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Sprint and Intel signing up Baltimore-area XOHM testers {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2008 1:18PM WHEN WILL WE GET COST INFORMATION?
Honestly, it's been a year since they announced the network officially.
Microsoft patents Page Up / Page Down functionality, April 1st seen lingering in the distance {Engadget}
Sep 2nd 2008 9:39AM If this is true, it makes me think that members of the "OJ Jury" work in the patent office.
Sprint's XOHM WiMax service launching next month, geobrowsing detailed {Engadget}
Aug 29th 2008 5:15PM You forgot to mention iTunes
Sprint's XOHM WiMax service launching next month, geobrowsing detailed {Engadget}
Aug 29th 2008 11:09AM Still waiting for PRICE information
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's gadgets {Engadget}
Aug 22nd 2008 8:14PM I'd likely keep most of the stuff if I won because I love toys and my favorite post was the Open Letter to Palm last year. I was an original Treo 300 user and loved the device (other than the flip up screen). I later moved to a Treo 600 but gave Palm up for HTC devices (6600, 6700, 6800) because Palm just stopped trying and couldn't figure out why they were losing market share. So much for first mover advantage.
Peek: the handheld that does e-mail, and only e-mail {Engadget}
Aug 20th 2008 5:48PM Kind of like a 1st Gen Blackberry
US Department of Energy pours $30 million into plug-in hybrids {Engadget}
Jun 13th 2008 2:02PM If a significant portion of the western population moves to these vehicles what happens to oil? Long run, nothing. The developing world's, China's and India's demand for oil for cars will continue to grow and they will buy the oil that western counties won't - they don't have the electrical infrastructure to support a large population of these vehicles.
That leads to whether western countries have the electrical infrastructure/capacity to handle these vehicles - the answer is no we currently don't. In the US, the cars will be bought far faster than the infrastructure is upgraded. Think about California - last year they had rolling blackouts. That's how tapped out their system currently is and California is one of the states most likely to adopt plugin hybrids.
What happens next is the US starts building more power plants to address the power demands of the new hybrids. What kind of plants are built? Nuclear? No, those take 10-20 years and the need to provide more electricity can't wait that long. Wind and Solar - Wind is pretty good though the farms are generally far from population centers so there is the need to add significant transmission lines. Solar is moving along and becoming more promising (particularly the systems that couple solar collectors with stirling engines) but we can't have a significant volume of electricity from solar power in 5 years which is the time frame are looking at for the move to a large volume of plugin hybrids. No, what we'll see are more coal plant and not the mystical "clean coal" plants that are something like 15 years into the development process and have yet to be commercialized. We'll see plain-old, dirty coal and that means we'll move from gasoline pollution in cars that is bad to coal emissions that are worse, at least from a global warming perspective.
Tanita works out the Ironman segmental body composition monitor {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 7:07PM It doesn't matter what you body fat actually is - you know whether you look good and your clothes feel comfortable. You don't need this to tell you if you're too fat. However, if you take daily readings and then use rolling 7 day averages, you can figure out whether you're trending up or down with a scale like this and that can be helpful for people who are trying to lose fat or gain muscle, particularly if they are trying to adjust their exercise and diet to do so and need feedback.
Microsoft announces Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Development Beta {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2008 7:32PM I wish it worked over an internet connection instead.
How would you change HP's 2133 Mini-Note PC? {Engadget}
May 2nd 2008 7:27PM EVDO/Xohm and better battery life.
