Google Android 2.0 Donut Has Universal Search and Text-to-Speech Powers [Android 2.0 Donut]

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Sort of odd that Android, made by Google, is behind both the iPhone and Palm Pre in rocking the universal search thing. But Google showed off that, a text-to-speech API for Google Voice Search in any app, and other Android 2.0 Donut goodness at Google I/O today. [Engadget]

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Intel's new Nehalem-EX CPUs rock servers with eight cores, 16 threads, infinite sex appeal

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/27/intels-new-nehalem-ex-cpus-rock-servers-with-eight-cores-16-th/

What's that, you have an array of six-core CPUs in your rack? That is so last year. You're going to feel pretty foolish when all the cool admins start popping eight-core chips up in their closets this fall. That's the number on offer in Intel's latest, the Nehalem-EX. It's an evolution of the architecture that some of you may be spinning in your Core i7 machines, but boosted to support up to 16 threads and 24MB of cache. 2.3 billion transistors make the magic happen here, and Intel is pledging a nine-times improvement in memory bandwidth over the Xeon 7400. Chips are set to start hitting sockets sometime later this year, and while nobody's talking prices, staying hip in the enterprise server CPU crowd doesn't come cheap.

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Intel's new Nehalem-EX CPUs rock servers with eight cores, 16 threads, infinite sex appeal originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 08:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/27/samsung-shows-of-latest-biggest-bendiest-amoled-prototype/

Today the flexible OLED is still a very rare thing, usually confined to dark corners of exhibitors booths at trade shows or grainy photos from some research facility. Sadly that doesn't look to change anytime in the immediate future, but Samsung is at least still making progress with the tech, demonstrating a new 6.5-inch flexible prototype at SID 2009 in San Antonio. It's bigger than the earlier examples we've seen from the company, and apparently a little bendier too, but beyond those juicy facts -- and knowing that it can display scenes from The Sound of Music -- we don't know a thing about it.

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Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG demos ultra-bright Full HD 3D monitor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/27/video-lg-demos-ultra-bright-full-hd-3d-monitor/

LG's certainly been known to dabble in the third-dimension, and while we're still waiting for it to ship those "one or two" 3D TVs this year, at least we're confident that it's getting closer. Over in South Korea, the company has showcased a new Full HD (1080p) 3D monitor with what it says is the highest brightness level of any competing panel. Sadly, viewers are still required to don glasses when ingesting the action, but this take on the tech enables said eyewear to be somewhat thinner and less cumbersome. Have a peek at the vid down in the read link.

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LG demos ultra-bright Full HD 3D monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 09:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So long, HSPA+: AT&T "likely" moving straight from 7.2Mbps to LTE

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/27/so-long-hspa-atandt-likely-moving-straight-from-7-2mbps-to-lt/

At Mobile World Congress, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega had mentioned to us that AT&T was "better off" than Verizon thanks to 3GPP Release 7's capabilities to extend existing HSPA infrastructure through to 21Mbps and beyond by using the wonders of HSPA+ before the company would need to bite the bullet and get moving on LTE. We're not sure whether Big Red's aggressive LTE plans have AT&T rethinking its strategy or if it just wants to save time, money, and energy by avoiding yet another interim rollout, but we're now being told by a company spokesman that "it's likely that timelines for LTE standards will lead us directly from 7.2 to LTE." He mentions that HSPA+ is "still an option," but at any rate, this is a markedly different tone than we've heard in the past -- even as late as last month -- and if this means we're getting LTE even a single day sooner, we're all for it.

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So long, HSPA+: AT&T "likely" moving straight from 7.2Mbps to LTE originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 13:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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