Today in Engadget: January 31, 2006

We're a little embarrassed to admit this, but we were unabashed gossip nannies today, spreading rumors willy-nilly and posting updates seemingly nonstop. Perhaps the juiciest little tidbit we heard involves Apple's supposed MobileMe project, with pics of what appears to be an Apple-branded SIM card suggesting that an Apple MVNO may indeed be forthcoming. As if that weren't enough to get our pulses racing, we heard two Google rumors (involving a Napster buyout and branded Linux OS- both of which the company denies), saw a scanned copy of what is supposedly a story in March's PlayStation Magazine about Sony's work on a Live-like online service, and found out that the 700w may hit Sprint a lot sooner than we thought. Plus, Hack-A-Day's Eliot showed us how to run flash games on our 360, we brought you another definitive guide to Super Bowl tech, and dropped another soothing podcast for our insomniac readers.

Features

• How-To: Run Flash games on your Xbox 360
• Engadget Podcast 066 - 01.31.06
• Totally blow out the big game! Part II: Super Bowl XL
• Polls close on the Bloggies at 10:00PM EST tonight

News

• Philips' Streamium SL400i media extender reviewed
• Cash-in on your geocaching skillz
• Verizon rolls out VZ Navigator service (on one phone)
• New Apple mouse
• Elonex's Lumina 2 Media Center PC sports HD abilities
• Extend America prepping balloon-based cell service for North Dakota
• Motorola's SLVR L7 now available from Cingular
• EJK's no-contact thermometer
• Let Dr. Who read your text messages
• Sling gets 46m investment from Echostar, etc.
• Microsoft drops Program Guide fee, subscribers get bling back
• Unicon System's MBridge: probably not the "key to a computer free life"
• Xbox 360 Dashboard gets patched
• Turtle Beach Roadie adds surround sound to laptops
• Buy a Qosmio G30, get a World Cup ticket
• Flying windmills could provide limitless power
• LG F9200 lands at Cingular
• Hack-A-Day's guide for homebrew on your 2.00-2.60 PSP
• Keian PSd waterproof SD/USB card
• Artificial gills extract oxygen from water
• MegaChi pendant blocks EMF and negative thoughts
• The Optimus mini three sees release

Rumors

• Google to acquire Napster?
• Apple's Mobile Me to be an MVNO?
• Goobuntu: coming soon to a desktop near you?
• Sony to launch Xbox Live-killer?
• Sprint Treo 700w by end of February?

[Willis Wasabi @ Feb 1st 2006 12:38AM]

"...dropped another soothing podcast for our insomniac readers." Bastards, how do you know I listen late Tuesday nights instead of sleeping? Does this have something to do with W and NSA wiretaps? Inquiring minds want to know.

[IcE_Cold @ Feb 1st 2006 1:28AM]

I dont like the "Today in Endgadget"

Its annoying.. Can you just scroll down the page..

Get rid of it