Farewell, Internet
Well, here we are. More than four years after launching, Switched and DownloadSquad are unfortunately being closed. I've been thrilled to work at these two sites that have expanded tech coverage beyond the usual gadgets and social networks to cooking, culture, design, art . It's been humbling to work with these incredibly dedicated and talented teams of writers, and it would have been impossible to do it without them.
Going forward, you'll still be able to get the best tech news coverage from Engadget, HuffingtonPost Tech, Joystiq and TUAW. While we're still working out some of the details, Switched and DownloadSquad will continue to live on the Web and be fully accessible via search. Understandably, our Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr presences will quiet down, but you can still follow the Switched and DownloadSquad writers on their personal accounts. Thanks for reading.
Farewell, Internet originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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China’s Largest Unmanned Helicopter Test Flight (Video)
This is the first, also the largest unmanned helicopter that China ever developed, which had successfully completed the first test flight in Shandong Province last Saturday. It departed from the flight-test center and hovered for 10 mins, performing a few maneuvers before finishing with a stable landing.
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Billing of unauthorized tethering: AT&T would be simply using the APN
Recently, we talked about how AT&T started billing people using tethering for free on their jailbroken iPhone, while tethering normally requires an extra fee on the Apple device.
It was discovered that AT&T didn't have to develop any advanced or expensive new technology to detect unauthorized tethering.
The carrier uses the APN (Access Point Name). Tethered data is marked with a different name so it can be sorted apart from the regular data for billing purposes. Most tethering applications available on Cydia use the regular tethering system of the iPhone so the tethered data is marked as such. Then it's not hard for AT&T to tell if the customer is paying the extra $45 a month for tethering.
In Europe, carrier Orange also blocked tethering for some jailbroken iPhone users and it was probably the same detection system that was used. We found out that the APN for the regular data in France is simply orange, while it becomes orangenew.fr for tethered data.
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YouTube officially launches the new movie rental services to fight with iTunes Store
In the past, if you are looking for the quickest way to rental movies, you may probably search them on iTunes Store. Now, Google officially steps in to take the market shares. They have just launched the YouTube movie rentals. You can access them at here. YouTube have already partnered with major Hollywood studios. That means those movie titles could be as large as those on the iTunes Store like Inception or Little Fockers.
The movie page is specially designed. Besides the movie descriptions, you could also look at the reviews by Rotten Tomatoes. At the bottom, it also shows related clips so you can explore more.
It looks like Google is trying to kill iTunes. But for users, that is a good news. Competitions help to improve the products. We just hope YouTube could launch the service worldwide as soon as possible.
[via YouTube Blog]
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