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Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students

Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students

Many of you are already familiar with the Xiaomi Phone and its reverence in the MIUI community, but now the Chinese manufacturer has introduced a less expensive counterpart to the original, which is aptly known as the Youth Edition. Priced at 1,499 yuan ($ 237), this smartphone will sell for a full 500 yuan less than its elder and will retain many of its components, which include a 4-inch, 854 x 480 display, an 8-megapixel camera, 4GB of ROM and a 1,930mAh battery. In fact, the only significant changes are the dual-core 1.2GHz CPU (which is down from 1.5GHz), and 768MB of RAM instead of the original 1GB. Xiaomi will produce 150,000 Youth Edition handsets, which seems like a healthy number, but if you want to stake your claim to one, you’d best join in the pre-registration process, which runs now through May 18th.

Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fotopedia Is On A Roll: Now Gets 200M Image Views Per Month, Launches Morocco App

fotopedia_morocco_logoFotopedia is quickly building a reputation for producing beautiful travel-focused photo apps for iOS. Today, the company is launching its latest free app, which focuses on Morocco. The app is optimized for the new iPad’s retina display and, as usual, features hundreds of stunning professional images.
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ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come

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It was only last week that we learned of the varied battery life of ASUS’ phone that would be a tablet that would be a laptop. Now, a further trickle of its performance might has passed our way, giving us insight into the real-world chops of its dual-core S4 processor and companion Adreno 225 GPU. The tests, carried out by the fine folks over at Netbooknews, highlight the device’s strengths across a swath of the usual benchmarks, putting it just below AT&T’s One X variant in Quadrant with a score of 5,057 and Sunspider at 1,917ms. The company’s hybrid did, however, manage to eke out a victory against its similarly CPU-equipped smartphone rival in Vellamo, as well as NenaMark 1 and 2, coming in at 2,554 and 60.4fps / 60.5fps, respectively. We’ll have our own comprehensive review of the PadFone ready for your eyes in the days to come, but for now, sate your appetites with these various nuggets.

ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 May 2012 21:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying



scibri writes “Omid Kokabee, a laser physics graduate student from the University of Texas who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Kokabee was arrested in February 2011 while on a trip home, and charged with ‘communicating with a hostile government’ (i.e. Israel) and ‘illegal earnings.’ He has consistently denied the charges, and refused to speak at his trial, where no evidence against him was presented. Several international science groups, including the American Physical Society, have spoken up in his defense, and an online petition has been set up in support.”

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PayPal Gets Its Own Share Of The Yahoo Diaspora, Hires JavaScript Icon Douglas Crockford

Doug CrawfordThe reorganizing and downsizing at Yahoo — and possibly the executive scandal at the very top of the pyramid — are leading to a wave of talent departures at the company: the latest in that story is that Douglas Crockford, a trailblazing Java guru most recently at Yahoo, is joining eBay’s payment giant PayPal.

The news was announced by Bill Scott, PayPal’s senior director of UI engineering, on his own blog, yesterday. Scott himself had also worked at Yahoo years ago.

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Thunderbolt on Windows gets hands-on, lacks Mac’s hot-swapping

Thunderbolt on Windows gets hands-on, lacks Mac's hot-swapping

Thunderbolt’s 10-gigabit interface is only just making its way to Windows after spending more than a year as a Mac-only feature, so it’s not surprising that a lot of questions surround how well the Apple- and Intel-developed connection works for those of a Microsoft persuasion. A thorough test at AnandTech of one of the first motherboards to support the spec on Windows PCs, an Ivy Bridge-ready board from MSI, has shown some positive signs along with a few flies in the high-speed ointment. The good news? Most general storage devices will work as expected with a minimum of fuss, and you can even get some features of Apple’s Thunderbolt Display working if you’re willing to accept a lack of pre-supplied software brightness controls and USB support. The bad news comes mostly in the absence of true hot-plugging like on the Mac: if a device isn’t plugged into the Thunderbolt port on boot, Windows won’t see it. Professionals who need everything to be just perfect will want to wait, then, but bandwidth lovers will still find something to like if they’re willing to build Thunderbolt-equipped PCs themselves.

Thunderbolt on Windows gets hands-on, lacks Mac’s hot-swapping originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 May 2012 01:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With New Look, Bing Gets More Organized, Social

Microsoft is revamping its search engine and exploiting the growth of social networking online.

In an effort to make searching on the Web simpler, faster, and more social—and further differentiate itself from market leader Google—Microsoft’s Bing search engine is getting a new look.







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A Camera App that Gets to Know Your Friends

Klik uses facial-recognition technology to identify who you’re shooting.

For a couple of years, Face.com has offered websites and apps a facial-recognition service that can identify people in photographs, figure out how many faces there are in the picture, which is male or female, and how old they might be. Facebook is widely believed to be one of its customers, though Face.com refuses to comment on their relationship.







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SAP gets tough on violation of software use terms

A recent crackdown by SAP AG on companies that it considers are indirectly accessing its software without paying for it could spell trouble for some longstanding customers of the software vendor, an analyst firm said this week.
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Razer Naga MMO mouse gets some work done, fresh for 2012

Razer Naga MMO mouse gets work done for 2012

It’s fair to say we admire the Razer Naga MMO ’round these parts — as much for its thumb-thrashing controls, as for its democratic diplomacy. Now the original is back, and updated for 2012. What’s new? Well, there’s a redesigned anti-slip, fingerprint-fighting finish, three interchangeable side panels and a re-optimized button placement. It’s all designed to stop your fevered swipes from landing your mouse on the other side of the LAN, and help fend off a dreaded bout of “Warfare-wrist”. Reckon you deserve an upgrade? US and EU gamers can get their $ 80 dollar-laden hand on it now, and the rest of the realm later in Q2.

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Razer Naga MMO mouse gets some work done, fresh for 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 May 2012 02:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pebble watch gets updated to Bluetooth 4.0 before it even arrives

Pebble watch Bluetooth 4.0

What are you going to do when you get an unprecedented response from your new Kickstarter project? You throw in some extra features to keep your new fans happy. Allerta, the same company behind the InPulse smartwatch, has announced that its new Pebble smartwatch will now arrive with low-power Bluetooth 4.0 compatibility. The watches will still interact with Bluetooth 2.1, but inclusion of the latest version should ensure a better degree of future-proofing, with a view to hooking up with wireless heart monitors in the near future. The new feature will be built into the watches ahead of its release and enabled with a later software update. Better still, the makers promise that these Bluetooth plans have been in the pipeline for a while and shouldn’t affect the watch’s launch date.

Pebble watch gets updated to Bluetooth 4.0 before it even arrives originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 May 2012 11:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads



Fluffeh writes “On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google’s license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state’s roads. The state had approved such laws back in February, and has now begun issuing licenses based on those regulations. The state previously outlined that companies that want to test such vehicles will need an insurance bond of $ 1 million and must provide detailed outlines of where they plan to test it and under what conditions. Further, the car must have two people in it at all times, with one behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle if needed. The Autonomous Review Committee of the Nevada DMV is supervising the first licensing procedure and has now approved corresponding plates to go with it, complete with a red background and infinity symbol.”

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Silverback scuffle: Gorilla gets jaw surgery after battle at zoo

It was a bit of a zoo at the Nebraska Medical Center over the weekend, when a special patient came in for jaw surgery.




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Lenovo Smart TV gets first review

This time last month Lenovo was taking pre-orders for its K71 Smart TV for release in China, and now the first review is in. The all-round specs are impressive: a 42/55-inch 1080p IPS 120Hz panel is combined with a dual-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor, five megapixel webcam, 6GB of local storage, and Ice Cream Sandwich. The

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How Verizon gets developers thinking about its road map

A recent visit to Verizon’s app innovation center in San Francisco yielded some direction on where it thinks apps are headed.
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Infant version of Android gets a walkthrough on Google’s Sooner development phone

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No, that’s not a QWERTY feature phone you’re looking at — it’s Google’s earliest Android development device, the Sooner. While the HTC-sourced phone itself hasn’t been a secret, the build of Android on this particular specimen, obtained by Steven Troughton-Smith, is something few eyes outside of Mountain View have seen. As Mr. Smith notes, this isn’t the first public build of Android that was detailed in November 2007 (M3), but rather an earlier version from May of that same year. The non-touch UI is almost totally unlike what eventually shipped with the touch-friendly HTC Dream, aside from obviously housing Android’s basic framework and apps including G Talk and the like. We won’t spoil it for you, though, so hit up the source link below to see Smith’s full walkthrough and analysis of the device that once served as the initial development vehicle for Android.

Infant version of Android gets a walkthrough on Google’s Sooner development phone originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 May 2012 17:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Arrested CERN Physicist Gets 5 Years For Terror Plot



An anonymous reader sends this followup to news we discussed in 2009 of a CERN physicist who was arrested for allegedly being in contact with al-Qaeda. The physicist, Adlene Hicheur, has now been sentenced to five years in prison.
“He came under suspicion when threatening messages were sent to President Sarkozy in early 2008. The security services uncovered a series of email exchanges between Hicheur and an alleged al-Qaeda member called Mustapha Debchi. After his arrest in 2009 police found a large quantity of Islamist literature at his parents’ home. At the start of his trial the 35-year-old scientist admitted that he had been going through a psychologically ‘turbulent’ time in his life when he wrote the emails. He had suffered a serious back injury, for which he had been taking morphine. But he always denied he intended to carry out any attacks.”

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Motorcycle gets spacecraft propulsion parts

Spacecraft manufacturer XCOR comes up with an unusual two-wheeled way to test some critical bearing components from its rocket propellant piston pump.
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Spray gets you drunk instantly… but not for long

New product from designer Philippe Starck delivers just the right amount of alcohol in just the right (or is it wrong?) way.
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Horse Racing Gets Futuristic

With giant multi-touch gaming tables at a Hong Kong racecourse.

Think of it as “Luck” meets “Minority Report.”







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Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport

Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport

If you’ve been holed up in Thailand, waiting to browse the latest and greatest apps for your Windows Phone online, then things are looking up. Microsoft has just announced that 22 new countries are being graces with their own online Marketplace. The full list covers Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam. The same blog post advises that work is also underway to improve the search results delivered by the site. So you might not have to play Hungry Birds for much longer.

Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 07:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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US Army gets picky, solicits smart feed ammo system for machine guns and auto cannons (video)

Army gets picky, solicits smart feed ammo system for machine guns and auto cannons

War! Huh! What is it good for? Stuff like smart bullet-feeding systems, apparently. See, the US Army isn’t quite satisfied with the mixed ammo feed it currently uses with weapons like the helicopter-mounted M230 chain gun. Instead, it wants its machine gunners to be able to freely switch and pick their ammo of choice — whether it be incendiary rounds or precision-guided smart bullets — to better match conditions on the field. So the Army is using another weapon in its arsenal — good, old tax dollars — to solicit proposals for a smart bullet-feeding system. Initial project goals include near real-time inventorying of ammo, a fire rate of 300 rounds per minute and a selection accuracy rate of 95 percent. Yeah, it’s no freaking railgun or tactical laser system. But at least the feeding system can also be used for more peaceful pursuits, like dispensing medical vials or emergency supplies (not via machine gun, of course). In the meantime, folks who want to see a demo of the system’s not-so-peaceful applications can check out the video after the break.

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US Army gets picky, solicits smart feed ammo system for machine guns and auto cannons (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 May 2012 20:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II gets trailer

Activision has just confirmed that the next entry in the Call of Duty series will be Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It will be a sequel to the game that set global sales records just a couple years ago. Developer Treyarch, which was responsible for the first Black Ops title, has also been confirmed

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Nintendo E3 press conference gets confirmed

After Sony and Microsoft have already confirmed their spot on the E3 press conference calendar, Nintendo has finally begun sending out invitations for its large-scale media event. Just like last year, the company will give its remarks at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on June 5, literally right before the E3 show floor doors open. It

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BlackBerry 10 camera app gets ‘timeline lens,’ bad photographers get a do-over

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Thorsten Heins is on stage at BlackBerry World 2012 and has just unveiled the new BB10 camera app. It is designed to capture those “magic moments” you miss by not hitting that shutter quick enough. If you miss it by a couple of seconds, you can cycle back through the camera’s cache with a circular “timeline” lens and take your pick from the previous seconds worth of frames. It’s eerily reminiscent of technology used in the Nikon 1 series, although the implication here is that as soon as the camera app is loaded, it’ll start recording frames for your ease of use.

BlackBerry 10 camera app gets ‘timeline lens,’ bad photographers get a do-over originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 May 2012 09:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Acer’s 24-inch IPS monitor gets a release date of now

Acer’s new IPS monitor, the B243PWL is out…right about now.
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Verizon gets new prepaid plans, adds Jetpack hotspot to contract-free lineup

Verizon Gets new prepaid plans

And just like that Verizon has revamped its prepaid pricing structure. Starting tomorrow, May 1st, the carrier will be offering unlimited talk and text packaged with 1GB of data for $ 80 a month. The new offering will be available first with the Samsung Illusion, a disappointingly 3G handset, though, one that wont demand a two year commitment to Big Red. Verizon is also adding the Jetpack MiFi 4510L LTE mobile hotspot to its contract-free offerings for $ 130. Prepaid plans for the 4G wireless hotspot start at $ 15 for 250 MB a week, but quickly climb to $ 60 and $ 90 for 3GB and 10GB, respectively. For more info check out the PR after the break.

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Verizon gets new prepaid plans, adds Jetpack hotspot to contract-free lineup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blackberry Foursquare app gets NFC support

Here’s something we don’t get to say very often – the Blackberry version of a popular social app is trailblazing the way for new technology. Yes, the Foursquare app on Research in Motion’s dying smartphone platform has just been updated, bringing with it support for a whole portfolio of Near Field Communication (NFC) features. This

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YouTube For Google TV Gets Recommendations, Smoother Playback And A +1 Button

Google TV - OverviewGoogle TV, the company’s first serious foray into the living room, hasn’t exactly set the world on fire. That doesn’t mean Google has given up, though. Far from it. While there hasn’t been much news about Google TV itself lately, the YouTube app for Google TV is getting an update today. Google says that its developers have “been working like it’s a 24/7 hackathon over here to bring all of YouTube to your Google TV.” With this update, the developers have added recommendations, a Google+ button and the ability to search for channels. The new version now also handles suddenly drops in bandwidth more gracefully.
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Net neutrality provision gets 5.9% of AT&T shareholder votes

About 5.9 percent of AT&T shareholders have voted for a proposal calling on the company to commit to net neutrality principles on its wireless networks, but supporters of the measure called the vote a success.
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OpenUDID Gets Back-Up From 17 Mobile Ad Companies In The Hunt For UDID Alternatives

openudid-supportOpenUDID, a new, open-source identification scheme that was created by marketing company Appsfire, says it has rounded up support from 17 mobile advertising companies (including itself) as developers look for alternatives to the UDID. Mobile app developers are scrambling for solutions as Apple phases out an older unique ID system called UDIDs that was criticized for compromising consumer privacy.

A straightforward ID system is key for developers who want to understand who their users are and how to target them with advertising, so developers are looking for alternatives that Apple will tolerate. There are several contenders and many different methods, but it’s still not clear which one the industry will settle on.

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HTC One X gets teardown, battery unsurprisingly dominates

HTC One X teardown

While some might deem the One X‘s combination of svelte unibody profile, quad-core power and 720p display to be downright witchcraft, we knew differently. Fortunately, there’s now scientific proof to back us up, courtesy of PCOnline, which has performed a delicate autopsy on the Chinese variant of HTC’s new flagship. To explore that polycarbonate shell, a narrow plastic tool to is eased in behind the screen and around the face of the device, with the majority of the phone’s tightly packed innards — including the Tegra 3 processor — attached to the display half. Some contacts, however, were left on the inside of the unibody, including the NFC chip. Most of the quad-core thinking parts were clustered around the 8-megapixel sensor, while the battery dominated the center of HTC’s big hitter. Anyone who gets their kicks from the gentle undoing of all that engineering hard work can watch it unravel in grisly detail at the source below.

HTC One X gets teardown, battery unsurprisingly dominates originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft gets bad rap from former employee

An ex-worker vents frustration with his old company over what he sees as numerous layers of management and non-stop, unproductive meetings.
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Canada’s CTV gets a grip on international roaming voice, data costs

International voice, text and data costs can get expensive for vacation and business travelers alike, something Canadian news operation CTV found out the hard way. Now it’s cutting costs with a telecom expense management system.
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Ph.D Webcomic Gets Adapted Into Feature Film



Technically Inept writes with the lead paragraph from a report at Comics Alliance: “To the best of my knowledge, Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher and Deeper (better known as PhD Comics) is the first webcomic to be adapted into a feature-length film. After months spent on a college campus screening tour, Piled Higher and Deeper: The Movie is finally available for purchase and streaming. And, like its comic inspiration, the PhD pokes fun at the frustrations of graduate students, those noble folks who enter academia with dreams of changing the world and inspiring young minds, only to be thwarted by indifferent professors, lazy undergrads and the ever-present fear that they’ll never graduate.” The short review linked makes this sound like a very watchable movie.

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2K Sports Major League Baseball 2K12 million-dollar contest gets facelift

For the past two years, 2K Sports has given away a pretty impressive prize to the game that it deemed was the best virtual baseballer in the country – a cool $ 1 million. However, while it drummed up a lot of excitement among the loyal fan base, and got some attention in the gaming media,

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Chrome For Android Gets Desktop View, Home Screen Bookmarks, File Downloads

Chrome Beta - Android Apps on Google PlayChrome for Android is becoming somewhat of a flagship product for Google, but given that it’s only available on phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, its reach is pretty limited. It’s still one of the best mobile browsers on the market, though, and Google is adding a number of cool features to it today. Chrome for Android is now also available in 31 additional languages and in all countries where Google Play is available.

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CISPA gets a rewrite but still threatens Americans’ privacy

Foes of controversial legislation rally before expected vote next week, with scant success so far: latest draft still allows Internet companies to share customer data and communications with the National Security Agency.
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Xtex’s My Tablet gets you 7-inches of tasty ICS for just 150 bones

Xtex's My Tablet gets you 7-inches of tasty ICS for just 150 bones

Tablets are are great and all, but they sure can be expensive — especially if you want one running a newer version of Android. Step in Xtex’s $ 150 My Tablet, a 7-inch device loaded with Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3, a 16GB HDD (expandable to 48 GB via its TF card slot) and a 1.5Ghz CPU complimented by 1GB of RAM. That’s not all, though, as the device also packs a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, an HDMI output and mini and standard USB ports. That low price does mean you’ll be making due with a screen resolution of 800 x 480 and only WiFi connectivity, but you’ll get to choose from its very neapolitan-esque black, white and pink colorways. Considering the My Tablet is nearly half the price of an Andy Pad Pro, it sure does looks appetizing on paper — as long as you keep your expectations reasonable, that is. Satisfy your sweet tooth with more images in the gallery below and the press release after the break.

Gallery: Xtex My Tablet

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Nouveau open source NVIDIA driver goes stable, gets benchmarked

Nouveau open source NVIDIA driver goes stable, gets benchmarked

Nouveau, the open source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs is finally taking off the stabilizers, wandering out from the staging area, and being accepted as part of the standard stable kernel set-up. The project began nearly six years ago, so it’s been a long road, but one that has earned it favor in certain corners of the Linux world. Things started gaining traction in the last three years as more and more distros started adopting, and Mr Linux himself, Linus Torvalds, suggested it be part of the kernel. Want to see how it performs? Head on down to the source link where the gents at Phoronix have kindly given it some comprehensive benchmarks.

Nouveau open source NVIDIA driver goes stable, gets benchmarked originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Finally Gets Right To Gmail Trademark In Germany

gmail-de-logoWhen Google launched Gmail in Germany in 2005, it was quickly barred from using the Gmail name for its email product there. German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, after all, had registered the ‘G-mail’ trademark (short for Giersch mail) for his physical and electronic mail service in Germany in 2000, long before Google had even announced its own service. Instead of ‘Gmail,’ German Internet users who wanted to use Gmail had to go to googlemail.com. Google tried to appeal this decision, but ran out of legal options in 2007, after Europe’s Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market rejected its appeal. For a long time, it seemed like that was the end of the story, but last week Google quietly settled its dispute with Giersch. According to Germany’s GoogleWatchBlog, the gmail.de domain and the Gmail trademark were transferred to Google on April 13.
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New Daily Show App Gets High-Res Video, Still Doesn’t Let You Watch Full Episodes

Screen shot 2012-04-12 at 4.45.51 PMYesterday, the Daily Show featured a stellar parody yesterday of both Google’s connected, augmented reality eyeglasses (a.k.a Project Glass or, as I like to call it, “Project Sup Now, Warby Parker?”) as well as Instagram’s billion-dollar sale to Facebook. Fittingly, the show is today officially replacing its old app and is going all 2.0 with a new, upgraded and redesigned mobile app — with high-res video. Yes, as The Daily Show tweeted this afternoon, its tech and general news-related hilarity is now available on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices in an app called “The Daily Show Headlines” that — get ready for it — plays the Daily Show!
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Xfinity iOS app gets DVR manager

If you are a user of the Comcast Xfinity app on your iPhone or other iOS device, the app has been updated. The new update will make it easier to manage all the shows recorded or recording on your Comcast DVR. I’m honestly rather surprised this was not a included before considering the ability to

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PS Vita gets (another) firmware update, free-to-play Montezuma Blitz available now

PS Vita gets (another) firmware update, free-to-play Montezuma Blitz available now

It’s been barely a week since the last one, but Sony’s now begun rolling out firmware version 1.67. It’s another meaty download, weighing in at just under 100MB, although there’s no detail on what it changes — we’re still exploring the update. Following the refresh, you can also pick up the PS Vita’s latest free game, Montezuma Blitz, a Bejewelled-style puzzle game. However, it’s not the first game to be offered up free on the Vita and some pesky in-game purchases taint that freebie status a little. Both the update and game are available to download on your Vita now.

PS Vita gets (another) firmware update, free-to-play Montezuma Blitz available now originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ gets ‘more functional, flexible’ design

Google Wednesday morning said it has started rolling out a redesign of its Google+ social network.
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Google doodle gets animated to honor zoopraxiscope creator

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Long before there was Flash animation in the world, Eadweard Muybridge gave us the Zoopraxiscope, a simple stop-motion device considered by some to be the first-ever movie projector. Created in 1879, the player features spinning glass disks that give displayed images the illusion of movement. Muybridge, born this day in 1830, photographed a galloping horse to help settle the question of whether all four of the animal’s hooves leave the ground at the same time while galloping (they do), later animating the image via his new invention. That movement can be set in motion with a click on today’s Google doodle.

Google doodle gets animated to honor zoopraxiscope creator originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Instagram for Android gets tablet, Wi-Fi, SD card support

The first upgrade to the popular photo app since being released to Android users expands its potential user base even more.
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Friendcaster for Facebook gets shiny new 5.0 update on Android, rocks new UI

Friendcaster for Facebook gets shiny new 5.0 update on Android

When it comes to alternative Facebook apps, Friendcaster checks in as one of the more robust options for Android. Now the app is getting a major status update thanks to a 5.0 makeover. Highlights touted by the Friendcaster team include design improvements, real-time notifications, higher resolution news feed images, the ability to tag more than one friend at a time in a post, a new check-in interface and memory improvements. The update — which is compatible with Android 1.6 and higher — also kicks off with a suite of themes in six fresh colors, with more in the works. After all, if you’re gonna ignore yet another Farmville and Texas Hold’em request, you may as well do it in style.

Friendcaster for Facebook gets shiny new 5.0 update on Android, rocks new UI originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Novero Solana convertible netbook gets flipped by the FCC

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If you’re excited about convertible tablets but can’t wait for the IdeaPad Yoga to arrive, then perhaps Novero’s Solana might give you a temporary fix. It’s a dinky netbook (yes, netbook) that runs both Windows 7 and Android, but you can flip the display over in its frame to turn it into a tablet PC. It’s packing a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom N2600, Intel GMA 3600 IGP Graphics, 2GB of RAM and a choice of 32 or 64GB of solid-state storage. Fortunately, it looks like it won’t be long before we get to clench it to our chests since it’s now been given the thumbs-up from the assembled experts down in the FCC’s underground bunker. For around $ 800, you too can pretend it’s 2009 all over again, just remember to bring the Flo Rida.

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Gaming classic Snake gets charmed by geeks with flutes and Arduino (video)

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Nerds. Where would we be without their idle tinkering? Still pushing stones, we gather. But were it not for those breakthroughs, both high and low, us common folk would never know the charm of seeing the classic game Snake played with the use of ordinary recorders. No, not a tape or video recorder — we’re talking flutes here and, naturally, Arduino. With the aid of a hacked-to-bits Nokia 6110i, mobile engineering collective Kitchen Budapest was able to program directional controls for the retro title in Max/MSP (music software) via pitch detection, paving the way for one-note recreational fun. Eager for a peek of this flautastic feat in action? Then jump past the break to gaze at a slickly produced video tour of this novel, nostalgic hack.

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