Archive for November, 2010
November 30, 2010
Here’s a great combination flashlight and lantern. The Proteam TO1005 2-in-1 20 LED Wind Up Energy-Saving Flashlight (or Torch for you Brits) gives you light whenever and wherever you need it.
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November 30, 2010
If you’re already familiar with Apple-related rumors, you should know that there isn’t any way to confirm this just yet. Word is going around that the iPad 2 (or whatever it will be called) is slated to arrive on January 2011. Considering that we’ve previously heard whispers of an April launch date for the iPad 2, there is still the possibility of Apple announcing the iPad in January and launching it later in April. With January 2011 just around the corner, you can bet that we’re hoping that this rumor turns out to be true.
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November 29, 2010
According to networking company Level 3 Communications, Comcast just couldn’t wait for its NBC deal to go through before getting all jerky with the access to online video, telling Level 3 on November 19th that it would need to pay a fee to deliver video to Comcast customers. Level 3 delivers videos from many companies over its networks, but the timing is particularly notable since on November 11th it signed up bandwidth-chewing Netflix as a major customer. While this sounds like exactly the kind of anti-net neutrality nonsense that makes us want to crank some OK Go, Comcast has responded saying it’s doing no such thing, and it’s actually Level 3 seeking a competitive advantage by suddenly sending far more information onto Comcast’s network than it accepts. The cable company goes on to claim this situation is no different than its existing deals with Level 3′s competitors, and that as long as traffic remains in balance it is willing to allow access settlement free, but if they want to push their growth (read: Netflix) onto Comcast’s pipes, they’ll have to pay up. We’ll wait and see if this is all just a simple negotiating ploy or a true strike in the battle over net neutrality, but you may still want to get a refresher course on exactly what net neutrality is all about from our friend Tim Wu just in case.
Comcast, Level 3 Communications square off over video streaming, network neutrality principles originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
November 29, 2010
While we really like the new Windows Phone 7 graphic user interface (check our Samsung Focus review) and even its software developer kit (SDK), it seem that some developers aren’t liking the way Marketplace has worked for them so far. According to Nicholas Yu (GoVoice app) and Justin James, it’s currently impossible for them to know how many apps they have sold (and therefore how much Microsoft owes them). To make things worse, they don’t even know when (eventual payments) will be coming their way. Justin James was apparently told by Microsoft that no developer payout would happen until 2011.
This is a bit bizarre because Windows Phone 6.x developers did not seem to have such problems, but it is always possible that WP7 apps are handled in a different way. Let’s hope for Microsoft and WP7′s sake that this will be solved shortly because developers risk delaying producing apps for the WP7 platform if they feel like things haven’t been ironed out.
Permalink: WP7 developers complain about Marketplace payments, stats from Ubergizmo | Hot: Macbook Air Review,Google TV Review
November 29, 2010
Asus sure moves pretty fast once its products are finalized. It was only a few days ago that Asus confirmed the name of its Eee Note EA800 digital notebook and now the company has announced that it’ll be available for purchase this week itself in Taiwan, priced at $230 (NT$6,999), a price that won’t burn too deep a hole in your pocket. The device, designed for taking notes, is powered by Linux and features an 8-inch 1024 x 768 pixel display and is capable of going on for 13.5-hours of continuous use. Other features include 4GB of internal memory, 2-megapixel camera, stylus input, Wi-Fi connectivity and a microSD memory card slot.
Permalink: Asus Eee Note EA800 Launching In Taiwan This Week For $230 from Ubergizmo | Hot: Macbook Air Review,Google TV Review
Twitter’s abuzz with angry Comcast customers tonight, as internet service is down in Boston and parts of the eastern United States, a situation the company’s since confirmed at its official Twitter account. Comcast’s calling it an unexpected outage and says that “engineers are finalizing the correction” as we speak, though it’s admittedly been a couple of hours since that tweet. Meanwhile, Twitter at large seems to have figured out it’s a Comcast DNS issue, and have had some luck switching to alternate servers like Google’s at 8.8.4.4. and 8.8.8.8. Let us know if those work in comments after the break!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Comcast internet down across parts of the eastern seaboard, fix on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 28, 2010
Can’t wait another minute for your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS to be carrier-unlocked once more? If and only if you’re already running the latest firmware, you can actually pilfer a bit of iPad code to pick the requisite locks — though there are some serious risks in doing so. The iPhone Dev Team has a new version of PwnageTool that uses the 6.15.00 baseband from iPad firmware 3.2.2, which which just so happens to run perfectly on the iPhone 3G and 3GS since both phones and tablets of that era use the same Infineon radio chip. If you know your way around an IPSW and regularly bench-press SHSH blobs, you can download all the software you need right now — but if you don’t, you might want to steer clear of the proceedings for the time being. We spoke about risks a moment ago, and in this case there are quite a few — like the inability to downgrade from baseband 6.15 or ever do a full restore again, and it’s fairly likely that Apple won’t look kindly on your warranty if they find you running iPad software. Them’s the breaks, kid.
iPhone 3G, 3GS get iOS 4.2.1 unlock, using risky ultrasn0w workaround originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 28, 2010
We’re still slightly bummed that Peter Jackson never made Halo, but this should patch things up a tad — the Lord of the Rings director will film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC cameras, starting early next year. That’s the news straight from RED founder Jim Jannard, but that’s not all, as a limited number of pre-production EPIC packages will be available to early adopters as well. $58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budding director a machined EPIC-M body, titanium PL mount, Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, a REDmote, a four-pack of batteries, a charger and an solid state storage module with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects to hand-assemble that first batch of 5K imagers in December or January, start the real assembly lines a month after that, and hopefully have widespread availability by NAB in April, though he’s not making any promises there. That’s how RED rolls. PR after the break.
[Thanks, Patrick]
Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film The Hobbit, tempt you to blow your savings originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 27, 2010
The Media Computing Group — otherwise known as the dudes and dudettes responsible for making multitouch hip again — is back, and some might say better than ever. The BendDesk is an outlandish new concept workspace for the future, relying heavily on a curved multitouch display to bring the wow. The desk is the Group’s vision of merging multitouch with a common physical area, and it’s probably the best implementation we’ve seen yet. A full ten touch points are supported, but the lower portion is also designed to be used as a standard desk, holding your laptop, paperwork and ink pen collection if you so choose. Shockingly enough, the whole thing looks exceptionally ergonomic, too. Head on past the break for a glimpse of it being used, but don’t hold your breath waiting for a ship date and price — something tells us it’ll be awhile before either of those are published.
Continue reading BendDesk: the curved multitouch workspace of the future (video)
BendDesk: the curved multitouch workspace of the future (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 27, 2010
This Automatic Baseball Pitching Machine should help perfect your skills. Failing that, why not just set it up in the yard and give the dog some exercise for a while? Balls fly up to 5 metres and you get [...]
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