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Thursday, September 15, 2011

drag2share: Soon You Can Get Full Access to Rdio For Free, Without Ads [Blip]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5840502/soon-you-can-get-full-access-to-rdio-for-free-without-ads

Rdio is aiming for Spotify with a free plan that'll provide full access to Rdio's entire music catalog. There's no advertising and no need to add a credit card to your account. The free service will launch very soon. [Rdio]

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drag2share: Ooma Telo and Telo Air wireless adapter hands-on

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/14/ooma-telo-and-telo-air-wireless-adapter-hands-on/

Remember the Ooma Telo? It suffered the same fate as most home VoIP adapters: a lifetime chained to the home or office router, bound forever by a freedom-crushing Ethernet cable. But no. No more. The benevolent engineers at Ooma have decided to set the Telo free. Hello, Ooma Telo Air Wireless Adapter -- you're about to put VoIP in our kitchen.

Ooma's Voice over IP service and the Telo adapter itself are hardly new, but we couldn't resist giving the outfit's new VOIP liberating dongle a try. Read on for more.

Gallery: Ooma Telos and Telos Air wireless adapter: hands-on

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Ooma Telo and Telo Air wireless adapter hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: McAfee and Intel partner up to put anti-theft tech in Ultrabooks

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/14/mcafee-and-intel-partner-up-to-put-anti-theft-tech-in-ultrabooks/

Intel has long provided hardware-level anti-theft technology, primarily for its enterprise customers. But, as users become increasingly mobile, the need to extend those protections to average consumers has become more and more apparent. McAfee is teaming up with Chipzilla to create a consumer-friendly software package that will interact with the chip-level anti-theft tech that will be packed into every Ultrabook. Details about the software are pretty slim for the moment, but we know it'll feature remote lock, remote wipe and location tracking to help you recover you precious lappy and keep your personal data out of the hands of ne'er-do-wells. The suite will start shipping alongside the tiny notebooks next year, but while you wait, check out the PR after the break.

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McAfee and Intel partner up to put anti-theft tech in Ultrabooks originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: New Thunderbolt chips, dubbed Cactus Ridge, coming in 2012

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/14/new-thunderbolt-chips-dubbed-cactus-ridge-coming-in-2012/

Thunderbolt is certainly taking its sweet time catching on, but Intel isn't about to give up yet. In 2012 the company will be rolling out Cactus Ridge, a replacement for it's current Light Ridge and Eagle Ridge solutions. There will be two versions: a quad Thunderbolt channel, dual DisplayPort model (replacing the similarly speced Light Ridge); and a dual T-bolt, single DisplayPort edition (taking over for Eagle Ridge). Exactly when they'll land next year or how much it'll cost OEMs to shoehorn the controllers into their machines is still a mystery, but we're holding out hope that this time next year the 10Gbps jacks will be in every Dell, Acer and Apple.

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New Thunderbolt chips, dubbed Cactus Ridge, coming in 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Thunderbolt accessories at IDF 2011: Belkin's Express dock, Seagate drives and PCIe expansion cards (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/14/thunderbolt-accessories-at-idf-2011-belkins-express-dock-seaga/

Seeing as Wintel fans will soon join in on the Thunderbolt fun, how about a smorgasbord of devices toting the interconnect, conveniently laid out in a two pane vitrine here at IDF? Alongside the usual suspects -- such as LaCie's Little Big Disk, Promise's Pegasus and the Sonnet's Echo -- are a few devices we've never seen before, namely Belkin's Express dock, some unnamed Seagate drives and two PCIe expansion chassis from Sonnet and Magma. We're particularly smitten with the latter two -- you know, dreams about extending our future Ultrabooks with some serious external graphics horsepower. Check out the entire spread in our gallery below and the video after the break.

Myriam Joire contributed to this report.

Gallery: Thunderbolt peripherals at IDF 2011