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Boxee’s new browser is built on Webkit & HTML5 ready

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:52:00 +0000

Expect to see some changes to Boxee when its D-Link-built $199 Box ships in November, and Lead Apps Developer / Community evangelist Rob Spectre tells NewTeeVee that among them will be a new Webkit based browser. The current Mozilla based browser is clearly useful for some quick & unblocked Hulu viewing, but still doesn’t render many sites properly.

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Firefox 4 Beta 5 brings GPU acceleration for Windows

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:17:00 +0000

Browser betas, like puberty, can be a confusing time. Sure, we’re eager to be getting new functionality, but all the crashes and compatibility breaks and unrequited crushes can be a bit tough to handle.

Toshiba AC100 Android smartbook hits the United Kingdom

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:12:00 +0000

Hey, there little guy! That’s the Toshiba AC100 — an Android 2.1 smartbook with Toshiba’s custom user interface — on show in the UK, where you can now grab one up. The 10.1-inch, 1.9-pounder has yet to show its face anywhere near the US, but as for specs it’s got a 1GHz Tegra 250 SoC, a 32GB SSD, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 802.11n WiFi, optional 3G, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, and an HDMI port. While it’s listed on Amazon you still can’t actually order one of these bad boys stateside, but if you’re in the UK, you can grab one up for £292.52 (almost $450) for the non-3G model.

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Carl Zeiss Cinemizer 3D Plus glasses get OLED infusion, still no attention

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:44:00 +0000

Carl Zeiss keeps on making minor improvements to its Cinemizer head-mounted display, announced way back in 2008 and intended to be the most amazing way to watch stuff on your iPod. They didn’t exactly catch on then, and two years later we’re not entirely sure that the latest revision will either. The tiny screens that sit a fraction of an inch from your eyeballs have been upgraded to OLED, which should make them bright and lovely as they pummel your rods and cones, but sadly they’re still stuck in VGA land — 640 x 480 is not a lot of pixels these days.

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Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video)

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:09:00 +0000

Usually we’d advise you not to read too much into this — we’d point out that this was a themed ad served up before the showing of Lawrence of Arabia at London’s Secret Cinema event — but what the hell: Microsoft says the revolution ’s coming.

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Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:59:00 +0000

The room is utterly packed at Samsung’s IFA presser, and it’s not hard to figure out why: Samsung typically goes wild at this show, and with the Galaxy Tab leading this year’s lineup, it looks like we’ve got another winner on our hands. Follow along after the break! Continue reading Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:59:00 EDT

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Twitter for iPad review

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:59:00 +0000

It’s no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie ) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps — it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app and hired developer Loren Brichter in back in April. That delayed the release of an iPad version, but Twitter’s finally come through — and as you’d expect, Twitter for iPad does things just as uniquely as its sister apps on the iPhone and Mac. In fact, we’d go so far as to say a few of its interface conventions will become as commonplace as slide-to-refresh, which was first introduced in Tweetie for iPhone — but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

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Jobs suggests that competitors’ device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:23:00 +0000

Not satisfied to simply trump Google’s daily device activation numbers , Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoon, claiming that unspecified “friends” have been counting handset upgrades in their statistical totals and not just newly activated phones. As you might imagine, Google was not terribly pleased at this turn of events, and issued the following retort: “The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services.” Now, we don’t honestly know who’s telling the truth here and we’d like to be able to take both companies at their word, but this isn’t the first time even during this particular Apple shindig that questionable claims were thrown out as fact. [Thanks, Kamal] Jobs suggests that competitors’ device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:23:00 EDT.

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Philips GoGear Connect hands-on

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:19:00 +0000

We had a chance to check out Philips’ new GoGear Connect a few hours ago ahead of its IFA debut later this week, a brushed metal media player that pretty closely apes the Muse but adds a wee bit of girth, swaps in Android 2.1 for the proprietary OS, and adds a trackball down below. Interestingly, it’s got both a 3.2-megapixel camera and edge-mounted microphone on board, meaning that it’s basically just a GSM radio shy of being a full-on smartphone — but we digress: the point is that the Connect will be going head-to-head with the likes of the Galaxy S-inspired Samsung Yepp YP-MB2 and the new iPod touch for the hearts and minds of the dedicated PMP crowd this autumn

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LG’s E900 and E720 handsets hit the FCC, one with AT&T-compatible frequencies

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:30:00 +0000

We knew LG’s C900 QWERTY-packing Windows Phone 7 handset was sliding towards an AT&T finish line , but it’s looking like the company’s E900 slate phone might play for Team Blue as well — here’s an FCC report (the third Federal scoop in an hour!) that shows the handset boasting GSM 850 and 1900 radio frequencies as well as compatible 3G data. You can also expect Bluetooth and 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi alongside that 1GHz Snapdragon SoC when or if the handset hits US shores

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