| Engadget: WiFi Xoom sheds $100, could stand to lose a few more Benjamins Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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WiFi Xoom sheds $100, could stand to lose a few more Benjamins
7 Jul 2011, 4:56 pm
Oh Xoom, you're but a few months old -- still only a babe -- and Motorola already has you on a diet. Sure, maybe it was a mistake to jump right into the deep end where big boys play, but you had to try right? Well, now that you've shed a $100 in weight, treading water alongside the rest of the WiFi tablets should be a little bit easier and, with 32GB of storage, you're more well-endowed than your $499 brethren. Still, it might be too little too late with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 muscling in on your territory and "iPad" quickly becoming a generic word for slates. Maybe if you dropped another $100 you'd have better luck -- and talk to your 3G-packing sibling, he's looking a little plump around the price tag too, if you ask us.WiFi Xoom sheds $100, could stand to lose a few more Benjamins originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  MobileBurn |  Twitter | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Samsung's Q2 profit drops 26 percent due to sluggish TV sales, demand for phones explodes Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Samsung's Q2 profit drops 26 percent due to sluggish TV sales, demand for phones explodes
7 Jul 2011, 4:33 pm
You may or may not have noticed, but we're once again in the thick of earnings season, and today Samsung's in the hot seat. The company has reported that its second-quarter profit fell 26 percent year-over-year to 3.7 trillion won ($3.5 billion), largely thanks to underwhelming sales of flat screen TVs and, to a lesser extent, semiconductors. That's a shade worse than the whiz kids over on Wall Street were expecting, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the demand for televisions was so disappointing that it overshadowed what was actually an impressive quarter for the outfit's mobile division -- sales of feature and smartphones quadrupled year-over-year to 19.2 million units, putting the company on track to further narrow the gap with Nokia, the world's bestselling handset maker. All told, this balanced out to a modest growth in revenue -- an uptick of 2.9 percent to 39 trillion won ($36.7 billion). Makes sense to us -- handsets aren't exactly big ticket items, ya know?Samsung's Q2 profit drops 26 percent due to sluggish TV sales, demand for phones explodes originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Bloomberg Businessweek | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle
7 Jul 2011, 4:03 pm
It's clear that after killing off unlimited smartphone data plans, Verizon realized it had a walloping PR mess to clean up. Alas, the carrier isn't budging on its decision to impose usage-based plans, which go into effect today, but it is making nice the best way it knows how: by checking in frequently to let you know just how many megabytes you've burned through. Starting this week, smartphone owners with new (read: not unlimited) data plans will begin receiving free text message alerts informing them when they've consumed 50, 75, 90, 100, and 110 percent of their monthly allowance. People with My Verizon accounts can request email alerts instead, the same way they would with mobile broadband cards and netbooks, though either way you can only disable the alerts for the 50 and 75 percent makers -- those 90, 100, and 100 percent milestone markers appear to be mandatory. In addition, you can, as always, keep tabs on your usage by entering "#DATA", downloading the Data Usage widget for Android and BlackBerry, using the online data calculator, or availing yourself of the My Verizon portal. Hit the source links to find those last two, and best of luck with that gigabyte diet.Continue reading Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: WiFi Xoom sheds $100, could stand to lose a few more Benjamins Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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WiFi Xoom sheds $100, could stand to lose a few more Benjamins
7 Jul 2011, 4:56 pm
Oh Xoom, you're but a few months old -- still only a babe -- and Motorola already has you on a diet. Sure, maybe it was a mistake to jump right into the deep end where big boys play, but you had to try right? Well, now that you've shed a $100 in weight, treading water alongside the rest of the WiFi tablets should be a little bit easier and, with 32GB of storage, you're more well-endowed than your $499 brethren. Still, it might be too little too late with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 muscling in on your territory and "iPad" quickly becoming a generic word for slates. Maybe if you dropped another $100 you'd have better luck -- and talk to your 3G-packing sibling, he's looking a little plump around the price tag too, if you ask us.WiFi Xoom sheds $100, could stand to lose a few more Benjamins originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink MobileBurn | Twitter | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Samsung's Q2 profit drops 26 percent due to sluggish TV sales, demand for phones explodes Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Samsung's Q2 profit drops 26 percent due to sluggish TV sales, demand for phones explodes
7 Jul 2011, 4:33 pm
You may or may not have noticed, but we're once again in the thick of earnings season, and today Samsung's in the hot seat. The company has reported that its second-quarter profit fell 26 percent year-over-year to 3.7 trillion won ($3.5 billion), largely thanks to underwhelming sales of flat screen TVs and, to a lesser extent, semiconductors. That's a shade worse than the whiz kids over on Wall Street were expecting, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the demand for televisions was so disappointing that it overshadowed what was actually an impressive quarter for the outfit's mobile division -- sales of feature and smartphones quadrupled year-over-year to 19.2 million units, putting the company on track to further narrow the gap with Nokia, the world's bestselling handset maker. All told, this balanced out to a modest growth in revenue -- an uptick of 2.9 percent to 39 trillion won ($36.7 billion). Makes sense to us -- handsets aren't exactly big ticket items, ya know?Samsung's Q2 profit drops 26 percent due to sluggish TV sales, demand for phones explodes originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Bloomberg Businessweek | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle
7 Jul 2011, 4:03 pm
It's clear that after killing off unlimited smartphone data plans, Verizon realized it had a walloping PR mess to clean up. Alas, the carrier isn't budging on its decision to impose usage-based plans, which go into effect today, but it is making nice the best way it knows how: by checking in frequently to let you know just how many megabytes you've burned through. Starting this week, smartphone owners with new (read: not unlimited) data plans will begin receiving free text message alerts informing them when they've consumed 50, 75, 90, 100, and 110 percent of their monthly allowance. People with My Verizon accounts can request email alerts instead, the same way they would with mobile broadband cards and netbooks, though either way you can only disable the alerts for the 50 and 75 percent makers -- those 90, 100, and 100 percent milestone markers appear to be mandatory. In addition, you can, as always, keep tabs on your usage by entering "#DATA", downloading the Data Usage widget for Android and BlackBerry, using the online data calculator, or availing yourself of the My Verizon portal. Hit the source links to find those last two, and best of luck with that gigabyte diet.Continue reading Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle Verizon's automated SMS alerts will remind you of your newly tiered mobile lifestyle originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| TechCrunch: Onesheet Is About.me For Bands Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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Onesheet Is About.me For Bands
7 Jul 2011, 4:12 pm
 Onesheet, the latest project from ArtistData founder Brenden Mulligan launches into beta today. Like an About.me for bands, Mulligan holds that Onesheet is the simplest web presence for a band currently available. With Onesheet, bands can verify their identity through Facebook or Twitter and connect their musician-specific third party services like Soundcloud, Bandcamp and ReverbNation as well as social media services like Posterous, Tumblr and YouTube. Once all their content is in, bands can tweak their Onesheet’s design, making changes like font and widget positioning. Aside from this slight customization, bands really don’t have to do much work, as the service updates itself. Right now bands have limited options in terms of web presence, and with Myspace’s imminent fall, it might be a good idea to port your content from the flailing social network onto some place more stable. “Musicians are constantly having to direct fans from service to service and from used-to-be-awesome social network to now-is-awesome social network,” says Mulligan, who brings his copious industry experience with ArtistData to this endeavor. “It’s confusing for them and for their fans.” So why just not use About.me? Well namely because it doesn’t support band-specific data like concert dates and song uploads. In fact Mulligan has added this helpful addendum to the registration process, “Note: This site is built for musicians. If you want a personal page, click here.“ The same exact problem exists with the web’s most ubiquitous presence option, Facebook Fan pages, which are more like places to interact with fans then a way to showcase your music. Hence Onesheet … At the moment Onesheet is bootstrapped, and Mulligan plans on monetizing by offerring premium features. Instagram, iTunes, Topspin and Rdio and other integrations are in the works. The beta is pretty much open and TechCrunch readers who happen to be in bands (I for one hope there are many of you) can sign up for Onesheet today and get access to a customized domain within the week, Mulligan tells me. “It's so crazy easy to set one up, I think a lot of bands will give a try,” he says. 
        
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| TechCrunch: Smart TV Platform Flingo Comes Out Of Stealth To Merge Television And The Web Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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Smart TV Platform Flingo Comes Out Of Stealth To Merge Television And The Web
7 Jul 2011, 4:00 pm
Founded in 2008 by former BitTorrent employees Ashwin Navin and David Harrison, Flingo has slowly been building its smart TV app publishing empire for two years and the platform finally unveils itself today with some hefty partnerships. Co-founder Navin likens the core synchronization tech behind Flingo to an IntoNow for your television set, but it really is much more than that with its unprecedented technology and features enabling greater engagement between viewers, their television sets and the web. People who want to use Flingo and don’t already have it on their television sets can either buy a new Smart TV, a Flingo-enabled BlueRay player or a streaming box like a Roku. Because the co-founders have been steadily working on this for two years, the technology is already available in over half the televisions sold. And the company has managed to hook up with TV hardware companies like Samsung, LG, Vizio Insignia, Western Digital which means it's already on 5.7 million screens in 117 countries. 
The ultimate objective of Flingo is to merge TV and the web, allowing media partners like Fox, Showtime and Etsy and 65 others to build apps that integrate both. In addition Flingo has built its own apps on top of its platform and its Hovercraft content detection algorithm allows for all sorts of increased user interaction. “A colloquial gloss on every show” is how Navin describes it, “I think what we've done with smart TVs is adding a layer of intelligence.” Coming this August from Flingo are Hovercraft apps that overlay a Tweet stream, add a Facebook “Like” button and overlay TV reviews onto TV shows. Along with these apps, the Flingo platform offers a feature called Fling, which allows users to “fling” or push content from their browser into their television screens and mobile phones by using the Fling bookmarklet. Users can also use the bookmarklet to share content on Twitter and onto Facebook. 
While Flingo’s inhouse offerings are impressive, the company hopes that developers will take the Flingo ball and run with it like Utiva did with its “What’s On” app, “We’re excited to see what development will take place. It's difficult to say how developers will come up with stuff.” Navin tells me that the company plans on monetizing through advertising revenue share (consumers pay nothing extra) and is excited about the prospects of merging the economics of the web app business (a $40 billion dollar industry internationally) with television (a $70 billion dollar industry worldwide). Navin is also excited about the greater potential for targeted ads that Flingo allows, “Now Coke can sponsor a poll on American Idol, which is not only a new feature, but a new revenue opportunity,” he tells me. 
        
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| TechCrunch: Google Maps For Android Now Lets You Download Maps For Offline Viewing (Hallelujah!) Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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Google Maps For Android Now Lets You Download Maps For Offline Viewing (Hallelujah!)
7 Jul 2011, 3:24 pm
No matter which side of the smartphone wars you’ve landed on, it’s hard to deny that Android’s Maps application blows iOS’s out of the water. And this week it’s getting even better.
Yesterday Google highlighted a new feature that’s super handy for anyone who uses above-ground public transportation on a regular basis: turn-by-turn navigation for transit, which helps make sure you never get off at the wrong bus stop. And they’ve just pointed out another great addition that I’ve been yearning for for ages. Say hello to offline maps, thanks to a new feature in labs called Download Map Area. To activate the feature, you’ll first have to visit the Labs section of the Maps application, which you can access using the Menu button. Enable the Download Map Area option, and from then on when you browse to a Place page and hit the ‘More’ button, you’ll see an option to locally store a map of the surrounding area. And it’s a big surrounding area — Google will download local copies of the map tiles within a 10 mile radius of that venue. Which means that you can easily download the entirety of SF or Manhattan in a single tap (the download itself took about a minute for me over a Wifi connection). Then, next time you fire up a map but don’t have a data connection, you’ll still be able to pan and zoom around the city all you’d like. The feature is made possible by the fact that Google Maps on Android uses a vector-based system for displaying map tiles, rather than the older image-based system (which is what the iOS version of Maps still uses). The vector-based tiles use much less data (around 1/100th), which means they are quicker to download and can be stored locally without using too much storage space. Google Maps for Android has actually been caching mapping data automatically for some time now — the difference this ‘download maps’ feature brings is that it lets users explicitly choose which areas to store locally. It’s a great start, but it’s still clearly a work in progress. You can’t look up transit maps while you’re offline, and you can’t run search queries for venues and addresses that appear in the map areas you’ve downloaded. But these are pretty obvious features, so hopefully they’re in the pipe.
        
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| TechCrunch: eBay Buys Zong For $240 Million In Cash To Boost PayPal’s Mobile Payments Technology Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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eBay Buys Zong For $240 Million In Cash To Boost PayPal's Mobile Payments Technology
7 Jul 2011, 2:33 pm
 eBay has acquired mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011.
Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payments space, adding a compelling new way for consumers to pay for items online. Simply put, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual goods online, via direct billing to your mobile phone. Consumers simply enter their mobile phone numbers in the payments process. When a user wants to purchase an item, he can enters his cell phone number on a site, the site sends a text message to the phone, the user confirms the transaction with a short reply, and all the charges show up on his phone bill. Zong powers this entire transaction. The company has partnered with over 250 carriers worldwide to offer the technology to mobile phone users. eBay says that Zong will add ‘complementary technology and talent’ to its PayPal division, giving consumers more ways to pay for virtual goods and products online. Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, said this in a release: "Commerce is changing. With mobile phones, we walk around with a mall in our pockets. PayPal helps to make money work better for customers in this new commerce reality – no matter how they want to pay or what device they're using…We believe that Zong will strengthen this value by helping us reach the more than 4 billion people who have mobile phones, giving them more choice and security when they pay."  Zong, which was founded in 2008 by entrepreneur David Marcus, has raised a total of $27.5 million in funding. Matrix Partners’ Dana Stadler, who was the former CTO of PayPal, is on Zong's board of directors.
Stadler tells us that he’s spent a lot of time looking at financial services technology, and Zong was one of his first investments in the venture world. “It was clear to me at the time that we had space to build something big here,” he explains. In the digital goods category, carrier billed payments account for 50 percent of payment volume. It’s a frictionless payments mechanism, he explains, and this makes it ideal for digital goods. For digital good providers, carrier billing provides the highest conversions and Zong helps PayPal shore up this category. Last year, Zong was spun off from its European parent, Echovox, and Marcus moved to the U.S. to run the fast growing company, which landed a pretty big deal last year with Facebook to become a an early mobile payment provider for Facebook Credits. Other partners include IMVU, Sulake (makers of Habbo Hotel), Big Fish Games, Sony Online Entertainment, Zynga, Playdom (owned by Disney), and Bigpoint. The company also launched Zong+, an extension of the mobile payment startup which lets users bill microtransactions to credit, debit and prepaid cards (instead of their phones). Marcus wrote in a post on the company’s site: I am so excited by the unique combination of PayPal's 8 million merchants, brand power, risk management expertise, and financial stability, with Zong's Carrier DNA, its largest direct carrier payments network, product innovation, and best-in-class carrier billing technology. This industry first is going to allow us to scale what we've built over the course of the past 3 years (and then some) in a massive way! Zong faces competition from Boku, which was also rumored to be the target of an acquisition as well. eBay and PayPal have been on a bit of an acquisition spree, so it’s not surprising that the e-commerce giant made another big buy. PayPal is facing competition from fast growing startups like Square and even Google, and the payments company needs to add compelling technologies to help draw merchants, consumers and local businesses. As we’ve seen in the past few months, PayPal acquired local payments and advertising company Where, and shelled out cash for mobile payments company Fig Card as well. Zong provides a seamless payments product that could help improve conversions for online merchants and digital goods (PayPal processed $3.4 billion in transactions for digital goods in 2010), and in the end, frictionless online payments is PayPal’s bread and butter. In fact, PayPal just upped estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billion in mobile total payments volume (TPV) in 2011. PayPal’s CTO Patrick Dupuis tells us the acquisition is an expansion of vision fo enabling commerce anytime anywhere, adding another payments source for PayPal’s 9 million merchants. Marcus tells us that PayPal’s ability to scale and accelerate with Zong’s built made it an appealing new home. Another draw for PayPal—Zong has pretty massive international reach, offering mobile payments in in 21 languages and 45 countries. The service’s technology is especially appealing in countries where mobile phone usage is high (as opposed to internet connectivity). Zong should also help PayPal expand its footprint in developing countries. In terms of integration, PayPal and Zong arent’s saying much as to how Zong will be branded in the future. Marcus says he will be staying on at PayPal. Unsurprisingly, Dupuis says that Marcus and his team will have a critical role in PayPal’s future transformation in the payments business. Stadler echoes this sentiments, explaining that PayPal, with Zong in hand, is in a better position to create the digital wallet.
        
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| Engadget: Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case cloaks your iPad 2 in a MacBook Air duvet Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case cloaks your iPad 2 in a MacBook Air duvet
7 Jul 2011, 3:47 pm
Your friends may think that's a MacBook Air sitting on your coffee table -- but they'd be wrong and would deserve to be ridiculed. Taking its aesthetic cue from the Zaggmate, MIC's new Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case brings both a protective shell and a (nearly) full QWERTY set to your iPad 2. When pressed against the tablet face-to-face, the Buddy Case's magnets will automatically put your iPad to sleep, with its curved back guarding your precious slate from dirt, scratches and Hun invasions. To transition into keyboard mode, all you have to do is slide your 'Pad into a slot and let your fingers roam free. Powered by a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery, this $50 peripheral also allows users to control their iPad's brightness and media playback. Unfortunately, though, it'll only hold your slate at one, fixed angle, so make sure you have a neck before buying one. Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case cloaks your iPad 2 in a MacBook Air duvet originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Wired | M.I.C Store | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance' Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance'
7 Jul 2011, 3:18 pm
Some ideas are undeniably sensible, and zero-click WiFi roaming across carriers and countries is one of them. That's why iPass has set itself the unenviable but likely profitable task of convincing global telecoms giants to overlook their differences and form an "Open Mobile Exchange" based on its cloud-based authentication technology. It won't be the first to embark on such a voyage of persuasion: Skype is already on the case and Boingo is too (at least, sort of), but there are still plenty of fragmented hotspot services out there waiting to be crushed and blended by an effortless roaming technology. We just hope iPass has perfected its pleading email template: "Dearest Carrier, have you considered...?" Full PR after the break.Continue reading iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance' iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Gigaom | | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case cloaks your iPad 2 in a MacBook Air duvet Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case cloaks your iPad 2 in a MacBook Air duvet
7 Jul 2011, 3:47 pm
Your friends may think that's a MacBook Air sitting on your coffee table -- but they'd be wrong and would deserve to be ridiculed. Taking its aesthetic cue from the Zaggmate, MIC's new Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case brings both a protective shell and a (nearly) full QWERTY set to your iPad 2. When pressed against the tablet face-to-face, the Buddy Case's magnets will automatically put your iPad to sleep, with its curved back guarding your precious slate from dirt, scratches and Hun invasions. To transition into keyboard mode, all you have to do is slide your 'Pad into a slot and let your fingers roam free. Powered by a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery, this $50 peripheral also allows users to control their iPad's brightness and media playback. Unfortunately, though, it'll only hold your slate at one, fixed angle, so make sure you have a neck before buying one. Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case cloaks your iPad 2 in a MacBook Air duvet originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Wired | M.I.C Store | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance' Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance'
7 Jul 2011, 3:18 pm
Some ideas are undeniably sensible, and zero-click WiFi roaming across carriers and countries is one of them. That's why iPass has set itself the unenviable but likely profitable task of convincing global telecoms giants to overlook their differences and form an "Open Mobile Exchange" based on its cloud-based authentication technology. It won't be the first to embark on such a voyage of persuasion: Skype is already on the case and Boingo is too (at least, sort of), but there are still plenty of fragmented hotspot services out there waiting to be crushed and blended by an effortless roaming technology. We just hope iPass has perfected its pleading email template: "Dearest Carrier, have you considered...?" Full PR after the break.Continue reading iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance' iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Gigaom | | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Acer starts rolling out Android 3.1 update for the Iconia Tab A500 Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT |
| Engadget: Leaf sales outpacing the Volt, winning the fight for American garage space Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Leaf sales outpacing the Volt, winning the fight for American garage space
7 Jul 2011, 2:31 pm
According to Automobile, Nissan is winning the race to put the most electric cars in American driveways, selling 3,875 Leafs in the first six months of 2011, while Chevy only managed to put 2,754 Volt keys in the hands of consumers. This is despite Nissan suffering a month long manufacturing setback following the tsunami that struck in March. Chevy has had its own delays, having closed the Volt plant five weeks ago for upgrades that will allow it to pump out more vehicles. Lets not forget though, the Leaf starts at about $8,000 less than its American made competitor and, when it comes to weaning us off gas and putting us behind the wheel of tech-packed cars -- there's no shame in being number two. Perhaps GM will have better luck with that cheaper, shorter range version it's been contemplating.Leaf sales outpacing the Volt, winning the fight for American garage space originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Automobile | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Time Warner Cable iPad app hates jailbreaks, loves gratuitous quotes (updated) Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Time Warner Cable iPad app hates jailbreaks, loves gratuitous quotes (updated)
7 Jul 2011, 12:31 pm
If you're one of the proud and the brave who have sampled the latest wares of the crew behind JailbreakMe on your iPad, you'd be well advised to not update your TWCable TV app. We received the above screenshot from the latest version of said software, an update that apparently serves no purpose other than to prevents it running on jailbroken tablets. What do to? Well, you could restore your device to "factory defaults" -- or you could watch a little Netflix or Hulu instead and use this as yet another reason to "cut the cable."
Update: Time Warner has posted a full rundown of what's new in Version 2.0 of TWCable TV. This is the version we'd heard about a few weeks ago, which does indeed add quite a bit of functionality. Channel listings have been expanded to 100, users can now tune their cable boxes from within the app, and Remove DVR Manager has been added to let you schedule things whilst away. All useful additions if you're still rocking stock iOS. If not, you can see what it really looks like in the image below.
[Thanks, Chris]Continue reading Time Warner Cable iPad app hates jailbreaks, loves gratuitous quotes (updated) Time Warner Cable iPad app hates jailbreaks, loves gratuitous quotes (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Acer starts rolling out Android 3.1 update for the Iconia Tab A500 Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT |
| Engadget: Leaf sales outpacing the Volt, winning the fight for American garage space Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Leaf sales outpacing the Volt, winning the fight for American garage space
7 Jul 2011, 2:31 pm
According to Automobile, Nissan is winning the race to put the most electric cars in American driveways, selling 3,875 Leafs in the first six months of 2011, while Chevy only managed to put 2,754 Volt keys in the hands of consumers. This is despite Nissan suffering a month long manufacturing setback following the tsunami that struck in March. Chevy has had its own delays, having closed the Volt plant five weeks ago for upgrades that will allow it to pump out more vehicles. Lets not forget though, the Leaf starts at about $8,000 less than its American made competitor and, when it comes to weaning us off gas and putting us behind the wheel of tech-packed cars -- there's no shame in being number two. Perhaps GM will have better luck with that cheaper, shorter range version it's been contemplating.Leaf sales outpacing the Volt, winning the fight for American garage space originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Automobile | Email this | Comments | You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.
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| Engadget: Time Warner Cable iPad app hates jailbreaks, loves gratuitous quotes (updated) Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | Engadget
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Time Warner Cable iPad app hates jailbreaks, loves gratuitous quotes (updated)
7 Jul 2011, 12:31 pm
If you're one of the proud and the brave who have sampled the latest wares of the crew behind JailbreakMe on your iPad, you'd be well advised to not update your TWCable TV app. We received the above screenshot from the latest version of said software, an update that apparently serves no purpose other than to prevents it running on jailbroken tablets. What do to? Well, you could restore your device to "factory defaults" -- or you could watch a little Netflix or Hulu instead and use this as yet another reason to "cut the cable."
Update: Time Warner has posted a full rundown of what's new in Version 2.0 of TWCable TV. This is the version we'd heard about a few weeks ago, which does indeed add quite a bit of functionality. Channel listings have been expanded to 100, users can now tune their cable boxes from within the app, and Remove DVR Manager has been added to let you schedule things whilst away. All useful additions if you're still rocking stock iOS. If not, you can see what it really looks like in the image below.
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| TechCrunch: Do You Subscribe To NYT On Your Kindle? You Can Now Access NYTimes.com For Free Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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Do You Subscribe To NYT On Your Kindle? You Can Now Access NYTimes.com For Free
7 Jul 2011, 2:39 pm
There are so many ways to get around the New York Times paywall (or, as someone called it when it debuted, its pay fence) but if you subscribe to the NYT on your Amazon Kindle, you are now “entitled to complete online coverage of breaking news, articles, videos, audio clips, multimedia and blogs on NYTimes.com” free of charge. Amazon had promised this would be coming, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Customers can link their Kindle NYT subscription to their NYTimes.com account by visiting this site. According to Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content, the New York Times remains the best-selling newspaper in the Kindle Store. The Kindle subscription for the NYT costs $19.99 per month. I’m actually a subscriber, though only because I forgot to cancel my subscription in time after the free trial period. And since my Kindle was stolen last week, I was going to cancel the subscription anyway, but now I may just leave things the way they are. Just so you know.
        
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| TechCrunch: eBay Acquires Mobile Payments Company Zong For $240 Million In Cash Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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eBay Acquires Mobile Payments Company Zong For $240 Million In Cash
7 Jul 2011, 2:33 pm
eBay has acquired mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payments space, adding a compelling new way for consumers to pay for items online. Simply put, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual goods online, via direct billing to your mobile phone. Consumers simply enter their mobile phone numbers in the payments process. When a user wants to purchase an item, he can enters his cell phone number on a site, the site sends a text message to the phone, the user confirms the transaction with a short reply, and all the charges show up on his phone bill. Zong powers this entire transaction. eBay says that Zong will add ‘complementary technology and talent’ to its PayPal division, giving consumers more ways to pay for virtual goods and products online. Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, said this in a release: "Commerce is changing. With mobile phones, we walk around with a mall in our pockets. PayPal helps to make money work better for customers in this new commerce reality – no matter how they want to pay or what device they're using…We believe that Zong will strengthen this value by helping us reach the more than 4 billion people who have mobile phones, giving them more choice and security when they pay." Zong, which was founded in 2008 by entrepreneur David Marcus, has raised a total of $27.5 million in funding. Matrix Partners’ Dana Stadler, who was the former CTO of PayPal, is on Zong's board of directors. Last year, the company was spun off from its European parent, Echovox, and Marcus moved to the U.S. to run the fast growing company, which landed a pretty big deal last year with Facebook to become a an early mobile payment provider for Facebook Credits. The company also launched Zong+, an extension of the mobile payment startup which lets users bill microtransactions to credit, debit and prepaid cards (instead of their phones). Zong faces competition from Boku, which was also rumored to be the target of an acquisition as well. eBay and PayPal have been on a bit of an acquisition spree, so it’s not surprising that the e-commerce giant made another big buy. PayPal is facing competition from fast growing startups like Square and even Google, and the payments company needs to add compelling technologies to help draw merchants and local business. Zong provides a seamless payments product that could help improve conversions for online merchants, and in the end, online payments is PayPal’s bread and butter.
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| TechCrunch: Google Invests In Stealth Startup That Aims To ‘Accelerate Science’ Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT | TechCrunch
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Google Invests In Stealth Startup That Aims To 'Accelerate Science'
7 Jul 2011, 1:51 pm
Google Ventures has quietly invested in a stealth startup called Wingu, reports StrategyFacts (subscription required). Indeed, while the Google Ventures website lists four career opportunities for one of its portfolio companies located in Cambridge, Massachusetts without naming Wingu, the stealth startup published the exact same job openings on its job board, leaving nothing to the imagination. Wingu is building a enterprise-grade cloud platform dubbed Elements that will enable research teams to collaborate more effectively and use data in ‘new ways’. Here are the four main selling points of Wingu’s platform, according to its website: MANAGE: Unify your cross-discipline teams on a common platform to share data and ideas. ANALYZE: Drive decision-making with our analytical workflows and discovery tools. SHARE: Connect your researchers across silos and geographical divides for better collaboration, coordination and communication. PROTECT: Breathe easy knowing that your data is backed and protected by leading systems and security experts.
Wingu intends to distribute its research integration software on a subscription basis. The startup’s proposition sounds similar to that of Mendeley, a research network. Other similar services include Academia.edu (which we likened to a “Geni for researchers”) and Questia. If you know of any others, feel free to share them in comments.
        
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