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Apple patent application details universal iPhone / iPod dock

Apple patent application details universal iPhone / iPod dock originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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E3 2009: Undead Knights
E3 2009: Undead Knights
Nikon s New Shoulder-Busting, Shake-Free 300mm Telephoto
You want short depth of field? Can’t be bothered to walk closer to your subject? Need to work on those weedy biceps? Hands shaking from a little too much of the good stuff last night? Nikon has you covered, with its new 6.4-pound, 300mm 2.8 monster, a lens which packs in just about every new [...]
Poetic Paper Justice
For some odd reason I have this feeling that most designers turn poets and philosophers when they get into the description of their products. For instance designer ShiKai Tseng makes complete poetical sense when he describes the relation between waste paper and recycling it into a vase. The philosophy behind …

Apple ordered to pay damages in Opti patent case, Apple appeals
Full-time IP licensor Opti sure has been keeping itself busy in the last few years suing the likes of NVIDIA, AMD and Apple, and it looks like its case with the latter may now finally be drawing to a close. After a few years of battling it out in the courts in Texas, the judge in the case has ordered Apple to pay Opti $19 million for three instances of patent infringement, as well as $2.7 million in pre-judgment interest. The judge didn’t find that Apple willfully violated the patents in question, however, which concern a memory access technology known as predictive snooping (hence the relatively small damages). Apple apparently isn’t quite ready to call it a day just yet though, and has reportedly already filed a formal appeal to have the case overturned.

Apple ordered to pay damages in Opti patent case, Apple appeals originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Camangi WebStation nabs pre-order status

Camangi WebStation nabs pre-order status originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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E3 2009: Homefront
E3 2009: Homefront
Twoddler Toy Lets Toddlers Tweet
As if Twitter weren’t already full of utterly bland, mindless codswallop, researchers from Hasselt University in Belgium are about to add the random, idiotic bleatings of a baby to the stream of nonsense. Worse, the baby won’t even know it is broadcasting its brainless, repetitive activities to the world. Twoddler is a modified Fisher Price [...]

HP lets iPAQ Glisten out of the box

The AT&T-bound iPAQ Glisten from HP has been unboxed for our viewing pleasure, video of which can be found immediately after the break. If you’re not in such a hurry though, you’ll want to know it’s an AMOLED-fronted, Qualcomm-powered (533MHz) WinMo 6.5 device, which brings the BlackBerry form factor sans the RIM user experience, but plus a touchscreen. Another thing to note is that AT&T’s online store will be the only place to get it, at the already announced $179.99 after rebates on a two-year deal. The video does a good job of comparing HP’s return to the mobile space with a pair of similar devices, and we’re left with the impression that it’s a pretty chunky machine, but as usual we recommend seeing it for yourself — and you already know where to find it.

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HP lets iPAQ Glisten out of the box originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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E3 2009: Just Cause 2
E3 2009: Just Cause 2
Gadget Lab Is Looking for an Intern
Want to hone your journalism skills on the front lines of new media? Wired.com is looking for an intern. We’re the news and online branch of Wired magazine, and we’ve been pushing the boundaries of online publishing since we launched one of the first news websites in 1995. With an independent newsroom, we’re not just shoveling old-media [...]

Intel SSD firmware 02HD brings back Trim support, sans bugs
Intel’s 34nm X25-M G2 drives might not’ve had the most peaceful of existences so far, but you can’t fault the company’s efforts to fix whatever maladies have popped up. The latest firmware update from Santa Clara brings back the lauded Trim support, but this time leaves the drive-killing antics behind. User experiences so far have been positive, though unsurprisingly a couple of people have questioned whether Trim is in fact enabled on their drives — clearly, the difference between fast and really, really fast is not as distinguishable as we like to think. The source link will provide you with the latest firmware update tool and the precious new code — if you dare risk it.

[Thanks, Alex]

Intel SSD firmware 02HD brings back Trim support, sans bugs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP LP3065 30-inch LCD Monitor
HP LP3065 30-inch LCD Monitor
Phone-O-Matic Puts DSLR Lens on iPhone
Bhautik Joshi is the curious type, and likes to learn by doing. So when he started to wonder if he could hook up an SLR lens to an iPhone, the obvious thing to do was to try it. The resulting behemoth is the Phone-O-Scope, a monstrous mingling of an iPhone, a Canon lens and a [...]