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The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!
It's Thursday, and you know what that means: tomorrow's Friday! Also, it's podcast time! The Engadget Podcast kicks off at 5:00 EST, despite Darren being somewhere lost in the desert. Seriously, we're not sure where he is. Despite that, tim will be joined again by Myriam and, for the first time, Associate Editor Brian Heater will bring his considerable podcasting expertise to bear on your ear holes. Talk of smartphones, the allure of tablets (...)
2011-04-28 16:35:00 | EngadgetHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 trailer debuts
Trailer: Harry Potter returns this summer in the final installment of the long running series, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
2011-04-28 16:29:40 | Digital TrendsScosche freeKEY Bluetooth keyboard: spillproof and flexible (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Peripheral and accessory make Scosche has announced its new freeKEY Bluetooth keyboardâand itâs freaky feature is a water-resistant, silicon design thatâs flexibleâand can be rolled up for storage and transport. Scosche is aiming the freeKEY as users of tablets, smartphones, and other Bluetooth devices that occasionally need to whip out a keyboard for messaging, email, or other tasks, but donât want to sacrifice portability to a full netbook or notebook computer.
2011-04-28 16:26:22 | Yahoo NewsWhite iPhone 4 Available to Buy!
So at last the iPhone 4 in white is finally here and available to purchase at mobiles.co.uk. Last year the white iPhone 4’s release seemed unlikely, with people believing it was never going to happen after its delay when the iPhone 4 was originally launched back in June 2010, but the wait is now over. Philip [...]
2011-04-28 16:25:52 | UK Mobile Phone Blog
Microsoft announces record Q3 earnings: $16.43 billion revenue, $5.23 billion net income
Well, it looks like the record quarters from tech companies just keep on coming -- this time it's Microsoft, which just reported $16.43 billion in revenue in its third-quarter results, a jump of 13 percent from the previous year, and well ahead of analysts' expectations. Net income clocked in at $5.23 billion, a whopping 31 percent increase from the previous year, with Microsoft citing strong sales of Office 2010, Xbox and Kinect as key (...)
2011-04-28 16:25:00 | EngadgetFBI uncovers string of large, unauthorized wire transfers to China
The FBI has sent out a fraud alert over recent trend of unauthorized wire transfers to China. Small- to medium-sized business in the U.S. are typical victims.
2011-04-28 16:18:45 | Digital Trends
Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' brings new Unity UI, controversy to the desktop
It's April, the fourth month of the year, and that means it's time for a new Ubuntu release. (This also true of the tenth month of the year -- those Canonical folks like to keep busy.) Ubuntu 11.04, or Natty Narwhal as the kids are calling it, is here and packing some significant changes from earlier editions of the Linux distro. The most obvious being the arrival of the Unity desktop environment, which was (...)
2011-04-28 16:18:00 | EngadgetPanasonic to cut 17,000 employees
Japanese mega-corporation Panasonic will be slimming from five major groups down to three, and cutting 17,000 jobs.
2011-04-28 16:17:17 | Digital TrendsChrome OS tablet from Acer outed by bug reports?
It’s no secret that Google planned to bring Chrome OS to tablet hardware — at least at one stage in its development. The tablet UI concepts are still on display over at the Chromium project, and there’s no reason to suspect that at least some OEMs will test the Chrome OS tablet waters. Based on [...]
2011-04-28 16:15:22 | Geek.com
MC Escher Waterfall Illusion Remade…Again
Remember the MC Escher Waterfall remake that took the Internet by storm? Well, a new version surfaced, which varies the presentation.Non ‘Waterfall’ remakes: Robot with Reflecting Sphere and the Robotic Drawing Hands.Via Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-04-28 16:05:58 | Walyou20 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for Geeky Moms
It’s just about Mother’s Day again, and in order to provide you with some great inspiration, we gathered here 20 Mother’s Day gift ideas for 2011 that work for the ...Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-04-28 16:00:20 | Walyou
NVIDIA brings SLI support to AMD 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets
It's not going so far as to expand support as far as AMD has with its CrossFireX multi-GPU technology, but NVIDIA has now at least taken one step in that direction. The company announced today that it's finally bringing SLI support to AMD platforms -- specifically, upcoming motherboards based on AMD's 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. Those will be offered by ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI initially, with additional manufacturers said to be coming (...)
2011-04-28 15:51:00 | EngadgetOperation Flashpoint: Red River – review
Xbox 360/PS3/PC; £39.99; cert 15+; CodemastersThe Operation Flashpoint first-person shooters have always appealed to a particular constituency: gamers obsessed with the military (along the lines of Nick Frost's character Mike in Spaced). That's because they are about as hardcore as you can get: unlike more mass-market fps games, if you take a head-shot, you won't be getting back up, and in order to prosper, you will have to adopt tactics that real-life soldiers would (...)
2011-04-28 15:44:50 | Guardian.co.ukHow should Nintendo sell the 3DS?
The company is worrying that it's not shifting enough units of the hands-free 3D console, because people don't get it. YetWe've got used to Nintendo surprising us. No one gave the Wii a chance in hell before it was released – then one look at those controllers and suddenly everyone and their gran wanted one. Meanwhile, the Nintendo DS has steadily become the biggest selling console of all time, mostly thanks to brain training, (...)
2011-04-28 15:41:00 | Guardian.co.ukPanasonic to Cut 17,000 Jobs
Panasonic, the Japanese maker of consumer electronics, will restructure its operations and reduce the number of business lines to three from five.
2011-04-28 15:40:29 | New York Times