Gadget Info For 10.05.2011 And More

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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Hot Information For 05.05.2011 And More

Facebook app for BlackBerry PlayBook video review

We loaded up the new Facebook app for the BlackBerry PlayBook that was just announced and released at BlackBerry World this week and gave it a quick rundown and video review.
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Keyboard Layout Switch

Check out this keyboard mod that Charlie Webb from NortHACKton came up with. You can never have too much automation, I love the big red button which allows a predetermined string of text to be sent to the computer when pressed. There are some additional pictures and schematics here.

“NortHACKton member, Charlie Webb, recently completed this project based around an arduino and a keyboard. Fed up with the way Windows forced him to switch between his different keyboard layouts (qwerty to Dvorak) he decided to take the process entirely out of windows hands.”

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 04/05/2011

No tech business battle has been so fun to follow than the one involving Microsoft and Apple. The Mac vs PC ads have been around for quite some time, and iTok takes on this issue to show who’s really winning this battle. With a humorous, but nevertheless valid, approach, Hunch goes deeper on the differences between users, and, to close our Daily Viz, three pieces a bit more serious. First, Win Rumours shows some numbers behind Microsoft, Apple’s “Ad Machine” is analyzed by the folks at Buy Sell Ads, and a very interesting overview to Silicon Valey’s Money Network, presented by Deal Book.

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Users may be able to download the upcoming Mac OS X Leopard through App Store

Currently, Apple delivers the Mac OS X beta testing version to developers through the portal. It’s very convenient and this method may apply to all users. Source claimed Apple may release the upcoming Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store. MacBook Air users, which don’t have a CD-ROM, will be glad since it’s so much easier to upgrade their current Mac OS.

[via AppleInsider]

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Gadgets Tech Info For 02.02.2011

T-Mobile announces LG G-Slate Android Honeycomb tablet with 3D display

Today T-Mobile announced that it will soon offer the LG G-Slate, an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet with an 8.9-inch display. The G-Slate will support T-Mobile's HSPA+ 4G network and offers a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor as well as a 3D display and 3D video recording.
Read the full story here.

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iPad 2 LCD Display Leaked From China

According to 9to5mac, the site gained an iPad 2′s display from a Chinese iPhone 4 repair store called iFixYouri, they found the LCD has over a mm thinner than current iPad's display, saying it is lighter and has smaller surrounding frame. The site believed this is fresh out from China but at this point, they can't really tell whether resolution is higher than the current iPad's display or not. More shots after the break.

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Angry Birds for Windows Free Download

Angry Birds is probably one of the most popular, if not the most popular games in the world itself. In the puzzle video game, developed by Finland-based Rovio Mobile, players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures in order to destroy all the pigs on the playfield. Angry [...]

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Apple Awards $10K to Lucky Winner, Lucky Winner Hangs Up on the Call

On Saturday, iTunes VP Eddy Cue called a woman named Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, U.K., to congratulate her on winning Apple's 10 billionth app download sweepstakes, and to award her with a $10,000 prize. Davis, however, politely declined the offer, and hung up.



"I thought it was a prank call," Davis told Cult of Mac. "I said, 'Thank you very much, I'm not interested' and I hung up." But one of her daughters knew that the call definitely wasn't a hoax because she was the one who downloaded the free Paper Glider app -- the lucky 10 billionth app download.

Continue reading Apple Awards $10K to Lucky Winner, Lucky Winner Hangs Up on the Call

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Motorola to launch dual-core DROID X 2 (Daytona) for Verizon?

Motorola may have a dual-core Android 2.2 Froyo powered DROID X 2 smartphone in the works for Verizon Wireless. Rumor has it that it's powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor, and it's currently codenamed Daytona.
Read the full story here.

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SOCOM 4: Multiplayer Trailer

Not for guts or glory but for your country that makes you a true soldier in SOCOM 4.

Video Preview: SOCOM 4

We sit down with Game Director, Seth Luisi, and talk about tactical team gameplay and the use of female soldiers in SOCOM 4.

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Buoyed By Last Quarter Of iPhone Exclusivity, AT&T Is Now Biggest American Wireless Carrier

Verizon may have just landed the iPhone just in time: AT&T just announced that they have passed Verizon as the number on wireless carrier in America, increasing their current subscriber numbers to 95.5 million.

In Q1 2011, 2.8 million new wireless customers joined the network, and data revenue climbed by 27.4 percent compared to the same period a year ago to reach $4.9 billion.

Needless to say, AT&T’s last gasp with iPhone exclusivity had something to do with that: in fact, 4.1 million iPhones were activated in that three month period.

What’s more surprising, though, is just how insignificant the iPad’s contributions to AT&T’s fortunes were. In fact, for the entire quarter, AT&T only racked up 442,000 tablet activations… compared to 7.33 million iPads sold by Apple during last quarter.

Granted, Apple sells iPads internationally, but the 442,000 number takes into account AT&T’s other tablet activations, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Looking at these numbers, it looks like the iPad contributed comparatively little to AT&T’s success this quarter… and, in fact, that the iPad 3G might be significantly less popular than the WiFi-only variety.

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Apple Awards $10K to Lucky Winner, Lucky Winner Hangs Up on the Call

On Saturday, iTunes VP Eddy Cue called a woman named Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, U.K., to congratulate her on winning Apple's 10 billionth app download sweepstakes, and to award her with a $10,000 prize. Davis, however, politely declined the offer, and hung up.



"I thought it was a prank call," Davis told Cult of Mac. "I said, 'Thank you very much, I'm not interested' and I hung up." But one of her daughters knew that the call definitely wasn't a hoax because she was the one who downloaded the free Paper Glider app -- the lucky 10 billionth app download.

Continue reading Apple Awards $10K to Lucky Winner, Lucky Winner Hangs Up on the Call

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