Verizon Wireless kicks off trade-in program for southern US residents, offers up to $300 credit

By Zachary Lutz posted Dec 18th 2011 5:21PM If you're drooling over a new phone and happen to live in the southern United States, we thought you might like to know that Verizon is literally paying prospective customers to jump ship. All you have to do is bring in a mobile phone, regardless of carrier, where you'll qualify for up to $300 toward a new handset from Big Red. If you're curious, we're told that non-smartphones will automatically receive a $50 credit, while more advanced devices will need to be evaluated by an in-store rep. The program is expected to last through the end of the year, and extends to residents of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Didn't make the list? Well, uprooting your family is always an option -- although, we'd probably advise against that.

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VidaBox Media Servers add metadata support for XBMC, Popcorn Hour and others

VidaBoxServers Adds Metadata Support for Third-Party Players from HDI Dune, Popcorn Hour, TViX, XBMC, & More

Integrators Can Combine VidaBox Servers with Easy, Simple Disc Archiving and Inexpensive, Third-party Players as a Multizone AV Streaming Solution

Garden City Park, NY, USA - Dec. 15, 2011 - VidaBox, LLC has announced enhanced Media Server compatibility with third-party streamers from Popcorn Hour, HDI Dune, TiVX, XBMC, and other budget-friendly players. Dealers and integrators can take advantage of VidaBox's exclusive Drop-n-Rip™ technologies for Blu-ray, DVD, and CD archiving, and combine them with these media streamers to offer a balance between low-cost and convenience.

"Inexpensive streamers are becoming more and more popular, but lack a mechanism for importing disc-based content," explains Cheung. "Our VidaBox servers' and their 1-step, Drop-n-Rip disc archiving feature solves this issue, and with newly added metadata support for third-party players, integrators can provide similar feature sets for their clients, and allow access to stored music and movies with the basic cover art and metadata. It becomes a very inexpensive alternative for projects where our World-Class extenders may be cost prohibitive."

"Network storage devices and media servers play an important role in this digital age," says Scott Walters, Project Manager at Syabas Technology, Inc., manufacturer of the Popcorn Hour and PopBox media streamers. "Our network media players add value to any server setup by letting you stream content directly to your TV with simple and easy-to-use navigation. Pairing our devices with VidaBox's Drop-n-Rip technology, users now have a complete solution for storing and accessing digital content easily and affordably."

"VidaBox servers add a very exciting dimension for seamless Blu-ray & DVD movie archival and playback," says David Yahng of DVICO, Inc., manufacturer of the TViX line of media players. "VidaBox home servers allow the TViX to provide the highest quality playback demanded by movie enthusiasts. Movies stored on the VidaBox can be browsed by cover art for instant playback on any attached TV without the inconvenience of complicated procedures of digitizing their content using a PC."

"The Drop-n-Rip technology on VidaBox servers can greatly simplify the end user experience for any family," states P.J. Julien, a technical enthusiast and hobbyist using XBMC with VidaBox. "Non-technically inclined people or even children can now archive new movies and music by simply dropping a disc into a VidaBox server – the new content then comes up automatically on my XBMC interface after it's been archived."

"I've used the VidaBox RackServerV2 along with Control4 and HDI Dune Players," explains Steven Short of MediaScape AV, "Since its installation, it's been working flawlessly! The Drop-n-Rip feature is a dream, and perfectly integrates together to provide a complete playback solution for my clients."

Metadata support for third-party players is available now on all new systems, and can be added onto existing systems as an optional upgrade. For more details and specifications on the Drop-n-Rip Technology from VidaBox, their media centers, extenders, and other VidaBox digital entertainment and control solutions, please visit the company website at vidabox.com, call +1-516-730-7500, or visit them at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in stand 9B111.

More information about VidaBox is available at www.vidabox.com.

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Verizon Galaxy Nexus car dock lacks three-pin connection of its HSPA twin, requires manual micro-USB connection

By Mat Smith posted Dec 19th 2011 2:27PM

While Verizon customers are happily lording it over their HSPA-bound counterparts with those LTE speeds, they may be less happy to hear about the lower-grade car dock they've been saddled with. Setting you back $40, the dock is a protective bracket for your phone that attaches to your windscreen with a suction cup. However, the GSM version includes the Galaxy Nexus' three-pin contacts, with micro-USB and mic ports built into the dock, meaning there's no need to constantly plug and unplug -- unlike the US model. Take a judicious look at the two images above; on the right is the predominantly hollow Verizon-branded car dock, while the similarly-shaped (but internally different) dock on the left is the UK's official Galaxy Nexus version. Why the difference? It's a transatlantic mystery to us.

[Thanks Brian]

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VT nears completion of HokieSpeed, world's 96th most powerful supercomputer

Virginia Tech's Wu Feng unveils HokieSpeed, a new powerful supercomputer for the masses

Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a machine that placed the university among the world's top computational research facilities. Now comes HokieSpeed, a new supercomputer that is up to 22 times faster and yet a quarter of the size of X, boasting a single-precision peak of 455 teraflops, or 455 trillion operations per second, and a double-precision peak of 240 teraflops, or 240 trillion operations per second.

That's enough computational capability to place HokieSpeed at No. 96 on the most recent Top500 List (http://www.top500.org/), the industry-standard ranking of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. More intriguing is HokieSpeed's energy efficiency, which ranks it at No. 11 in the world on the November 2011 Green500 List (http://www.green500.org/), a compilation of supercomputers that excel at using less energy to do more. On the Green500 List, HokieSpeed is the highest-ranked commodity supercomputer in the United States.

Located at Virginia Tech's Corporate Research Center (http://www.vtcrc.com/), HokieSpeed – the word "Hokie" originating from an old Virginia Tech sports cheer – contains 209 nodes, or separate computers, connected to one another in and across large metal racks, each roughly 6.5 feet tall, to create a single supercomputer that occupies half a row of racks in a vast university computer machine room. X took three times the rack space.

Each HokieSpeed node contains two 2.40-gigahertz Intel Xeon E5645 6-core central processing units, commonly called CPUs, and two NVIDIA M2050/C2050 448-core graphics processor units, or GPUs, which reside on a Supermicro 2026GT0TRF motherboard. That gives HokieSpeed more than 2,500 central processing unit cores and more than 185,000 graphics processor unit cores to compute with.

"HokieSpeed is a versatile heterogeneous supercomputing instrument, where each compute node consists of energy-efficient central-processing units and high-end graphics-processing units," said Wu Feng (http://people.cs.vt.edu/~feng/), associate professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's computer science and electrical and computer engineering departments. "This instrument will empower faculty members, students, and staff across disciplines to tackle problems previously viewed as intractable or that required heroic e?orts and signi?cant domain-speci?c expertise to solve."

Still in the final stages of acceptance testing, Feng envisions HokieSpeed as Virginia Tech's next war horse in research. As researchers from around the world have used System X to crack riddles of the blood system and further DNA research, Feng said HokieSpeed will be a next-generation research tool for engineers, scientists, and others.

HokieSpeed was built for $1.4 million, a small fraction -- one-tenth of a percent of the cost -- of the Top500's current No. 1 supercomputer, the K Computer from Japan. The majority of funding for HokieSpeed came from a $2 million National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. With federal and state budget crunches here to stay, Feng said HokieSpeed carries another plus: It can attract more international research projects to Virginia Tech, adding more to the College of Engineering's income.

Among the vendors working with Feng on HokieSpeed are Seneca Data Inc. and Super Micro Computer Inc., who were the driving force behind the project, as well as NVIDIA Corp., for their technical support. Feng has worked with NVIDIA before, with the Silicon Valley-based technology firm naming Virginia Tech as a research center and the NVIDIA Foundation's first worldwide research award for computing the cure for cancer being awarded to Feng.

In addition to HokieSpeed's compute nodes, a visualization wall – eight 46-inch, 3-D Samsung high-definition flat-screen televisions – will provide a 14-foot wide by 4-foot tall display for end-users to be immersed in their data. Still under construction, the visualization wall will be hooked-up to special visualization nodes built into HokieSpeed and allow researchers to perform in-situ visualization.

This way, researchers can see in real-time if their computational experiment is turning out as expected, or if corrections or on-the-fly adjustments must be made, said Feng. Previously, weeks could pass by before all the data from a computational experiment was generated and then rendered as a video for viewing and analysis.

"What we want to do with HokieSpeed is to enable scientists to routinely do 'what-if' scenarios that they would not have been able to do or think of doing in the past," Feng said. "It will facilitate the discovery process or accelerate the time to discovery. "

For now, high-tech universities, government research labs, and major corporations use supercomputers on a regular basis, major organizations from the MIT to the Pentagon to Hollywood movie companies. As supercomputers such as HokieSpeed grow in brain size and diversity, and yet shrink in space, they will become more readily available to the public at large, said Feng. That is his ultimate goal.

"Look at what Apple has done with the smartphone and iPad. They have taken general-purpose computing and commoditized it and made it easy to use for the masses," said Feng. "The next frontier is to take high-performance computing, in particular supercomputers such as HokieSpeed, and personalize it for the masses."

Such access to supercomputers could help small businesses that do not have multi-billion budgets for cyberinfrastructure, to better design their products or the process in which their products are produced on the assembly line in the factory. Scientists at smaller universities could use supercomputers for their own research efforts.

"The possibilities are endless as we invent the future at Virginia Tech," said Feng.

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Dell's Streak Pro 101DL to become Baidu's first Yi phone, shows up in FCC's database

We already knew that Chinese search giant Baidu's been cosying up to Dell to kick-start its very own smartphone ecosystem dubbed Yi (which means "easy" in Chinese), but so far both parties have been mum on the specifics of the hardware. Thankfully, a lucky lady -- some sort of microblogging goddess on Sina Weibo -- managed to get hold of an engineering sample and was kind enough to share some details. Eagle-eyed readers may recall that this is actually Softbank's upcoming Streak Pro 101DL Android handset, which has also conveniently just showed up in the FCC database with a V04B moniker and 1,700MHz WCDMA radio -- we've attached its FCC label diagram after the break.

The specs here match what we've seen before: a 4.3-inch AMOLED 960 x 540 display, Corning glass (presumably Gorilla Glass), dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8260, 8GB of ROM and microSD expansion. For those interested, Tencent Tech has reported that we could see the launch of this phone in China as soon as tomorrow, along with a competitive, unsubsidized price tag of CN¥3,000 (about $475). Well, Yi will sure make a fun playmate for its counterpart from Alibaba -- did you know that Jack Ma once called his Aliyun OS an ugly baby? True story. Terrence O'Brien contributed to this report.

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Scientists claim equation can predict songs' hit potential; still doesn't help David Hasselhoff

By Jason Hidalgo posted Dec 19th 2011 8:40AM Forget Simon Cowell -- when it comes to having an eye for potential hits, the bright minds over at the University of Bristol in the UK believe they can predict a song's hit potential through good, old science. More specifically, the scientists use a "hit potential equation" that they've devised by factoring in 23 musical features like tempo, loudness, harmonic simplicity and danceability. By using the equation, they claim that they can predict a song's hit potential with an accuracy rate of 60 percent. As for that other 40 percent, well, they say it's due to non-musical factors they couldn't account for like, um, marketing. The equation's biggest challenge? Predicting hit songs from the '80s.

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Orbotix Sphero review

By Michael Gorman posted Dec 19th 2011 9:00AM It's been just over a year since we first heard about Orbotix's little smartphone-controlled cue ball named Sphero, and since that time, we've seen a couple of pre-production units strut their stuff. Apparently, we weren't the only folks left intrigued -- there were so many folks wanting one that production capacity couldn't meet demand. So, while the company can't deliver every pre-ordered orb by its initial December delivery date, the first few Spheros are going out today and will be in the hands of some owners by the end of the week. Whether you're waiting for yours to arrive or are debating whether to get in on the robotic ball action, join us after the break to find out if it's a techno toy worth $130 of your hard-earned cash.



Setting up Sphero is fairly simple. In its clear plastic box, you'll find an alabaster orb, a blue induction charging base and the power cord. Plug the base into a wall outlet, set Sphero in the cradle and a blue LED will light up to let you know the power is flowing. The ball takes about three hours to fully charge if it's out of juice, and the company claims that gives you over an hour of playtime. Once it's topped off with power, you simply shake Sphero to turn it on and pair it to your iOS or Android device via Bluetooth using any of Sphero's various apps. One niggle: most of the time it took at least two or three attempts (and a couple of times it took six tries) to pair Sphero with our handset regardless of which app we were attempting to use.

In our experience, we found the quoted battery life to be pretty accurate, as it rolled around for at least an hour and 11 minutes per charge during our testing. We should mention that time was accumulated over the course of several stints of playing with the ball, as opposed to one marathon play session.

There are five free Sphero apps available for both iOS and Android owners -- Sphero, SpheroDrive, Draw 'N Drive, SpheroCam and SpheroGolf -- with more to come, as Orbotix has released Sphero's SDK (available at the source link) so devs can add to its software arsenal. As this humble editor owns no iOS devices, Sphero was put through its paces exclusively using the Android apps, though the Apple-friendly versions provide an identical experience. The Sphero app is the gadget's main bit of software that not only facilitates firmware updates, but also duplicates some of the functionality in the other apps. It's got basic joystick driving controls built in, draw and drive capability and a magic 8-ball-like feature called "Answer Me" where you can verbally ask Sphero yes or no questions. It then answers by flashing red for "no" or green for "yes" while displaying its answer on your smartphone's screen. Speaking of flashing colors, we should mention that Sphero's innards include LEDs, so you can change its color at random or tailor it to match your mood via a "Color Picker" function present in every app.


SpheroDrive is exactly what it sounds like: a driving app. It lets you choose from three control modes: joystick, tilt and RC. Joystick mode lets you move Sphero with a digital D-pad akin to what you'd find on an NES Max controller; tilt allows you to you steer using your phone's accelerometer; and RC gives you separate speed and steering controls. You can also change the toy's throttle response by selecting "Cautious," "Comfy" or "Crazy" in the settings menu, and there's a "Boost" function that fires off a quick burst of speed on request. In our experience, we found Sphero's handling to be somewhat inexact and boat-like; planning turns and routes was a must for precise maneuvering. To maintain a satisfactory level of control, we kept it in "Cautious" mode most of the time, though that would likely change if we had more time to acclimate to Sphero's steering. Orbotix claims that you can maintain control of Sphero up to about 50 feet away, and during our time with the device, we confirmed that range prediction was spot on.
Draw 'N Drive is another straightforward app that allows you to draw a route for Sphero onscreen, then sit back and watch the robotic ball do your bidding. We had few issues getting Sphero to faithfully follow our routes, but upon exiting the app we were always greeted by a force close window, so it seems there's still a bug in the code somewhere. Unfortunately, this wasn't the only software glitch we found. The SpheroCam app overlays a joystick driving control on top of what your phone's camera is pointed at so you can shoot stills or video of Sphero in action. While taking photos of Sphero was a snap, we were met with a force close window on our Thunderbolt whenever we attempted to record a video. We informed Orbotix of the issue, and while its engineers haven't had such difficulties using their own Android handsets (including a Thunderbolt), the company is working to correct these problems.

SpheroGolf is the last app we used, and it's the one that really begins to tap into Sphero's potential as an augmented reality toy. In practice mode, you control Sphero's trajectory via onscreen swiping in the direction of your choosing. Swing mode lets you use your phone in Wiimote-like fashion to get Sphero to maneuver the course you've created, while driver, iron and putter options determine how far the ball rolls in both modes. It's a neat idea, and it works well enough as is, but we can't help feeling that the game is just scratching the surface of Sphero's golfing potential. For example, we would love to see an app leveraging our phone's camera to display an AR course onscreen -- we think playing Pebble Beach in a parking lot or our living room would make for a far more engaging and entertaining experience. Here's hoping some enterprising devs can craft something similar (or better yet, superior) using Sphero's recently released SDK.

During our time with Sphero, we found it to be an intriguing enough toy, but we tended to grow bored with it within minutes. There's only so much time you can spend watching a ball roll around at walking pace before you look elsewhere for entertainment. Furthermore, the controls take some getting used to, so we most enjoyed playing with the robotic ball in wide open spaces, where there was no danger of it getting stuck behind a chair or lost under a couch. No doubt that's largely due to our own lack of steering skills, but we're not so sure we'd have the patience to put in the time needed to become pros even if we owned one.

That said, Sphero is a great toy to have if you've got any furry friends -- this reporter spent a good thirty minutes making Sphero chase a friend's dog, and it seems the pup had even more fun with it than his human friends. We should also note Sphero's worth as a conversation starter, as most folks haven't seen anything like it, and are keen to take it for a spin. All told, our biggest concern about Sphero is its cost. $130 is a fair chunk of change for a toy, no matter how unique it is, and is ultimately too much to pay for a novelty item whose novelty wears off rather quickly. However, it is quite an interesting plaything, and we'll be watching to see if additional apps can make for a more compelling experience.

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Firefox 9 now available, boasts speedier JavaScript handling, Lion optimizations

By Sean Buckley posted Dec 20th 2011 1:49AM Internet feeling a bit sluggish recently? Yeah, we get that -- but before you sail the malware-laden sea of software that promises to "speed up" your computer, you may want to check out Firefox 9. Mozilla's latest browser update features a tweak in its Javascript engine that boosts its benchmark performance by over 30 percent -- meaning that the new Firefox ought to give script heavy websites a run for their money. In addition to the new Javascript trick, which is called Type Inference, Firefox 9 improves theme integration and swipe navigation for Mac OS X users. Have a need for (javascript) speed? Hit the source links below to get your fix, or simply wait for your browser to auto-update.

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After legal battle, MSG HD channels finally arrive on Verizon FiOS

By Amar Toor posted Dec 19th 2011 7:19AM When the MSG Network was founded in 1969, the New York Knicks were just a few months away from their first NBA championship. The franchise would go on to win a second crown in 1973, after which it embarked on a gut wrenchingly long title drought that persists to this very day. The MSG Network, on the other hand, has been busy employing Mike Breen and expanding its Ewing-esque regional media reach to new platforms, including (rather begrudgingly) Verizon's FiOS TV. Last week, the carrier announced that both MSG HD and MSG+ HD would be coming to its FiOS TV lineup, with select markets receiving the channels as early as Thursday. The move doesn't come without some grumbling, though, especially on MSG's part. As Verizon puts it, the network had previously "refused" to provide its HD channels, but was ultimately forced to do so when the FCC ruled in Big Red's favor. MSG's ownership tried to stay the decision, but a federal court this week denied its request. As a result, New York subscribers can now spend their evenings watching the Knicks in HD, and trying to remember the good ol' times.

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Kyobo eReader with Mirasol display gets video walkthrough, does things E Ink can't

Qualcomm's Mirasol display technology was supposedly inspired by butterfly wings, and its progress over the past year has been appropriately erratic. It was happening, then it wasn't, then it was again -- but only in the Korea-confined Kyobo e-Reader. Despite all the flitting about, however, some consistent promises have been made: a 'converged' screen that's like E Ink because it requires no backlight and lasts for "weeks" on a single charge, and like LCD in its ability to refresh quickly and handle color video. Thanks to Netbook News, we now have some eyes-on of the 5.7-inch, 1024 x 768 Kyobo in action, powered by a 1GHz single-core Snapdragon S2 and Android 2.3, and it's yours for the glimpsing right after the break. There's room for improvement, especially with color saturation, viewing angles and reflectiveness, but we're not quibbling -- this ?349,000 ($310) device evidently lives up to its central claim.

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Huawei Mercury arrives on Cricket in full Glory, available now for $250

Cricket First in U.S. to Unleash the Power, Speed and Elegance of the Huawei Mercury

~ Long Anticipated Android™ Smartphone Features 4-inch Screen and 1.4GHz Processor

~~ Feature Packed Huawei Mercury Comes with Cricket Value Price of $249.99 Just in Time for the Holidays

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) today announced the exclusive United States availability of the Huawei Mercury, Cricket's fastest and most powerful smartphone, yet. This highly anticipated device is available now for $249.99 (MSRP) at Cricket branded retail stores, dealers and at www.mycricket.com.

"We are extremely pleased to be the first carrier in the United States to bring this high quality smartphone to customers and we're excited that we are able to offer this compelling device at a very affordable price," said Matt Stoiber, senior vice president, devices for Cricket. "In addition to its big screen and powerful processor, the Huawei Mercury is packed with many great features including a VGA front facing camera and 8MP rear camera and camcorder with LED flash. Users can also enrich their wireless experience by tethering the powerful Mercury to their tablet and other devices through Cricket's new tethering service plan over Cricket's high-speed 3G network."

"Huawei's device strategy has always been to ensure that carriers can continue to grow the population of smartphone connected consumers. We've been able to establish ourselves as a player in this market by providing affordable smartphones, and we're building on that foundation with devices for the high-tier market now," said Jiangao Cui, President of Huawei Device USA. "This particular device, the Huawei Mercury, is an opportunity for us to offer a quality high-end device to the U.S. market that can deliver rich multi-media content including music, video and gaming applications seamlessly."

Huawei Mercury Features

1.4Ghz Processor
4" FWVGA Touchscreen
Email application for both consumer and business email
8.0 MP AF HD rear camera/camcorder
VGA Front Camera
2GB Internal Memory
Real Web Browsing at 3G speeds
Wi-Fi Capable
Stereo Bluetooth
Mobile Hotspot (i.e. Tethering); supports up to 5 devices
Support for Google Mobile™ Services – Gmail™, Google Maps™ with 3D maps and free turn-by-turn navigation, Google Earth™, Movie Studio, YouTube, access to more than 300,000 apps, millions of eBooks, thousands of movies to rent from Android Market
The Huawei Mercury joins Cricket's growing smartphone lineup and is available on Cricket's $55 per month smartphone service plan that includes unlimited talk and long distance, caller ID, voicemail, call waiting, 3-way calling, call forwarding, unlimited text, picture and video messaging, 3G mobile data and email.
Additional Cricket Services Supported

Cricket Storefront Client -- The Cricket Storefront is Cricket's own application storefront which is preloaded from which users can purchase ringtones, graphics, ringback tones, games and applications. A user must have Flex Bucket funds available in order to make purchases from Cricket's Storefront.

Cricket Mobile Web -- Access the Internet from the phone, anywhere Cricket data coverage is available.

My Account -- My Account provides Cricket customers with online access to billing and account information. Once customers are registered and logged into My Account they have the ability to add a line of service, upgrade their phone, change their plan, add new plan features, change billing and communication preferences, view text message purchases and check the status of an online order.

My Backup -- The My Backup application will back up the users contact list, perform regular updates and download contacts.

For more information about Cricket's dynamic device lineup, please visit www.mycricket.com. To follow Cricket's latest news and updates online, go to Facebook at www.facebook.com/cricketwireless and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cricketnation.

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Sprint sues Time Warner, Comcast, Cable One and Cox for infringing twelve digital phone patents

By Brad Molen posted Dec 21st 2011 2:38AM Sprint's lawyers have been hanging out with nothing to do for a few days, so it's time for them to get back to work. The Now Network is now focusing its sights on Time Warner, Comcast, Cable One and Cox, slapping each one with a separate lawsuit claiming they have been infringing on up to twelve of their patents. The technology the companies have been using, Sprint states, relates to the transmission of voice data packets and was patented in the 1990s. Interestingly enough, several of these patents were the subject of its 2007 infringement case against Vonage, in which the VoIP company was ordered to fork over $80 million. In the filings, Sprint mentioned that the four entities "have realized the great value in this technology and have misappropriated it without Sprint's permission." Our world may be frightening and confusing, but it sure can be lucrative at times. And let's face it -- Sprint has quite a few bills to pay over the next couple years.

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Sirius XM Lynx strips down for the FCC, flaunts new screws

By Sean Buckley posted Dec 19th 2011 6:41AM If you were wondering when you could pick up Sirius XM's latest touchscreen touting receiver, you can scoot just a little closer to the edge of your seat -- the Lynx just made its way through the FCC. An accidental Best Buy listing in October outed the satellite radio as a possible Android device. The FCC teardown didn't betray what version of the dessert themed OS the receiver might be running, but a tidy Immersion logo suggests that the radio's touchscreen might support some of the outfit's haptic feedback tricks. Rumors and scuttlebutt aside, the Lynx passed through its federal inspection with flying colors. We'll let you know if we ever get a bead on its release date.

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LightSquared not looking so good sans FCC approval, files petition to confirm its spectrum rights

LightSquared Files Petition for Declaratory Ruling, Asks FCC to Confirm Its Rights as Spectrum Licensee

RESTON, Va., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LightSquared today asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to confirm LightSquared's right to use the spectrum licensed to the company by the federal government. In addition, the company asked the FCC to confirm that commercial GPS manufacturers have no right to interference protection from LightSquared's network since they are not licensed users of that spectrum.

"The one inescapable conclusion from two rounds of independent testing is that the incompatibility problem is not caused by LightSquared's network," said LightSquared's executive vice president for regulatory affairs and public policy Jeff Carlisle. "It is clear that GPS devices are purposefully designed to look into LightSquared's licensed spectrum, and given this evidence, we believe decision-makers should consider LightSquared's legal rights as the licensee."

The company asserts that commercial GPS manufacturers are responsible for having designed and sold unlicensed devices that use spectrum licensed to LightSquared and its predecessor companies.

"(C)ommercial GPS receivers are not licensed, do not operate under any service rules, and thus are not entitled to any interference protection whatsoever,'' LightSquared wrote in its petition to the agency. The petition also notes that the FCC itself has stated that the GPS industry has been on notice for almost a decade that LightSquared was planning to use its spectrum to launch a nationwide broadband network.

"LightSquared has had FCC authorization to build its network for over eight years and that authorization was endorsed by the GPS industry, and fully reviewed and allowed to proceed by several other government agencies," said Carlisle. "Commercial GPS device-makers have had nearly a decade to design and sell devices that do not infringe on LightSquared's licensed spectrum. They have no right to complain in the eleventh-hour about incompatibility when they had ample opportunity to avoid this problem."

In addition to more than 300 million GPS-enabled cell phones that government testing has confirmed are compatible with LightSquared's spectrum, several GPS device manufacturers, including Javad GNSS and Hemisphere, have also successfully developed and tested devices that are also compatible. The development of these LightSquared-compatible GPS devices proves that GPS manufacturers could have designed their equipment to filter out LightSquared's signals and avoid interference.

"While we ask the FCC today to confirm our legal rights, LightSquared remains fully committed to cooperate with all parties – the GPS industry, GPS users, and the federal government – to ensure that LightSquared's network is deployed in a way that is compatible with GPS users," said Carlisle. "LightSquared has always recognized the critical importance of the GPS system, and we firmly believe that GPS devices can peacefully co-exist adjacent to our network."

"This petition goes to the very core of the FCC's mission, which is to ensure that the nation's airwaves are governed by regulatory certainty,'' said Sanjiv Ahuja, LightSquared chairman and chief executive officer. "In the 21st century, the fair and efficient management of the nation's spectrum will unleash a technological revolution in wireless broadband that will bring untold benefits to all Americans.

"To encourage private innovation, entrepreneurs must have confidence and certainty over their rights to use spectrum granted by the FCC. Our country's future technological and economic achievements depend on a firm adherence to the rule of law."

LightSquared has made a commitment to bring world-class wireless broadband connectivity to 260 million Americans by 2015 – and to do so by investing $14 billion in private equity in our nation's broadband infrastructure. The company will continue to work with the federal government to arrive at a complete solution, so that it can realize the promise of building out the nation's first wholesale-only nationwide 4G-LTE network integrated with satellite coverage. The network will create jobs, foster competition and bring more affordable wireless broadband to underserved communities across America.

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MyRobots.com: for all of your robot's social needs

By Edgar Alvarez posted Dec 21st 2011 12:12AM You have your Facebook, Twitter, and some even MySpace. But what about your beloved cyborgs? They've got social needs too, you know. According to NewScientist, there's a new site on the block that'll allow your droids to have status updates of their own. Furthermore, MyRobots.com aims to be a complete social hub for humanoids; aside from the "I need to be charged" updates, they'll also secure a complete profile with name and photo. Of course, apps couldn't be left behind, which is why the company is planning a cloud-based app store to cap off its efforts. Unfortunately, just like The Facebook in its early days, the site is only open to a select few for now: Nao and Arduino-based robots. Needless to say, if you're going to have your mechanical partner make you a sandwich, the least you can do is let it share its feelings with friends.

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Logitech Harmony Link app gets customization-focused iPhone, Android update

By Daniel Cooper posted Dec 20th 2011 11:24PM Logitech's updated the iPhone and Android versions of its Harmony Link App. Now your smartphone-as-TV-remote can be customized to your whim, confusing any visitors who thought they'd watch some Jersey Shore at your pad. You'll also be able to power the TV down from your blower, for those moments when guests decipher your settings and you see your beautiful set polluted by Snooki and co. As a tip, this update doesn't change the iPad edition of the app, which will get some special attention just as soon as Logitech's engineers can get their eyes off MTV.

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Apple reportedly swapping recalled iPod nanos for 6G counterparts; you have yours?

By Joe Pollicino posted Dec 20th 2011 10:50PM It's been a few weeks since Apple's issued a worldwide recall on a number of its first-gen iPod nanos at risk for becoming uncomfortably hot under the collar. Evidently, many folks who've sent their devices into AppleCare to get swapped are finding that they've being treated with an upgrade to the current sixth-gen variant. Lovers of click wheels may view its square, touchscreen shell as folly, but hey, its hard to fuss over owning latest there is, right? The replacement program is still ongoing, so if you haven't checked to see if your nano qualifies, hit up the "more coverage" link below to find out. Already got yours back? Let us know your mileage in comments!

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Engadget HD Podcast 279 - 12.20.2011

Engadget HD Podcast 279 - 12.20.2011 - Engadget #mobileweb{background-image: -webkit-gradient( linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.51, #3991D0), color-stop(0.5, #57ACE8), color-stop(1, #80CAFF));background-image: -moz-linear-gradient( center bottom, #3991D0 51%, #57ACE8 50%, #80CAFF 100%);position: relative;width:980px;overflow:hidden;margin: 0 auto;text-align:center;border-color:#666666;border-width:1px;border-bottom:0px;height:128px;border-style:solid;display:none; visiblity:hidden;}.btn{background-image:linear-gradient(-90deg, rgb(129, 203, 255) 0%, rgb(87, 172, 233) 48%, rgb(57, 146, 209) 52%, rgb(57, 146, 209) 100%);background-image:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom,color-stop(0%, rgb(129, 203, 255)), color-stop(100%, rgb(57, 146, 209)), color-stop(48%, rgb(87, 172, 233)), color-stop(52%, rgb(57, 146, 209)));background-image:-moz-linear-gradient(-90deg, rgb(129, 203, 255) 0%, rgb(87, 172, 233) 48%, rgb(57, 146, 209) 52%, rgb(57, 146, 209) 100%);filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#9981cbff', EndColorStr='#993992d1');-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#9981cbff', EndColorStr='#993992d1')";background-color:rgb(10, 6, 249);width:492px;height:92px;border:2px solid rgb(129, 203, 255);border-radius:15px;-moz-border-radius:15px;-webkit-border-radius:15px;padding:10px 20px;box-shadow:0px 2px 1px rgb(255, 255, 255);-moz-box-shadow:0px 2px 1px rgb(255, 255, 255);-webkit-box-shadow:0px 2px 1px rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:40px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-shadow:0px 2px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);text-decoration:none;} Back to Mobile View Engadget for iPad - get the app now! @import url("http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/aol-standard-hat.css");#GH_ { float: none; width: 100%; margin: 0 0 -3px; }#GH_hat { float: none !important; border: 0 !important; margin: 0 auto !important; background-color: transparent !important; }#GH_ #GH_hat_links #GH_hat_A_first{ margin-left:-5px; _margin-left:0; }#GH_ #GH_hat_more,#GH_ .GH_hat_more{ margin-left: 590px; }#GH_ #GH_hat_links #GH_hat_A_second { border: 0; }#GH_ #GH_hat_links{ width:100%; }#GH_ #GH_more_list{ margin-left: -300px; }@-moz-document url-prefix(){#GH_ #GH_hat_links { margin-bottom: -5px; }#GH_ #GH_hat_more,#GH_ .GH_hat_more{ margin-left: 585px; }}AOLMAIL Engadget Classic Mobile HD ALT ENGADGET U.S. ESPAGÑOL ???? ???? ??? ???? DEUTCHLAND NewsHubsGalleriesVideosPodcastsThe RecapReviewsFOLLOW US ON TWITTERSUBSCRIBEABOUT / FAQTIP US .at15t_email{background-position:0px -4120px} Podcasts, Engadget HD Podcast 279 - 12.20.2011By Trent Wolbe posted Dec 20th 2011 10:38PM Podcast The future of TV has become a theme as of late, and this week Ben's editorial puts the topic front and center. We'll paw through what's wrong and possible solutions on the horizon including the latest Apple rumors, a new deal for the NFL and Channel Master's OTA DVR / streaming video combo box. Other hardware is also encroaching on the living room, so we'll also take a peek at the latest Xbox Live updates and a new iPhone remote for Roku. Press play for all that and more, including the (sad) state of our fantasy football efforts and what's on TV over the holiday break.

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00:04:35 - What's wrong with TV, and what it might take to change it
00:27:43 - Apple reportedly discussing its 'vision for the future of TV' with media execs
00:35:50 - NFL renews TV deals with CBS, Fox, NBC for nine more years, money reportedly involved
00:43:40 - Avatar special edition takes another dip on iTunes Tuesday, brings exclusive extras
00:46:58 - Time Warner finally cuts a deal for HBO Go streaming, launches 'in the next month'
00:49:40 - YouTube, Verizon FiOS TV and more video services roll out to Xbox Live
00:57:30 - Gamers spending more time streaming video to their consoles, Nielsen finds
01:00:47 - Roku's official iPhone remote app is available, has gesture control and channel selection for all
01:04:20 - Netflix updates iOS app with new iPad-optimized interface
01:09:49 - Channel Master TV review
01:13:09 - FCC tells advertisers to CALM down, lowers the volume on commercial breaks
01:14:00 - Roku 2, LT update adds support for both MKVs and an upcoming official iOS remote app
01:14:55 - Must See HDTV (December 19th - 25th)

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