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Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 12:57AM Perhaps because you can't house an entire library of 4.5M books in your pocket? Perhaps because - regardless of how many books that exist in the library, only a very small percentage of them are actually relevant for you?
But hell, if it makes you buy an ereader, I'm sure someone out there can generate 22M titles of gramatically correct randomly generated sentences and then it would be 5 times better than your local library because it has 5 times more titles?
Google hits Android ROM modder with a cease-and-desist letter {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2009 1:09AM It's been up since this afternoon.
AT&T to go live with TerreStar sat phone services this year {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 24th 2009 1:54PM What kind of satellite constelations do they have? Is it bent-pipe ala Globalstar (aka no calls unless their sat can see both you and a ground-based place, so no calls from the middle of the ocean) or a true sat constellation like irridium where you can place calls anywhere?
Adobe demos Flash on the HTC Hero {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 24th 2009 1:37PM I've run the flash player on my android device. It's limited, and it doesn't play sites like Hulu or any flex apps I've tried. Admittedly, I don't have a hero - but the only effect I have noticed is that it slows down any page that has flash banner ads to a crawl and has nothing worthwhile in it.
Part of the problem is that it identifies itself as some funky version of flash that breaks a lot of detection scripts. It identifies itself as "AFL 9,1,122,0" (but does identify that it is video and audio capable) -
On the HTC Dream (which has half the ram of the Hero, so will not perform nearly as well) the flash version checking page takes about 2 or 3 minutes to load.)
iTunes going primarily DRM free? (Update: yes, it is! 3G downloads, too) {Engadget}
Jan 6th 2009 11:34PM "The main difference is that the file will have your e-mail and name attached to it's metadata to prevent piracy (in iTunes, right click on a song, select "Get Info", and it will list your personal info right along with the bit-rate and date modified/ imported information). So if you upload your "plus" songs to Bittorrent, don't say I didn't warn you.."
The metadata isn't signed or hashed in any way, correct? Editing metadata does not require a CS degree..
I think I'm going to start posting files on Bit Torrent with "Steve Jobs" and "steve.jobs@apple.com" in the metadata... ;)
Ricoh's 28mm GR Digital II camera gets reviewed {Engadget}
Apr 30th 2008 10:11PM A Cannon SD870 pwns this thing. It's smaller, has a 28mm lens, and much better low-light performance.
Throw CHDK on it, and it shoots RAW, can run custom scripts (such as motion detection... etc.) - and has generally has features that would make this camera wet its pants.
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_firmware_usage
Oh... and it costs half as much.
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-SD870IS-Digital-Stabilized/dp/B000V1XICU?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1209607544&sr=8-2&tag=rye-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
You're welcome.
A Couple of My Rules for Startups {Blog Maverick}
Mar 20th 2008 5:20PM "Locate yourself in the South, or at least middle America! With technology and travel you do not have to be in big cities anymore. You save a ton of money on everything including offices, equipment and people."
Good luck recruiting talent in the middle of imbredland.
10-year ban for popping a wheelie in Miami {Autoblog}
Nov 28th 2007 4:05PM To the above person:
"All rights not expressly allowed the government belong to the PEOPLE. That means driving *IS* a right."
You have a right to drive, sure... just not on the roads that the government provides. Nobody is going to take away your right to drive your car back and forth in the driveway - but once you get onto public roads you don't have a god-given right to drive on them.
T-Mobile Shadow unboxed, still not released {Engadget}
Oct 1st 2007 10:13AM What OS does it run? WM like the Dash? I had a dash for a while, but the OS sucked so bad I ditched it and went back to my Symbian UIQ3 phone (SE P990i)
I would rather disembowel myself with a rusty dull pocket knife than use a Winblows Mobile device again.
Nokia unlocks anti-Apple campaign {Engadget}
Oct 1st 2007 10:03AM Sorry to break it to you, but prostitutes don't give you money.
