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Can't wait for another Engadget Show to roll around? Well you're in luck, friend. It's proceeding tomorrow at 5:00pm ET. We'll be doing giveaways at the show taping only, so brave the gorgeous sunshine and join us in person for a chance to win great prizes!



Josh will be sitting down with Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab and the OLPC project to discuss the upcoming XO PC and pontificate about the future of technology.



Sony will also be on hand to demo PlayStation Move motion controller and the company's senior clinician Dr. Richard Marks will be there to give us the behind-the-scenes story. We'll have live demos of stuff never-before-seen on Move, including some hands-on audition demos! Much to our excitement, the usual crew will be joined by Joystiq's very own Christ Grant for the roundtable. You'll also be meeting our new investigative epistolarian Rick Karr and we'll have plenty of amazing giveaways at the show. Also expect an immense attainment from minusbaby whole




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"http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"> We've definitely learned a ton about Windows Phone 7 Series here at MIX, but getting the full picture on multitasking has been difficult, since the OS isn't ready, no one has final hardware, and the emulator seems to behave differently than actual devices and Microsoft's descriptions. So let's set the record pure on multitasking: it's not going to happen, at least not in the fixed way. Not only have we straight




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turn away from them if you don't mean it. Now, that's not to say that the OS can't do multitasking: first-party apps like the Zune player and IE can run in the background, and third-party apps are genuinely left running in a suspended state (Microsoft calls it "dehydrated") as long as the system doesn't need any supervenient resources. If the user cycles back to an app, it's resumed ("rehydrated") and life continues merrily along, but if the user opens other apps and the system needs another resources, the app is killed without any explanation or remorse.



If that sounds familiar, it's because it's fundamentally a single-tasking riff on Android and Windows Mobile 6, both of which also purport to intelligently manage miscellaneous running applications like this, and both of which usually find themselves greatly improved with manual task managers. We'll have to see if Windows Phone 7 Series can do a better job once it ships -- we have a feeling it will -- and later down the line we'll see if Microsoft decides to extend multitasking to third-party apps. But for now, just know that you're not going to be running Pandora in the background while you do other tasks on a 7 Series device -- it is a question we have third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 asked, and the answer, unfortunately, is no.



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Very cagey way to play it Comcast. While DirecTV, ESPN and finding were first to say they would have 3DTV telegraph back at CES, the cable company will in reality be the first to deliver it, open gate with the Masters Tournament (but why not the 3D performance of the Final Four?) April 7-11. That's right, the first "live next-generation 3D radiocast of a major fair event on TV, the first live simulcast of a next-gen 3D event online, and the industry's first live multi-camera next-gen 3D production" will be on cable (& internet), not henchman or telco. Again, that's right, if you don't have a 3D receiver set up yet, it will also be streamed at Masters.com (no word whether this is a Comcast only or if it will be open to all) for those with a 3D setup on their PC. We'll temper our enthusiasm until we see what kind of quality is able to squeeze through Comcast's fiber backbone and down our stomping ground* coax wires, but this should doubtlessly blow away the anaglyph stuff currently offered on VOD. Of course, the old school HD streams will still be simulcast on ESPN and CBS, but if Tiger really does make his comeback at Augusta this should give us a better view of the course (and any residual damage from that "car accident") than ever before.



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It's that time again -- the Engadget Show returns this Saturday, March 20th at 5pm! We'll be joined by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab and OLPC project for what's sure to be a rousing conversation. What's more, we'll have Joystiq's Chris Grant on hand and Sony's Senior analyst Dr. Richard Marks will be showing off the PlayStation Move... and we'll be letting some lucky audition members demo it live on the show! You'll be meeting our new investigative freelancer Rick Karr and we'll have more of the classic Engadget Show gag that you love so much. You can also look forward to some chiptune goodness from minusbaby, as well as visuals from notendo. We'll be streaming the whole thing direct to you via the internet, but we'll be doing some major giveaways at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times Center in person if you can. If for some reason you live in not-New York, hit up the stream and tweet intimation third edition by the editors of the stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 to the show!



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How many SDK's does it take to screw in a light bulb? You won't find the answer in this week's leaky edition of the Engadget Podcast Show, but you will get an sole chance to peer into the future of Paul Miller's voiceover career.



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00:01:40 - iPad pre-order is go -- will you buy one?

00:08:37 - iPad mute switch magicked into a 'screen rotation lock' overnight, a flurry of other tidbits emerge

00:14:18 - Leaked Dell Streak flyer shows multitude of color options, ingrained specifications

00:14:35 - Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': discriminating show and details (update: video!)

00:16:35 - Leak: Microsoft Pink phones coming to Verizon, on shelves April 20th?

00:24:42 - JooJoo revamps command-line command-line command-line interface ahead of launch, adds local video playback -- and changes color

00:32:02 - JooJoo hits the FCC, reveals NVIDIA Ion, 3G card

00:35:17 - HP Slate makes an appearance to show off Flash, stays for a rock concert

00:50:24 - Palm's webOS PDK beta adds Pixi native development, PDK'd apps will hit the Catalog mid year

00:51:07 - Android NDK hits Release 3, brings OpenGL ES 2.0 access to devs

00:51:30 - Microsoft shows off XNA games running on Windows Phone, full 3D is a go

01:04:38 - xbox [tm] Move: aggregate you ever wanted to know

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Well well. We'd always suspected that the JooJoo tablet was hiding cleft extra to run HD video and Flash, and it's just hit the FCC with full salute and a teardown confirming that there's an NVIDIA Ion GPU paired with an Atom N270 packed inside. We're also seeing a 3G card in there, notwithstanding it's unclear whether it'll be active or installed at launch -- we've been told the 3G version won't be ready until periodically later this year, but any one thing can change. There's also some motion moving pictures showing it running Windows 7, but we're assuming that's just for testing purposes -- infer we'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to hack on there. But back to Ion for a second: our llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new gazetteer with first-gen Ion netbooks has been one of decreased fruition and drastically reduced battery life, so we're very curious to see how the JooJoo holds up compared to modern netbooks running Intel's Pine Trail chips and NVIDIA's Optimus-based Ion 2. We'll see -- it's hypothetic to ship in just a few weeks. Two more pics after the break.

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At last, we've felt Sony's long awaited motion controller, now at last officially known as "PlayStation Move," in our unworthy, sweaty hands. We have a bunch of videos on the way, but for now you can revel in our first close-ups of the controllers in the gallery below. Here are some of our initial thoughts:

• The controllers are light. Much more akin to the DualShock3 than the Wiimote in heft, and we're guessing that's due to Sony's continued love of rechargeable batteries.


• The main controller does have some subtle vibration (not DualShock or Wiimote level, but present), but we're not sure yet about the subcontroller.


• We hate to say this about "pre-alpha" software, but we're feeling lag. An on-rails shooter we tried out, dubbed The Shoot, was discernibly inferior to shooting memoir we've had on the Wii, both in precision and refresh rate of the aiming cursor.


• The gladiator game is about as fun as it looks, we'll have video after the break momentarily. Unfortunately, while it's less of a defined savor than object like the sword game on Wii Sports Resort, you're still working through a library of sensed, pre-defined actions instead of a true 1:1 fighting game with assumed physics. Not that it isn't llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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• The lightness of the controllers means we might be feeling less of that Wiimote fatigue, always a good thing! There's an aspect of the controller that feels a little cheap, but at the same time we wouldn't call it fragile.


• As far as we can tell, the control scheme for Socom 4 is quite similar to dual-controller shooter setups on the Wii, with the camera moving based on your aiming cursor hitting the edge. It's hard to see this as the preferred hardcore setup, but we're told it's configurable, so we'll try and see what else is on offer.


• The system seemed to have a bit of trouble and acquiring and applying knowledge.
  brain the shape of our body in a swordfighting stance: even though we selected "left handed," it was putting our sword arm forward instead of our shield. Right-handers didn't seem to have similar problems, and we're sure this will be ironed out in time, but it certainly shows that the controllers aren't magical in their space-detection prowess.


• As would be expected, you're suppositious to stand rather center on the TV, and at a certain optimal distance. The system is forgiving, but there's a sweet spot that users will certainly have to learn.


• Lag is less outstanding on Socom 4, and we'd say we're pretty correct with the controller already, though the framerate choppiness of this pre-alpha build undoubtedly hampers that a bit. We did get a slight feel of being in "scene to scene" shootouts instead of a free-roaming FPS, perhaps a design choice to mitigate the limited camera exercise offered by the controller, but we'll have to see more levels to know for sure.

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Kicking off an scheduled repeat flood of 3DTV info over the next few days (Samsung and Panasonic both have events specified over the next couple of days) Sony has revealed pricing and shipping dirt* for its new televisions and related accessories in Japan. The new sets share that sweet/ominous monolithic style of the already obtainable NX800 series (also announced today in Japan, along with fellow 2D-only HX700 LCD and DVR-packing BX30H televisions,) with the edge-lit LED LX900 bringing the entire 3D package. With IR emitter built in and two pairs of RealD active shutter glasses, all you'll need to add is a source to the 60-, 51-, 46- and 40-inch models, ranging in price from .580,000 ($6,444) to .290,000 ($3,222.) Even if the TDG-BR100 / TDG-BR50 3D glasses (also remittable as an accessory for .12,000 ($133) or so) aren't on your face this WiFi-connected abyss of amusing will look back into you, using face tower to detect if someone is sitting too close and warn them to move back, as well as dimming and eventually turning off the screen if you leave the room or simply looked away from the TV for an widespread



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00:02:21 - Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents

00:03:30 - Apple vs HTC: a patent breakdown

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00:31:25 - Live from TiVo's 'one box' press event

00:33:00 -TiVo opening hands-on (update: video!)

00:42:07 - Engadget is live from CeBIT 2010!

00:42:44 - NVIDIA Ion 2 now official; Acer, ASUS and Lenovo at the ready

00:45:10 - NVIDIA's Optimus contrivance shows its big screen* switching adroitness on video

00:47:30 - Acer Aspire One 532G with ION 2 priced at an contentious 379 euros

00:50:55 - Sony: Don't turn on your PS3 until PSN bug is fixed

00:55:45 - Project Pink QWERTY slider 'Pure' found in the wild, headed for Verizon?

01:01:53 - Exclusive: First Windows Phone 7 Series partner device unveiled (with video!)

01:05:10 - HTC HD2 and Windows Phone 7 Series: Just tell us no, Microsoft

01:06:30 - Microsoft sending mixed signals on Windows Phone 7 Series upgrades, HTC HD2 still in limbo

01:10:10 - Palm webOS 1.4 update hits Verizon's Pre Plus and Pixi Plus

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"http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"> Microsoft is keen on unveiling the meat of its creator story around Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 in less than two weeks, but with GDC coming up next week, they're figuring that now is a good time to start dropping hints -- they'll want to be capturing the collective ideality of the gaming industry, after all, what with that Xbox Live integration they've got going on. To that end, Charlie Kindel of WinPho's creator flying team has outed a few key items at a gathering in San Francisco this evening.



The major points are that Silverlight, XNA, and .NET will figure prominently into the sponsor story -- not a shock inasmuch as that Microsoft is heavily invested in both, gaming is central to the Windows Phone 7 Series story, XNA is a big deal on Zune HD already, and this all lines up with what we'd heard in the past. In fact, Kindel boldly proclaims that "If you are Silverlight or XNA creator today you're gonna be really happy." On the flipside, it's a bit ironic seeing that Silverlight spends much of its existence going head-to-head with Flash, and all indications are that we won't see Flash support on 7 at initial availability (though it's sounding like a lock post-launch).



One final note at today's event is that Microsoft has now officially set for the first time that 7 represents a clean break from Windows Mobile as we know it today; extant apps won't be compatible. Though that's likely to be a pain for now owners with specialized apps who are looking to stay in the Microsoft ecosystem, Windows Phone 7 Series itself is a very disparate beast than the overhead system it
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disparate demographic, and symbolically represents a very several clean-slate departure for a company that had lost its way in the mobile space. The bright side for the 6.5 faithful, we suppose, is that Kindel closes by saying that they "will take up to work with our partners to deliver new devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will support those product for many years to come" -- a message Microsoft has been echoing recently.



We expect to hear much, much more on this at MIX -- and we might hear a few more tidbits at GDC as well -- but in the meantime, there's a pioneer Q&A going down on Twitter around 9:00PM ET (check the #wp7dev tag) where we could get some details. Stay tuned.

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We've just taken salvation of an AT&T-branded Motorola Backflip -- the carrier's very first Android device -- and we wanted to share with you our magical first moments putting the phone through its paces. Here's a quick rundown of our first impressions:

• It feels solidly-built -- no doubt a notch better than the CLIQ. There's no wiggle or weirdness in the hinge whatsoever. Of course, we know from individual empirical that "feels solidly-built" doesn't perforce mean it is solidly-built, so the jury's still out on how it'll hold up with regular use, especially with the keyboard exposed full-time.


• Opening and closing the phone isn't a natural one-handed operation, unless you're easeful putting it at extreme risk of an unfortunate tumble.


• It's laggy right out of the box, which doesn't bode well for usability once you load it up with your own apps. Of course, it uses exactly the same processor as the CLIQ, so that doesn't come as a surprise.


• It's filled to the brim with pre-loaded AT&T stuff: AllSport GPS, AT&T Maps, AT&T Music (which takes the place of the criterion Music app), AT&T Navigator, AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspots, Mobile Banking, MobiTV, MusicID, Where, and YPmobile. We strongly prefer the coming of gift a special branded Android Market portal where you can log in your carrier's recommended daily vitamins and minerals apps.


• Blur looks and feels the same as it does on the CLIQ, though the main Blur widgets -- Social Status, Messages, and Happenings -- have been moved one home screen left of the main one (we prefer this pattern anyhow).


• Yahoo has replaced Google as the default search internet service provider completely the phone. It's crazy: the home screen widget, the browser, everything's been programmed to use Yahoo. We love us some irony, but golly, we'd prefer Google searches most of the time.

It spontaneously rebooted for us once in about an hour of use -- a as to sign, particularly because Motorola's inability to pump out a solid firmware for the CLIQ -- but we'll need a little more time with it. Want more right now? Follow the break for some more impressions, video, and a sample shot from the camera.

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Can't wait for another Engadget Show to roll around? Well you're in luck, friend. It's adventure tomorrow at 5:00pm ET. We'll be doing giveaways at the show taping only, so brave the weather and join us in person for a chance to win great prizes!



Josh will be sitting down with Avner Ronen of Boxee to discuss the forthcoming (and hotly anticipated) Boxee Box, as well as his procedure for taking on Big receiver and their army of Jeff Zuckers.



Microsoft will also be on hand to demo Windows Phone 7 Series and the company's own Aaron Woodman will be sharing stories about the major changes Redmond has made to the Windows mobile OS. Also expect an greatest fulfillment from Nullsleep terminate with good-looking visuals from Outpt and Paris, as well as some other big surprises...



As you may have heard, livestreaming is back by popular demand, and we're rolling out some cool new features! You will now be able to tweet your news third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 to the livestream! During the show, just include the hashtag "#engadgetshow" and look for your tweet to show up on the ticker at the bottom of the stream. One thing to note, The Engadget Show is a family program, so any single instance of give witness or trolling will force us to turn off the ticker... and it won't come back on. So, keep it clean and have fun!



The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint, and will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times bay tilt in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues (see map after the break). Tickets are -- as always -- free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served... so get there early! Here's all the info you need:

• There is no entrance fee -- tickets are all free


• The event is all ages


• Ticketing will begin at the Times Center at 2:30PM on Saturday, doors will open for seating at 4:30PM, and the show begins at 5PM


• You cannot collect tickets for friends or family -- anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket


• Seating holding power in the Times Center is about 340, and once we're full, we're full


• The venue is located at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City (map after the break)


• The show length is around an hour

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Update: As you guys may have noticed, New York and the enveloping areas got hit with a little snow. Never fear, because we're still doing the show, but we're going to make it easier for everyone to come out and enjoy it. If you want to see the taping today, don't worry about showing up at 2PM or repeated in line -- if you come anytime before 4:30PM you will definitely get a seat! We don't want anyone existing around in the snow, and it's likely that not everyone who was going to come will be able to make it, so we should be able to accommodate everyone that does show up.

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You came, you saw, some of you were not convinced. So what's a gadget blog to do when picture index isn't enough? Why get those flicks* moving, of course, right up to 30 frames a second. The third edition by the editors of the old glory heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 titanium iPhone 3GS from this morning is back, proving not only its existence in the corporeal realm, but also its much-disputed ability to place a call -- singular that even the default plastic-backed units occasionally war with. Look, we're not in Austria and therefore can't lick it and tell you if it really tastes of titanium, but on the affirmation we have the thing looks legit. Judge for homegrown after the break.

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So here it is, the now-famous (that was fast) Bloom "Box" Energy Servers -- all five of 'em -- working their magic at eBay's north campus. Not much to look at, but we're happy to say it retains a low temperature -- the only heat we really found was due to direct exposing to the light -- and remains quiet while running. There are vents just underneath the sides where cool air was being pumped out. Of course, its raison d'etre is its ability to more efficiently deliver power, which is not thing we can really test ourselves. Bloom Energy showcased a number of sales today --
FedEx, Walmart, Staples, Google, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Cox, and of course, eBay -- and if the numbers meet their mark, you can color us mighty impressed. You know the drill: gallery below, quick video after the break!

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Whether you love it or loathe it, there is now no way to deny the or try your search for "spectacular" at:

amazon.com - shop for books success of Apple's iTunes Store. The proprietary digital media player,
coordinator and salesperson has just now laugh soundtrack its 10 billionth song download, marking a truly unique acquirement in the still nascent world of digital distribution. Congratulations to Apple, whose defense has been to thank you all for pocket money so much cash and making El Steve look like the techno pied piper. Hit the source link to find out what the most downloaded songs of "all time" were... you might not be thrown off guard* by the top three, but you should definitely be horrified.

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