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Dress lit up with 24,000 LEDs, perfect for your next formal rave {Engadget}
Nov 13th 2009 3:13PM Hah! You think you get an opinion on what your bride wears at the wedding.
Good luck.
Windows Marketplace's newest anti-piracy measures already thwarted {Engadget}
Nov 12th 2009 9:04PM Read the article next time. Someone didn't hack the store and replace everything with a pirate flag, they found a way around the encryption on purchased apps, so that once purchased someone can extract the .CAB file and distribute it freely.
You. Fail.
Apple's patent application for pen-based computer remembers fingers can't write {Engadget}
Nov 12th 2009 2:41PM @Alan
Agreed. The whole thing just looks like how my old Windows Mobile 2003 device did handwriting recognition. You could set it to "auto recognize", and when you wrote for a bit then paused, it would process the "ink" (even called it that) and try to convert to words.
How or why this is patentable is beyond me. Then again, it's only an application, so who knows.
HTC 'carefully looking' into netbook category, wants to add 'unique value' {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 4:41PM HTC: Just give me USB Host functionality on any of the snapdragon platforms and we'll call it close enough.
Switched On: Developing a sense of rumor {Engadget}
Nov 7th 2009 1:49PM Proof not shared isn't proof. That's how proof works.
Poll: Will the DROID have you in its clutches? {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2009 2:13PM Yeah, I just don't want to go back to Verizon. Aside from personal reasons (I used to work for them, got charged an ETF on my employee plan when I quit), I just don't like their pricing model. $60 for data w/ tethering? $15 for Exchange support? I'm on Sprint now, and unlimited EVERYTHING is $100, and the data connection in California on Sprint is solid everywhere I go.
AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 3rd 2009 4:50PM I think the giant "3G Coverage Map" label at the bottom should suffice. If AT&T hasn't done enough to trump up the fact that they have broad coverage of a barely functional, low-speed network, that's their problem, not Verizon's.
The ads are factual. 'Nuff said.
Ask Engadget HD: Is it (still) a good time to buy a TiVo? {Engadget HD}
Oct 31st 2009 4:26PM If Windows7 Media Center existed three years ago, I'd have never bought a Tivo. The biggest feature I bought it for (multi-room viewing) is nearly non-existent thanks to broadcast flags, and the inability to play files I've downloaded / ripped has been a constant disappointment.
Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released, could decide your OS fate {Engadget}
Oct 29th 2009 12:28PM You're just lucky they didn't accept my patch which changed the default background (and all the OS naming) to Karmic Khameleon, and played a 30 second sample of that awesome song as your startup sound.
Beware of my next patch, for Lusty Luchador!
California Cool Cars regs put the kibosh on radio, cellphone, and GPS reception {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 14th 2009 1:34AM You know, a lot of that "liberal crap" I'm a fan of. The problem is California lets people with no concept of the wide-reaching repercussions of poorly written laws pass them by very small measures.
Requiring a specific technology - rather than, say, a STANDARD of efficiency is how we got into the problem we have with CCFL bulbs, passenger diesel, etc.
Making a law that says "You have to use solution X" takes away all the creativity and competition that makes real solutions viable. Instead it throws a bunch of misdirected money at a promising early solution, completely destroying any hope of competition.
