Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Verizon sets up teaser page for 4G service
How would you like a "full-tilt" wireless experience? Sound good? That's what Verizon's touting (among other things) at a teaser page it has launched for its upcoming LTE-based network... but in terms of cold, hard facts, you shouldn't expect much. Dates, launch markets, and hardware all remain a bit of a mystery, but they're happy to take down your email address in exchange for a promise that you'll get the news just as soon as they're ready to lay it out there. Of course, we like to think you're better off just reading Engadget for that sort of information -- but we can't blame 'em for trying.Verizon sets up teaser page for 4G service originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Verizon | Email this | Comments
TechCrunch Disrupt Next Week: Here?s The Agenda Of Awesome
TechCrunch Disrupt starts a week from today. In May nearly 2,000 people flocked to New York to see 25 companies launch and an amazing lineup of speakers. Next week the show comes to San Francisco for a nearly sold out three day disruptive technology extravaganza. We've just published the agenda for the event here.
Twenty five new startups will battle for a $50,000 cash prize and the (recently defiled) Disrupt Cup. And when those companies aren't fighting it over over several rounds of demos, we'll have world class speakers take the stage to talk about what's next in tech. Sequoia's Michael Moritz. Kleiner Perkin's John Doerr. IAC's Barry Diller. HP's Todd Bradley. Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg. Digg's Kevin Rose. Google's Marissa Mayer and Bradley Horowitz. Reid Hoffman, David Sze. Ron Conway. Peter Thiel. Dan Rosensweig. And more. The list goes on and on. The Agenda is here. The full lineup of speakers is here.
You're also going to see a number of special new product announcements from Google, Microsoft and others.
Twenty five new startups will battle for a $50,000 cash prize and the (recently defiled) Disrupt Cup. And when those companies aren't fighting it over over several rounds of demos, we'll have world class speakers take the stage to talk about what's next in tech. Sequoia's Michael Moritz. Kleiner Perkin's John Doerr. IAC's Barry Diller. HP's Todd Bradley. Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg. Digg's Kevin Rose. Google's Marissa Mayer and Bradley Horowitz. Reid Hoffman, David Sze. Ron Conway. Peter Thiel. Dan Rosensweig. And more. The list goes on and on. The Agenda is here. The full lineup of speakers is here.
You're also going to see a number of special new product announcements from Google, Microsoft and others.
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Mozilla fixes startup bug, Firefox auto-updates are go!
Filed under: Mozilla, BrowsersIt certainly didn't take long for Mozilla to jump to the pump and address a very-recently-announced bug affecting automatic updates to Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.11. A patch has been pushed, and users can now allow auto-update to do its thing without fear of winding up with a browser that won't start properly.
Mozilla's Christian Legnitto voiced his surprise about the bug in comments on Bugzilla, stating that it was "interesting that this doesn't show up in the top 300 crashes in 3.6.9pre or 3.5.12pre." He also notes that, even though the total number of FF crashes (around 1,000 per day in all) didn't seem to be affected much, this was still a bug which required immediate squashing. Legnitto posted that " ... because it is a crash on startup that could prevent people from using Firefox entirely, we feel it was best to get a fix out quickly."
[via CNet]Mozilla fixes startup bug, Firefox auto-updates are go! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Mozilla's Christian Legnitto voiced his surprise about the bug in comments on Bugzilla, stating that it was "interesting that this doesn't show up in the top 300 crashes in 3.6.9pre or 3.5.12pre." He also notes that, even though the total number of FF crashes (around 1,000 per day in all) didn't seem to be affected much, this was still a bug which required immediate squashing. Legnitto posted that " ... because it is a crash on startup that could prevent people from using Firefox entirely, we feel it was best to get a fix out quickly."
[via CNet]Mozilla fixes startup bug, Firefox auto-updates are go! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Distilled From Burbn, Instagram Makes Quick Beautiful Photos Social (Preview)
For about the past six months or so, I've been using an app called Burbn. Despite being in stealth mode, the app attracted quite a bit of buzz as it was in the location space and built entirely in HTML5. Oh, and the�$500,000 investment from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz helped gather interest as well. But it turns out Burbn was a red herring of sorts. Or perhaps more appropriately, it was a testing ground. The product that emerged is much better: Instagram.
Unlike Burbn, Instagram is neither a location-based app (though that is one component), nor is it HTML5-based. But it did spring out of the way co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger saw people using Burbn. That is: quick, social sharing -- and a desire to share photos from places. That's the foundation of Instagram.
Unlike Burbn, Instagram is neither a location-based app (though that is one component), nor is it HTML5-based. But it did spring out of the way co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger saw people using Burbn. That is: quick, social sharing -- and a desire to share photos from places. That's the foundation of Instagram.
BitTorrent Mainline 7.1 now has uTorrent's apps
Filed under: Internet, P2P
BitTorrent Inc's Mainline client (i.e. the one you can download from their homepage) now has the ability to use apps that, until now, were only usable with uTorrent. These apps allow you to augment your BitTorrent client much in the same way that Firefox add-ons or Chrome extensions alter your browser.
Built using JavaScript, HTML and CSS -- the same 'Open Web' technologies that Mozilla has been harping about -- these apps are free, and easily downloadable from within the new BitTorrent client. Having said that, only 11 apps are available at the moment (including the rather cute 'Torrent Tweet' and a BitDefender-powered virus scanner) -- and I'm not quite sure how developers go about having their apps indexed by the client's built-in search engine (which might be why there are only 11 apps...) Still, if you want to have a go at developing your own app, there's an official SDK and some tutorials to get you started.
I'm a little baffled by this feature coming to BitTorrent Mainline before uTorrent -- but perhaps BitTorrent Inc wants to try it out on Mainline's 'paltry' 14 million users before rolling it out to uTorrent's 60+ million users. Incidentally, if you're a uTorrent user, apps should find their way to a stable release before the end of the year.
[Direct BitTorrent 7.1 download link]BitTorrent Mainline 7.1 now has uTorrent's apps originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
BitTorrent Inc's Mainline client (i.e. the one you can download from their homepage) now has the ability to use apps that, until now, were only usable with uTorrent. These apps allow you to augment your BitTorrent client much in the same way that Firefox add-ons or Chrome extensions alter your browser.
Built using JavaScript, HTML and CSS -- the same 'Open Web' technologies that Mozilla has been harping about -- these apps are free, and easily downloadable from within the new BitTorrent client. Having said that, only 11 apps are available at the moment (including the rather cute 'Torrent Tweet' and a BitDefender-powered virus scanner) -- and I'm not quite sure how developers go about having their apps indexed by the client's built-in search engine (which might be why there are only 11 apps...) Still, if you want to have a go at developing your own app, there's an official SDK and some tutorials to get you started.
I'm a little baffled by this feature coming to BitTorrent Mainline before uTorrent -- but perhaps BitTorrent Inc wants to try it out on Mainline's 'paltry' 14 million users before rolling it out to uTorrent's 60+ million users. Incidentally, if you're a uTorrent user, apps should find their way to a stable release before the end of the year.
[Direct BitTorrent 7.1 download link]BitTorrent Mainline 7.1 now has uTorrent's apps originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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HP's Photosmart eStation Android tablet hands-on (update: video!)
So here it is, after months of details coming to light an inkdrop at a time, the HP eStation all-in-one printing solution. But we're not gonna dwell but on half of that: the 7-inch tablet skinned out by Yahoo and powered by Android 2.1. As we expected, though, the Google experience is decidedly less that you're accustomed to: search is Yahoo only, and our attempt to find an alternate method was met with a barebones settings menu. Additionally, there is no access to Android Market, relegating your customization instead to HP's print-heavy app store -- sorry, no games, as that's not what the company wants to focus on here, according to the rep. That also means no Gmail, much to our dismay. What Yahoo has provided is a suite of apps and widgets that actually work well in their simplicity, from weather to stocks and search.
We were reminded at numerous points that this is a prototype build, and for good reason -- the responsiveness was questionably slow, especially in the browser. That said, the Nook store and e-reading app was as fluid as you'd ever need. WiFi is equipped on both the tablet and the printer for cloud-based connectivity on the go. Battery life is measured at four to six hours, and Android 2.2 is expected by holiday still sans Market, but beyond Flash (and at this point we question its performance on this hardware), there's probably not a lot of value-add in the update. Expect this AIO to be shipping the in the next few weeks. Gallery: HP Photosmart eStation printer / tablet hands-onContinue reading HP's Photosmart eStation Android tablet hands-on (update: video!)Filed under: Tablet PCsHP's Photosmart eStation Android tablet hands-on (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
We were reminded at numerous points that this is a prototype build, and for good reason -- the responsiveness was questionably slow, especially in the browser. That said, the Nook store and e-reading app was as fluid as you'd ever need. WiFi is equipped on both the tablet and the printer for cloud-based connectivity on the go. Battery life is measured at four to six hours, and Android 2.2 is expected by holiday still sans Market, but beyond Flash (and at this point we question its performance on this hardware), there's probably not a lot of value-add in the update. Expect this AIO to be shipping the in the next few weeks. Gallery: HP Photosmart eStation printer / tablet hands-onContinue reading HP's Photosmart eStation Android tablet hands-on (update: video!)Filed under: Tablet PCsHP's Photosmart eStation Android tablet hands-on (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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