never content with just monopolizing one segment of the market has decided to dip its big scary toes into the -ish world of anywhere-TV with a new piece of software for its PCs. Using the newly acquired (but not new) WebGuide component -- created by a gentleman named Doug Berrett -- you can now tune into your Media Center content from any place you have web access. The software actually goes beyond what Slingbox is capable of giving you full control over your system remotely allowing you to set record times dress schedules and generally go buck-wild even from a mobile phone or WiFi equipped PDA. Ballmer and Co also added an ITV function to MC PCs though apparently all it does is offer C-rate "internet" content for MCE users. Clearly what's exciting here is WebGuide -- the software is free and presuming you already have your system up and running you could be "slinging" video around before you know it.[Via ]
Infiniti looks to be upping the ante in in-car cameras considerably with its new Around View observe system which makes its first appearance in the affiliate's new Infinti EX35 SUV. As you can probably guess the system includes cameras at the front rear and sides of the vehicle which are apparently intended primarily to help with parking but we're sure will also find plenty of use for practical jokes around the neighborhood. While they didn't take advantage of that particular possibility the folks at AutoSpies did get to check out the vehicle first hand and they've thankfully provided a video of the camera system in action which you can check out after the break.
Filed under: At first glance suckers for may fall for Lili and Oscar even before knowing the story behind them but these two peripherals not only provide animalistic replacements for those vanilla USB hubs and webcams they promote eco-friendliness too. According to United Pepper (which is partnering with EuroTech). Oscar (the USB hub) and Lili (that'd be the webcam) bring home the bacon in four different colors are constructed from recyclable materials and are produced "in a fair trade environment." Moreover the webcam touts a 1.3-megapixel sensor and a built-in microphone while Oscar boasts four USB 2.0 ports for connecting up an array of input peripherals. Both creatures are slated to land in the UK this month and while Lili will cost £30 ($60). Oscar will be available for just £20 ($40). [Warning: PDF read link][Via ]
As we quickly come Apple's "" event in London the reports have been flying in concerning all sorts of carriers rocking the iPhone in the very come future. Now we've got France's joining O2's and Germany's Vodafone / T-Mobile. The rumors are saying we can expect a €300 French iPhone (sans 3G and unlimited data plans) on November 29th with an announcement during the Apple Expo in Paris on September 24th though the picture we're seeing clearly shows the blurry-as-all-get-out phone touting the T-Mobile carrier name. They say it's roaming we say; don't sign anything yet.[Via ]
In addition to those hyperbole-laden Kensington introduced the other day the company also busted out a whole be of other accessories including everything from FM transmitters to power adapters to notebook cases. On that first front the company has introduced no less than four of its LiquidFM Transmitters including two designed specifically for iPods and two that'll work with any old MP3 player. All four boast features like QuickSeek to automatically find the clearest frequency and RDS functionality to show song information on compatible car stereos. In other forms of accessorizing. Kensington's introduced a slew of "Connect it" and "Power it" devices the former of which includes a variety of laptop docks and stands replete with USB ports while the later consists of adapters of various sorts to let you use and charge your USB-powered devices in your car on a plane or at home using a regular power outlet. As if that wasn't enough the company also has a pair of new laptop cases which ordain neither charge your devices nor transfer audio but which should act both your laptop and your wrists safe thanks to Kensington's trademark Contour ergonomic support adorn. According to Kensington the whole lot should be available in time for the pass season with everything available for pre-order now.
Sounding like a child who's just been caught with a hand in the proverbial cookie jar. Microsoft issued a decidedly contrite non-confrontational response this afternoon to the by a European Grand Chamber of the Court of First Instance thanking the court for its time and promising to take whatever steps are necessary to comply with the ruling. While playing up its commitment to Europe aspirations for increased transparency and continuing changes to its business practices. Redmond Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith also admitted that "we all have to acknowledge that there are some issues that do remain open" and even welcomed "continued discussion to adhere to our duties with the European Commission." Notably absent from Microsoft's response was any mention of an appeal and while the topic does seem to have been broached in post-statement Q&A the company's press release conveniently lists all questions as being asked "off mike" -- therefore the only clue we have regarding future plans is Smith's assertion that "I don't want to talk about what will go next in terms of the legal process." In other words it sounds desire this case may well register its second decade before a final decision is reached.
Filed under: . SpiralFrog the badly named ad-supported music and video download portal has gone live today after months of beta testing or so we're told. The site allows users to legally and freely download media from a catalogue of over 800,000 songs and 3,500 videos (most provided by Apple Universal Music Group as way back in August 2006) and requires only that users register on the site and log in once a month (otherwise the DRM'd files go belly up). It's not all lollipops and rainbows however as just mentioned the files are beat of nasty fun-murdering DRM which prevents your new tunes from being burned onto a CD. In other gloomy news. SpiralFrog's content won't work on your Mac or your iPod and can only be placed on two media players or phones at a time. "We believe it will be a very powerful alternative to the pirate sites," said company head Joe Mohen adding. "With SpiralFrog you know what you're getting." Yes Joe and we know what we're not getting too.
Filed under: . As we the latest batch of iPods brought with them a few changes that weren't exactly evident at first glance not the least of which was the ability to sync with third party apps. That proved to be especially problematic for iPod-loving Linux users who had gotten used to apps like gtkpod and Amarok to sync the players with their OS of choice. As expected however that blockage now appears to have been cleared by some enterprising Linux users and the iPod classic (and seemingly other new other new iPods as well) is now back to its Linux-syncing ways. For the time being that unfortunately still appears to be a somewhat complicated process although we're sure some less time-intensive solutions will be arriving before too long.[Via ]
The card-based RPG appears to answer much in the same way that Bill Gates described Surface's object recognition properties as working. "sensing" cards which are placed on the game area and reacting to their status movement and arrangement. There's no word on when or if this game is coming to the states but with kids' unnatural obsession with card games (particularly those of a Japanese ilk) it seems likely this ordain be popping up on these shores before long.
Europeans have been waiting in constant anticipation since to hear when and in what form their version of the iPhone will take. The rumors pretty much revolve around which carriers in which regions will get the phone with a convey of speculation about. Will Apple furnish us what we all want or are we looking at the same ol' locked EDGE phone this time with different equivalents of AT&T? Or will Apple throw a fast one on us all and announce ? Tomorrow morning -- or evening or afternoon -- we'll be there to find out. Go here and.11:00PM - Hawaii (September 17th)2:00AM - Pacific3:00AM - Mountain4:00AM - Central5:00AM - Eastern10:00AM - London11:00AM - Paris6:00PM - TokyoGot any more timezones / comments / predictions? Now's the time to let loose in the comments. Of course you can still opt out of all this Apple news by.
Remember that cool Ubicell in-home booster we back at CTIA? Sprint's finally starting to roll out the device this week as the "Airave" in "select areas" of Denver and Indianapolis this week. Overall the concept is very similar to -- it connects through your ISP racks up a monthly fee ($15 in this case. $30 for families) boosts your signal and doesn't deduct plan minutes -- but with the Airave. CDMA signals are served up instead of @Home's WiFi which means any Sprint handset should work like a champ. The box itself runs $49.99 not a bad entry fee considering the healthy list of benefits it affords. Look for it in the rest of Denver and Indy along with Nashville later this year followed by a nationwide rollout in 2008.
like to know exactly whose crapware you'll be removing from your next store-bought desktop or laptop this is a just a quick heads-up that HP customers worldwide can soon expect to be confronted with portals toolbars and default search settings courtesy of AOL (which also happens to own Engadget parent network Weblogs Inc.). Since it was almost exactly a year ago that we can only assume that AOL has pushed its rival off of HP machines altogether extending its current agreement to give only the co-branded portal for domestically-sold rigs. Perhaps the best news here is that for those folks who haven't bought a PC in several years the pre-loaded AOL software may provided a much-needed connection back to the days of dial-up in this scary new world of broadband. Vista and MySpace.
Filed under: Perhaps concerned that it's developing a reputation as something of a hard ass due to its. American navigation darling Garmin will reportedly try to show off its sensitive side in Europe during the upcoming holiday season. Buried in a piece about the state of mass market satnav. Reuters reveals that Garmin has a pink "-branded device" in the pipeline aimed at the fashionable ladies of Europe most likely some variation of the 200 series. No more info is given and since this doesn't sound like a very exciting product to begin with save for the fresh paint job interested parties should probably keep their eyes on European GPS forums.[Via ]
Like small things? Really small things? Things that are so small you might lose them easily? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions then we've got the totally ill-riffic earphones for you. Those tiny (but not tinny apparently) q-Jays earbuds we back in August have officially hit the scene -- so all that money saving you've been doing can be put to good use. The buds may be small but apparently their sound is anything but touting dual micro armatures. JAYS Sound Isolating System a sensitivity of 95 dB @ 1 kHz impedance of 39 Ohms @ 1 kHz and a frequency response from 20Hz to 20,000 Hz. The earbuds come with a turn of accessories including an I- and L-shaped connector seven silicon ear sleeves four canal filters an airline adapter a stereo splitter (for two-person use) and a carrying case. The tiny wonders can be yours in black or white alter now for the low low price of $179.
Just a quick follow-up to : turns out the new machines are already announced in Asia and US pricing has managed to tag along with them. Turns out there is more than one "fancy" copy on the new laptop casings. Depending on if you buy the HP Pavilion dv2600. Pavilion dv6500 and Compaq Presario B1200 laptops you'll get casing styles called Verve. Influx and Trace (or in layman's terms. Wierd Wispy Black. White Notches and Blue-ish Fingerprint respectively.) All three models will be available from $1,049-1,099 and should be hitting Asia this month with country specific models to come.
Filed under: . has finally brought its wares to the rest of the world with the introduction of the Model e2 the opening of an international office in the UK and the hiring of a former Palm Europe Executive. In case you were wondering the copy e2 appears identical to North America's albeit with a UK style keyboard. For now distribution is limited to eXpansys. Portix and Dynamism shipping at prices between £846 and £1,359.95. Yeah the same kind of "determine parity" Europeans have long enjoyed applies to the OQO Model 2s too.
So if you believe the rumor move then (Deutsche Telekom) has clinched the iPhone for Germany right? Perhaps but that hasn't stopped BMW from showing off this picture of the iPhone running with Voda...(fone) at their Frankfurt Motor Show website. Now we'd draw this up to some speculative Photoshopping on BMW's move but we also received a tip from a reader claiming to undergo seen a Vodafone iPhone in the BMW area over the weekend. What the? Anyone at the autoshow care to sneak out some snaps?Update: Meanwhile.. our readers have united on the edge of Occam's razor with the following conclusion: international roaming.[Via thanks Jay A.] -- Photo above found in the iPhone section
In perhaps the largest dose of hyperbole you'll taste this year. Kensington is claiming to "reinvent the computer interface" with their new SlimBlade Media Notebook set. No we're not talking mult-touch speech or thought control here; just magnets. Sorry no magical they're simply using magnets to attach a media remote and keypad module to the sides of a keyboard. Whoopee. The wireless laser mouse features a 360-degree scroll ball while the keyboard goes both ways with PC or Mac hotkeys. A micro-receiver controls all the modules and tucks away inside the mouse when not in use. The kit goes for $130 or $150 with the Vista MediaCenter / FrontRow enabled remote control. Pretty sweet all-in-all but hardly a re-invention of the computer interface.
A finalist in the BraunPrize2007. Franziska Faoro's Triops is a camera equipped with three fisheye lenses designed to take photos at moments you may not expect. It reacts to motion and movement -- so if you throw it in the air or yell at it it'll take a mouth -- but it also has a manual mode in case you want full control. The idea of Triops is to meld the experience of taking a photo with the photo itself: the end pictures are all 360 degree panoramas so you'll have to chuck it pretty far to be out of frame. It looks like it's a concept for now although Franziska has thought to include designs for a dock viewing screen and even a simple UI on the device for controlling aspects of the shots. Hopefully this'll make it into production soon.
We're not exactly sure how much we trust i-SOBOT's MySpace page but if you're a believer will be headed to America real soon. Interestingly it purports that the primary reason for making the leap to the US is to "study our culture," which is likely a suave way of suggesting that its totally scoping out our defenses as the clan back domiciliate develops a sufficient takeover strategy. Nevertheless word on the street has this bad boy landing stateside before Christmas for $300 - $350 so there's still a few months left to prepare for the seemingly inevitable.[Via ]
-- after a brand new "high-resolution satellite" launches on Tuesday in an attempt to "boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive." The new craft labeled WorldView I will team up with DigitalGlobe's existing Quickbird sat to nab "over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day," and it should also "give far more accurate data." Those still sitting around with gaped jaws can even head to Boeing's website to watch the launch live and if all goes as planned. WorldView II should join the ever-growing party in late 2008.
The 15-month deliberation into to the European ruling in their anti-trust case is over. The news is pretty bad for Microsoft as their appeal has been dismissed. As such the $688 million book imposed in 2004 stands and Microsoft must pay 80% of the Commission's legal costs as additional insult. Microsoft did succeed at abolishing the independent monitoring trustee established to supervise Microsoft's behavior. Microsoft can still appeal to the highest court in Europe so this isn't over by any stretch of the imagination.
be assured we've some pretty in our day but Daniel Rozin's Weave reflect ranks pretty high up there. This zany installation relies on "768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket," and as curious mortals approach it it "paints a picture of them using a gradual rotation in greyscale value on each C-ring." We know you're probably comfort confounded at how this thing actually wows anyone but give the video (posted after the jump) a peek and clarity will be yours.[Via ]
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