Fifty years after her first hit, the Recording Academy honored Loretta Lynn with a tribute. Garth Brooks was her date for the evening, which also attracted Gretchen Wilson, Kid Rock, Martina McBride, Jack White and Reba McEntire. (Oct. 13)
Continue reading …Apple to hold ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20th, we’ll be there live!
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Oh boy. New Air? Verizon iPhone? Jobs grows a huge beard? Probably not. Apple wants to talk about “what’s new for the Mac,” which could mean some hardware — but the company definitely wants to talk software too. See that lion sneaking around behind the logo? Apple is bringing the media out to Cupertino to discuss (amongst other things) the next version of OS X. That’s right — a non-mobile product. If you think it’s too early for 10.7, don’t worry — last time we did this dance, the company previewed Snow Leopard about a year before it hit your screens. The whole thing goes down at 10AM PT on October 20th , and we’ll be covering the news live! Stay tuned. Apple to hold ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20th, we’ll be there live! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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MOSCOW – Britain’s foreign secretary says Moscow is an important partner in tackling global challenges. AC = 1234 –> William Hague spoke during his first visit to Moscow, which is being closely watched for signs of improvement in the long-strained ties between the two countries. Anglo-Russian relations have been tense amid controversy over issues including the fatal poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 and the enforced exile of executives in British oil company BP PLC’s Russian joint venture. Hague acknowledged Wednesday that problems remain but said Russia and Britain will work to solve them. He spoke after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
Continue reading …Specs released for Advent Vega, the £249 Android Tegra tablet, ‘read like a wish list’
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It’s been a long, long time since the Tegra-powered Vega tablet came to be officially , and things have changed considerably since then. The biggest modification is the size, down to 10-inches from 15, though the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra chipset is still in there with its 1080p abilities in tow. Alas, a 1024 x 600 resolution on the capacitive touchscreen puts something of a damper on that, but HDMI output means it’ll tickle the pixels nicely on your HDTV. There’s a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 802.11bg WiFi, a 3G SIM slot, 512MB each of ROM and RAM, and naturally microSD expandability, with a 4GB card included. The OS is Android 2.2 (Market support unknown) and battery life is rated at a quite impressive 6.5 hours of 1080p video, enough to watch both the animated and JCV-featuring Street Fighter movies in one sitting. The best part? The thing is supposed to hit giant UK retailer Dixons next week, on October 18, for
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Image credit: Marjukka Grover (used with permission) Lloyd may have been unimpressed with the idea that telecommuting raises carbon emissions , and I’ve done my own part to promote working from home by creating a list of 5 technologies that can help make telecommuting easy and green . Nevertheless, there is one aspect of telecommuting that is worth casting a skeptical green eye over—if you can work from home, really,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …KFC Double Down Gets Past Border Security and Food Police, Comes To Canada
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The commenters in our posts following the trial and introduction of the Double Down pointed out that a) it’s a free country and b) at 550 calories there are a lot worse things out there. (The Washington Post claimed “it’s almost health food” ) Now it is coming to Canada, somehow getting past the diligent Canadian Border Secu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: jmsinnz / Ooooby With the dropout economy fueling food entrepreneurship , and backyard farming (and even slaughter) taking off around the world, it makes sense to develop new and innovative ways for micro-growers to get their products to market. A New Zealand start up is hoping to unite farmers, micro-farmers a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All together now: finally . TiVo’s just announced a new online Season Pass Manager, allowing users to manage their season passes from the comfort of a browser — you can add, edit, and delete passes, as well as transfer them between TiVo boxes on your account. (That ought to make upgrading to a new TiVo a million times easier, which has been one of our longstanding complaints.) The best part? Editing the priority list online means you don’t have to sit and wait while your TiVo figures it all out — you can move things around at will in the browser and it’ll all get sorted out before the changes get sent to your box. Nice. Of course, TiVo is still way behind FiOS and Comcast when it comes to remote and mobile DVR management, but it’s nice to see the company address one of the biggest pain points with the device. Now just hit us with a serious Premiere performance update, alright? PR after the break. Continue reading TiVo launches online Season Pass Manager TiVo launches online Season Pass Manager originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Canon Cross Media Station pulls your pics and charges your cameras, wirelessly (video)
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Pulling memory cards and downloading pictures? A pain. Keeping track of a drawer full of different-sized battery packs for your travel, studio, and video cameras? A headache. If that’s you, Canon’s Cross Media Station could be a big hit of aspirin. Finally shown to the world after being teased at the Canon Expo last month, the prototype device looks something like a chubby scanner from a dark future. However, the top is actually an inductive charging pad. Set your camera up there (up to three at once) and a blue light will pop on to indicate flowing electricity. While the power heads one direction the data goes whizzing by in the other, pictures pulled and categorized on the device based on time, place, and recognized faces. As you can see in the video after the break, photos can be displayed over HDMI onto your HDTV. We’re guessing the wireless data spec is TransferJet , as Canon is a member of that consortium , but when it comes to the wireless charging we’re somewhat in the dark. It looks like the models in the video are using adapters to enable this functionality, but surely this will be integrated eventually. You know, in the future, when all the best stuff happens. Continue reading Canon Cross Media Station pulls your pics and charges your cameras, wirelessly (video) Canon Cross Media Station pulls your pics and charges your cameras, wirelessly (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Webcam-spying school district settles out of court, FBI declines to press charges
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Looks like the Lower Merion School District will be paying off kids who got zinged by its laptop tracking program — to the tune of some $610,000. As you might recall, there was quite a bit of hubbub earlier this year when students discovered that their school issued computers tended to activate their webcams and shoot the photos back to administrators. Apparently the FBI has decided not to bring any charges in the case after all, and the various families of the students settled with the school district out of court. And yes, the schools have discontinued the tracking program. Webcam-spying school district settles out of court, FBI declines to press charges originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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