HTC to ship one millionth Touch Diamond this month
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August 7th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Another Reason to Be Like Paris Hilton: You2Gov’s Campaign Video Ad Contest
The presidential race between Obama and McCain has been the biggest political celebrity face-off in decades, and now actual celebrities are getting involved one way or another, including JLo, Scarlet and even Paris Hilton with her “campaign ad” video posted to Funny or Die on Monday night.
Meanwhile, You2Gov is giving you yet another opportunity to show your support for one of the presidential candidates and get paid. The site is holding a contest to find the most creative 30 second television ad in support of either Obama or McCain, with $1,000 in cash prizes for the best in show for each political camp. There’s also the chance of having the ad run on television sometime before the election. The challenge starts today, and runs through September 30. Winners will be announced on October 16.
You2Gov, a recently launched site for connecting with government leaders, is a network of citizens that can form groups around topics of interest in order to affect change. With chat, research capabilities, and organizational services available on You2Gov, the hope is that this Web-based resource will offer some of the very tools necessary to find other like-minded individuals and work with them to get a particular message across.
While You2Gov is contending against a very large number of similar sites, this particular contest may help the fledgling startup gain some attention. Because we secretly all want to be like Paris Hilton, even when she’s forced to stick her nose into politics.
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August 7th, 2008 - Posted in Mashable! | | Comments Off
Sony Ericsson depletes stash of product names, announces slim T700 phone
Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras
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August 7th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Sony introduces Cyber-shot DSC-T700 and DSC-T77 digicams
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Toyota Announces the Winglet, Wannabe Segway Killer
Various gadget/toy venues are writing about the Toyota Winglet, a diminutive Segway-like personal transporter. (Toyota took over Sony's robot division a year back.) It comes in three sizes and offers about a third the speed and a quarter the range of the Segway; on the upside, it charges in an hour vs. Segway's 10 hours. Wired writes: "The Winglet is the first gadget to duplicate the celebrated, and often mocked, navigation system of the Segway Transporter."
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August 3rd, 2008 - Posted in slashdot | | Comments Off
Switched On: WHDI seeks to unplug hi-def
Filed under: Networking
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
The past few years have seen a wide range of wireless technologies proposed to substitute for the now nearly ubiquitous (at least in terms of new HDTVs) HDMI connectors, but the dust is just starting to settle. Some proposals involve squeezing more juice out of 802.11n. Others rely on ultrawideband technology. Yet another that has many in the industry excited is from SiBeam, which intends to use the 60GHz band to deliver uncompressed 1080p video at 4Gbps. That technology, embraced by a group called WirelessHD, had received the most public support among major consumer electronics companies, with Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and LG listed on its site as promoters (and others listed as adopters).
But WirelessHD is still a ways from consumer availability and recently another wireless high-definition technology has attracted some heavy hitters of its own, including Sony, Samsung, Sharp and the cable set-top division of Motorola. Amimon's WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) is different from many of its emerging competitors because it is designed, like WiFi, to be a technology that blankets the home, whereas most competitors focus on an in-room solution. WHDI even operates in the 5GHz band (like 802.11a and 802.11n), but sheds the costly bandwidth overhead WiFi utilizes to correct transmission errors. In contrast, WHDI is a "video modem" technology that attaches to a device's video output to send uncompressed 1080p video. After that, it's survival of the fittest for the bits.
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August 2nd, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Life with PlayStation coming this month, not last
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August 1st, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Public Knowledge’s “Selectable Output Control” video — show this to your friends and get them to take action
The good folks at Public Knowledge have produced a fantastic video explaining the MPAA's "Selectable Output Control" proposal -- the idea that a TV show should be able to disable parts of your home theater (for example, if MTV is worried that your Dolby sound outputs might be used to record the audio portion of music videos, they could shut down those outputs and only allow you to hear sound via the speakers in your TV).
Selectable Output Control (via Lawgeek)
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to engage in “selective output control” (SOC). If the FCC agrees, the MPAA and the movie studios it represents (Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, Disney, and Warner Brothers) would be able to “turn off” any output plug they choose, like those on the back of consumer electronics devices of an entertainment system, during special video-on-demand movies on cable television. Public Knowledge opposes SOC and along with Consumer Federation of America, Digital Freedom Campaign, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media Access Project, New America Foundation, and U.S. PIRG, has filed comments urging the FCC to deny the MPAA’s request.
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Nokia dropping phone prices, going in for the kill
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Nokia's doing far better than rivals like Sony Ericsson and Motorola, but it's not going to let up while it's ahead -- the cellphone maker is reportedly cutting prices across the board in order to increase pressure on the competition. The biggest cuts are on the 5310/ 5610 music phones and the 8GB N81, but most other handsets have seen price decreases of up to 10 percent as well. The move is something of a surprise, with one analyst calling it a "Crazy Ivan," which is probably the first time The Hunt For Red October has ever been employed to describe the actions of a multinational corporation. So, Espoo -- does this mean the Tube is going to be crazy cheap, or what?[Via Phone Scoop]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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July 31st, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Sony introduces another hot China-only PMP, the PMX-M80
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July 31st, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Sony begins accepting PlayStation Home beta applications
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After a long long delay from that March 2007 announcement, Sony Japan just opened its doors to applications for the closed beta testing of PlayStation Home. Sony expects to drop 10,000 gamers (18 years old and up) into the virtual world when it launches in beta sometime in late August. Closed beta tests are due in other markets (er hem, the US) at about the same time with an open beta coming sometime later in the year. Lucky beta testers will be able to explore the 3D world and play games like PacMan in the Namco Museum, both of which are pictured after the break.
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July 31st, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Illustrated guide to “every stupid cable you need”
This is handy, Gizmodo put together a super guide on all the AV cables and more you might need, have or will end up telling your parents they need when they want to hook up that thing to the other thing...
We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way. Why not one kind of cable, or just a couple? I don't know. But until everyone gets on the same appendage-to-hole scheme, in the meantime, you can use this: an illustrated guide to pretty much every kind of cable you will see in current gadgets and what it's used for (unless, you know, Sony springs a new one on us overnight, which is honestly possible).
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Illustrated guide to “every stupid cable you need”
This is handy, Gizmodo put together a super guide on all the AV cables and more you might need, have or will end up telling your parents they need when they want to hook up that thing to the other thing...
We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way. Why not one kind of cable, or just a couple? I don't know. But until everyone gets on the same appendage-to-hole scheme, in the meantime, you can use this: an illustrated guide to pretty much every kind of cable you will see in current gadgets and what it's used for (unless, you know, Sony springs a new one on us overnight, which is honestly possible).
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Sony Ericsson’s G705 slider leaks onto internet, shows hope for the future
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July 30th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Oh gawd, Dell releasing Zing-based DJ Ditty in September?
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Funny, this all sounds very 2006 to us as we struggle to see how Dell's player / service will compete in a market already shaking itself out -- right Sony, Yahoo, and Microsoft? In fact, the whole WSJ piece seems like an attempt for Dell to gauge public reaction without suffering the indignity of a failed product announcement. Michael Tatelman, Dell's VP of Consumer Sales, says he'll decide "in a few weeks" how to proceed with the player and may decide not to sell it at all. So go ahead folks, now's your chance to tell Dell how you feel with all the anonymous key slapping you can muster in the comments.
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July 30th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
HP responds to MediaSmart Server issues, offers no real solution at all
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July 29th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
PixelJunk Eden uses YouTube API for PS3 In-Game Recording
Back in May we reported on a deal struck between Sony and Google to integrate the YouTube API into the PlayStation 3, allowing game developers to let players record videos during gameplay and upload them directly to YouTube. This week Google announced some fruits of that partnership: PS3 developer Q-Games is including recording and direct-upload capabilities in its upcoming PlayStation Network title PixelJunk Eden. On the official YouTube API blog YouTube Syndication Product Marketing Manager Christine Tsai wrote:
For all you PixelJunk fans, you’ll now be able to capture video of your game recordings and upload directly to YouTube. … We look forward to the day when having YouTube upload support in games will be a standard feature.
Tsai also included an example of a PixelJunk Eden gameplay session recorded to YouTube (click to see the video):
Q-Games President Dylan Cuthbert also mentioned the feature in a post on the official PlayStation blog:
The YouTube upload feature is going to revolutionize how people share [gameplay] tips. Up until now it has been limited to people with video capture equipment, but from now on, anyone can record their game and upload it directly to YouTube from within the game! It is as simple as pushing one button to start and one button to stop and upload, and there is no affect on the gameplay thanks to the power of the PS3 and its abundance of SPU processors.
A demo of PixelJunk Eden is available on the PlayStation Network as of July 24, and the full game is slated for a July 31 release. Other games to take advantage of the YouTube API include Mainichi Issho (as of a May update) and Maxis’ upcoming Spore.
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