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China is strutting its stuff and showing off the latest addition to it military — an old Soviet-era aircraft carrier. The Admiral Kuznetsov-class Varyag is one of two ships that were built in the early 80s. More »
That’s the finding of a new study examining the link between cognitive ability and handedness. Lefties score consistently lower on aptitude tests than righties, and left-handedness is cognitively equivalent to being born prematurely. Yeah…this one’s going to be controversial. More »
The nearest form of extraterrestrial life in the solar system may be “only” a billion miles away.
There are a lot of great places to discover software these days, but if you’re looking for an app that does something specific, look no further than Quixey. Its surprisingly good search engine will dig out every app that could possibly fit your needs. More »
Continue reading HP TouchPad to be available June 22nd, starting at $500 for 16GB?
HP TouchPad to be available June 22nd, starting at $500 for 16GB? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Canadian singer Shania Twain is heading to Las Vegas for a two-year residency at Caesars Palace, starting in December 2012.
Even before WIND Mobile launched their wireless service other competing carriers had concerns about the amount of foreign ownership they have. Globalive, WIND’s parent company, is heavily backed by Egyptian-based Orascom and was given the green light in December 2009 to operate. They first launched in Toronto, but quickly expanded to Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Ottawa and now have a subscriber base of 300,000.
In February, Public Mobile and TELUS asked the Federal Court to look deeper into their structure, which once again questioned WIND’s future. WIND appealed the decision and good news has come today as the Federal Court of Appeal ruled in their favour and can stay in business for good.
I’m just reading over the court documents here’s the official wording:
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[59] The appeals will therefore be allowed, and the Order in Council will be restored. Globalive and the Attorney General are entitled to their costs throughout. No costs will be assessed for or against the interveners.
In addition, a press release just went out from WIND that states that “the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Government of Canada and Globalive by allowing their appeals and restoring the Order in Council that permitted Globalive to launch in December 2009. In overturning the decision, the Federal Court of Appeal recognized that Cabinet acted properly both in varying an earlier CRTC decision and in finding that Globalive meets the Canadian ownership and control test in the Telecommunications Act. The decision was unanimous.”
Anthony Lacavera, Chairman of Globalive said “We and our 300,000 customers are thrilled with this decision. Now we can continue delivering value and choice to Canadian consumers without the distraction and expense of challenges by our competitors to our right to operate. We have always maintained our compliance and with the restoration of this Order-in-Council we look forward to getting back to competition in the marketplace- where it belongs”.
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Calgary and Edmonton are the latest targets in the revolving postal strike as union representatives consider their next moves, including a full-blown national walkout.
SAHO has boosted its contract offer to the union representing 3,000 Saskatchewan health care workers.
Dutch tech site All About Phones claims that Google Maps Navigation will get a true offline mode later this summer. In December the Android app received an update that cached routes and the surrounding areas, but without a data connection you still couldn’t enter a new destination. A source inside the Dutch telco industry said that Goog would removing the requirement for coverage — an obvious next step for the nav tool, especially with Ovi Maps bringing its turn-by-turn prowess to WP7. The move is also bound to be another thorn in the side of standalone GPS makers like Garmin and TomTom. After all, it’s tough to compete with free.
Google Maps Navigation to get offline mode? Garmin and TomTom on notice originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The space shuttle Endeavour has taken its final bow, but its last mission also marks the first time a space shuttle has ever been photographed while docked to the International Space Station. More »
Curious how your hard drive actually works? Check out this teardown video by Engineer Guy, Bill Hammack.
In the above video Bill Hammack, the guy behind the Engineer Guy videos, tears down a hard drive. Not only do you get to see what’s going on inside the hard drive but the accompanying graphics and narration give a great introduction to the concept of magnetic hard drives.
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While our feelings were … oh, let’s be nice and say “mixed” on Nintendo’s just-announced Wii U traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange were pretty much clear about their distaste. Nintendo stock closed down five percent yesterday after the company’s E3 keynote, settling at 16,970 yen ($212.44) — a low the company hasn’t seen since before the launch of the original Wii.
It’s not good news for Big N, but we’re talking about a company that’s made its fortunes on seeing opportunities where others don’t. And hey, look at it this way, Nintendo: History has proven we’ll eventually drop our defenses, conquer our trepidation and buy one anyway. So you’ve got us.
Nintendo stock down 5 percent after Wii U reveal originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
A league source requesting anonymity said Tuesday the yet unnamed Winnipeg club has hired Kevin Cheveldayoff as its GM. Cheveldayoff will join the Winnipeg squad after serving as the assistant GM of the Chicago Blackhawks.
(Cross-posted to the Enterprise blog)
In March, we launched discussions in Google Docs, replacing comments with discussion threads, @mentions, email notifications, and much more. This week, we’re launching a handful of improvements based on your feedback.
Improvements to the discussion pane
Document statistics
Ever wonder if people are actually looking at the document you’ve shared? Wonder no longer. By clicking the Discussions button and then the Document stats link, you can now see the 7-day activity of your doc.
Sometimes, discussions can get a little long and start to clutter your workspace, particularly if guy-who-always-replies takes the discussion on a tangent. Now, long discussions are automatically collapsed and expanded on click.
Email notifications
Email notifications have also undergone a facelift. Instead of sending the entire discussion in reverse chronological order, we now show you the selected text and most recent comment, with the full thread in chronological order below.
We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback about these improvements. Let us know what else you’d like to see in discussions on our Product Ideas page.
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When we met with Samsung in late May, company representatives didn’t seem entirely sure that the company would meet the rumored June 8th ship date here in the US, but lo and behold, it’s done just that. The tablet’s launching at noon today at the Best Buy in New York City’s Union Square, and if you can’t make it up to the Big Apple, it’ll hit the rest of the nation on June 17th. But here’s the real question: is it worth making an effort to snag it on either date? The Galaxy Tab 10.1, much like its Limited Edition sibling that we reviewed last month, is ever-so-slightly thinner than the iPad 2, a slate that most sane individuals (and competitors, for that matter) would confess is the market leader today.
Naturally, everyone and their sister is gunning for Apple in this space, and Honeycomb’s the first mobile OS we’ve seen that has the potential to put any sort of damper on Cupertino’s ongoing rave. By and large, the consumer version of the Tab 10.1 is the same as the device launched at Google I/O, but there’s two key differences that we’ll focus on here: the tamed design, and the thoroughly different OS version (v3.1 here versus v3.0 before). Head on past the break for an in-depth look into both of those, but be sure to first take a gander at our Limited Edition review to wrap your noodle around the basics.
Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 review
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We already knew Windows Phone Mango would include SkyDrive functionality, but Microsoft has now released a few more details on some of the cloud storage features we can expect to see when the update rolls out, later this year. With the update, SkyDrive users will be able to share their stored photos via text message, e-mail or IM, and to upload their videos to the cloud with the touch of a button. They’ll also be able to browse, share and edit uploaded MS Office documents directly from their handhelds, while searching through their entire SkyDrive via the Office Hub. Storage limits remain capped at 25GB, though Microsoft says we should expect to see more cloud-based features roll out in the near future (including a revamped, HTML5-based SkyDrive web interface), so more changes may very well be on the horizon. Soar past the break for some demo videos from Redmond, along with a hands-on clip from WinRumors.
Continue reading Microsoft details SkyDrive integration with Windows Phone Mango (video)
Microsoft details SkyDrive integration with Windows Phone Mango (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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First baseman Trevor Gretzky, the son of hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky, was selected out of high school by the Chicago Cubs in the seventh round of the amateur draft on Tuesday.
There’s little doubt that the launch of Windows 8 will bring with it a wave of new tablet devices from all sorts of manufacturers and vendors. But did any of us expect to see one bearing Microsoft’s own logo? According to DigiTimes’ sometimes accurate, sometimes shaky upstream supplier sources, Steve Ballmer’s team is looking into putting together an own-brand Windows 8 slate, which will be powered by Texas Instruments silicon and put together by Taiwan-based ODMs. The deadline for this device is said to be by the end of 2012 and TI’s involvement suggests it’d be one of those newfangled ARM-based Windows machines, but beyond that, we’ve little more to go on. Whatever the outcome, don’t expect Microsoft to go overboard, DigiTimes says the company is “proceeding on a low profile.”
Microsoft eyeing own-brand Windows 8 tablet for end of 2012? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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