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Verizon and Redbox team up to launch streaming and physical media service later this year

Tim Stevens — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:10:00 EDT

It once was a rumor but now it's real: Verizon and Redbox are joining forces on what is said to be the "best of both worlds" -- a service that will offer both physical media and streaming content for subscribers. Details are slim at this point but the supposed "Project Zoetrope" will offer DVD and Blu-ray media in addition to on-demand streaming plus downloadable content. The Netflix-like service will be launching in the second half of this year and, while "multi-platform" support for "devices" is mentioned, it's not stated whether any of those will be non-Verizon. Though, Big Reds' claims that it will "erase all technological boundaries" does make us slightly optimistic. Still, we'll have to wait a few more months to know for sure.

[Thanks, Kevin]

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Nokia confirms white Lumia 800, shipping without pigment this month

Tim Stevens — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:11:00 EDT

Nokia does love teasing us with its albino-hued special editions, and so it did with the white Lumia 800 back in December. Now that phone is following the color-free road to retail later this month. Other than the eye-pleasing lack of color the phone looks to be identical to its rather more chromatic predecessors, with a 3.7-inch AMOLED display up front and a 1.4GHz processor inside. It looks good, but it just leaves us with one question: how long will we have to wait for a white Lumia 900?

Update: According to Nokia's Conversations blog, the phone will launch first in these countries: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Finland, Poland and Switzerland.

Gallery: Nokia Lumia 800 in white

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Apple releases updated Final Cut Pro X, brings multicam support, broadcast monitoring love

Tim Stevens — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:59:00 EDT

The X version of Final Cut Pro was supposed to be all things to all people -- easier and more power for the serious amateurs and yet refreshing and comprehensive for the pros. In reality it seemed that neither camp quite saw it that way, but Apple has at least been listening. Today the company has announced version 10.0.3, which finally adds the one feature everyone's been clamoring for: multicam support. But that's not all. Join us after the break for a deeper look.

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Samsung's earnings call liveblog

Tim Stevens — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:25:00 EDT

Do you like numbers? What if we said those numbers were amounts of money -- very large sums of money? If we've caught your attention, then perhaps you'd like to join us as we bring you Samsung's earnings call live, straight into your eye holes courtesy of our fancy new liveblog viewer. Click on through and join on. We promise your net fun ratio will be in the positive.

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Google updates ToS, shares your data across its services (video)

Tim Stevens — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:27:00 EDT

You're you, right? Of course you are. If you have an Account, Google knows that too and now, with an updated and streamlined Google Terms of Service, you're even more you than ever before. The company is consolidating most of its more than 70 separate privacy documents into a single Privacy Policy that is so important it gets capitalized. The biggest change? If you have a Google Account, your information will now be shared across the company's many services. Scary? Don't fear -- the company is taking this time to re-iterate its pledge to never sell your personal information, never share it externally and to continue to support the Data Liberation Front. Viva transparency.

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iCloud climbs to 85 million users

Tim Stevens — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:58:00 EDT

It seems like only yesterday Apple unveiled iCloud to the world at WWDC, just a puff of vapor. Now look at it. The company has just confirmed the service has swelled to 85 million users as part of its Q1 2012 earnings call. That's more than twice as many iPhones as it sold in the same period, but of course it's worth noting that iCloud is, of course, free, so there's no penalty in people sticking their head in and seeing how things feel.

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Introducing our new liveblog viewer!

Tim Stevens — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:32:00 EDT

Have you gotten tired of full-page refreshes? We have. They're so... Web 1.0. We're finally getting down with AJAX over here and delivering some real-time updates straight to your browser -- but there's a lot more to it than that! Today we've introduced our new liveblog viewer. Most notably it will push text and picture updates straight from our laptops and cameras to your browser. Within seconds you'll see what we've added, meaning you'll always be the first to know. But that's just the beginning. Read on for the details, and join us later tonight for an interactive demo.

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Apple iTunes U hands-on (video)

Tim Stevens — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:06:00 EDT

Would you like to make more money? Sure, we all would, and a great way to do that is to get a better education. There was a time when you had to go to schools or rely on shady mail-order diplomas. Now you can use your iPad and get the same thing with the new iTunes U app. It's an extension of the existing iTunes U service, which has been around for about four years despite few people knowing anything about it. This new apps should change that. Join us for a full exploration of why.

Gallery: Apple iTunes U hands-on in New York City

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Apple iBooks 2 textbook hands-on (video)

Tim Stevens — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:51:00 EDT

We just got our first opportunity to get our hands on one of Apple's new interactive textbooks and we have to say, they're as good as they looked during the live event. We tried a few titles, ranging from steady textbooks to more exotic stuffs, but by far the best is the selection from E.O. Wilson called Life on Earth. Join us for full details and video demonstration of the future of learning after the break.

Gallery: Apple iBooks 2 demo in NYC - 01.19.2012

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Live from Apple's education event!

Tim Stevens — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:50:00 EDT

Ready to get smart in the Big Apple? We are, and so is Apple. Since announcing today's event we've heard talk of a focus on digital books and personal publishing tools. Basically, Apple's looking to do to the textbook publishing market what it did to the music industry with iTunes. Is today a day that will change history for trees worldwide? Join us as we find out. We'll be starting at the time below.

January 19, 2012 10:00 AM EST

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US Wi-Fi Xooms now getting Ice Cream Sandwich OTA

Tim Stevens — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:34:00 EDT

You might have thought being the first Honeycomb tablet, and offering a completely stock Android experience, would give the Motorola Xoom some sort of priority when it comes to updates to Android 4.0. Sadly and surprisingly for tablet early-adopters that was not the case, with the Transformer Prime first to hop the update train to Ice Cream Sandwich Town. A week later the Xoom is now catching up, with an OTA update percolating down from the cloud to users, but for the moment it appears only American Wi-Fi versions of the slate are receiving. International and LTE-equipped ones are going to have to wait at least a little longer.

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Some Transformer Prime users unable to upgrade to ICS, serial number 'Unknown'

Tim Stevens — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:59:00 EDT

Ice Cream Sandwich for the Transformer Prime was one of the most anticipated updates for one of the most anticipated tablets of recent memory. It was pushed out last week and so everyone's happy -- right? Sadly, some folks are missing out. We've received a number of reports from users who haven't been as successful as we were in updating to Android 4.0, their slates showing an "Unknown" serial number preventing the application of the update. ASUS is looking into the issue and affected users were told to perform a factory reset and, if that doesn't work, try it again and let the slate sit at the desktop for about 15 minutes. Let us know how you're faring in comments, and hit up the xda developers links for more support should you need it.

[Thanks, Ben]

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Intel-powered Windows 8 tablets to struggle for sub-$600 pricing?

Tim Stevens — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:18:00 EDT

Microsoft has a big battle ahead to overcome the overwhelming popularity of the iPad on the tablet computing front, and its Intel-powered slates might be starting at a distinct disadvantage if a DigiTimes report is to be believed. The site indicates that neither Intel nor Microsoft are willing to cut their prices to help manufacturers, the former providing the Clover Trail hardware and the latter the Windows 8 software, which could see these machines starting at $599 and going way up from there. This could send manufacturers looking for lesser-expensive ARM-powered hardware, creating tablets incapable of executing the current gamut of x86 Windows software. Will users pay a premium for app compatibility as tablet prices on other platforms plummet? Just how attached are you to that copy of Wing Commander you've been hanging on to for decades?

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Nokia Lumia 900 coming to retail on March 18?

Tim Stevens — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:22:00 EDT

Did the "next few months" announcement from the unveiling of the Nokia Lumia 900 leave you wanting? Perhaps a March 18th pronouncement will sate your own personal gadget knowledgebase. That's the date being tossed around by Windows gurus Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley, who joined forces on TWiT to discuss the presence of a March date in the latest Nokia developer newsletter. But that wasn't good enough for Paul, who said the specific date is March 18. Go ahead and mark your calendars, but we'd recommend you use pencil -- just to be safe.

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