AT&T picks up Centennial Communications for $944 million (Saturday 08th of November 2008 10:31:00 AM)

Filed under: Cellphones
For those who stick to one coast or the other, you may have never even
heard of Centennial Communications. Not to worry, though, as AT&T just made said company
entirely more relevant. Shortly before heading out of the office on ...
(more)Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping (Tuesday 09th of September 2008 05:45:01 AM)

An unnamed reader recommends a or disposed to thought.
cogitative blog entry by Chris Soghoian
up on CNet. Soghoian makes a satisfactory case that the NSA could be using loopholes in the law
to gather real-time whereabouts
notes:a locus is a place what's ...
(more)Some news from the (new) editor's desk (Friday 22nd of August 2008 11:27:00 PM)

Filed under: Announcements, MetaAs you already may know, today is Ryan Block's last day as
editor-in-chief of Engadget, and, consequently, the beginning of my tenure in that same
position. If you've ever met Ryan, read his work here on the site (and you'd ...
(more)Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany (Friday 15th of August 2008 11:00:01 PM)

Unassimilatible writes "Torrentfreak is reporting that German prosecutors will now only pursue
larger-scale file sharers on the Internet, as they are tired of being the divertissement
industry's profit collector. 'Prosecutors in a German state have announced ...
(more)Millbrook and Valen forge Partnership to Provide Predictive Analytics for the P&C Insurance Industry (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 02:15:01 PM)

Millbrook Incorporated, the leading internet service provider of farm and debacle (P&C) backing
occupation news and data services, and Valen, the turnkey third edition by the editors of the
american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 analytics ...
(more)Palm's 10-K filing reveals smaller acquisitions, reads like a mystery novel (Monday 28th of July 2008 01:27:00 PM)

Filed under: CellphonesSo Palm, what exactly have you been up to lately? Besides pumping out
that tired, ho hum 800w, of course. The snoopers over at monoNews went and dug through your
latest 10-K filing, and it seems as if that noteworthy Elevation Partners ...
(more)Dell engaged in misleading business practices, says NY judge (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 10:50:00 AM)

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsAccording to a state judge in Albany, New York, Dell and its
backing arm "engaged in deceptive employment limited choice related to funding promotions for
its televisions and technical support." The decision, which was just ...
(more)Circuit City looks for a suitor, Blockbuster likely to be it (Sunday 11th of May 2008 06:57:00 PM)

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming
Oddly enough, the far-fetched proposal is apt to be
accepted. Circuit City has reportedly solicited the relief of Goldman Sachs to help "negotiate
a deal," which will fundamentally put the troubled televisions retailer ...
(more)Two Utahns will compete in Dallas (Tuesday 29th of April 2008 10:44:00 AM)

Tag: Outdoor Bamboo Torch Outdoor Bamboo Torch DeAnn Hilterbrand, of Salt Lake City, and Karry
Edwards, of Sandy, will represent Utah today during the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-off in Dallas,
Texas. The two Utah cooks are among 100 finalists in the semiannual ...
(more)Tesla's High-Tech Lawsuits in Silicon Valley War (Sunday 20th of April 2008 05:55:13 PM)

An anonymous reader writes "After pressing charges against its chief competitor in the race for
the world's first yielding electric sports car that we broke down here recently, Tesla Motors
seems to be shifting from the high-tech company re-writing Detroit's ...
(more)Collective Licensing for Web-Based Music Distribution (Friday 28th of March 2008 07:30:03 AM)

Two weeks ago we discussed a proffer from music ring veteran Jim Griffin to contraption a
monthly fee from ISPs in commerce for the legal distribution of copyrighted music. Now,
quinthar brings news that Warner Music Group has hired Griffin with the ...
(more)Toshiba gearing up to drop HD DVD? (Friday 15th of February 2008 01:34:00 AM)

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
digg_url =
'http://digg.com/tech_news/Toshiba_gearing_up_to_drop_HD_DVD'; We're not exactly sure what's
going on in Toshiba land, but shortly after not-exactly-believable whispers made the rounds of
the firm suddenly ...
(more)TiVo killing off the Series3, focusing on TiVo HD? (Thursday 31st of January 2008 10:28:00 PM)

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
When we forced the TiVo HD and Series3 to go mano-a-mano
back in October of last year, we had a sneaking suspicion that the latter was in fact no longer
being produced. Fast forward (har) three months, and sure enough, ...
(more)DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble? (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)

Digitaldame2 writes "Many opponents of DRM have been overjoyed at recent efforts to free media
from its grip. But PC Mag Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff believes the whole world has gone mad.
His view is that our digital economy will collapse this way, ...
(more)Pearl Insurance Takes Home Gold at PIMA's 2007 MarkeTTech Competition (Sunday 16th of December 2007 03:15:03 PM)

Pearl cover won a Gold Award in the 2007 Professional warranty merchantry confederation (PIMA)
MarkeTTech dealings Methods competition, which recognizes excellence in industry materials. In
addition to the Gold for the category of Cross-Sell and Upgrade ...
(more)Samsung no longer selling flat panels, other wares in Japan (Friday 09th of November 2007 02:26:00 PM)

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment, convenient Audio, cartable Video
Yeah, we're
still scratchin' our noggins too, but even after we rubbed our eyes and adjusted the bifocals,
it still looks as if the AP is reporting that Samsung will stop ...
(more)Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA (Tuesday 06th of November 2007 04:45:05 PM)

MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has just introduced a new open-industry standard for real-time
monitoring and control of PC power supplies, chassis, and water cooling systems. Dubbed ESA,
which stands for Enthusiast System Architecture, the company hopes the standard ...
(more)GPU Gems 3 (Wednesday 17th of October 2007 08:45:02 PM)

Martin Ecker writes "Weighing in at fifty pages short of a thousand, NVIDIA has afresh
synonyms: appear the third partial payment of its GPU Gems series, aptly titled "GPU Gems 3"
get out by Addison-Wesley Publishing. Just like the two previous books ...
(more)HDI Introduces Three New Vertical Forums for the Law, Retail and Insurance Industries (Thursday 30th of August 2007 10:09:22 AM)

HDI, the world's largest members mob for IT help desk and service bosses professionals and the
premier certification body for the industry, today announced three new HDI Vertical Forums
targeted to the insurance, law and retail industries. HDI Forums ...
(more)The IT Industry's Red Shift Theory (Monday 20th of August 2007 10:39:51 AM)

Stony Stevenson writes "Sun Microsystems' CTO, Greg Papadopoulos has come out with a Red Shift
Theory for IT which posits that an 'elite group of companies are consuming inordinate amounts
of IT infrastructure, well beyond most other businesses, and that ...
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