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China clears Google acquisition of Motorola, eliminates last barrier to Googorola bliss
The final significant roadblock to Google’s buyout of Motorola has been cleared, as Chinese regulators have just given their rubber stamp. Their approval follows a few months after the simultaneous American and European clearances, and virtually all that’s left now is to formally close the deal and start integrating the two mobile giants
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China clears Google acquisition of Motorola, eliminates last barrier to Googorola bliss
Parkmobile adds NFC to its parking payment repertoire
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
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Parkmobile adds NFC to its parking payment repertoire
Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET with special guest Chris Ziegler!
Making his first appearance on the Engadget Mobile Podcast since Episode 86, Chris Ziegler has returned to dive into the week’s wireless news.
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Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET with special guest Chris Ziegler!
Space X’s Dragon launch… is go!
We’re crossing our fingers and toes so hard we can barely type and walk, since it looks like the oft-delayed Dragon launch will take place tomorrow. SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed that the company had passed final launch review with NASA and that everything was set for the Falcon 9 to lift off at 4:15AM ET on May 19th.
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Space X’s Dragon launch… is go!
Space X’s Dragon launch… is go! (update: aborted)
We’re crossing our fingers and toes so hard we can barely type and walk, since it looks like the oft-delayed Dragon launch will take place tomorrow. SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed that the company had passed final launch review with NASA and that everything was set for the Falcon 9 to lift off at 4:15AM ET on May 19th.
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Space X’s Dragon launch… is go! (update: aborted)
Plex shows you how to make your TV shows look great with its new Local Media Agent
Out friends at Plex have shuttled out a new Local Media Agent that’ll enable you to make your TV shows look great. The updated software lets you add show and season posters, banners, background art, theme music and individual episode thumbnails to your recorded shows to make each one really, really good-looking. It’ll happily handle PNG and FLAC files for those lossless enthusiasts and it’ll even overlook a messy file structure to get everything looking great.
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Plex shows you how to make your TV shows look great with its new Local Media Agent
Samsung pushes graphene one step closer to silicon supremacy
Graphene has long-held notions of grandeur over its current silicon overlord, but a few practical issues have always kept its takeover bid grounded. Samsung, however, thinks it’s cracked at least one of those — graphene’s inability to switch off current. Previous attempts to use graphene as a transistor have involved converting it to a semi-conductor , but this also reduces its electron mobility, negating much of the benefit.
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Samsung pushes graphene one step closer to silicon supremacy
LG Optimus 4X HD stops in at the FCC, flaunts AT&T bands, global support
LG’s latest 4.7-inch wunderphone may not have penned in an official release this side of the Atlantic, but that doesn’t mean the Feds aren’t putting it through its paces. A global version of the LG Optimus 4X HD made its way through the FCC test labs recently, revealing a quad-band GSM / EDGE radio with 3G support over AT&T’s 1900 / 850 bands
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LG Optimus 4X HD stops in at the FCC, flaunts AT&T bands, global support
Eight floppy drives recreate the theme from Game of Thrones, stake claim to the seven Kingdoms
Should the robots ever form an alliance and turn against us, all we need to do is call on people like Anand Jin to save us. Why? Because it’s folk of his ilk that are the pied pipers of the machine world
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Eight floppy drives recreate the theme from Game of Thrones, stake claim to the seven Kingdoms
iHome iP76 LED color-changing speaker indulges your love for pretty colors
Music just isn’t the same without a host of flashing colors to go with it, right? iHome , at least, seems to think so. Its first Glowtunes speaker tower, the new iP76, comes packed with LEDs in seven different hues that can fade, pulse or strobe as your playlist requires
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iHome iP76 LED color-changing speaker indulges your love for pretty colors
