EV charging stations are still hard to come by here in the US and, while 400 new ones won’t exactly blanket the nation, we’ll take what we can get. 350Green is teaming up with Coulomb Technologies to build exactly that many new ChargePoint stations across New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and California. With the latest announcement the ChargePoint Network is expected to grow to over 1,000 locations, many with fast charging capabilities. We wouldn’t exactly call the plan a game changer but, like we said, every little bit helps. Check out the PR after the break. Continue reading 350Green to install 400 EV charging stations across the US 350Green to install 400 EV charging stations across the US originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …US government to beat back botnets with a cybersecurity code of conduct
September 23, 2011 No Comment
Old Uncle Sam seems determined to crack down on botnets , but he still needs a little help figuring out how to do so. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a request for information, inviting companies from internet and IT companies to contribute their ideas to a voluntary “code of conduct” for ISPs to follow when facing a botnet infestation. The move comes as an apparent response to a June “Green Paper” on cybersecurity, in which the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force called for a unified code of best practices to help ISPs navigate through particularly treacherous waters. At this point, the NIST is still open to suggestions from the public, though Ars Technica reports that it’s giving special consideration to two models adopted overseas. Australia’s iCode program, for example, calls for providers to reroute requests from shady-looking systems to a site devoted to malware removal. The agency is also taking a hard look at an initiative (diagrammed above) from Japan ‘s Cyber Clean Center, which has installed so-called “honeypot” devices at various ISPs, allowing them to easily detect and source any attacks, while automatically notifying their customers via e-mail. There are, however, some lingering concerns, as the NIST would need to find funding for its forthcoming initiative, whether it comes from the public sector, corporations or some sort of public-private partnership. Plus, some are worried that anti-botnet programs may inadvertently reveal consumers’ personal information, while others are openly wondering whether OS-makers should be involved, as well. The code’s public comment period will end on November 4th, but you can find more information at the source link, below. US government to beat back botnets with a cybersecurity code of conduct originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Storage enthusiasts (yeah, there is such a thing — what of it?) would probably tell you that PCIe-based SSDs are a dime a dozen these days. But in all seriousness, the prices we’re seeing are proof that a few more competitors wouldn’t hurt. A few weeks back, Austria’s own Angelbird started to ship a solution that we first heard about during 2010, and we were fortunate enough to pop a Wings PCIe SSD RAID card into our Mac Pro for testing. For years, we’ve been booting this up and running every single application off of its stock HDD — a 640GB Hitachi HDE721064SLA360 (7200RPM) — as we surmise many of you desktop owners might be. Anxious to see if these are the Wings your existing tower needs to soar? Head on past the break for our impressions. Gallery: Angelbird’s Wings PCIe-based SSD Continue reading Angelbird’s Wings PCIe-based SSD preview and benchmarks Angelbird’s Wings PCIe-based SSD preview and benchmarks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The Engadget Show – 025: We ride an electric bike, check out the new Keepon and get serenaded by Jonathan Coulton
September 23, 2011 No Comment
We’ve got a whole lot of show coming at you this month! Tim and Brian start things off by unveiling Distro , Engadget’s new weekly greatest hits magazine for the iPad. We also take a look at Sony’s new 3D-enabled video headset and the purse-friendly HTC Rhyme . Next up, Tim takes a spin around New York City on the Grace One electric bicycle , and we try to figure out whether it’s worth the rather steep price tag. Brian pays a visit to the folks at Frog to discuss the company’s long history and take a look at some of its industry shaping designs. Keepon co-creator Marek Michalowski stops by the studio to discuss the creation of his little yellow robot and explain how the dancing ‘bot made the journey from research tool to retail toy . We swing by the Maker Faire in New York to check out 3D printers, a life-size game of Mouse Trap and get stuck in the (Polaroid) Matrix. And Make: Live co-hosts Becky Stern and Matt Richardson join us in the studio to talk about some of their own favorite DIY projects. We close the show with an interview and a few songs from Jonathan Coulton . (Spoiler: he plays the song from Portal .) Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater Special guests: Becky Stern, Matt Richardson, Marek Michalowski Producer: Guy Streit Director : Michelle Stahl Executive Producers: Joshua Fruhlinger, Brian Heater and Michael Rubens Music by: Jonathan Coulton Download the Show: The Engadget Show – 025 (HD) / The Engadget Show – 025 (iPod / iPhone / Zune formatted) / The Engadget Show – 025 (Small) Subscribe to the Show: [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Show directly in iTunes (MP4). [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Show directly in the Zune Marketplace (MP4). [ RSS MP4 ] Add the Engadget Show feed (MP4) to your RSS aggregator and have it delivered automatically. [ HD RSS ] Get the Engadget Show delivered automatically in HD. [ iPad RSS ] Get the Engadget Show in iPad-friendly adaptive format. The Engadget Show – 025: We ride an electric bike, check out the new Keepon and get serenaded by Jonathan Coulton originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …We kind of don’t even know where to start these days! We’ve all heard about how technology expands exponentially, and this week feels like we are really getting cubed…or something. From the meta to the macro to the micro it was a silly-crazy week, and as hard as it was we did end up starting the podcast and tried to round it all up for you as best we could. It’s the Engadget Podcast, the only way we can do it. Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater Guest: Dana Wollman Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Funky Town 01:20 – Introducing Engadget Distro! 03:50 – Review score review 06:44 – The Engadget Show is live, here at 6:00PM ET! (update: we’re done!) 09:15 – HP names Meg Whitman new President and CEO, gives Leo Apotheker the boot 17:42 – Facebook partners up to bring music, news and videos to your profile through Open Graph (video) 18:40 – Facebook outs Timeline, gives your profile page a new outfit (video) 25:15 – Color abandons app independence for Facebook, hopes you’ll pay someone a ‘visit’ 29:48 – HTC Rhyme official: 3G, 3.7-inch display, single-core CPU, headed to Verizon for $199 on contract 38:48 – HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio, we go ears-on (video) 40:10 – HP’s unreleased white TouchPad and Pre 3 for AT&T (hands-on video) 42:37 – A week with Google Wallet (video) 45:00 – Amazon lets you check out Kindle books from library websites, asks you to shush yourself at home 50:43 – Report: Apple to hold media event on October 4th, Tim Cook to unveil iPhone 5 53:47 – Listener questions Hear the podcast Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC). [ RSS MP3 ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically. [ RSS AAC ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator. [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace Download the podcast LISTEN (MP3) LISTEN (AAC) Contact the podcast Send your questions to @tim_stevens . Leave us a voicemail: (423) 438-3005 (GADGET-3005) E-mail us: podcast at engadget dot com Twitter: @bheater , @timstevens , @danawollman Filed under: Podcasts Engadget Podcast 257 – 09.23.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Notoriously difficult to pin down, electrons have always been free spirits — until now that is. According to a paper published by science journal Nature , folk at Cambridge University much cleverer than we have tamed single electrons, succeeding in coaxing them directly from point-to-point. The technique involves creating a small hole in gallium arsenide, called a “quantum dot,” then creating a channel of energy higher than the neighboring electrons to shuttle cargo off to another empty “dot.” Why should you care? Well, while you might not see this technology in the next smartphone, it should give quantum computing a bit of a nudge forward, smoothing the rate of information transfer. If the concept works out, it’ll improve the way qubits move around those sub-atomic circuits, where jumping around like a frog in a sock is generally considered bad form. [Image courtesy of the io9 ] Scientists manipulate electron, this time everyone wins originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The LG Esteem has been spotted hanging out in several official-looking press shots accompanied by several pages of specification juice at LG’s partner portal site. Previously seen under the guise Bryce , and seemingly identical to Verizon’s LG Revolution , this metroPCS interpretation looks set to arrive very soon. A welcome upgrade to the network’s previous LTE offering , the Esteem runs Gingerbread on a 4.3 inch screen and has some respectable mid-range crendentials under the hood including a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage expandable by microSD. There’s also a five megapixel snapper on the back, embedded in a stylish metal strip similar to the dual-core T-Mobile G2x . Unlike LG’s powerful flagship, though, MetroPCS will reportedly be offering up the Esteem off-contract for $349 — a reasonable way to increase your LTE-connected self-worth LG Esteem leaked, delivers more LTE respect to MetroPCS originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The LG Esteem has been spotted hanging out in several official-looking press shots accompanied by several pages of specification juice at LG’s partner portal site. Previously seen under the guise Bryce , and seemingly identical to Verizon’s LG Revolution , this metroPCS interpretation looks set to arrive very soon. A welcome upgrade to the network’s previous LTE offering , the Esteem runs Gingerbread on a 4.3 inch screen and has some respectable mid-range crendentials under the hood including a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage expandable by microSD. There’s also a five megapixel snapper on the back, embedded in a stylish metal strip similar to the dual-core T-Mobile G2x . Unlike LG’s powerful flagship, though, MetroPCS will reportedly be offering up the Esteem off-contract for $349 — a reasonable way to increase your LTE-connected self-worth LG Esteem leaked, delivers more LTE respect to MetroPCS originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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What’s this mystery e-reader? It’s the Kobo Vox, and it just made its debut on the FCC’s site. Is it a reworked version of the relatively recently released Touch Edition ? Is it a brand new reader from the company? The device is listed as being an “eReader Tablet,” so perhaps it’s something more akin to Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color or the Kindle tablet reportedly in the works from Amazon. And will Kobo’s recent appearance at f8 play into the equation? It’s hard to say, but there are a few things worth noting here. First, if the above rough image is to be believed, the device is touchscreen, as with the company’s current product. The design, however, looks a lot more like the latest version of the Nook than the new Kobo. A side shot reveals what appears to be a microUSB slot (no shocker there) and a headphone jack, something missing on both the latest Kobo and Nook (though both the latest Kindle and the Nook Color rock one), while a “multimedia headset” was used in the testing. Also listed among the testing materials is a microUSB card, so there seems a pretty good chance that this thing has expandable memory — again, not a surprise, nor is the fact that the reader is listed as being WiFi-enabled. Continue reading Kobo Vox eReader Tablet hits the FCC, shrouded in bookish mystery Kobo Vox eReader Tablet hits the FCC, shrouded in bookish mystery originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …What’s this mystery e-reader? It’s the Kobo Vox, and it just made its debut on the FCC’s site. Is it a reworked version of the relatively recently released Touch Edition ? Is it a brand new reader from the company? The device is listed as being an “eReader Tablet,” so perhaps it’s something more akin to Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color or the Kindle tablet reportedly in the works from Amazon. And will Kobo’s recent appearance at f8 play into the equation? It’s hard to say, but there are a few things worth noting here. First, if the above rough image is to be believed, the device is touchscreen, as with the company’s current product. The design, however, looks a lot more like the latest version of the Nook than the new Kobo. A side shot reveals what appears to be a microUSB slot (no shocker there) and a headphone jack, something missing on both the latest Kobo and Nook (though both the latest Kindle and the Nook Color rock one), while a “multimedia headset” was used in the testing. Also listed among the testing materials is a microUSB card, so there seems a pretty good chance that this thing has expandable memory — again, not a surprise, nor is the fact that the reader is listed as being WiFi-enabled. Continue reading Kobo Vox eReader Tablet hits the FCC, shrouded in bookish mystery Kobo Vox eReader Tablet hits the FCC, shrouded in bookish mystery originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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