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Workers who have been fighting to bring the reactors under control at Japan’s
strick nuclear plant expect to die from radiation sickness, according to the
mother of one of the men.
SaskTel has been pumping out new devices at a good rate. Ever since they launched their 3G network “4G” network they’ve released the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant, Bold 9780, Torch 9800 and soon the HTC incredible S will making its way over to Saskatchewan. Today SaskTel has revealed their pricing for this Android: No-contract will […]
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A third woman has come forward in Yorkton in connection with an attempted abduction case from last month.
Cisco’s doing it in the boardroom, and soon, your children may be taking notes from kiddos situated in a different continent. Skype in the Classroom is a new online platform that aims to make it easier for teachers to find other teachers who are utilizing Skype within their classes, and already there are 3,900+ taking advantage. The goal here is to enable professors to easily reach out and find like-minded individuals who are covering complementary topics, and with a quick email, the two could be cooking up joint lesson plans a dozen time zones apart. As of now, 99 countries have teachers that are signed on, and we’re guessing it’s only a matter of time before a couple more join and push that into triple digits. Next step? Logging into first period from home. Or Fiji.
Continue reading Skype in the Classroom tears down geographic walls, connects pupils the world over
Skype in the Classroom tears down geographic walls, connects pupils the world over originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Science has confirmed that wasps are nature’s biggest trolls, adapting to deal with aggressive ants by taunting them. More »
The Motorola Xoom is currently the most viable alternative to the iPad, at a similar price point and form factor. But is it doomed to fail because of the lack of Honeycomb-specific apps in the Android market?
Scientists propose a ‘journey to the mantle of the Earth’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ah, April 1st. It’s that time of the year again when the internet is rife with odd news and pranks. As before, news sites like us end up with a healthy stream of tips throughout April Fools’ Day (thanks, by the way), so let us round up some of the best findings for your comedic appetite. Contenders include the usual suspects like Google and ThinkGeek, the former of which dominating the gigglesphere this year with some new “features.” We also have some interesting submissions from Hulu, a font company, and probably plenty more to come as the day progresses, so keep watching this space as we add new entries to this post. Right, let the fun commence after the break.
Continue reading April Fools’ Day roundup: Google overload edition (updated)
April Fools’ Day roundup: Google overload edition (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Saskatchewan is running out of unique telephone numbers and a second area code – which will be 474 – is required for the province, according to officials.
Our interest in the BlackBerry Touch (codename Monaco) was piqued when we first caught wind of the device, and we had a feeling it’d be making its way into the wild ever since one showed up in Verizon red around mid-Feburary. Now, BGR has managed to procure an unreleased prototype, and we’ve gotta say that we like what we’re seeing. According to the pub, it should get official at BlackBerry World in May, and it’ll run OS 6.1 underneath that 800 x 480-pixel screen. The new BB6 is said to use a BlackBerry ID in place of a PIN for certain key functions — a necessary move for non-BB platforms rumored to be getting BBM (a historically PIN-based service). BGR also claims it won’t be getting the Storm nomenclature, so we apologize in advance to the SurePress fanboys. Either way, we’ve got an inkling that we’ll be hearing more as we get closer to May, but unfortunately our dreams of a super AMOLED-equipped Torch running stock Android with a BBM app will just remain figments of our imagination.
BlackBerry Touch / Monaco gets manhandled, said to get official in May originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Police in Yorkton, Sask., are investigating after a man armed with a knife grabbed a woman on the street and forced her into his truck.
RIM’s upcoming 2011 device lineup was leaked a couple months ago and some of the devices have started to pop up online. Today thanks to BGR for showing the upcoming BlackBerry Touch (Monaco). This is the said to be the next evolution of the Storm series… it packs a 3.7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of […]
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Man, remember when transferring data to your printer required a big fat cable and physical proximity to your ink spitter? Thankfully, we live in more refined times now and HP and Google have hooked up to deliver the first printers with driverless Cloud Print support, making the whole thing that extra bit easier. HP ePrint printers were already sophisticated enough to receive instructions via email and now they’re casting aside the need for a connected PC to talk to Google’s Cloud Print service as well. All you need is your machine’s @hpeprint.com email address and then you’re away, zipping pictures and text from your smartphone, tablet or laptop to the HP paper decorator. It’s all seamless and wireless and probably feels like the future when you’re doing it. We’d tell you, but we stopped printing stuff in 2004.
Continue reading HP enables Google Cloud Print on ePrint printers right out of the box
HP enables Google Cloud Print on ePrint printers right out of the box originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhones! iPads! Android! And yes, Windows Phone 7! We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Be sure to check out the iPad and Windows Phone 7 lists! More »
Check out the stark difference between these two satellite images, taken on March 19, 2010 and March 19, 2011. The left image shows much more ozone (in red) over the Arctic than the right image. What’s happened? More »
A preview build of Windows 8 has gone out to select Microsoft partners, with bits of the “Twin UI” and other updates. Those builds are under seemingly heavy lock and key, but at least one thing has fallen onto the net: the default wallpaper. What should Microsoft try to accomplish in the (seemingly very 7-like) Windows 8? [ZDNet, Download Squad] More »
This gorgeous commercial — conceived by Morihiro Harano, the award-winning creative director of Drill, Inc. — features a sort of sloping marimba, down which a wooden ball rolls, producing an unadorned rendition of Bach’s Cantata 147. “We did not add any artificial music at all,” Harano tells the New York Times. The things people do to sell a wood-encased phone! Are we philistines for kinda digging Kristen Schaal’s Xperia PLAY spots more? (Answer: yes.)
Woodland Contraption Plays Bach, Peddles Phone originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Imagine printing an important email from your Chrome notebook on your train ride to work, then finding the completed printout in the printer tray when you reach the office. Or printing your airline boarding pass from your smartphone to your home printer, so you can grab the printout on your way out the door. Today, we are one big step closer to this vision.
Last year, we launched Google Cloud Print, a service that enables users to print from any device, operating system, or browser to any printer without the need for drivers or a PC connection. The service can be used with any printer, but the most seamless experience is offered by Google Cloud Print Ready devices, a new generation of web-connected printers that don’t need to be attached to a computer. Today, HP has announced that all of its ePrint-enabled printers are Google Cloud Print Ready, in most cases right out of the box. With a Google Cloud Print Ready printer, you can print emails, documents and web pages from supported apps without having to hunt for drivers or printer cables.
You can already use Google Cloud Print on Chrome notebooks and in the mobile versions of Gmail and Google Docs. Many more supported apps are on the way. There are also a third-party Android app, Chrome extension and Firefox add-on to help you use Google Cloud Print in more places.
We’re also continuing to release enhancements to the Google Cloud Print service. We’ve released a Mac version of the Google Cloud Print connector for non-cloud printers in the Chrome beta channel. And over the next few days we’ll be enabling printer sharing for current Google Cloud Print users, so your family, friends and colleagues can print their documents from anywhere to anywhere.
Happy printing!
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Android tablets, everyone‘s got one, but none are quite like HTC’s 7-inch Flyer. Built out of a single piece of aluminum and a great many chunks of silicon, it struts along at a 1.5GHz pace, carries a handy dandy capacitive stylus called Scribe, and offers up a tablet-ified version of HTC’s Sense skin on a 1024 x 600 display. It’s also the only portable of its kind (so far) to offer the OnLive cloud gaming service. So many features, you’d think someone would go to the effort of summarizing them, perhaps in the form of a stylish video, no? Well, HTC has done exactly that, and its latest product overview vid is embedded for you just after the break.
Continue reading HTC Flyer parades its many unique qualities in latest video from the company
HTC Flyer parades its many unique qualities in latest video from the company originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
World Backup Day isn't an official holiday, but it is a day of remembrance—as in, if you don't back up your important data, you will be remembering one day how stupid you were for not doing so. Here are the deals offered today, along with our recommendations on how and where to back up your important stuff. More »
