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Google+ Resurrects Playback Feature From Wave, Renames It “Ripples”

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Last August, Google asked us all to say good-bye to Google Wave. Some said Wave was ahead of its time, some said that the platform had enough features to sink the Titanic. However, Google today announced some significant updates to its social network, Google+, among them that Google Apps users can now sign up for [...]

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HP Rescues PCs — But Without a Tablet, Can It Save Itself?

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Let’s hear it for Captain Obvious! HP and its new leader Meg Whitman finally figured out what we knew all along — that ripping the PC business out of HP is akin to ripping a beating heart out of a jogger while she’s running the Boston Marathon… Tweet This Post

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HP’s Whitman: We’re Going To Make Windows 8 Tablets

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

HP’s decision to keep its PC group after announcing plans a month ago to get a divorce has no impact on the fate of WebOS, but new CEO Meg Whitman left no doubt Thursday that HP (NYSE: HPQ) is going to give up on tablets entirely… Tweet This Post

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CHART OF THE DAY: Spotify Is Adding Users Fast – But It Has A Long Way To Go

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Spotify only launched in the US this summer. So far, it’s popularity is growing fast. But it still has a long way to go to catch Pandora and iTunes. Follow the Chart Of The Day on Twitter: @chartoftheday Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook… Tweet This Post

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The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Tim and Brian have escaped another Engadget Show mostly unscathed, and now it’s time to get back to the wild, unpredictable world of audio podcasting. This time out, they’ll be joined by Myriam, direct from Nokia World… Tweet This Post

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HP is not killing off its PC division

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

HP will be keeping its PC division according to a press released put out by the company today. “HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees,” said [...]

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Want OS Updates? Go iPhone, Android Leaves Users in the Lurch

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Companies and consumers trying to decide which mobile/smartphone OS to adopt might want to look over Michael DeGusta’s Android support history chart. DeGusta paints a sad story indeed, demonstrating that no Android phone has consistently received timely OS updates over its lifecycle… Tweet This Post

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Microsoft Patents Manipulation Of 3D Virtual Objects, Throwing Gestures

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Another batch of Microsoft patent applications have trickled into public view, and these ones may be even cooler than the last bunch. They describe “flinging gestures,” interaction with 3D virtual objects, and even throw it back a bit to describe a new email view format… Tweet This Post

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I Want My Siri TV: Is Apple Aiming to Make the Remote Obsolete?

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

Television is broken. I know it. You know it. Steve Jobs knew it. I have a pretty state-of-the-art 2011 Sony LED TV, complete with Hulu Plus, Netflix and YouTube apps. Yet it still usually takes me about a dozen clicks on a button-rich remote to get to what I want to watch… Tweet This Post

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Comcast Moves NBCU Local’s Shopping Guide To DailyCandy

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

A year after NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal’s local division launched shopping guide network The Feast, the property is being handed over to its Comcast sibling, lifestyle e-newsletter and deals network DailyCandy… Tweet This Post

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University of Minnesota researchers flex the mind’s muscle, steer CG choppers

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

You’ve undoubtedly been told countless times by cheerleading elders that anything’s possible if you put your mind to it. Turns out, those sagacious folks were spot on, although we’re pretty sure this pioneering research isn’t what they’d intended… Tweet This Post

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Apple will need more than Siri to make its TV plans succeed

Oct 27, 2011 No Comments

“Siri, record all new episodes of the Desperate Bridezillas of Jersey Shore.” That may be how we’ll talk to our Apple television sets in the next few years, the New York Time’s Nick Bilton postulates… Tweet This Post

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