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Monday, January 10, 2011

Verizon iPhone Announcement Meta Live Coverage Tomorrow at 11AM EST [Verizon]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5729944/verizon-iphone-announcement-meta-live-coverage-tomorrow-at-11am-est

Tomorrow, Verizon is announcing something at 11AM Eastern. It's very probably the iPhone! We'll be covering it and commentatoring live using the best coverage from our friends all around the web, like Ars Technica and Wired. Right here: [Gizmodo]

Google Goggles Now Solves Sudoku for You [Video]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5729821/google-googles-now-solves-sudoku-for-you

The newest version of Google Goggles has some nice upgrades—barcode scanning is faster, and it'll recognize and search print ads for you. But, really, the hands-down coolest feature is automatic Sudoku solving. No need to use your brain!

While it sort of (actually, completely) defeats the purpose of Sudoku to begin with, it's definitely a hell of an impressive demo. Google sent one of its software engineers to beat the pants off of Tammy McLeod—2009 national Sudoku champ—with his Google Goggles 1.3-equipped Nexus S. Watch the look of masked agony on her face as she realizes she's been defeated in her life's passion by a piece of plastic. Puny human! [Google]

4G at CES 2011: AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile make big moves

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/10/4g-at-ces-2011-atandt-verizon-and-t-mobile-make-big-moves/

Traditionally, CES isn't a huge mobile event -- the biggest phone news has historically been saved for MWC in February and CTIA in March -- but that changed in a huge way this week. Looks like 2011 is shaping up to be the year of 4G, and both carriers and manufacturers alike wasted no time jumping on the hype bandwagon with a variety of announcements that promise to make the next few months exciting... and really, really fast. AT&T kicked things off early in the show, but it was just the beginning of a relentless torrent of mobile news that lasted for days and ultimately left us with a pile of devices and network upgrades that should take us at least through the middle of the year. Read on for the recap!

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Cisco's Cius tablet gets the Verizon LTE treatment

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/10/ciscos-cius-tablet-gets-the-verizon-lte-treatment/

It looks like Verizon's gone and added yet another device -- make that two -- to their 4G LTE network. The company announced Thursday that it will offer the business-savvy Cius tablet on LTE starting this March, and will also offer LTE interfaces for Cisco's second generation Integrated Service Router. Verizon says it's got about one-third of the US covered with LTE, which offers downstream speeds between 5Mbps and 12Mbps, and will have the other two-thrids blanketed by 2012. If you're lucky enough to live in that first one-third, the Cius tablet, which sports a 7-inch diagonal touchscreen and weighs about 1.15lbs, could become your preferred form of business communication -- it offers HD video streaming, real-time video, and multi-party conferencing. Cius will also have 3G capability for those unfortunate souls operating outside of the LTE sphere. Verizon isn't ready to settle on a data plan for the tablet, as its main functions have potential to eat up a ton of bandwidth, but they're pretty sure employers will be the ones footing the bill.

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Nook Color meet Ubuntu, Ubuntu meet Nook Color

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/10/nook-color-meet-ubuntu-ubuntu-meet-nook-color/

Although you won't hear this through official channels, Barnes and Noble's Nook has been plenty of fun for hacksters. And what spells fun better than U-b-u-n-t-u? Certainly nothing that we can mention in mixed company, that's for sure! If you pop over to the always lively XDA Developers Forum, you'll see a crazy little post wherein the author took inspiration from a Nexus One hack and decided to port Ubuntu to the Nook Color. And by jove, it looks like it's worked... even if it is by accounts "a little laggy" and not without errors. Please feel free to hit the source link if you'd like to take in the details on what made this work... and to keep abreast of further developments, to boot.

Nook Color meet Ubuntu, Ubuntu meet Nook Color originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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