Virginia Tech and Colorado were among the schools that were not selected for the NCAA tournament’s 68-team field. AP basketball writer Jim O’Connell says both school have legitimate complaints about being left out. (March 14)
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Apparently in an effort to reduce confusion and settle the situation once and for all, Sony Ericsson’s Spanish outpost has taken to the wires today to clarify the pricing and availability situation of the Xperia Play there: €649 off contract and unlocked (which works out to roughly $907) on April 1st. That more or less lines up with what we’ve been hearing in other European locales , though in Spain, Vodafone will have a 15-day exclusive on the white model — other carriers will only have access to black at first, and none of the carriers have come clean with on-contract pricing details just yet. Clearly, $900 is an enormously tough sell, but a weak dollar never helps these situations — we’ll need to wait for word on the US retail picture before we’ve got the whole story. Sony Ericsson Spain confirms Xperia Play for €649 on April 1st originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Hey, that’s just $100 per screen, right? Sprint has just announced that Kyocera’s unusual dual-display Echo clamshell will be launching on April 17th for $199.99 on contract, though you’ll be able to notch your interest early — March 26th, to be exact — via pre-order. As a refresher, the phone offers a 5 megapixel cam with 720p video capture, 1GB of onboard storage augmented with an in-box 8GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB), Android 2.2, and — of course — a pair of 3.5-inch WVGA displays that should set it apart from the crowd. We’d have liked a dual-core processor to go along with the trend here, but you can’t have it all, can you? Follow the break for the full press release. Continue reading Kyocera Echo hits Sprint on April 17th for $200 Kyocera Echo hits Sprint on April 17th for $200 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Time Warner Cable’s iPad app will be the first with live TV streaming when it launches… any minute now
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Tablet apps from cable, fiber and satellite TV providers are suddenly a dime a dozen but despite promises of live TV streaming from several companies, the AP reports Time Warner Cable is finally ready to launch the feature first . The company’s official blog also teased the app in recent days but so far, iTunes isn’t giving any positive results. When it launches, it should enable TV watching, but only when used at home on Time Warner’s internet — you’ll need the TV and internet services to access the 30 or so channels initially available. While we keep an eye out for the app to actually arrive, you can get an idea of what it will be like by checking out the demo video from last year, embedded after the break. Continue reading Time Warner Cable’s iPad app will be the first with live TV streaming when it launches… any minute now Time Warner Cable’s iPad app will be the first with live TV streaming when it launches… any minute now originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …It’s Pi Day. Do you know what 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 sounds like?
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It may not be marked on most calendars, but if you’re a math nerd (or a nerd in general — of which we count ourselves, obviously), you know what March 14th is. It’s 3/14, otherwise known as the first three digits of Pi . That’s since become a minor geek holiday of sorts, and has prompted some fairly unique celebrations over the years. One of the latest comes from musician Michael John Blake, who interpreted Pi to the first 31 decimal places as musical notes and turned it into a song — played at 157 beats per minute, no less (or half of 314). As it turns out, however, Blake wasn’t the first to come up with the idea — composer Lars Erickson wrote his own “Pi Symphony” a few years back, and has now sparked a bit of a copyright spat on YouTube over who actually owns the rights to Pi in musical form. Head on past the break to check out both versions for yourself. Continue reading It’s Pi Day. Do you know what 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 sounds like? It’s Pi Day. Do you know what 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 sounds like? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Apple patent woos with tales of ultra-slim audio connectors for lusciously thin devices
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We’re still a long way from reaching the point where our gadgets can’t get any thinner and, while the 8.7mm iPod Shuffle is just about king of the hill for the moment, Apple is already envisioning a future where where the humble 3.5mm audio jack is too thick. A recently revealed patent application called “Low Profile Plug Receptacle” describes a number of different ways to create audio ports that are thinner than current models but yet won’t take us back to the sinister miniUSB adapter days of yore. One of the potential solutions has a “semi-flexible” housing that expands willingly to receive your headphones’ clumsy attentions, while another is recessed beneath a pair of doors that flip open to make room when the plug is inserted. As always with these applications there’s no reason to believe they’ll be ever appearing in a consumer device, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of a future where the gold-plated jack on your buds is thicker than the bulkiest part of your phone. Apple patent woos with tales of ultra-slim audio connectors for lusciously thin devices originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Android ‘s has already hit the set top box world with the Google TV , but that isn’t true Android. This is, packing Android 2.2. Or, at least, it will be when it ships sometime toward the middle of the year. It’s the Nixeus Fusion XS, a Marvell 88DE3010-powered media streamer with 2GB of flash memory and 512MB of RAM, and unfortunately a little processor fan that hopefully doesn’t make too much noise. That’s the same Armada processor that drives the OnLive MicroConsole and hopefully it’ll give enough oomph for FroYo to serve up HD video content, including BD-ISO support and whatever else the little, ebony thing can pull down over USB or Ethernet, spitting it back over composite and optical audio output or on one string of HDMI. It’s looking rather less powerful than the similarly Android-powered Xtreamer PVR , but its anticipated cost of $170 should be a good bit lower. Oh, and we can’t wait to see what the hackers do with it either. Android and Marvell to join forces in the Nixeus Fusion XS media streamer originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Think you’ll be heading to the Android Market to get your next fix of Rovio Mobile’s insanely popular Angry Birds ? Think again. The next installment in the aviary vengeance saga , Angry Birds Rio , will launch exclusively on Amazon’s upcoming Appstore for Android . That does sound like it will eventually achieve universal distribution via the Market, but in the interim Amazon has scored a pretty big scoop in its efforts to attract users to its own app repository. We’re also promised the Appstore is launching “very soon” and Amazon has just inaugurated an @amazonappstore account on Twitter to keep us abreast of when precisely that will happen. Continue reading Angry Birds Rio will be exclusive to Amazon Appstore on Android launch Angry Birds Rio will be exclusive to Amazon Appstore on Android launch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …MIT’s Junkyard Jumbotron turns your motley collection of devices into one large display (video)
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Got a handful of mobile devices layin’ ’round when what you actually need is one large display? The kids at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media got you covered! The Junkyard Jumbotron, designed by Rick Borovoy, Ph.D. and Brian Knep, is an ingenious project that makes stretching an image across damn near any collection of displays with web browsers. When you assemble the displays (such as in the picture above), the Junkyard Jumbotron website will ask you to point them all to the same URL. This will cause each device to load the same QR code, which — once you snap a digital pic and email it to the project — will allow it to calibrate and stretch a JPEG across your assemblage. It certainly does look like something scrounged up at a junkyard, doesn’t it? Well, sometimes that’s part of the fun. Hit the source link to try it for yourself. Video after the break. Continue reading MIT’s Junkyard Jumbotron turns your motley collection of devices into one large display (video) MIT’s Junkyard Jumbotron turns your motley collection of devices into one large display (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Devastating. There are no words to effectively convey the human catastrophe suffered in Japan. Engadget would like to express our sincere condolences to those readers personally affected by recent events. As a tech publication, we’re obviously focused on the impact recent events will have on Japan’s vast consumer electronics industry — an industry that has responded with millions of dollars in cash, equipment and services to help with the relief effort. Thus far, Canon, Panasonic, and Sony have each pledged
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