture? HTC’s rumored “women only” smartphone, the Bliss, just passed through the Commission’s gates for a bit of strut and tell. Sporting the model number PI46110, the handset seems destined for a Big Red debut with CDMA 850MHz / 1900MHz bands, WiFi and Bluetooth on-board. The carrier looks to [...]

Mozilla, continuing its year-long crusade to speed up Firefox startup and shutdown times, has published a name and shame list of the Firefox’s slowest add-ons. The list is just one part of Mozilla’s new efforts to highlight slow add-ons, and to help developers make their add-ons more efficient. Over the next two weeks, ‘slow performance [...]

With the webOS 3.0 SDK available for almost two months, HP has now given developers access to a beta download of webOS 3.0 — which powers the upcoming TouchPad and will likely ride along on HP desktops and laptops in the form of an emulator. Right now, the webOS 3.0 beta is only available to [...]

Lately, anytime the gaping maw of AT&T opens, no matter what it’s talking about—puppies! or unlimited data (boring) or financial data—it has to slip in at least a tiny reference to how badly the T-Mobile merger has to happen, or all of our phones are going to explode and the puppies will die and go extinct [...]

I’ve had relationships with many hand-held digital objects, but none as intense as the one I had with the iPhone. It became so addictive that I exchanged it for an iPod touch. Now I’m shopping for a new addiction. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/gb7-5W2qNK0/why-i-would-rather-be-a-smoker-than-an-iphone-user ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO XILINX WESTERN DIGITAL VOLT INFORMATION SCIENCES VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY VIRGIN [...]

This one’s for the sysadmins in the audience: Altaro, makers of our favorite “time machine for Windows” back solution, OopsBackup, have just announced a new product entering beta called Hyper-V Backup. It’s a backup solution for virtual machines running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization solution. If that sentence just seemed like a bunch of buzzwords crammed [...]

Roswell devotees, dry those tears — the search for alien overlords frenemies is back on. Four months after going into financial “hibernation,” SETI’s Allen Telescope Array has been temporarily resuscitated thanks to an infusion of publicly raised funds from the SETIStars program, and Ms. Jodie Foster. The web campaign for those-who-believe raised over $200,000 in [...]

Are you driving to get somewhere, or are you driving to drive? That’s the fundamental question behind BMW‘s Ultimate Drive — a new app that allows iPhone and Android users to share and rate their most enjoyable routes. With this arrow in your smartphone’s quiver, you can create and upload your favorite paths using Google [...]

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: ?Rotary Mechanical? Cell Phone Concept Isn?t Practical, But It Looks Great Lomo?s New La Sardina Camera Is Cheap And Sardine-Can-Like Panda Itazura Bank: Super-Cute Piggy Bank (Video) Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer SugarSync Adds Mobile Device Management To Send Files To Devices From [...]

GPS, a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor, 15x optical zoom — we’ve seen it all before. But a feature that displays places of interest on the camera’s 3-inch LCD? Well, that sounds a bit like augmented reality (AR)! The Fujifilm FinePix F600 EXR’s new Landmark Navigator mode does exactly that, packing one million pre-loaded locations from [...]

Google, according to reports from “a dozen executives working at key companies in the Android ecosystem” is finally locking down the open source and easily-fragmented Android operating system. As it currently stands, Google hands over the ‘final’ code for each version of Android, and OEMs and developers then spend some time customizing the OS to [...]

Only a year after being the first person to successfully demo a working television set in 1926, John Logie Baird dreamed up something called Phonovision. What was its purpose? To record television. On a record. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Te0sf0tm4_k/phonovision-imagine-recording-tv-onto-lps STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION SONUS NETWORKS SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS SILICON LABORATORIES SI INTERNATIONAL SEAGATE [...]

We’ve known since late June that Google has found itself the target of an FTC probe, but until now we haven’t had any indication about exactly what the FTC was probing. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal today, however, the FTC is looking at both Android and Google’s search practices, and specifically [...]

When TweetDeck landed in the Chrome Web Store, it seemed like an indication that it might eventually evolve into a pure HTML5 Web app. Now it looks as though that’s exactly what’s going to happen, with TweetDeck announcing that a new, not-just-for-Chrome Web client is ready for beta testing. It’s a natural progression for TweetDeck, [...]

New fitness monitors always promise the world. Tracks everything! Keeps a log of your diet! Tells you how many calories you’re burning! Weighs your baby unicorn for you! Please, I’ve been hurt before… More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/vuQ7m88Jnac/hottest-new-fitness-monitor-may-not-track-its-own-bullshit MOBILE TELESYSTEMS NANYA TECHNOLOGY NII HOLDINGS NIKON NINTENDO NOKIA NVIDIA ORACLE POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR PRICELINECOM QIMONDA QUALCOMM

We’ve seen hacks for the Kinect from the very start, and even some that suggested one like this might be possible: a Kinect being moved around like a camera, recording the depth of everything it sees and building up a full-3D map of the room and every object in it. They call it KinectFusion, and [...]

Those benevolent armchair philanthropist Redditors are at it again! Four days ago a ‘self’ post extolling the potential virtues of a Backup Day exploded with 2500 upvotes and 1000 comments — and now World Backup Day 2011 is actually happening. On March 31, as part of the global data-saving initiative, you are encouraged to back [...]

Want a game for the tabletop with on-screen pop, and a sprinkle of adorable? Sifteo is officially set to get your gears going when its interactive Cubes, up for pre-order by the end of today, ship out in September. If you’ll recall, the MIT-rooted project uses blocks equipped with 1.5-inch displays to create a variety [...]

To celebrate the imminent marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Royal Collection will release an Android an iOS app that chronicles the last seven royal marriages, including Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert in 1840. Ironically, the app won’t actually feature anything to do with William and Kate’s marriage — rather, it will [...]

Idea Flight Turns iPads Into Presentation Platform Why Not Print Your Own Keys? Review: Psyko Carbon Surround-Sound Headset Apple iCloud?s Icon Is A?. Cloud! Why Windows, Trapped In The 20th Century, Needs A Real Windows Phone Makeover Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/03/daily-crunch-clear-blue-sky/ ACCENTURE ACER ADOBE SYSTEMS ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL AMKOR TECHNOLOGY [...]

MacRumors commissioned CiccareseDesign to make some renders of what the iPhone 5 just might look like based on the… More → Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/9ryRLLEGG5o/ NVIDIA ORACLE POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR PRICELINECOM QIMONDA QUALCOMM QUANTA COMPUTER RESEARCH IN MOTION ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES SES

So Sony’s got a brand new TFT LCD. Big whoop. But here’s something to write home to your grandmother about: the 3-inch screen has a switch for “outdoor mode” and “low-power mode,” letting you save battery-life for when it’s needed. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/kD9TE-TpaiU/sony-adds-a-white-pixel-to-energy+saving-white-magic-phone-screens DIEBOLD DELL CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR ACCENTURE ACER ADOBE SYSTEMS ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE [...]

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place. Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, [...]

Select Microsoft Connect partners — major players like HP — have been given their first taste of Windows 8. According to various sources, the build string currently sits at 7971.0.110324-1900, which is the third milestone build of the successor to Windows 7. So far, there haven’t been many details revealed about Windows 8. An actual [...]

Recently, Google has been busy beefing up Latitude to make it more competitive with other location apps — and more fun to use. Location history was added recently, iOS users can post check-ins via Latitude, and now Google has begun rolling out location-based deals which are tied to the service. If you’re in the U.S., [...]

Just recently, the Opera 11.10 release candidate was made available for download. It brought a handful of important feature additions — like HTML5 File API support and IMAP enhancements — and loads of bugfixes. Nestled in amongst the other details in the Opera team’s announcement is one more interesting tidbit: Opera 11.10 offers improved battery [...]

We feel like if you’re going to buy an Eee Pad Transformer, you may as well spring for the $150 docking station — you know, the thing that makes the tablet so noteworthy. And we don’t need to remind you it also happens to be a solid value proposition: the dock brings not just a [...]

Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Georgia, Craig, and Rene talk iOS… More → Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/pCZzSwCzucA/ JDS UNIPHASE JDA SOFTWARE GROUP JACK HENRY and ASSOCIATES IXYS ITRON IRON MOUNTAIN INORATED IOMEGA INTUIT INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM)

To create that genetically modified corn everybody’s freaking out about, scientists have to chopping out a sequence of base pairs. These chemical scissors do the snipping. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lnjb2_pOoww/get-ginsu-on-some-corn-dna-with-a-pair-of-molecular-scissors RESEARCH IN MOTION ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS CDW CHINA MOBILE CISCO SYSTEMS COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS COMCAST

As an intelligent TechCrunch reader with the gift of foresight, you’ve probably backed up your hard drive ? and all of the precious photos locked inside ? to at least one cloud service, just in case the unthinkable happens and you lose both your computer and your local backup. But you’re unusual. Many of your friends probably [...]

O’reilly make some of the best computer books in the world. They also sell them as DRM-free e-books in a bunch of formats, including PDFs and Mobi for Kindle. They usually offer one “Deal of the Day”, which is a 50% discount code for a book chosen for that one day. But just for for [...]

All photographers will agree that carrying a DSLR camera with a shoulder strap gets pretty annoying when your hand gets tangled up with the strap just when you want to snap a shot.  I first saw the Capture Camera Clip System on Kickstarter and it looked great.  The idea was simple.  Make a clip that [...]

Israel’s remote-video beaming camera launcher is a pretty hot military toy. But it’s a strictly military toy. Unless you build your own. Two hardcore modders hacked together a camera-launching flare gun that’s every bit as badass as the real thing. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ZLEJjJIEKaM/build-a-military+grade-camera+flinging-grenade-launcher-for-500-bucks AMPHENOL ANIXTER INTERNATIONAL APPLE COMPUTER APPLIED MATERIALS ARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ARROW ELECTRONICS [...]

If iPad sales are included in notebook-computer market-share calculations, Apple jumps from near the bottom all the way to the top of the pack. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/notebook-marketshare-ipad/ COMMSCOPE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS COMPAL ELECTRONICS COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOM DLINK DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS DIRECTV GROUP ELPIDA MEMORY EMC FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SVCS FISERV GOOGLE

Now if this were a Super NES we might be having a different conversation. No, but seriously, if you find a girl wearing this, she’s a keeper. It’s made by the same Etsy folks as the Pokeball bra. $30 [Etsy] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FVQ0aRhtHqI/playing-with-boobs-is-funner-than-playing-nes IOMEGA INTUIT INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) [...]

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from [...]

It’s no secret that the iPad commands a serious lead in the battle for tablet mindshare, but comScore’s new Device Essentials traffic-tracking service shows just how much that translates into market dominance. According to the web monitoring company, the iPad and its successor account for 89 percent of tablet internet use globally, and 97 percent [...]

Google is shutting down Google Health, which enables you to store and manage all your health information in one place on the Web. Google says the platform simply wasn’t having the ‘broad impact’ necessary to sustain the product. From Google’s blog post: There has been adoption among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients and [...]

This morning, an updated version of the stock Android Music app was leaked along with a new version of Android Market. The new Music app, which is labeled ‘version 3′, is similar to the leaked build from December, but it has received a ton of polish — and indeed, it looks almost ready for prime [...]

Considering that helicopters are entirely dependent on a spinning rotor to remain in the air, an MH-60S Seahawk doesn’t exactly seem the most likely candidate for experimental fuel. That didn’t seem to stop the US Navy, however, which successfully completed a test flight with a 50 / 50 blend of algae-based biofuel and Jet A [...]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Thursday showed off the company’s first Windows Phone 7 device in what he described as a “secret” briefing to a room full of journalists. The announcement comes hard on the heels of the company’s Wednesday reveal of the N9, a new Nokia smartphone running the MeeGo mobile OS. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/72734.html SI [...]

He’s part of a group that claims to be behind the recent hack attacks against the CIA, U.S. Senate, Sony, Fox, and PBS. If caught, he could face years in prison. But when we chatted with a member of the notorious hacking collective Lulz Security last night, he said he’s not worried about a thing. [...]

Hacker collective of the moment LulzSec has just released a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement, in what it calls “Operation Chinga La Migra” (or literally translated ”Fuck the border patrol”). They claim that the information, widely available via BitTorrent, includes hundreds of classified documents including personal emails, names and phone numbers. I’ve [...]

The running joke since the iPad laced up its shoes is that tablets are big, over-glorified phones. That’s silly! They share electricity, touchscreens, apps, and rectangularity, but that’s about it. Except the Evo View, which is the joke’s punchline. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/flSAkGKMrzA/htc-evo-view-4g-wanna-buy-a-giant-phone-that-doesnt-make-calls RADISYS RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST SOFTWARE QUANTUM QLOGIC PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS PEROT SYSTEMS [...]

We’re hearing that online textbook rental service Chegg has completed its third acquisition today, snapping up lecture notes and study guides service Notehall for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. Chegg, which has received over $219 million in financing and hit revenues in the ballpark of $130 million in 2010, is also reportedly “deep [...]

A leaked early version of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry Messenger 6 has been making the rounds since late February, but images of the new app are just now beginning to appear. Over at CrackBerry, the crew has shared a handful of images of BBM 6 in action. Unfortunately, you won’t get a glimpse at a chat [...]

With Windows 8 milestone 3 now up for grabs for select Microsoft Connect partners, it’s inevitable that leaked bits and pieces will start popping up around the Web. In fact, the first “official” wallpaper image from the still-brewing OS is already making the rounds. As you can see, it’s got a similar feel to the [...]

Did you know that spending too much time looking down at your Blackberry and texting is going to give your neck ugly and unsightly wrinkles? It’s true! It’s called Blackberry Neck. Says who? Well, the lady who came up with the treatment to fight Blackberry Neck. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ime850sW1aY/introducing-americas-newest-disfiguring-disease-blackberry-neck LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LAWSON [...]

The smoke from Cloud Engines’ Pogoplug Video recall (Pogo-un-plugged?) may still be settling, but on a better note, today the company has announced the first major update to its software-based version. To refresh your memory, it essentially turns any network-connected computer into a Pogoplug, allowing it to be accessed like a NAS drive (think iCloud, [...]

At first blush, the Nokia N9 is everything I’d ever wanted from the company: a smartphone with a competitive spec sheet, exquisite industrial design, and a touch-centric UI that looks to push things forward with the introduction of its own idiosyncratic ideas. Slick in terms of both responsiveness and appearance, the Harmattan interface is Nokia’s [...]

The Nomad case is designed to protect your Western Digital My Passport external drive.  The polycarbonate enclosure has a elastomer cushion lining, and it’s designed to protect your drive from water, dirt, and even a 7-foot drop.  The Nomad has a ring at the top so you can clip it to your laptop bag.  There’s [...]

A jailbreak of iOS 4.3.1 is now possible with both PwnageTool on Mac, and Sn0wbreeze on Windows. RedmondPie — who else? — has some handy guides that you can follow for all iOS 4.3.1 devices on Windows, for iPhone 4 on OS X, iPad 1 on OS X, iPhone 3GS on OS X, and iPod [...]

When Amazon Appstore for Android launched last week, one of its primary features — Test Drive — was disabled just a few minutes after it opened. With no try-before-you-buy, no refund process, and 1-Click purchasing ready to strike at any moment, this caused some problems. Anyway, don’t despair: Test Drive is now enabled. Before you [...]

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it’s now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system’s hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of [...]

Driving yourself nuts trying to figure out how to take photos from the Facebook for iPhone app? Don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s them. Unlike iOS, you just can’t tap, hold and select Save Image from a pop up. That functionality just doesn’t come with the Facebook app. But don’t worry, we have a work [...]

Halo studio 343 Industries is offering only the most authentic of Halo: Combat Evolved experiences at this year’s Halo Fest, letting players go hands on with the Anniversary remake of the Xbox original with its original controller, the beastly gamepad nicknamed the “Duke.” More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/yWeTew3f6Nk/the-original-xbox-controller-is-coming-back-in-an-extremely-limited-way-only-for-halo-fest SI INTERNATIONAL SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC GAMES SANDISK SALESFORCE COM [...]

It’s possible — likely, even — that you’re reading this while jumping out of a plane, wrestling a mountain lion, or having some equally hardcore adventure. If so, you’re just the type of active consumer Western Digital’s courting with its Nomad case. Designed for the My Passport external hard drive line, it combines a hard [...]

Evernote, the popular multi-platform ‘digital memory’ app, has done some serious re-tooling of its Web interface. In addition to a more polished UI that more closely mirrors the look of Evernote on the desktop, the update brings features like notebook stacks and snippet view to the Web. Auto-saving is now enabled as well, and you [...]

Just a few months after unleashing what it called Italy’s first tablet, Olivetti is turning its attention to what might be Italy’s first tablet upgrade — the OliPad 110. Much like its predecessor, this 1.3-pound slate rocks an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and a 10-inch touchscreen, but runs on Honeycomb and boasts a higher-res, 1280 [...]

Isn’t it curious how you always crack open a beer before settling in for some GTA? Or how you tend to put an anxious hand over your wallet when logging onto PSN? No soldier, it is not curious. Not at all. But this is: Researchers at North Carolina State University claim they’ve found a way [...]

Slowly, but surely, we’re starting to piece together what’s going on inside that mysterious white box known as the Wii U. IBM was a little coy about the multi-core CPU it was providing, but did tantalize us by mentioning the name “Watson” in describing some of its underlying tech. Now details about the custom Radeon [...]

J&R Fire has developed the PFE-1, a flashlight-sized (or fleshlight-sized) fire extinguisher that’s easy to use with one hand. It’s a one-time-use extinguisher that’s activated by a single button and can shoot the coolant out 10 feet. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/WwEMWI8mU1A/ INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INVENTEC KDDI KLATENCOR KONINKLIJKE KPN LAM RESEARCH LIBERTY GLOBAL LM ERICSSON LOGITECH [...]

The above video demonstrates extremely precise robotic hand and finger manipulation. It was designed to make use of a high-speed camera and tactile sensors to enable throwing, catching, and even grasping. I hope it’s only used for good. [BoingBoing] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/uxxmXGOSA-Y/a-robotic-hand-so-quick-its-scary THQ TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TERADATA TELETECH HOLDINGS TECHNITROL TAKETWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SYNTEL SYNTAXBRILLIAN SYNOPSYS [...]

We’re pretty sure that most of the attention Toshiba receives today will center around the handful of laptops it unveiled this morning (particularly this handsome devil). But the outfit also managed to slip in some camcorder news — those Camileo P100 and B10 models it announced for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East are now [...]

Not that it’ll do you much good in the US — an unlocked iPhone 4 will still only work on AT&T’s 3G bands — but Apple has just started selling its prized smartphone without any carrier partiality on its US online store. The big attraction is, of course, being able to take the phone abroad [...]

Etymotic specializes in putting inexpensive moving coil drivers inside noise-isolating buds that can, as an optional upgrade, be individually molded via the company’s international “Custom-fit” program. Previous models have been iDevice only, at least in terms of their microphone function and button controls, but the new mc2 should also get along happily with Android, Blackberry, [...]

It’s not really a secret the Microsoft had planned on bringing bits of Windows Phone 7′s Metro UI to Windows 8, but we haven’t seen a lot of really telling evidence. However, with the Windows 8 milestone 3 build now available to Microsoft Connect partners, it was really just a matter of time before we [...]

Google recently removed at least 10 applications from the Android Market, all of which contained malicious code disguised as add-ons to one of the most popular apps of all time. Each of the removed apps posed as a cheat or an add-on to Angry Birds, the much-lauded mobile application created by Finnish game development studio [...]

The Motorola Droid 3 hasn’t exactly been doing the best job of staying under wraps, and it (or the international Milestone 3 variant, to be specific) has now landed in the hands of Chinese website xda.cn, which has provided what’s surely the most extensive look at the phone to date. That includes some additional confirmation [...]

Exclusive: 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) is announcing a round of funding today for his new startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has led a $3 million series A round of funding, with all of the company’s previous angel investors participating, including SV Angel, Lerer Ventures (who led Canvas’ seed round), Andreessen Horowitz, Founder [...]

When TweetDeck landed in the Chrome Web Store, it seemed like an indication that it might eventually evolve into a pure HTML5 Web app. Now it looks as though that’s exactly what’s going to happen, with TweetDeck announcing that a new, not-just-for-Chrome Web client is ready for beta testing. It’s a natural progression for TweetDeck, [...]

Oh hello! In addition to the less-than-inspiring GF3 announced today, Panasonic has redeemed itself with the new Leica DG Summilux 25mm ?1.4 ASPH lens. This fixed lens, which works as a 50mm equivalent “standard” on the Micro Four Thirds bodies, is likely to be one sweet chunk of glass. First, the numbers. The lens has [...]

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Liquid Measure: Liquid Measure is a fun and unique puzzle game, where [...]

Google, according to reports from “a dozen executives working at key companies in the Android ecosystem” is finally locking down the open source and easily-fragmented Android operating system. As it currently stands, Google hands over the ‘final’ code for each version of Android, and OEMs and developers then spend some time customizing the OS to [...]

A Watch Created In 1969 Could Sense Heart Attacks? But Wait, There?s More Amazon, Please Do Not Make The Kindle Touchscreen B&N Unleashes A New Nook: Touchscreen E-Ink, 2 Month Battery, $139 Kobo Touch Vs. New Nook In Specs iRemoTap: Power Strip with Built-In Wi-Fi (Video) Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/25/daily-crunch-two-turntables-two-tablets/ NINTENDO NOKIA NVIDIA ORACLE POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR PRICELINECOM [...]

Get ready for the best soccer game on the planet to make its presence felt on the ipad. It is surely going to be one of the best ipad games this year. The controls have been improved with the latest release allow for swipe based movements as well as the original dpad style controls. Love the [...]

Today?s LogicBUY deal is a Dell 13.3? Latitude E6320 Core i5-2520 2.5GHz Dual-core Sandy Bridge laptop with 4GB memory, 6-cell battery, and 3-year warranty for $963.  Configure an E6320 over $1699 and use an extra $300 coupon.  Features: Core i3/i5/i7 CPU, Intel HD 3000 graphics, up to 8GB DDR3 memory, docking connector, mini HDMI, eSATA, [...]

With the webOS 3.0 SDK available for almost two months, HP has now given developers access to a beta download of webOS 3.0 — which powers the upcoming TouchPad and will likely ride along on HP desktops and laptops in the form of an emulator. Right now, the webOS 3.0 beta is only available to [...]

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