drag2share: Google Goggles Now Searches Without Having to Take a Picture [Android]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5866060/google-goggles-now-searches-automatically-from-the-camera-without-taking-a-photo

Your time is precious. Why should you waste it taking photos with Google Goggles to enable a search? Starting today, you don't have too.

Until today's update, Google's all-knowing visual search app only worked if you took photos of items. See a painting you like, take a picture and tells you the artist and the title. Take a photo of a bar code and Goggles will give you product information. Continuous Mode, the best part of today's Googles update, does away with that cumbersome step—most of the time. Google says that the new mode works best with books, products, artwork and landmarks. Translating text and adding contacts won't work with Continuous Mode.

The app also received improved text recognition, so you can make sure those phone numbers on the bathroom stall at your local bar are real. You can go pick it up here: [Android Market via Phone Scoop]

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drag2share: Toshiba 55X3 4K 3DTV launches December 10th in Japan, no glasses necessary

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/07/toshiba-55x3-4k-3dtv-launches-december-10th-in-japan-no-glasses/

Toshiba is finally ready to bring its 55-inch, 4K res 3DTV home in Japan, and buyers will have their first chance to part with 900,000 yen ($11,578 US) on December 10th. The 55X3 (ZL2 in Europe) still doesn't have a North American ship date, but we can still drool over its high res display and autostereoscopic (no glasses) 3D screen that adjusts for its viewers' location based on face tracking technology, although that results in a resolution drop down to 720p. Our last time getting eyes-on with a prototype panel was at CES and we probably won't see it again until we're back in Las Vegas in a few weeks, let's hope all that CEVO Engine technology Toshiba's plugged in for image processing makes it worth the wait... and the price.

Toshiba 55X3 4K 3DTV launches December 10th in Japan, no glasses necessary originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Westinghouse is bringing new LED HDTVs to CES, acronym lovers reportedly 'delighted'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/07/westinghouse-is-bringing-new-led-hdtvs-to-ces-acronym-lovers-re/

In January, Westinghouse Digital likes to drive on down to Nevada and show off its wares for the next 12 months at CES. Everything in Las Vegas is super-sized, which is great inspiration for Westy's new 70-inch LED HDTV that'll pump out 1080p episodes of "proper" CSI at 120Hz, with an 8ms response time. If your inner-city apartment doesn't have a 70-inch wall, then perhaps you'd prefer the new 46-inch ultra-slim LED HDTV that's so slender, it probably disappears if you look at it side-on, or something. The company's also gonna be showing off its first ever Bluetooth Soundbar that comes packing two 12 watt speakers, a class D amplifier and enhanced bass so you can really enjoy those opening bars of Who Are You.

Westinghouse is bringing new LED HDTVs to CES, acronym lovers reportedly 'delighted' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: AT&T 4G LTE to officially launch in New York City this December

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/07/atandt-4g-lte-to-officially-launch-in-new-york-city-this-december/

Looks like AT&T is on track to hit that year-end 15 market LTE goal, after all. John Stephens, the operator's CFO / SVP, just went public with plans to officially launch that 700MHz service in New York City sometime this month, according to a statement made at the UBS 39th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference. The network's currently undergoing testing in the Big Apple, as we reported in our Nitro HD hands-on and review, but the time seems nigh for eager subs to partake of the blazing radio waves. There's certainly no lack of handset options either, with the HTC Vivid, Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and the aforementioned LG phone all poised to lead you into "true" 4G territory. Now, if only the carrier would give us a solid date. We'll keep you updated as further details roll in, but in the meantime, check out the official presser after the break.

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AT&T 4G LTE to officially launch in New York City this December originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Verizon CEO says shared data plans coming in 2012

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/07/verizon-ceo-says-shared-data-plans-coming-in-2012/

Verizon is gearing up to offer shared data plans sometime in 2012. That's straight from CEO Lowell McAdam, who told the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference this morning, "I think in 2012 we will see it... Getting to one bill and getting to account-level pricing is our goal." Sharing data the way they do family plan minutes is something many consumers have been clamoring for and AT&T's CEO Ralph de la Vega indicated earlier this year that his carrier was planning to offer such an option. Soon enough you might be able to buy a chunk of minutes and data then pile on the lines for a flat rate.

Verizon CEO says shared data plans coming in 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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