Monthly Archives: July 2012

Google has offered up New York City subway information via Maps for some time now, but as anyone who’s navigated the 100-plus-year-old transit system will happily tell / complain to you, such information is only so useful without info on … Continue reading →

Nortel, once one of the biggest telecoms company in the world but now in the death throes of bankruptcy, has selected Google’s $900 million bid for its patent portfolio as the stalking horse bid. This doesn’t mean that Google will … Continue reading →

The Solder : Time II? watch kit from Spikenzie Labs is a build-it-yourself watch kit that features a 7 X 20 dot matrix red LED display with a programmable Arduino microcontroller.  To me, quite simply, it’s a fun afternoon DIY … Continue reading →

Tuesday’s LogicBUY Deal is the Dell XPS 8500 desktop with the 3rd generation Intel Core i5 “Ivy Bridge” architecture, starting at $669.99.  Base features:  Core i5-3450M 3.1GHz Quad-core CPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s hard drive, 1GB GeForce GT 640 … Continue reading →

We’re later than usual with this week’s Engadget Mobile Podcast, but can you blame us? Just look at all of those long, complicated topics below. Earnings, specs, leaks, beams, Notes…it’s a mobile casserole, just like Mom used to make, with … Continue reading →

In BattlePaint, you play a cube. In fact, you’re not even a cube — just a square. But boy, are you fast! And you can shoot in all directions. That’s important, because there are baddies coming in from all over … Continue reading →

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android … Continue reading →

To me, the coolest things about an app aren’t so much about the design or buttons or swiping, but how and why you would actually use the app — the experiences that that app actually enables. NOAA Hi-Def Radar fits … Continue reading →

Republic Wireless is back! The disruptive division of Bandwidth just reopened its beta program and released the $249 Defy XT to its users. Thankfully, nothing else has changed since the service’s launch late last year. For just $19 a month … Continue reading →

Google Chrome 11 — which just recently made the move to the browser’s beta channel — has received a minor update that gives developers access to two new APIs. The first is a full-featured proxy API, which will, for example, … Continue reading →