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(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Sprint today is shouting its unlimited iPhone 4S data plan from the rooftops, hoping to attract Verizon customers who are hopping mad at losing their unlimited data . Starting today, you can trade in your current non-Sprint iPhone for the carrier’s own model, and get at least $100 off when you sign a new two-year contract. Related stories Should angry Verizon subscribers ditch Big Red
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(Credit: Jeff Bakalar) Sorry about the rather short show today, but the Facebook IPO just started trading and we have to make way for a special edition of Reporter’s Roundtable featuring our own “Aunt” Jill Schlesinger , Andy Rachleff of Wealthfront , and Tom Merritt. Check it out for in-depth discussion about the offering! We’ll be back on Monday with a week of new episodes, but you can stay in touch on our Instagram page–look us up @the404.
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The 404 1,057: Where we’d rather have an IPA (podcast)
The Facebook IPO is off and running on the NASDAQ exchange. When the social network’s stock started trading under the ticker symbol FB just around 11:30 a.m. Eastern today, the first trades of the new stock came across at $42.
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Twitter predicts Facebook’s first closing day price
The Weather Channel 5.0 for iPhone.
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Blue skies for The Weather Channel’s overhauled iOS app
This charger could save a life, or at least a smartphone. (Click to enlarge.) (Credit: Sony Japan) One possible solution to resurrect a dead phone resides in Sony’s latest portable CycleEnergy USB charger with a built-in hand crank, due in Japan on June 20 for 8,000 yen ($100). The modular charger ( CP-A2LAKS ) features a dual port unit capable of charging two USB-equipped devices and a built-in 4,000mAh battery chargeable via AC power.
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A frame from the video for “The Human Theremin,” a Kinect-based project by students Duncan Boehle and Nicholas Inzucchi. (Credit: Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET) It’s end-of-term time, which means brainy college students throughout the land are busily quaffing coffee and eschewing sleep to get their final projects and shows sewn up. That means too, of course, that many of these compelling projects are being put on display for the first time
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Carnegie Mellon students get naughty, nice with new-media art
Demand for Samsung‘s Galaxy S III is already running hot. (Credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) Samsung‘s Galaxy S III has scooped up 9 million pre-orders , Reuters said today, based on information from the Korean Economic Daily. Already finding a home among more than 100 global carriers, the Galaxy S III will debut in Germany on May 29 and then expand around the world
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Audi’s menu system with an Apple iPod plugged in.
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(Credit: http://sushiart.org/ ) The Netflix video streaming player finally gets an overhaul , but most of the upgrades to the navigation and video thumbnail layouts feel vaguely reminiscent to us, but we can’t put a finger on it.
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The 404 1,056: Where you don’t win friends with salad (podcast)
The iHome iP76, which pulses and strobes, ships in July for $199.99 (click to enlarge).
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iHome iP76: Chameleon LED Bluetooth tower for your iPhone
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
