The first thing that comes to mind when you saw Microsoft’s new Arc mouse may very well be that it is some sort of multi-touch enabled device. You might imagine that it is designed to emulate a Laptop Trackpad. However, Microsoft states that that isn’t the case at all. This…
HP confirms webOS tablet for ‘early 2011’
We’d heard HP’s Todd Bradley had confidentially told employees that a webOS tablet would arrive in Q1 2011, but now the man’s gone on the record in the company’s Q3 2010 earnings call. “You’ll see us with a Microsoft product out in the near future and a webOS-based product in early 2011,” he told investors and analysts in response to a direct question about tablets this afternoon, adding that potential slates were part of the reason HP bought Palm in the first place. Now, we’re not financial experts, but we’ve heard it’s typically a good idea not to promise things to your shareholders if you don’t intend to deliver. In other words, there’s a good bet the PalmPad is actually not an imaginary friend our subconscious created after Mark Hurd’s hateful words in June.
[Thanks, Robert]
HP confirms webOS tablet for ‘early 2011’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Ex-pitcher Clemens charged with perjury
A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.
Stripping ChatRoulette Girl Turns Into She-Demon [Chatroulette]
Watch all these guys, looking idiotic at the sight of this pretty girl stripping for them, until she turns into she-devil. I haven’t enjoyed a ChatRoulette trick this much since the snake vs baby chicken flashing boob ruse. More »
I Want To Teach in a School of the Future With Sharp’s 60-inch LCD Blackboard [Blackboards]
Sharp’s 60″ PN-L601B Blackboard, announced today in Japan, ditches the SMART Board’s projector in lieu of a 1,920×1,080, LED-backlit LCD display. It’s almost awesome enough to make me want to draw sentence diagrams for Catcher In the Rye. More »
Mozilla to release Firefox beta 4 on Monday
Mozilla is planning on releasing Firefox beta 4 on Monday with two major new features: hardware-accelerated graphics for Windows users and tab sets, or better known as tab candy. Hardware-accelerated graphics done with Direct2D will not be turned on by default, as Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, sent…
Intel acquires McAfee for $7.68 billion
Well, we got our copy of McAfee Antivirus for $29, but it looks like Intel had something a little more substantial in mind. The latter has picked up the Santa Clara-based security / antivirus company for a cool $7.68 billion, which works out to $48 per share in cash. Intel informs us that it will function as a wholly owned subsidiary (under the control of its Software and Services group). This comes hot on the heels of the company’s acquisition of TI’s cable modem unit, and possibly signals a new focus on security for connected devices. “The cyber threat landscape has changed dramatically over the past few years, with millions of new threats appearing every month,” said McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.”We believe this acquisition will result in our ability to deliver a safer, more secure and trusted Internet-enabled device experience.” This has added a wonderful new phrase to the Engadget lexicon (and possibly even a name for our new garage band): Cyber Threat Landscape. PR after the break.
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Sask. licence plates to be made in N.S.
A Nova Scotia company has won the latest contract to produce vehicle license plates for Saskatchewan, a move that is attracting criticism from some politicians.
Facebook enables location services called “Places” [Update]
Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has annouced that it’s brand new location service goes live tonight, dubbed “Facebook Places.” The new service is similar to that of Foursquare, and allows users to check in, as well as geotag photos to a location.
The integration was actually leaked slightly early today, as…
Gmail Apps Search Scours Your Email and Google Docs with One Query [Google Docs]
Google today launched a new Gmail Labs feature called Apps Search that, when enabled, lets you search both your inbox and Google Docs straight from Gmail. More »
Toshiba’s Android tablet said to be coming in September or October
We can’t say Digitimes is overflowing with details on Toshiba’s long rumored Android tablet, but it looks like we should be marking our planners for a September or October release. As we’ve heard before the 10-inch tablet will run some version of Android and will be powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The early fall timing surely does make sense to us considering we just heard from NVIDIA this week that many of its partners are planning to release Tegra 2 devices in that time frame. Again, no real details on what Toshiba’s planning here in terms of pricing and specs, but here’s hoping it’s significantly less expensive than that new, fancy dualscreen Libretto W100.
Note: That’s not the actual Toshiba Android tablet up there — it’s just a poor Photoshop of the Toshiba JournE with a Android screen.
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Girls Like Giving (and Getting) Oral Sex
High school boys, rejoice! Perhaps it was Clinton’s infamous sex-ed lesson that oral sex isn’t technically sex, but whatever the reason, a new study says oral sex is occurring a lot more often.
Soon you’ll be able to play games in your Chrome browser
After months of preparation in buying and investing in online video game companies, Google will be launching its very own games platform for its Chrome Internet browser.
Break Free from Your School’s Crappy Email Client [Back To School]
It’s shocking how many students put up with crappy, school-provided email and webmail clients. Break free of whichever software had the lowest campus-wide price and use whatever desktop or web-based client you’d like to check your .edu mail. More »
Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse revealed?
It’s not official until Microsoft says it is, but the image above of the rumored Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse was just snagged off a German online store. Amazingly, the mouse arches its back for comfortable mousing before packing flat for easy transport. The mouse features touch-scrolling, a battery indicator, the ability to track on most any surface, and a 2.4GHz nano transceiver that no doubt plugs into your laptop's USB port. Yours soon for €69.99 ($69.95 rumored)… right, €0.99 more than Apple's Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad sells for in Germany. Ships in 5 to 10 business days according to notebooksbilliger so expect this to get official real quick.
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Toshiba demonstrates successful BPR HDD, is 2.5Tb per inch a platter’s last stand?
We’ll be honest: we thought SSDs would suck down most of platter-based storage’s milkshake by now — that magnetic disks would follow tapes into obscurity. Alas, SSDs are still niche items, and Toshiba is doing all it can to keep them that way, demonstrating a successful prototype of a new storage technique called bit-pattern recording that currently generates a storage density of 2.5Tb per square inch. That’s about five times more dense than the company’s current offerings, achieved by placing individual bits onto lithographed “islands” of magnetic material. This protects the charge of the individual bits and allows those sectors to be much smaller. Toshiba suggests we won’t see these until 2013, but now we’re left wondering what’s next… can engineers stuff even more bits onto these things?
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Picasa 3.8: Face movies, Picnik integration, batch upload, and more
Posted by Jonathan Sposato, Product Management
Today, we released the latest version of Picasa with lots of cool new features but there’s one item that we’re particularly excited about.
Face movies create a movie based around one person both figuratively and literally. Instead of the usual transition from one photo to the next, the images align themselves to the face in the photo. This creates an extremely smooth viewing experience which allows the person in the photos to remain the focus rather than the transition effects themselves.
Words cannot adequately describe this feature, it’s better to see it for yourself:
Some more items in this release:
Picnik integration
A few weeks ago we announced the integration of Picnik, the powerful online photo editor, into Picasa Web Albums. We’re now excited to bring this same functionality to Picasa. You can now use Picnik’s rich editing tools and effects from right inside of Picasa and see where your creativity takes you.
Batch upload from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums
With this new version of Picasa we’re also fulfilling a popular request: batch upload from Picasa right to your Picasa Web Albums account. In addition to uploading multiple photos, you can now upload entire albums, all at the same time, plus remove albums from your Picasa Web account, change the upload size, visibility and sync state of photos that are already online.
Metadata updates
For those of us who enjoy the technical side of photography, we have some nice metadata (information stored inside of your image file) updates too, including support of Color Management. Picasa will now read the metadata from your photo and present the photo in the correct color space, thus improving the way your photo displays on your monitor or TV screen.
Picasa also has expanded support of XMP, which will be presented in an easy and accessible way alongside your image in the Properties panel. You can find people, places and tags in this space as well.
We’re also adding a few other under-the-hood updates such as improved support of external drives, increased efficiency of CPU usage, and improved settings when sharing with your Gmail contact groups.
This latest release is in English only for now, but we plan to roll out additional languages soon. Download Picasa today and, as always, feedback and questions are welcome in our forums.
Talk to your friends on Facebook from Windows Live Messenger
Earlier today you may have heard about Windows Live Essentials beta 2 being released. With this update, Windows Live Messenger received a new feature which people have been craving for a while: the ability to chat with Facebook friends. This has been expected as in the previous beta there was…
Guy Lafleur acquitted
Quebec’s highest court has acquitted former NHL hockey star Guy Lafleur, earlier convicted of giving contradictory testimony at his son’s sexual assault and forcible confinement trial.
Potash Corp. rejects BHP’s takeover bid
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Tuesday rejected a hostile takeover bid from the world’s largest mining company as “grossly inadequate.”