Archive for March, 2010

iPad shipments en route, men in brown on high alert

Based on the flood of tips we just received, Apple is sending out the first batch of shipment notifications to all you pre-orderers. Your area is eligble for Saturday delivery isn’t it?

P.S. Apple news is going to get nuts as we approach the April 3rd launch. So if your brain can’t filter out the news you don’t care about then let Engadget do it for you.

[Thanks, Bill K.]

iPad shipments en route, men in brown on high alert originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: March 29th, 2010
at 8:11am by Thomas Ricker

Topics: Apple, ShipmementConfirmation, ipad, notification, shipmement confirmation, shipping

Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule

Time for some more salacious prognostications about the future, courtesy of the wily folks over at vg247. The team there claims to have obtained internal documents from UK video game retailer GAME that lists the release dates for forthcoming Xbox 360 titles. The listing is headlined by new iterations of Crysis, Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid, but the highlight for us gadget junkies is at the very end: Yoga Natal, scheduled for an October release. Now, even if this doc comes straight from the horse’s mouth, game release dates are notoriously prone to fluctuation, so let’s not read too much into that October date. What’s intriguing is that Microsoft does indeed seem intent on creating specialist games for its Natal experience, and it may be that they’ll all include Natal in their titles to make compatibility abundantly clear. Or this may be just a big bad April 1-related hoax, we’ll live either way.

[Thanks, Matt R.]

Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: March 29th, 2010
at 8:01am by Vladislav Savov

Topics: ConsoleGaming, Games, Gaming, Microsoft, MotionControl, MotionGaming, Natal, ProjectNatal, Videogames, Xbox, Xbox360, YogaNatal, console, console gaming, game, motion control, motion gaming, peripheral, project natal, video games, xbox 360, yoga, yoga natal

Victorinox Secure Pro USB drive is ‘un-hackable,’ can file your nails

This isn’t the first USB drive / Swiss army knife we’ve seen from Victorinox, but the company’s new Secure Pro drive is the first that is supposedly “un-hackable.” To put that claim to the test, Victorinox actually offered a £100,000 prize to a team of “professional hackers” if they could crack the drive during the company’s launch event — they were unable to do so. That un-hackableness apparently comes primarily from the drive’s combination of AES256 technology and fingerprint security, which is paired with (get this) a self-destruct mechanism that irrevocably burns the CPU and memory chip if there’s any attempt to force the drive open. All that and a pair of scissors — how can you go wrong? No word on a release over here just yet, but the drive is now available in the UK in capacities from 8GB to 32GB for between £50 and £180 (or about $75 to $270).

[Thanks, Nikolas R]

Victorinox Secure Pro USB drive is ‘un-hackable,’ can file your nails originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: March 28th, 2010
at 8:07am by Donald Melanson

Topics: Flash Drive, FlashDrive, Secure Pro USB, SecureProUsb, Security, Self-destructMechanism, SwissArmy, SwissArmyKnife, ThumbDrive, USB drive, UsbDrive, Victorinox, Victorinox Secure Pro USB, VictorinoxSecureProUsb, ae256, multi tool, multitool, secure, self-destruct, self-destruct mechanism, swiss army, swiss army knife, thumb drive

Apple to announce iAd / AdKit ‘mobile advertising system’ on April 7th?

Since Apple’s acquisition of Quattro Wireless in January, both parties have been keeping mum on plans for Madison Avenue domination, but now MediaPost claims to know a thing or two about the newlyweds. According to the report, Apple will apparently unveil “a new personalized, mobile advertising system” which will go by the underwhelming name of “iAd” on April 7th. The article speculates that the service could be heavily focused on location-aware advertising, though that angle could hit some snags as apparently coffee-partner / arch nemesis Eric Schmidt and a little company called Google hold patents on said functionality. Of course, something that drives a wedge between these two players wouldn’t exactly be a surprise at this point — and we’d be happy if Apple doesn’t cash in on those ad-supported OS ideas it’s recently had.

Really, we’re not surprised to hear this may be coming, as a tipster just pinged us with info that an “AdKit” reference has shown up in a special file on Apple’s public “Phobos” server. This file, which is called StoreBag, provides a public XML interface into iTunes. That interface describes how applications and web browsers can “call home” to either retrieve iTunes information pages or to request that iTunes jump to a given product listing.

What you see here is a key-value pair from that file. The URL string that follows after the “adkit-product-url” key suggests that Apple is about to introduce a way to link ads with product URLs. How will this URL work exactly? It’s hard to say without any further details, which are regrettably sparse on the ground, but it suggests that ad sourced product links can be used in a similar way to affiliate-driven links.

<key>adkit-product-url</key>
<string>http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/adkitProduct</string>

Not much else is known about Apple’s first venture into the ad business at this stage, but Steve Jobs has allegedly told some executives that this will be “revolutionary” and “our next big thing.” Frankly, we’re starting to get a little concerned with just how often the folks in Cupertino are bandying around the word “revolutionary” — but we’ll hold our judgments until after this announcement happens (if it happens at all).

Apple to announce iAd / AdKit ‘mobile advertising system’ on April 7th? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted: March 28th, 2010
at 6:29am by Richard Lai

Topics: AdNetwork, Apple, MediaPost, MobileAd, MobileAds, MobileAdvertising, QuattroWireless, ad, ad network, iad, mobile ad, mobile ads, mobile advertising, quattro, quattro wireless, rumor, speculation

HD video review : Gizmag road tests the fire-breathing 2010 Aprilia RSV4R

Hold onto your helmets, it's time to open up the throttle on the most race-focused roadbik...

We’ve spent plenty of time looking at the spec sheets for Aprilia’s barnstorming new superbike, the 180-horsepower RSV4 – and marvelling at the potential of what has to be the most race-focused roadbike ever to hit the market. Now it’s time to take this beast out on the road and see how it goes. Sit back and enjoy our most in-depth video review yet – it’s white knuckles and brown underpants as we road test the 2010 Aprilia RSV4-R…

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