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Steve Jobs Wanted iPhone on Its Own Network, Carrier-Free

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:11:21 +0000

When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn’t want it to run on AT&T’s network. He wanted to create his own network.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/steve-jobs-iphone-no-carrier/

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Shoebox For iPhone: Scan, Organize and Share Old Paper Photos

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:13:16 +0000

Despite its truly awful camera, the iPad 2 is what I take most of my photos with these days. Why? Because the photos are easy to share, and easy for me to browse and play around with. And Shoebox is an app that will help you to do that with all your old paper photos.
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Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/shoebox-for-iphone-scan-organize-and-share-old-paper-photos/

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus nabs FCC approval complete with Verizon LTE

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:11:12 +0000

We’ve been waiting with bated breath for Verizon to make an announcement concerning its planned launch of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The wait continues, but one more step in the regulatory process leading up to said launch is now complete — the Samsung I515 just popped up in the hallowed pages of the FCC website. It offers the usual suspects of LTE band 13 (Verizon’s particular flavor of 700MHz spectrum) and EVDO / CDMA, as well as the expected inclusion of NFC. Not included? US GSM frequencies, as far as we can tell. We’ll continue to dig for more clues here, but at least we know it’s one step closer to finally making it to your local store.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus nabs FCC approval complete with Verizon LTE originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Arthur Levinson Now Chairman Of Apple?s Board, Disney?s Bob Iger Is Also Joining

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:11:22 +0000

Current Apple board member and Genentech CEO Arthur D. Levinson has been named non-executive Chairman of Apple’s board. Levinson, a PhD, has served on Apple’s board since 2005. Disney CEO Bob Iger will also be joining and serving on the board’s audit committee. These are the first board changes since the death of Apple Co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs.

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Google’s Blogger platform adds five new HTML5 Dynamic Views

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:11:14 +0000

Google, as part of its ongoing and much-needed overhaul of its popular Blogger platform, has just enabled five dynamic, HTML5ish, AJAXy ‘Dynamic Views’. There’s a video introducing the new layouts after the break.

The five new views provide fresh and interesting ways to explore your favorite Blogger blogs. The Mosaic view, for example, creates a wall of thumbnails — click one, and it zooms to fill the screen; click it again and it minimizes. Flipcard is similar to Mosaic, but not quite as eclectic. Sidebar, Timeslide and Snapshot round off the new views, with each one obviously targeted at different types of content, from photo blogs, to text-only philosophy blogs, and everything in between.

For now, you have to visit a Blogger blog and add /view to the URL to enable the new Dynamic Views. If you own a Blogger blog, you can disable the new views — and really, why weren’t they disabled by default?

If feedback is positive — which we’re sure it will be — these Dynamic Views will soon be enabled by default. You’ll also be able to edit the views in much the same way as current Blogger templates.

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Google’s Blogger platform adds five new HTML5 Dynamic Views originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Siri security protocol cracked, now possible to run on any device

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:11:13 +0000

The guys from Applidium claim to have cracked Siri?s security protocol and it could open the floodgates to third party developers and of course other hardware too. There is a downside, in order to use Siri on one of these other devices; you still need to have…

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HTC Zeta rendered, rumored to pack 2.5GHz quad-core CPU and Ice Cream Sandwich

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:11:19 +0000

Ready for today’s grain of salt? We just got handed imagery and specs of a possible HTC device in the works codenamed the Zeta. It’s a quad-core handset, much like the Edge that was leaked last week, but it has a much faster 2.5GHz APQ8064 CPU along with 1GB of RAM running the show, on a 4.5-inch 720p HD display. According to our source, the uniquely shaped smartphone will come with Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed with Sense UI (version 4.0 wasn’t specified, but we’d be surprised to see it any lower on an ICS device) and have 32GB of internal storage space, an 1,830mAh battery, Beats Audio, Bluetooth 4.0, an 8MP rear camera with dual LED flash, 1080p video capture and a 1.3MP front-facing cam. Dimensions? We have those, too: the Zeta is said to measure at 109.8 x 60.9 x 9.8mm (4.32 x 2.4 x 0.39 inches) and weigh 5.15 ounces (146g). Pricing and availability aren’t known, and we’re still digging for more info. It certainly has an intriguing look; the sharp corners would be a huge departure from HTC’s recent design choices, though it appears to have HTC’s signature unibody build in the back. So are we just looking at a cool concept or is this the next flagship phone? We’re hoping it’s the latter.

[Thanks, Wysiest]

HTC Zeta rendered, rumored to pack 2.5GHz quad-core CPU and Ice Cream Sandwich originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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7 Tools That’ll Help You Master Your Movember Mustache [Toolkit]

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:11:17 +0000

We’ve officially reached the halfway mark, and whether you’ve embraced Movember for charitable, novelty, or stylish reasons, you’ve probably got yourself a respectable soup strainer by now. But there’s still half a month to go, so here are seven tools that will help you put as much mustache into Movember as is possible. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zm8o0m1zDGQ/

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Researchers give a robot the ability to control a person’s arm (video)

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:11:14 +0000

Human-machine interaction just got a bit more… interesting. Researchers from France’s Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics have demonstrated a new technique that allows a robot to control a person’s arm in order to accomplish a task together — yes, you read that right. As you might expect, that’s still being described as a proof of concept, and the current setup simply consists of a set of electrodes that are attached to the arm and used to direct the person to drop a ball into a hoop the robot is holding — to keep things on the up and up, the human participants were blindfolded during the tests, which were successful. According to the researchers, however, that is just the beginning. They eventually see similar techniques being used in rehabilitation, and in other robot assistants that could help people with disabilities accomplish basic tasks — they further note that this technique has the added benefit of being simpler and less expensive than standalone robotic systems. Video is after the break.

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ZAGG Introduces ZAGGkeys FLEX Universal Keyboard Accessory for Smartphones and Tablets

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:11:20 +0000

There seems to be a gazillion Bluetooth keyboards available for the iPad and other tablets, but most of them are designed specifically for one device and are often built into a case that can only accommodate that device. The ZAGGkeys FLEX keyboard from ZAGG looks like an interesting alternative because it’s device agnostic. It can be used with Apple [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/10/zagg-introduces-zaggkeys-flex-universal-keyboard-accessory-for-smartphones-and-tablets/

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