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The Shocking Inside Story That Killed Millions of Xbox 360s
Dean Takahashi, one of the most respected tech journos around, spent years putting together this mind-blowing expose that reveals the truly epic scale of the problems that lead to millions of dead Xbox 360s. It really is one of the most stunning flustercucks in gaming history. According to his account, Microsoft willfully ignored deep, systemic problems
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Do AndroidGuys Dream of Google Phones?
There are many well-known blogs that track developments in the mobile phone industry, from the Boy Genius Report to mocoNews.net. But sometimes it’s the little guys that are more interesting. One such blog that caught my attention in recent weeks is AndroidGuys, which has chronicled Google’s year-long
iPod nano 4G leaked in actual, factual, really-real spy photo
Look, you know the drill here. This may be the painstaking result of some CAD-school-dropout’s nights home alone, or the latest in cheapo knock-offs from the Far East. You may be looking at a Photoshop spackled together from newspaper clippings, puppy dog tears, and Steve Jobs’ fever-dreams.
New Seinfeld Microsoft ad draws negative reviews online
No soup for Microsoft? The software giant’s new ad starring Jerry Seinfeld has drawn largely negative reviews online after premiering Thursday night during NBC’s broadcast of the National Football League’s season kickoff game. The ad was the start of a highly anticipated $300 million
Michael Moore to offer Free Downloads of “Slacker Uprising” ahead of Elections
Film director Michael Moore will make his movie “Slacker Uprising” free for download on September 23 to residents of the United States and Canada. “Slacker Uprising,” a 97 minute long documentary will be available for download to people who sign up on the website slackeruprising.com.
With Engadget nemesis gone, Gizmodo editor Brian Lam soft-retires
After two years at the helm of the gadget blog, Gizmodo editor Brian Lam has gotten himself kicked upstairs. The former Wired staffer will now focus on live event coverage as an assistant managing editor for our mutual parent company, Gawker Media. Lam will also retain an “editorial director”
Peter Rojas and Ryan Block introduce gdgt, gdgt weekly
If you’ve been wondering what former editor-in-chief (but current editor-at-large) Ryan Block has been up to since he left the site, wonder no more! He and Engadget founder Peter Rojas have just soft-launched their latest foray into the world of gadgets, fittingly (and simply) named… gdgt.
Google’s Photo Face Recognition is Wow Marketing
Every now and then a bit of technology wanders onto my computer screen that makes me want to pull someone over and say, “Isn’t it amazing that you can do this?” Flying around on Google Earth was like that. And so is the new face recognition system on Google’s photo sharing site, Picasa Web Albums.
Sony Unveils Blu-Ray Fall Lineup
Sony Corp. showed its fall lineup of Blu-ray disc players and recorders, as it prepares for its first holiday season after winning the next-generation format battle against HD DVD. The Japanese consumer electronics maker said it was making available two Blu-ray players world-wide and seven Blu-ray recorders
iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations?
With Apple’s announcement that the company will be holding a special media event on September 9th, we’re reminded that Kevin Rose was the first source of the September 9th date. Rose originally reported that we would see new iPod nanos and small cosmetic changes to the iPod Touch in September,
The Nikon D90 Reviewed
If you saw it just sitting there, you’d never guess that the new Nikon D90 is a mind-blowing, game-changing camera. It looks like any other big, black intermediate single-lens reflex camera: much more compact than a professional model, but much bigger and heavier than a pocket camera. An S.L.R. comes
Apple’s “Rock” event expected to unveil new iPods
Apple Inc is expected to unveil new iPod music players — and possibly price cuts — at a media event next Tuesday but may not launch a long-awaited update to its MacBook laptop computers until a later date. Apple, which also makes iPhone mobile devices, e-mailed reporters an invitation to
Google sees new browser displacing desktop software
Google Inc is challenging Microsoft Corp with its own Web browser that lets users run many applications that once worked only when installed on local PCs, executives said on Tuesday. Google introduced a public trial version of its new browser software, Chrome, which is designed to handle not just text
Walt Mossberg reviews Google’s New Browser
Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a whole new level. If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal, with major ramifications for the future of the Web. But
Download Google Browser Chrome
This time, Microsoft’s opponent is Google, a familiar foe. On Tuesday, Google will release a free Web browser called Chrome that the company said would challenge Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, as well as the Firefox browser. The browser is a universal doorway to the Internet, and the use of Internet
Could Google’s Chrome be death blow to Firefox?
No doubt, Google’s forthcoming open source browser — known as Chrome — is going to challenge other open source browsers, most notably Firefox. It could be a devastating blow to Firefox, which has amassed and taken roughly 18 percent of browser market share away from Internet Explorer in a short
Official News from Google on Browser Google Chrome
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new
Google Chrome, the Google Browser
“Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the
For Web TV, a Handful of Hits but No Formula for Success
When the Writers Guild of America strike stopped television production last fall and winter, Hollywood writers and producers rushed to create new scripted series for the Web, often called webisodes for lack of a more artful term. The strategy seemed simple: make money by going straight to the Internet. Months
Can Hulu Be A Bigger Business Than YouTube?
Hulu may not size up well against YouTube – in May 2008, Hulu served about 88 million videos compared to YouTube’s 4.2 billion videos – but it has the luxury of monetizing the vast majority of its videos instead of the three percent that YouTube can sell ads against. Three percent of 4.2 billion
Snow Patrol and Apple aim for the skies
Snow Patrol will become the first artists to deliver an interactive album application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, ahead of the release of their fifth studio album next month. The application, which will be downloadable online, will enable fans to access a raft of extra content including artwork,
How Steve Jobs’ obit got published
The first rule of publishing is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. (A corollary favored at Time Magazine, where I labored for nearly three decades, is that all copy is guilty until proved otherwise.) None of this excuses, but it does help explain, how Bloomberg News managed to publish an
Download Rain of Madness from iTunes free, the documentary featured within Tropic Thunder
Grab it while you can! Rain of Madness is available from iTunes free, a 30 minutes mockumentary, which was featured within Tropic Thunder. It’s like getting a DVD extra, but at a “nice price.” The documentary was filmed and narrated by filmmaker Jan Jürgen (see below). In real life,
CSI creator creates digital hybrid
“CSI” creator Anthony Zuiker has made a seven-figure deal with Dutton to create a series of three suspense-thriller “digital novels.” Project is a publishing hybrid that broadens traditional book reading into a multiplatform experience that includes filmed components and an interactive