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Do you ever fake cellphone calls? I sure do! And apparently so do the people at Samsung. Their product manual explains how to conjure up a fake call “when you want to get out of meetings or unwanted conversations.” More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/MKnCdmzlvaY/samsung-manual-offers-helpful-directions-for-faking-calls

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Continue reading 1Password brings secure password, notes, and credit card storage to Windows Phone 7

1Password brings secure password, notes, and credit card storage to Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not only does the latest Cisco/Linksys E4200 router look amazing for a router, it’s got upgraded features from their older models, like 6 antennas and dual-band wireless-N. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/kf61326f3z4/linksys-e4200-dual+band-router-is-their-newest-top-of-the-line

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Mobile malware may grow as a security threat this year, but security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann says there’s a worse threat lurking around — the GSM baseband system. The threat from hacking GSM baseband systems has been largely ignored, Weinmann reportedly told the audience at a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, D.C., Monday.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71460.html

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So, you’re a zombie. And you’re hungry, and you’re all pixelated. You’re going to stay pixelated and retro-looking, at least on this game. But you don’t have to stay hungry: In Zombie Bites, you run around the level, finding humans. As soon as you touch a human and press SPACE, you attack. Your energy bar fills up a bit, but not so much. You must keep running and jumping in search of more humans you can eat.

“What’s the problem?”, I hear you say, “That screenshot is full of humans”. No it’s not – those are zombies! As we’ve all learned in science class, once a zombie bites a human, the human turns into a zombie. And that’s exactly what happens in Zombie Bites, so you find yourself running around the level searching for the few remaining humans amongst a growing horde of zombies, which are busy biting those same humans you’re trying to catch. Hectic!

It’s not exactly an epic quest, but it’s a cute game, especially if you’re into zombies. The 8-bit style makes the gore seem kind of fetching, really.

Zombie Bites is a gory retro platformer — Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/13/zombie-bites-is-a-gory-retro-platformer-time-waster/

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I’m one of those people who have ears that just don’t work with the Apple earbud headsets. I really prefer the in-ear style, which is why I was eager to review the MEElectronics M9Ps. They’re priced just above the bulk earbud prices, have an interesting style, and looked like they’d be a good solution for [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/15/meelectronics-m9p-hi-fi-sound-isolating-in-ear-headphones-with-microphone-review/

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DaringFireball’s John Gruber checked with his sources following the recent iPad 2 2048?×?1536 Retina Display rumors and they say it is too good to be true — iPad 2 will sport the same 1024×768 resolution as the current iPad. Its display may be improved in other ways ? brighter, better power consumption, thinner, perhaps. [...]

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Who knew that hoolahoopers (is that an actual word?) were so into their ‘sport’ that they would need a travel hoola hoop? I guess Hoopnotica did because they are offering a collapsible Travel Hoop Kit in either Pink or Blue for $49.99. You can choose from a 42 inch hoop or a 44 inch hoop, [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/15/your-hips-wont-lie-with-the-hoopnotica-travel-hula-hoop/

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We reported earlier that the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 could be coming soon. Its impending arrival seemed to be heralded by the availability of a prerequisite installer update delivered recently via Windows Update. Now, however, there’s an indication that we could be just hours away from being able to download Windows 7 SP1.

A Microsoft Technet blog — albeit a Russian one we’ve had to run through translation sites — indicates that “pack will be publicly available tomorrow.” The post discusses virtualization improvements in Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 and was published January 13, 2011. If the author’s statement is accurate, that would definitely make today SP1 release day.

Update: According to Tom Warren at WinRumors, the public download isn’t coming today. Rather, the original post was announcing the availability of the Windows 7 SP1 RTM to OEMs today.

Windows 7 SP1 download due today, says Microsoft Technet post originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/14/windows-7-sp1-due-today-says-microsoft-technet-post/

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When most people hear the words “vector graphics”, the first thing that comes to mind is Adobe Illustrator. While Illustrator is a wonderful application, it’s certainly not the only game in town: I’ve been using CorelDRAW for several years now, and I just love it.

I’m not a graphics pro by any stretch of the imagination, but I do need to turn out a few pretty pixels here and there for my day job. If you’re just thinking about getting into vector graphics, or if you’ve tried Illustrator and it proved too daunting, CorelDRAW might be just what you need.

Rather than just talk about CorelDRAW or write a tutorial, I figured it would be best to show it off in a short video. I took an image of my awesome cat, Ivan, and made it into a Polaroid-like snapshot. It took me less than five minutes, without any templates or saved settings. To see how I did it, hit Play after the fold.

By the way, this is the first of four CorelDRAW tutorials to be published in the next few weeks. If you’d like to see specific aspects of CorelDRAW in action, feel free to let me know in the comments!

Continue reading CorelDRAW video tutorial: Make a Polaroid-like image in five minutes

CorelDRAW video tutorial: Make a Polaroid-like image in five minutes originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The most popular home screen and ‘app drawer’ replacement app for Android is LauncherPro — but I’m not sure why.

I mean, sure, it gives you a scrolling dock, and up to seven home screens — big whoop. Maybe I’m just a bit jaded. I have recently reviewed two very good home screen apps, after all. The truth is, though, except for a nifty scrolling, customizable dock, there’s simply no reason to use LauncherPro instead of ADW.Launcher — and Zeam, which is lighter-weight and easier to use, also has a very nice scrolling dock.

In fact, the only unique feature in LauncherPro costs $3, and you can’t even try it out before you buy.

Continue reading LauncherPro for Android hands-on: it works, but it won’t wow you

LauncherPro for Android hands-on: it works, but it won’t wow you originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Seems like it’s PlayStation morning! Just two days after the release of a PlayStation 3 jailbreak for firmware version 3.55, Sony is suing the creators — one of which is none other than Geohot (pictured right), of iPhone limera1n jailbreak infamy. Both the root keys that made the jailbreak possible, and the jailbreak itself, have been removed from Geohot’s website, pending a decision from the courts.

What’s odd, though, is that this jailbreak doesn’t allow pirated games to be run on the PlayStation 3; rather, it’s simply aimed at allowing the homebrew community to install their own custom packages. Ultimately, Geohot wants to bring back the “install another OS” option, which Sony removed back in March 2010 — but now we’ll have to wait for the resolution of the court case to see if it’s possible.

The legal documents are available from Geohot’s website (but it’s starting to get pretty slow!) There’s also a video of the jailbreak in action after the break.

Continue reading Sony sues iPhone jailbreaker Geohot over PS3 firmware 3.55 hack

Sony sues iPhone jailbreaker Geohot over PS3 firmware 3.55 hack originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It?s not everyday that I come across something that is as impressive looking as the Franklin Roadie Portable Speaker System. In photos, this thing looks really cool with its red, green and blue lighted buttons and brushed aluminum shell. Without any size reference, it looks big and powerful. Even the pricing concept looks appealing as [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/14/franklin-explorer-roadie-amp%e2%80%99d-speaker-system-review/

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Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/11/daily-crunch-bounce-edition/

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This week’s series of tips will be focusing on handy little features for Microsoft Excel and Word. To see the previous tips, check our Tips index.

By default, when you click a cell in Excel and hit Ctrl+B or the B button on the toolbar, the entire text of the cell becomes bold. However, sometimes you may want to make just part of the text bold, and not the whole thing.

To do this, simply start editing the cell by hitting F2. Select the text you’d like to make bold, and hit Ctrl+B. This will make only this part of the cell bold.

You can use this same technique to color specific words in the cell: Select one or two words while editing a cell, and use the Font Color button to change their color.

How to make only part of a cell bold in Microsoft Excel originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/10/how-to-make-only-part-of-a-cell-bold-in-microsoft-excel/

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We had nearly forgotten Lenovo’s Eedoo spinoff and its China-bound video game console, seeing as how it failed to meet a planned November 2010 unveiling, but IDG News reports that the motion-sensing eBox hasn’t slipped Lenovo’s mind — it’s just been pushed further into 2011. How far? If we were to guess, we’d say Q2 2011, and the video above spells out why. Seemingly by coincidence, we were just sent this footage of a game called Flyimal, built on the Unity Engine as a collaboration between 3D asset company Mixamo and 3D gesture recognition company Omek Interactive, and — get this — running on “the first [console] to be made by the Chinese for the Chinese market and due for launch by Q2 of this year.” We can’t think of many game systems that fit that description, to be honest. There’s not a lot to look at here, but we imagine PrimeSense and competitors will be perusing the video soon, noting that the machine captures precisely 15 points on a user’s body for its gesture recognition algorithms… and wondering if there’s a third dimension to any of that movement. Read Unity, Mixamo and Omek’s statement after the break.

Continue reading Lenovo’s Chinese eBox console suffers delay, here’s how its camera-based games might play (video)

Lenovo’s Chinese eBox console suffers delay, here’s how its camera-based games might play (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ubuntu 11.04 officially switches default media player to Banshee originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looks like we didn’t have to wait until Feb. 9th after all to see HP’s webOS tablet. Engadget has what are reportedly the first pictures of the dark horse tablets that may finally step up to the iPad. Details below: More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/smjo5gpm7Mc/unconfirmed-first-look-at-the-webos-tablet-weve-been-waiting-for

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In an odd move that must surely raise concerns of lucidity, the Trend Micro chairman, Steve Chang, has claimed that the open-source nature of Android makes it easier to hack than iOS: “Android is open-source, which means the hacker can also understand the underlying architecture and source code.”

News just in: the open-source-is-less-secure myth was dispelled more than a decade ago. Take a look at Linux, Apache, Firefox, or Chrome — four huge open-source projects, and all many times more secure than their closed-source brethren (Windows, IIS, Internet Explorer). Open source projects are more secure than closed-source projects due to peer and code review, and vested interest! Trend Micro fails to appreciate that while maybe a handful of people have seen the iOS source, thousands have eyeballed Android’s innards to look for bugs. Don’t forget that Android is also based on Linux, which must be one of the most rigorously tested pieces of software ever made.

Later in the interview, Chang even goes on to mention the iOS sandbox “that isolates the platform”… which Android also has!

Anyway, Chang’s ultimate point is that as smartphones become more intrinsic to our everyday life, their security becomes an ever-growing concern. Smartphones need to be treated as real computers, and locked down in the same way; either by the platform, or with third-party software. There will come a point, in the next few years, when smartphone OSes receive even more attention from malware authors than Windows — we need to be ready.

[If you're looking for a good, free Android antivirus tool, checkout Lookout Mobile Security. Image credit: laihiu]

Trend Micro thinks Android’s open source makes it less secure than iOS; wrong! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/13/trend-micro-thinks-android-open-source-makes-it-less-secure-than-ios-wrong/

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Scientists have remade Pac-Man using paramecia—microorganisms that you can control with a real joystick while a digital microscope relays images to a computer screen. They call it “Pac-Mecium” and it is not the only game they are playing. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/q1CKz-LWL98/scientists-create-real+life-pac+man-using-microorganisms

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Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a watch that makes sure you always have a television remote control at hand.  The brushed stainless-steel watch is 2″ H x 1 5/8″ W x 1/2″ thick and has a 1″ wide black silicone band.  It functions as a digital timepiece with alarm, calendar, and chronograph.  Six buttons along the [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/18/control-your-tv-with-the-television-remote-control-watch/

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Continue reading Kongregate Arcade for Android is a pocket gamer’s dream come true

Kongregate Arcade for Android is a pocket gamer’s dream come true originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android fans looking to purchase a tablet might think that their only real choice is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. But what do you do if you aren’t interested in paying another monthly fee for data access? Are there other alternatives? Of course there are and today I’m going to show you one that is priced [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/17/wopad-wr701-7-capacitive-android-2-1-tablet-review/

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You know those movies when a filmmaker wanders the streets dressed in a beret and peers at potential shots through a frame made by his fingers and thumbs? Well, the Rec concept camera does just that, only instead of your thumbs the frame swings from the side of the camera, and instead of a beret [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/rec-camera-giant-viewfinder-and-two-way-screen/

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I’m one of those people who have ears that just don’t work with the Apple earbud headsets. I really prefer the in-ear style, which is why I was eager to review the MEElectronics M9Ps. They’re priced just above the bulk earbud prices, have an interesting style, and looked like they’d be a good solution for [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/15/meelectronics-m9p-hi-fi-sound-isolating-in-ear-headphones-with-microphone-review/

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If “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” summed up all that was wrong in Jan’s world on “The Brady Bunch” all those many decades ago, an equivalent for today’s computing world might be, “tablets, tablets, tablets!” After all, the widely hyped new devices pretty well dominated the news coming out of CES, and they continue to do so in most other aspects of consumer IT.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71660.html

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Backupify, a cloud computing service that backs up data on other cloud computing services, has just released a “year in review” announcement that includes staggering data on the amount of content saved through the platform. Founded in 2008 by Rob May, Backupify backs up all your data on services like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, and YouTube. The service keeps all the raw data for you and creates a downloadable PDF with, for instance, all your Tweets, direct messages, followers, people you follow, and profile info. The startup, which has raised $6 million in funding, also recently launched a deeper Facebook integration that saves data from News Feeds, Wall Posts, Photo Albums and Messages from Pages.

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Sorry, HP. The ruthless Internet just ruined your February 9th event with a set of webOS tablet pics and a whole bunch of info. But you know what? It might be for the best. I’m at least interested now. It’s kind of hard to write this up without drawing the iPad comparison. Not only do the renders physically look like the current iPad — sans the home button at least — but the specs line up with what most assume are going to be on the next iPad build. There’s a set of speakers, front-facing camera, and a micro-USB port, which will no doubt handle the charging and file transfer duties. But the one place where this tablet sets itself apart is where it counts most: The OS.

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This week, we’re running a series of keyboard tips and tricks that help you make the most of Windows 7. To see the previous tips, check our Tips index.

The Windows 7 taskbar has large, chunky icons. They’re easy to hit with the mouse, but what’s nicer still is that they’re easy to count. You can easily see what’s the third icon, for example, and so, hitting Win+3 would be like clicking that icon. That means if the application isn’t running yet, Win+3 is going to run it; and if it already is running, Win+3 will switch between all open instances of that application, and even pop up a neat Aero Peek pane next to the taskbar, showing you thumbnails of all of the instances you’re switching between. If have a few apps pinned to your taskbar and don’t switch their order very often, very soon you’ll know their numbers by heart, and using Win+Number could become second nature.

Come back tomorrow for the next keyboard tip, or, if you’d like to read a whole bunch at once, check out Sebastian’s epic list.

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Activate specific windows in Windows 7 with a taskbar keyboard shortcut originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week’s series of tips will be focusing on handy little features for Microsoft Excel and Word. To see the previous tips, check our Tips index.

While earlier this week I’ve shown you how to keep the Ribbon from getting in your way, that’s not all you can do with it in Office 2010. Back when the Ribbon interface first came out, in Office 2007, it wasn’t really customizable. You could modify it if you were lucky enough to know VBA (Visual Basic for Applications, Office’s built-in programming language), but otherwise, you were pretty much stuck with the stock arrangement of tabs and buttons.

Fortunately, with Office 2010, Microsoft introduced a simple way to customize the Ribbon, requiring no programming at all. Simply go to the File menu, click Options and then select Customize Ribbon. You’ll get a two-pane dialog, showing all available commands versus your existing ribbon, and letting you toggle things on and off and re-arrange them as you see fit.

The best part is that once you’re done customizing your setup, you can easily export it for backup or to take with you to your other computers. Just click the Import/Export button and select Export all customizations.

How to customize the Ribbon menu in Microsoft Office 2010 originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There appears to be a roaring black-market in 6-foot Android costumes over in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cricket Communications uses the costume to promote its Androidphones, and has $1,000 for whoever returns it. Anyone seen Microsoft’s mascot recently? [WLWT via AndroidCentral] More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Rxg8bdyDUmY/someones-stolen-a-6+foot-android-costume

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This week, we’re running a series of keyboard tips and tricks that help you make the most of Windows 7. To see the previous tips, check our Tips index.

The taskbar seems like it was meant to be used with the mouse only; it’s a very visual thing, especially in Windows 7. But it turns out there’s a way to “switch” to the taskbar and then work with it using the keyboard only! Hit Win+T to focus the taskbar, and then use the arrow keys to cycle between the icons. Whenever the focus switches to an application that’s currently running, its Aero Peek pane will show up. To start an application that isn’t running, press Enter.

What’s nice about this system is that it takes your taskbar’s orientations into account: for a vertical taskbar, Up/Down will switch windows, while Left/Right would activate the Aero Peek thumbnail pane; for a horizontal one, Left/Right would switch windows and Up/Down would activate the thumbnail pane.

This little nugget concludes our weekly Keyboard Tips series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it, and maybe even learned some new tricks! Check out Sebastian’s list for a comprehensive rundown of many other hotkeys.

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Focus the taskbar and switch windows with the arrow keys in Windows 7 originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/07/focus-the-taskbar-and-switch-windows-with-the-arrow-keys-in-windows-7/

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Here are some stories from CrunchGear’s week at CES. Hands-on With the Orbitix Sphero Samson Meteor Mic: Meteor-y Sanyo Shipped 150 Million Eneloop Batteries Onkyo Looks To The ?80s For The Future Post-CES Palate Cleanser: Ocarina Of Tetris

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/10/week-in-review-ces-memories/

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On the upcoming Patch Tuesday, Microsoft will not be issuing a fix for a critical IE8 vulnerability discovered in December. If that wasn’t bad enough, a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 discovered by a Google security researcher will also go unaddressed.

The second bug was only discovered yesterday, so perhaps Microsoft simply hasn’t had a chance to work out a fix yet — but the first flaw has already been exploited, and seen in the wild! Microsoft even admits it has seen targeted attacks, yet no fix is forthcoming.

The Google security researcher, incidentally, is concerned that third parties in China might also know about his recently-discovered vulnerability. In a beautiful twist of irony, one of his fellow researchers uploaded some data that revealed the exploit — and moments later, the GoogleBot indexed the data, allowing two IP addresses in China to simply search for it.

Microsoft leaving two vulnerabilties in Internet Explorer 8 unpatched originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/06/microsoft-leaving-two-vulnerabilties-in-internet-explorer-8-unpatched/

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There’s usually as much fun to be had before an Apple product launch as there is after, and this upcoming iPad 2 device is no exception. The latest scuttlebutt it has succumbed to comes courtesy of some cases that have cropped up in China — AppleInsider and MIC Gadget have independently found iPad 2 shells that feature nearly identical cutouts — with the resulting allegations pointing toward a rear-facing camera, an SD card slot, and perhaps even a Mini DisplayPort receptacle. Our own sources have confirmed the former two, but the latter, a miniaturized video output already featured in MacBooks, is a new development and less of a certainty. Then again, looking at the size of the hole leaves few alternative options (and a USB slot is extremely unlikely), so we’re willing to believe that a Mini DisplayPort will be an inclusion Apple makes for the sake of offering choice — even if it prefers you to send your video streams over an untethered AirPlay connection.

Continue reading iPad 2 cases surface, rekindle SD card slot fire and add a pinch of mystery with topside cutout

iPad 2 cases surface, rekindle SD card slot fire and add a pinch of mystery with topside cutout originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As you may know, cows do not float. They tend to be heavier than water, so they sink. Not being a creature of the sea, when a cow drowns, it ceases to live. So if you like cows and encounter a bunch of cows that are on the verge of drowning, you might be moved to save them –and that’s pretty much the premise of Freaky Cows.

You get a queue of objects and when you click the screen, the next object appears. The first thing on every level is some sort of a floating platform – it may be a long plank, or a bunch of logs loosely bunched together (these can float apart, as you can see in the screenshot).

Once the first floating object is in the water, the next click usually drops a cow on it, and it happily floats. Of course, saving just one cow isn’t enough. Cows are social creatures, so you have to save the whole herd. When you drop the next cow on the floating plank, it changes the balance and causes the plank to sink deeper into the water. If you’re not careful, the whole plank might tip over — and there go the cows! You may receive extra planks later on, which you can use to bolster up your platform.

There are bulls, too, and a bull weighs four times as much as a cow — so you need to be extra-careful with them. Happily, though, you don’t have to save every cow. I mean, every cow is precious, but you can usually get away with saving only nine out of twelve or so and still pass the level.

Freaky Cows is highly recommended, and I greatly enjoyed the frantic mooing in the soundtrack.

Freaky Cows is an aquatic-themed bovine Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The development version of Wine 1.3 has just been released, bringing with it a ton of bug fixes, improved JavaScript performance, and — at long last — GNU gettext support, making localization and translation a whole lot easier.

For many Linux users, though, Wine 1.3.11 will be known as the build that finally fixed MS Hearts, which has been broken under Wine since 2006. Of course, there is a Hearts clone, but it just isn’t the same. The improved JavaScript performance means that JavaScript-heavy pages should run a bit better in Internet Explorer — though why a Linux user would use Internet Explorer is truly a puzzler.

Binary packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and other major distros should be available; but if not, you can always build from source.

Wine 1.3.11 released, improves JavaScript performance and localization, fixes MS Hearts bug originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Did you know that fashion designer extraordinaire Ralph Lauren collects classic automobiles? That he owns “60 or so of the rarest, most valuable cars in the world” and drives them all himself? He does! This is where he keeps ‘em. More »

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In a rather odd and haphazard move, Facebook has now made it possible for apps to read your home address and mobile telephone number.

In the “Request for Permission” window — the one you have to accept before using an app on the Facebook platform — look out for “Access my contact information”, with the subtitle “Current Address and Mobile Phone Number” (see image above). You’d think that such important details would deserve a bolder warning, instead of the usual faded gray — but obviously not.

As Sophos’ Naked Security blog points out, making such details available in a landscape that is already packed full of rogue spam and scam applications puts Facebook users at even greater risk. With your full name and home address, identity theft basically becomes a no-brainer — and can you imagine the SMS spam that awaits the unlucky Facebooker that gives his phone number to the wrong app developer?

Still, even if you’re not bothered by this (and you can always remove your home address or mobile number from Facebook), you have wonder what Facebook will do next. Facebook is quickly becoming The One True Internet Hub, and the wealth of data it knows about us is terrifying. If access to incredibly sensitive data can be reduced to a small-font subtitle in a cluttered permission box, it’s only a matter of time until you accidentally press “Allow” and fritter away your entire life story to a random rogue developer.

Facebook enables one-click identity theft option for rogue application developers originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not that we had any reason to doubt O2 Germany’s Twitter account, but a formal press release does help ease our few concerns. The HTC 7 Pro is now official on the European carrier for the asking price of €29 down and 24 months of €22.50. If you want to rip the proverbial band-aid off faster, it’s also available for a €599 flat fee — both of those without SIM lock. The rest of the world? We imagine it’s just a matter of time before HTC offers this through its other channels.

HTC 7 Pro now available on O2 Germany, ?22 monthly or ?599 up front originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Populis (formerly GoAdv), which we’ve previously described as the ?European Associated Content?, has just announced that it’s acquiring Blogo, a blog network that operates in Europe and South America owned by Dada, the Italian web publisher part owned by RCS MediaGroup. The acquisition price is pegged at ?6 million. The “thematic blog network” consists of over 250 bloggers who cover 70 niches spanning subjects such as automotive, sport, finance and the arts. It targets the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Brazil, boasting around 100 million page views a month, says Populis, citing Nielsen stats as of November 2010.

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BitsDuJour is one of those “daily specials” websites with a difference.  They sell software at greatly reduced prices, and each day sees a new offering.  What makes BitsDuJour different is that each deal they offer is available for Windows or Mac operating systems – same titles, same pricing, both platforms.  Go to the BitsDuJour link [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/13/the-bitsdujour-software-bundles-offer-big-savings-on-software/

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The next time you’re exploring the depths of the Pacific ocean, you won’t have to worry that you’re missing a call from your BFF because you’ll be using the 2-in-1 Amphibian case from InnoPocket. It’s designed to allow for everyday use with a polycarbonate inner hard case and then by attaching a front and back [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/13/innopockets-amphibian-case-will-let-you-use-your-iphone-4-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/

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Last November Pentax’s mid-range front runner, the K-5 DSLR, got an upgrade, now the K-7 and K-x are following suit. New firmware updates for both cameras tout SDXC card compatibility, increasing memory, but failing to follow through on speed — Pentax notes transfer rates won’t hit UHS. Despite the company’s Japanese website listing the K-7 as a discontinued product, the camera also gets increased video editing functions in playback mode, as well as improved image sharpening settings. Now, follow the source links below, and let Pentax upgrade you.

Pentax K-7 and K-x firmware upgrades pack SDXC compatibility originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Irritated by lyrics and podcast information appearing over the album art on your iPhone or iPod touch and want to know how to make it go away? Well you’re in luck, you can disable this annoying overlay in 3 easy steps. We’ll show you how after the break! You may have lyrics to some songs in [...]

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As Apple’s iTunes App Store closes in on 10 billion downloads asymco does some Leanna-level math and estimates 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device — iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad sold to date. They draw three conclusions: Apps overtaking digital music is a watershed event. Apps are a new [...]

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One of the latest projects to ask crowd-sourced funding site Kickstarter for cash is 3D printed iPad case maker Fresh Fiber—which wants your money to help start an e-commerce store where users can design bespoke 3D iPad cases. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/VgnR027x7XY/fresh-fiber-would-like-20k-to-launch-a-3d-ipad-case-printing-site

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Hexxeh, who recently released a Cr-48 tool to boot any OS, including Windows or Mac OS X, has now successfully got Android 2.3 Gingerbread to run on his Cr-48 netbook.

All we have right now is a single photo (above), but you can click it for a super-high-res (cellphone camera?) photo if you like. According to unnamed sources close to Hexxeh, it is indeed Gingerbread running on Cr-48, but beyond that we know nothing.

Hopefully he’ll release a little more info later today.

Cr-48 Chrome OS netbook hacked to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s always amazed me how phones, with processors that are hundreds of times more powerful than early computers, can lag. You know what I mean: head into your address book and try to find a contact while your phone is still booting up, or loading a website. It’s pathetic, really. One solution is to put faster and faster CPUs in phones, but the alternative is to strip out some of the heavier elements and replace them with light-weight, faster alternatives — like Zeam Launcher.

Zeam switches out your home screen and apps list with minimalistic, snappier replacements. It supports Live Wallpapers, and rather excitingly opens up programmable bindings swipe up, swipe down and double tap. With Zeam, you’ll never have to hit the ‘home’ button — just swipe down!

Continue reading Zeam hands on: a lightweight and minimalist Android launcher

Zeam hands on: a lightweight and minimalist Android launcher originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android fans looking to purchase a tablet might think that their only real choice is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. But what do you do if you aren’t interested in paying another monthly fee for data access? Are there other alternatives? Of course there are and today I’m going to show you one that is priced [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/17/wopad-wr701-7-capacitive-android-2-1-tablet-review/

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At a small United States Air Force installation in eastern Wyoming, I’m sitting at an electronic console, ready to unleash nuclear hell. More »

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Mod Your Fender Blues Jr. ?Spotify? Now A Real Word In Sweden The Lumimask: A Mask That Wakes You As Gently As Mother Nature Kinect-Controlled Humanoid Robot ? Bring On The Robo-Gladiators! Irony: Read Kindle Books On Your Rooted NookColor

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Nokia’s experiment with the OVI Unlimited Music service — which the company branded as “Comes With Music” on many of its handsets — is winding down. A Nokia spokesperson has stated that the service just hasn’t gained enough traction to keep it going. Competition from other services — like Spotify and iTunes — ultimately proved to be too much in certain markets. Unlimited Music will still be available in a handful of countries, however (just 6 out of 33). Nokia will continue to offer 1-year subscriptions in China, India and Indonesia, and 6-month subs in Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey.

Users who currently hold an active subscription will be able to download music until their service runs out — and will always be able to listen to their downloaded songs. Nokia has also stated that the decision to “rethink” Unlimited Music won’t affect the OVI Music Store or other music-related services it is currently developing.

Nokia kills off Comes With Music in all but 6 countries originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After four weeks of civil unrest, the fall of the Tunisian president Ben Ali played out for all the world on Twitter this Friday, some dubbing it a “Twitter Revolution” like the election protests in Iran and Moldovia. Increasingly, collective events from TV shows to the World Cup to #lessambitiousmovies to the fall of dictatorships cause spikes in related conversation on the microblogging network which, with its broad media influencer adoption, has become the world’s eminent news amplifier.

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Apparently patient HP trainees were rewarded with a tantalizing tidbit regarding WebOS tablets: They’re coming soon! This we had an inkling of, obviously, but now things are much more official! More »

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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 brought you unveilings of the world’s hottest new eco vehicles as we hit the floor of the Detroit Auto Show and rounded up the seven sexiest green cars on display. We also took a first look at Toyota’s new Tesla-infused RAV4, and we caught up with Venturi’s powerhouse electric concept car. And if unconventional transportation spins your wheels, don’t miss the shape shifting Uno 3 electric scooter and this masterfully-crafted Tron segway that could out-geek a lightcycle.

We also looked at several groundbreaking building systems that stand to make our cities stronger and more sustainable, starting with a new type of flexible superglass that is stronger than steel. Meanwhile, Sweden is soaking up body heat from public places to help heat buildings, China unveiled plans for a futuristic eco city, and several offices in Minnesota flipped on a set of souped-up ceiling lights capable of broadcasting wireless internet.

In other news, the world of renewable energy is jolting for joy as Southwest Wind Power unveiled the world’s first fully smart grid-enabled windturbine. We also checked out a new ultracapacitor that can charge a power drill in 60 seconds, and researchers are working on energy-generating fabrics that can transform your t-shirt into a power plant. Finally, this week we wrapped up our CES coverage with a look at the best green gadgets from this year’s show, and we flexed our creative capacity with 5 tech projects for kids that foster creativity and critical thinking.

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: sexy green cars, glass strong as steel, and Tianjin’s Eco-City revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I’m more than familiar with the ridiculous amounts often paid out for antiques, but even I paused when reading that this scratched-up old Leica MP-36 was sold on eBay for $104,000. More »

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A timer is one of those essential applications a phone must have; note that I’m not even saying “smartphone,” but just about any phone, even the lowliest S60 Nokia phone, has a very usable timer accessible right from the ‘main screen.’

There are a ton of timers available for Android, but most use the stock UI controls and emphasize features like multiple timers, saved presets, and others I don’t really need. What I need is a fun, fast way to set up a timer and be able to move on. Tick! fits the bill quite perfectly.

The UI looks kind of like an old six-shooter cylinder. You just turn the big dial around, and the minutes on the slider increment. Once you dial in the duration you want to count down from, just hit the big green ‘ON’ button in the middle, and the timer starts counting down.

It’s accurate down to a single minute. The only flaw I found is that, by default, it uses your phone’s ringtone to alert you when the timer is up, so it sounds just like you’re getting a phone call. Luckily, this can be changed. Quite a neat little free app, and as usual, you can find the QR code right after the jump.

Continue reading Tick! is a fun, simple timer for Android

Tick! is a fun, simple timer for Android originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As you may know, cows do not float. They tend to be heavier than water, so they sink. Not being a creature of the sea, when a cow drowns, it ceases to live. So if you like cows and encounter a bunch of cows that are on the verge of drowning, you might be moved to save them –and that’s pretty much the premise of Freaky Cows.

You get a queue of objects and when you click the screen, the next object appears. The first thing on every level is some sort of a floating platform – it may be a long plank, or a bunch of logs loosely bunched together (these can float apart, as you can see in the screenshot).

Once the first floating object is in the water, the next click usually drops a cow on it, and it happily floats. Of course, saving just one cow isn’t enough. Cows are social creatures, so you have to save the whole herd. When you drop the next cow on the floating plank, it changes the balance and causes the plank to sink deeper into the water. If you’re not careful, the whole plank might tip over — and there go the cows! You may receive extra planks later on, which you can use to bolster up your platform.

There are bulls, too, and a bull weighs four times as much as a cow — so you need to be extra-careful with them. Happily, though, you don’t have to save every cow. I mean, every cow is precious, but you can usually get away with saving only nine out of twelve or so and still pass the level.

Freaky Cows is highly recommended, and I greatly enjoyed the frantic mooing in the soundtrack.

Freaky Cows is an aquatic-themed bovine Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Who’s got two thumbs and needs glasses to see 3D? Not this guy! Francois Vogel’s figured out a way to remove those pesky spectacles from the equation, and he’s ready to revolutionize the stereoscopic industry forever. Sure, you’ll need a monitor with a 120Hz refresh rate, but that’s a prerequisite these days anyhow, and the rest is sweet, sticky gravy dished directly to your eyeballs. Get a sneak peek at the game-changing tech in the video above, and keep an eye out for unicorns (we’re sure they’re around here somewhere). You’ll never look at 3D the same way again, we promise.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Man discovers glasses-free 3D tech in the blink of an eye (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A while back, Google asked users of Google Tasks to submit their most wanted features. The polls have closed, so to speak, and Google has announced the top five (in no specific order):

• a Tasks API and synchronization
• reminders and notifications
• recurring tasks
• shareable task lists
• visual distinction for overdue tasks

Perhaps more importantly than merely announcing the top picks is the fact that associate product manager David Tattersall states that Google is getting ready to build these new features into Tasks. Tattersall doesn’t offer a timetable, only stating that changes to Tasks will arrive “throughout the year.”

Google Tasks top 5 user-requested features announced originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today?s LogicBUY deal is for the new 15.6? Lenovo IdeaPad Y560p laptop equipped with the 2nd generation Intel Core i7 2011 cpu with 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6570M discrete graphics, and JBL speakers with Dolby Home Theater sound. You can configure it with up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 750GB hard drive, and more. Recommended [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/15/deal-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-15-6%e2%80%9d-lenovo-ideapad-y560p-with-2nd-generation-intel-core-i7-2011-cpu/

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With the advent of touchscreen gaming, point-and-click adventures are experiencing something of a rennaissance. Thanks to a cunning soul, now you can play Sierra On-line’s classic line up of point-and-clicks straight from the web on your iPad. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/UAqKI8anyO0/sierra-point+and+click-adventures-from-the-web-to-your-ipad

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When you think about it, Zelda and Peach did let themselves get kidnapped a surprisingly high number of times. Call it Stockholm Syndrome, call it love; those princesses are literally asking for it. More »

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In platformers, the protagonist often makes all the difference. I mean, look at how cool Mario is, or how cute Sonic the Hedgehog can be. In Nimball Rewind, the protagonist is just a ball. It rolls and bonces around, but there’s not much of an emotional connection there, if you know what I mean. But after all, this is a game, not a match-making service. And as a game, it’s pretty darn fun!

Each level is quite short. A gripper arm drops you from the ceiling, and you need to roll and bounce until you reach your destination – a gripper arm resting face-up, that you can fall or jump into. In the screenshot you see me trying to leap into the gripper at the end of level 11. That square to the left is a “bouncer platform” (my name, not theirs). When you touch it, it launches you upwards. That can be a good thing, like here, or it can be quite bad, if the ceiling happens to be red. Red surfaces, in general, are “toxic” in this game – you’re not allowed to touch them.

What happens when you do, though? This is where “time travel” comes in. Basically, rather than strike out, you can hit SPACE and rewind a bit, kind of like an Undo function [Hello, Braid... -Ed]. When you let go of the SPACE key, gameplay immediately resumes. But you don’t get infinite retries, though: touch enough red walls, and eventually you’ll have to start the level from the top. All in all, quite a fun platformer!

P.S: You can double-jump (jump while you’re in the air). Took me a few minutes to figure that out.

Nimball Rewind is a mechanical platformer with time travel — Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/04/nimball-rewind-is-a-mechanical-platformer-with-time-travel-time-waster/

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Remember Virgin Mobile’s amazing MiFi plan which gave truly unlimited mobile internet for just $40 per month? It turns out that Virgin couldn’t handle it, and has decided to cap the plan at just 5GB.
This isn’t just for new customers, either. A Gadget Lab reader forwarded us an email he received from Virgin (pasted below) [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/virgin-caps-unlimited-mifi-data-plan-at-5gb/

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Ever wanted the text of your local newspaper BIGGER? Reading glasses don’t always cut it. But this reading magnifier can! It zooms in 2.2-3.4x without distorting the text. It’s like zooming in with a DSLR lens. Or using multitouch on print. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/VK2_KYj1coo/like-zooming-in-with-multitouch-but-for-print

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With an investment of $450 million by investment bank Goldman Sachs, Facebook has just increased its valuation to $50 billion, placing it above Yahoo and eBay, but still some way off giants Google, Oracle, Apple and Microsoft.

Back in November, Mark Zuckerberg dispelled claims that an IPO was in Facebook’s immediate future, but these continuing, massive private investments would suggest that an IPO should occur this year, or perhaps in 2012. It all comes down to whether the Securities and Exchange Commission let Facebook — and other private Internet companies like Twitter and Zynga — dilute their shares using “special purpose vehicles.”

Goldman Sachs, which underwrote the IPOs of Yahoo and Microsoft, and coordinated many others, is a bit of a technology IPO veteran. With this investment it has likely secured its position to take Facebook public — and when that happens, it’s anyone’s guess as to how much Facebook will be valued at.

Facebook valued at $50 billion by massive Goldman Sachs investment, IPO expected soon originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The video we’ve embedded after the break has been around for a few weeks, but we simply couldn’t resist posting it. As you’ll see, it’s a video (in French, but with English subtitles) of children contemplating a ton of vintage gear including the Game Boy, a Colecovision cartridge, and several sizes and shapes of computer discs. Their reactions — especially if you were alive when most or all of these gadgets were the cutting edge — is pretty incredible. Like we said, the video (with some pretty clunky subtitles) is after the break.

Continue reading Children checking out vintage gadgets continues to be an enthralling experience to watch

Children checking out vintage gadgets continues to be an enthralling experience to watch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you need competition of sorts in order to get motivated, then you’ll love the new TAG feature in the Nike+ GPS iPhone app. It basically lets you challenge friends based on distance, time, or who’s the last to run. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/qyBnl7LAjPU/stop-being-lazy-and-come-play-nike%252B-tag-with-your-friends

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If you’re looking for the latest version of the Android Market, look no further than the Android Central Forums. Member Upstreammiami has blessed us with Version 2.2.11 in .apk and .zip form. He says it’s a security fix, and apparently some people have seen it pushed out already. But if you’re not in the waiting mood (that’d be us), you can get your download on at the source link. Huzzah! [Android Central Forums]

Updated Android Market (2.2.11) appears in the Android Central Forums posted originally by Android Central

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Over at WinRumors, Tom Warren postulates that the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 download will be arriving soon. In addition to the general availability of an SP1 blocker tool since November, Warren notes that a patch delivered Tuesday updates the installation software in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The knowledgebase article states “The installation software is the component that handles the installation and the removal of software updates, language packs, optional Windows features, and service packs” — so an update to it would certainly lay the groundwork for a big-time update like a service pack.

Microsoft, of course, only states that Windows 7 SP1 will arrive “in the first half of 2011.” While January certainly fits that description, we’ll just have to sit tight and wait for the download to go live. It took about 6 months for Vista SP1 to go from beta to RTM, and Windows 7 SP1 went beta in July — which would make January right on schedule if Microsoft is trying to stick to a similar timeline.

Windows 7 SP1 RTM download coming soon? originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/12/windows-7-sp1-rtm-download-coming-soon/

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If you’ve been waiting for an easier way to tether your webOS phone and share its mobile data connection, the webOS Internals team has some good news for you. FreeTether has gone into beta, and that’s exactly what the app is designed to do.

Once installed, you simply fire up FreeTether, select which interface(s) you want to enable, and configure its options. After that, all you’ve got to worry about is keeping an eye on your data usage so you don’t get dinged by your carrier.

PreCentral reports that the tethered connection feels a bit slow at this point, but this is just the first release. webOS Internals has developed plenty of other great apps for the platform, so expect to see FreeTether improve dramatically in coming updates.

FreeTether is homebrew, so you’ll need to make yourself familiar with how to install non-Catalog apps on your device via PreWare. It’s a simple process, and there’s no risk of bricking your phone — so head on over to PreCentral for step-by-step instructions. You’ll also need to add the testing feed to PreWare.

Enable tethering on your Palm Pre or Pixi with FreeTether originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember that hugely ambitious “virtual fence” that the US Homeland Security department was so keen on blowing a few billion dollars on? Well, following a bunch of setbacks and delays in its development, it’s now been determined to be too darn expensive and is being scrapped. That’s not without splashing some cash, however, as it’s estimated that a billion dollars has already been spent on installing sensor towers along a 53-mile stretch of the Arizona border with Mexico. The plan now is to redirect funds to more conventional (and commercially available) surveillance measures, such as thermal imaging and unmanned aerial drones, which is estimated to cost $750 million to cover the remaining 323 miles of Arizona’s border. Whatever happens, keeping illegal immigration and contraband smuggling to a minimum isn’t going to be a cheap task. Almost makes you wonder if this isn’t a problem better solved by non-technological means.

US opts to derez virtual fence along Mexico border, replacing it with more affordable measures originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Back in June, I covered the original Aequilibrium; if you liked that game, then you’re going to love the new version, Aequilibrium 3.

It’s a game that’s ostensibly about balance, but it’s really about agility. Each level starts off with several pieces resting in perfect balance on a fulcrum. You have to remove all of the red blocks by clicking them, while keeping the whole thing from toppling down and off the screen.

For example, in the level shown above you should probably click the two middle triangles one after the other (the chunky ones, in the middle). Then click the two top ones one after the other, each in rapid succession. And then you’re left with the two bottom ones (hopefully, unless everything fell off the fulcrum by now). That’s the trickiest part, and you need quite a bit of speed to keep it all from falling.

It’s not entirely about speed, though; there is some strategy involved, but a deft mouse-hand will certainly come in handy for this one.

Aequilibrium 3 challenges your mousing agility and sense of balance — Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The video we’ve embedded after the break has been around for a few weeks, but we simply couldn’t resist posting it. As you’ll see, it’s a video (in French, but with English subtitles) of children contemplating a ton of vintage gear including the Game Boy, a Colecovision cartridge, and several sizes and shapes of computer discs. Their reactions — especially if you were alive when most or all of these gadgets were the cutting edge — is pretty incredible. Like we said, the video (with some pretty clunky subtitles) is after the break.

Continue reading Children checking out vintage gadgets continues to be an enthralling experience to watch

Children checking out vintage gadgets continues to be an enthralling experience to watch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apparently, they also make really cool tea infusers. The Tea Duckie from Fredflare.com swims around in your cup of English Breakfast (or in my case Stash Tea Organic Premium White) while it allows your fave tea to impart its caffenated goodness to a cup of hot water. The $12 3-piece tea set includes a base [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/13/in-case-you-were-wondering-rubber-duckies-arent-just-for-the-bathtub/

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The basking shark, with its five foot jaw, is one of the most ferocious looking critters that ever swam the sea. However, it’s pretty much harmless, just filtering out tiny bits and leaving idle dippers and their water wings alone. This is what served as the inspiration for Anthony Reale, who turned that gaping maw into Strait Power. It’s effectively a double-nozzle that fits around a hydro turbine or two, turning the flow of water into electrical power, boosting the efficiency of the turbine by creating areas of high pressure ahead and low pressure behind, as visualized above. The result was a 40 percent boost in efficiency — and some soggy jeans, as you can see in the videos below. The first gives a quick overview, the second an uber-detailed discussion of the development from start to finish. Choose your path.

Continue reading Strait Power turbine is water-powered, shark-inspired (video)

Strait Power turbine is water-powered, shark-inspired (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Transmedia has introduced the new Glide OS 4.0, a cloud-based operating system that is ad-free, full of great productivity apps and best of all is compatible with the Apple iPad. It has great syncing capabilities and runs right from your iPad’s browser. It operates like an online mobile desktop. With Glide OS you can share [...]

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Let’s first off start by saying we have no idea what, exactly the recently announced Motorola i886 is running other then to say it’s some form Android. With that out of the way, what you’re looking at is apparently some sort of frankendroid built by Motorola and destined for Sprints iDen network.  It has very few "normal" Android apps built into it and as noted by Phone Scoop’s in-store hands-on, it appears to be running a J2ME virtual machine that allows for installation of apps through a GetJar application. The thought for this is that it is designed to be the first non-touch based Android device since it has none of the normal touch based apps loaded onto it but thus far Motorola and Sprint are staying hush on the matter. Video can be found after the break, if you dare. [PhoneScoop]

Motorola i886 runs some form of Android — without a touchscreen? posted originally by Android Central

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There’s no official confirmation from Boxee’s blog or Twitter account yet, but owners of its Box are experiencing a fully activated Vudu app with the SD, HD, HDX and 3D streams the service is famous for. The only glitches reported so far seem to have been cleared up by just restarting the device so hopefully whatever delayed its launch past the planned 2010 window is entirely resolved. There’s no firmware update needed, so give it a shot if you haven’t already, especially since Vudu’s still offering a free flick for all new signups. With Netflix streaming still an unreachable dream for its Box (unless one also happens to own practically any other media streaming device on the market) we hope the company rewards its developers with a long, long break of at least five minutes before sending them back to work on our Watch Instantly access.

[Thanks, Parris]

Update: VP of Marketing Andrew Kippen has let us know that while the app was released to a few hundred testers “by mistake” it’s been taken down so they can finish testing before it is eventually released “with much fanfare.” Sorry Boxee devs, no five minute break for you today!

Vudu movie streaming app is (not) live on the Boxee Box – update originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For whatever reason, Apple has a thing with ten billion. The outfit served up its ten billionth iTune right around this time last year, and more importantly, served its one billionth app in April of 2009. In just 1.5 years, the company has seen that figure soar nearly tenfold, which is impressive no matter how you slice it. Of course, we’re quite curious to know if this includes duplicate downloads, app updates and just free or paid apps, but regardless, there’s no question that Cupertino (and quite a few developers) are raking it in. Of course, the explosion of the iPad certainly helped boost the download frequency, and if we had to guess, we’d say it’ll take even less time to double up this milestone. You know, once next month happens. Oh, and if you get lucky enough, you could score a $10,000 iTunes gift card if you just so happen to download the ten billionth app — make sure it’s a good one.

[Thanks, Ali]

Apple nears ten billion downloads in App Store, should hit it without Verizon’s help originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A survey suggests a huge chunk of AT&T iPhone customers plan on defecting to Verizon, but that seems unrealistic.
Research group ChangeWave on Friday released results of a survey polling about 4,000 customers. Most notably, it found that 26 percent of AT&T iPhone customers plan to switch to Verizon, and 16 percent of all AT&T subscribers [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/iphone-survey-verizon/

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Google’s been teasing cloud-based music features in Android since its I/O conference last year, and the recent leak of a revamped first-party Music app suggests that the plans haven’t evaporated into thin air. Here’s the latest tidbit: GizmoFusion claims that this screen shot comes from a device running Gingerbread, clearly showing “Music” as one of the accounts configured in Android’s settings, which suggests that the system will be pretty deeply-integrated to sync your tracks just as it would your Twitter updates, your Facebook friends, or your calendar entries. Note that we don’t have any new evidence beyond this one shot — and we need to take GizmoFusion‘s word that this is a Gingerbread device — but we’re wondering if maybe this isn’t one of the new features in that Android 2.4 build we’ve been hearing a lot about lately.

[Thanks, Bryan]

Android getting Google Music sync in Gingerbread? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Most people around the globe have heard of the iPad by now, even in areas where it’s not yet being sold. The iPad no longer needs an introduction but it will become available in 9 more countries this Friday. Apple’s trend setting gadget, tablet computer, or whatever you’d like to refer to it as, is [...]

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Wikipedia turned 10 years old today and to celebrate the wonderful crowdsourced, potluck of information, here’s a look at their awkward (and sometimes, wild) past. Their first six weeks of existence, all 10,000 entries, are logged right here. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/oihiZv09BMA/wikipedia-celebrates-10-years-today-here-are-wikipedias-first-entries

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We reported earlier that the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 could be coming soon. Its impending arrival seemed to be heralded by the availability of a prerequisite installer update delivered recently via Windows Update. Now, however, there’s an indication that we could be just hours away from being able to download Windows 7 SP1.

A Microsoft Technet blog — albeit a Russian one we’ve had to run through translation sites — indicates that “pack will be publicly available tomorrow.” The post discusses virtualization improvements in Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 and was published January 13, 2011. If the author’s statement is accurate, that would definitely make today SP1 release day.

Update: According to Tom Warren at WinRumors, the public download isn’t coming today. Rather, the original post was announcing the availability of the Windows 7 SP1 RTM to OEMs today.

Windows 7 SP1 download due today, says Microsoft Technet post originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/14/windows-7-sp1-due-today-says-microsoft-technet-post/

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We don’t see it in the FCC database yet but Notion Ink’s charming Rohan Shravan just penned a post on the company’s blog with news that Adam has official clearance from the US government. That’s right, after several delays the tiny startup will finally condense its occasionally vapory molecules into a solid slab of shipping tablet starting “around Wednesday” after the hardware receives its FCC tattoo. Remember, Adam was that tablet good enough to earn a Best of CES 2011 honorable mention at an event absolutely flooded with tablets from a who’s who of consumer electronics companies. While our first impressions of the production unit were positive, we’re holding off on making a final judgement until we’ve had the chance to perform a full review. Having said that, Adam’s final NI3421A01 product code is so nerdy — the “3421″ continues Rohan’s tradition of numbering product iterations along the Fibonacci number sequence — that we’re almost tempted to place an order ourselves. Almost.

[Thanks, John]

Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping ‘around Wednesday’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/15/notion-ink-adam-clears-fcc-begins-shipping-around-wednesday/

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The popular Firefox download manager DownThemAll has finally hit version 2.0, and the new release brings a number of important changes. Not least among them is out-of-the-box support for Firefox 4, which is currently slated for a February 2011 release.

DownThemAll 2 offers even greater control over your Firefox downloads than its predecessor. Speed limits can be specified on a per-server or download basis, and you can set a global limit as well. There’s also a media-sniffing feature which allows for easy downloading of embedded video clips on the sites you browse — even HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags are supported. DTA2 even plays nice with Firefox 4′s private browsing mode!

Check the full list of features in DTA2, or hit the link below to install the Firefox add-on.

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DownThemAll 2 download manager released, now supports Firefox 4 originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/15/downthemall-2-download-manager-released-now-supports-firefox-4/

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In the wake of Cablegate, the massive release of sensitive documents released online by WikiLeaks and the subsequent DDoS attacks by pro- and anti-WikiLeaks factions on each others’ websites, a fact long-known to only a few cognoscenti became public — free speech online is very much endangered. Both sides claimed they were following a higher calling.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71639.html

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If you don’t like the options for 3-D content, go out and make some of your own. That’ll be an increasingly practical option in 2011, thanks to a handful of new 3-D consumer cameras and camcorders.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/consumer-3d-diy/

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Yesterday we ran a post about Cubeduel, a service that mixes the best (or worst) of Hot or Not with LinkedIn. Fire up the site and it will show you photos of two coworkers ? pick the one you’d prefer to work with, and Cubeduel will present you with another pair of photos. It’s addictive, a bit evil, and has skyrocketed in usage over the last few days since it launched. Unfortunately, it took off a bit too quickly. The service went down earlier today for reasons that were initially unclear ? did LinkedIn block the site because it ranks coworkers in a way that isn’t exactly flattering to everyone, or did the site just get too popular, too fast? Turns out it’s the latter ? Cubeduel has exceeded LinkedIn’s API limits (which is what one of the site’s creators, Tony Wright, initially guessed). Here’s an explanation from LinkedIn Director of Communications Hani Durzy:

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Well here’s a simple, yet interesting and useful iPad accessory. Introducing the Tech Lock Down for iPad, aka TLD. Some of the most simple inventions can be the best ones. This accessory can come in handy for several different businesses. For example the Tech Lock Down would work well in hospitals, banks, hotels and doctor’s [...]

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I know that some people think that coffee brewing should require an engineering major, two masters in biology and agricultural sciences and a chemistry doctorate. I’m writing about this touch-screen coffee machine only to annoy him. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/_7ZrRxtiT2g/maybe-we-dont-need-pretty-touchscreens-in-our-coffee-machines

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Shazam and Spotify have announced a new partnership, and the result is a new feature in the Shazam premium apps for iOS and Android. Once Shazam has identified that song for you, you’ll be able to tap to listen to it immediately in Spotify. Play in Spotify will also be added to Shazam’s free apps at some point in the near future.

That sounds great, but it sure would be nice if more of us could actually use a feature like that. After all, Spotify is still struggling to launch in the U.S., and we’re guessing that Canada isn’t even on the radar yet. Currently you’ll only be able to enjoy Play in Spotify if you’re in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

Shazam plugs Spotify into its iOS and Android apps originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the good old days of tech media, Microsoft led the charge in impossibly convoluted contortions around self-interested maneuvers. Today Google has taken over that role. And the new Microsoft stands as a pale shadow of itself, fighting tooth and nail to rescue defeat from the jaws of victory. With Steve Ballmer as Donald Trump: Nice job, Bob. You?re fired. As we found out on today?s Gillmor Gang, Google is being called on a transparent bluff. Namely, that yanking H.264 from Chrome is all about the open Web. That WebM will stop Apple from eating the heart out of Android and Chrome and maybe YouTube. Already Google is re-explaining the move. But not soon enough to stop Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek and me from having some fun on the Gang this week. Kudos to Microsoft and Google for their hard work this week. Thanks for the material, guys.

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Many of my friends in Europe ask me how it feels to live in New York every day. I spit empty words like “electric” and “romantic” and “cinematic” and “amazing” but, next time someone asks, I will send this video. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/N2nJbbM3zVk/the-vibrant-new-york-city-in-three-minutes

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Hello, inevitable. It simply had to happen, and now, it is. As Comcast, NBC and the FCC attempt to work out stipulations over Comcast’s proposed 51 percent buyout of NBC Universal, a smattering of major media companies are paying close attention to the play-by-play. Naturally, the precedents that are set from this deal will affect future agreements of this caliber, and lobbyists for both Disney and News Corp. (as well as Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes) aren’t standing over on the sidelines any longer. All three outfits have reportedly been “voicing their concerns this week with the FCC, worried that such conditions could undermine their own efforts to profit from the nascent online video industry.”

We’re told that the media mega-corps are worried that the rules — if hammered down — could interfere with ongoing negotiations with online video providers, and in turn, give them less leverage to monetize and control their content on the world wide web. In other words, if NBC Universal is forced to provide content fluidly to all ISPs (and not just Comcast), what’s to say other content makers and internet providers wouldn’t also be forced into similar deals, regardless of whether or not they’re involved in takeover negotiations? Needless to say, we’re nowhere near the end of this journey, and while the nuts and bolts are pretty dry to think about, the outcomes could have a serious impact on our future viewing habits.

Time Warner, Disney and News Corp. bigwigs speak up against FCC stipulations in Comcast-NBC deal originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, sure — you’re making much use of that Zipcar app already, but what if the tables were turned somewhat? For suburbanites with two cars in the garage (one of which is collecting major dust), Getaround’s mobile app allows you to be Zipcar. Put simply, those with a spare vehicle (or a vehicle that routinely stays parked for certain blocks of time each day) can load their vehicle, location, schedule and price into the app, and then nearby Earthlings can poke around and see what’s on offer. If they’re interested in taking your ride for a spin, they can hit you up via the app and agree on how many hours / days / weeks they’ll be needing it. In essence, you’re looking at peer-to-peer car sharing, with Getaround snagging 30 percent of the rental rate; speaking of rate, that can range between $4 and $25 per hour, with the owner setting the price. Those based in San Francisco can tap into the source link to become involved in the beta, and don’t be shocked if you see a Tesla Roadster listed for $25/hour — that’s actually one of Getaround’s first customers, and you can rest assured that red beauty will be calling your name this weekend.

Getaround app turns you into Enterprise, lets your rent out your dormant whip originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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