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MeeGo becomes infotainment operating system of choice for BMW, GM, Hyundai and more

Joe — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:49:46 +0000

It’s getting to the point where it’s not terribly easy to keep track of all the in-car entertainment initiatives our wondrous connected future has in store, but here’s two names you’ll want to remember: GENIVI and MeeGo. The former is an industry alliance that now includes automakers GM, BMW, Hyundai and Peugeot Citroen alongside the likes of ARM, NVIDIA, Nokia and Intel, and MeeGo is the Linux-based OS that they’ve just decided will soon be powering our cars.

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MagicJack’s femtocell misses its launch date, still hasn’t been submitted to the FCC for approval

Joe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:44:04 +0000

Wondering about the fate of the MagicJack femtocell now that its promised second quarter launch window has passed? So was Computerworld , and what it found out isn’t exactly promising for the as-seen-on-TV company

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Apple shows Nokia’s N97 Mini can be force choked, too (video)

Joe — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:40:56 +0000

Nokia claims it always prioritizes antenna performance over physical design , and we’ll take them at their word, but that apparently didn’t exempt one Espoo handset from Apple’s grip of doom. Here’s the Nokia N97 Mini going down for the count, from a full seven bars to two

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HTC Aria update for AT&T enables mobile hotspot, sideloaded app support (update: disappointment)

Joe — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:23:41 +0000

Well, this is genuinely awesome: it seems AT&T is pulling back from its ban on third-party sideloaded apps on its Android devices, because HTC has just released an Aria update that enables them (either that or HTC just went rogue here, but we highly doubt it).

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Intel Connected Cars will record your bad driving for posterity, take over if you’re really screwing up

Joe — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:19:24 +0000

Intel’s latest Research Day has sprung up a new vision for ” smart ” vehicles; a vision that frankly chills us to our very geeky core. Cameras and sensors attached to an Intel Connected Car will record data about your speed, steering and braking, and upon the event of an accident, forward those bits and bytes along to the police and your insurance company

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Verizon loses ETF class action lawsuit, ordered to pay $21 million

Joe — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:10:35 +0000

Congratulations Verizon , you’re the latest wireless provider to lose a class-action early termination fee-related lawsuit! It’s a dispute that’s been circulating in courts since 2008 , and while the settlement was agreed upon quickly, there were a few lingering appeals that have taken this long to get cleared up — and not in VZW’s favor. The issue at hand was the company’s $175 flat early termination fees, behavior that has proven legally naughty again and again when the same fee is levied regardless of whether you were one month or 20 months into your contract.

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Monster Chess supersizes lego robots for ultimate geek synergy

Joe — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:31:20 +0000

This is like an Andre 3000 song. What’s cooler than robots? Lego robots

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ASUS hops on the AMD train with Geode-based Eee PC 1201K

Joe — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:31:35 +0000

AMD has picked up a fair bit of ground in the netbook space lately with support from the likes of HP and Acer , and it looks like it’s now added yet another big partner — ASUS is relying on some AMD hardware for its just-announced Eee PC 1201K netbook. That’s an AMD Geode NX 1750 processor backed up by a SiS 741GX/966L chipset, to be specific, which is complemented by some mostly ordinary specs otherwise, including a 1GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a 0.3-megapixel webcam, a built-in memory card reader and, somewhat interestingly in light of today’s news , Windows XP Home for an OS.

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Samsung shocks the pico projector world with SP-H03

Joe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:35:15 +0000

Samsung ’s just rolled out its first ever pico projector , the SP-H03. The little thing boasts 1GB of internal memory, a microSD slot, and projects WVGA video at 30 lumens, a 1 watt speaker, and supports both open and proprietary codecs.

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The Engadget Podcast, live at midnight EST!

Joe — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:45:23 +0000

This is going to be a wild one, folks — the podcast crew is spread across the country and we’ve got Darren and Joanna live at Computex in Taiwan, so we’re doing this one late-night style. Just call it Wake Up Europe with Josh, Paul, and Nilay

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