Comcast 1Q profit up 6 percent on new customers (AP)
AP – The nation’s largest cable TV provider is reporting a 6 percent jump in first-quarter earnings.
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Comcast 1Q profit up 6 percent on new customers
(AP)
Quest for invisibility cloaks revisited by two research groups
After a brief period of no news, it’s time to revisit the world of invisible cloaks. Inspired by the ideas of theoretical physicist John Pendry at Imperial College, London, two separate groups of researchers from Cornell University and UC Berkeley claim to have prototyped their own cloaking devices. Both work essentially the same way: the object is hidden by mirrors that look entirely flat thanks to tiny silicon nanopillars that steer reflected light in such a way to create the illusion. It gets a bit technical, sure, but hopefully from at least one of these projects we’ll get a video presentation that’s sure to make us downright giddy.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wearables
Quest for invisibility cloaks revisited by two research groups originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Amazon to charge per megabyte to send personal documents OTA to your Kindle
So far, sending files to your Kindle cost a flat fee — one dime per document for conversion and download over Whispernet. Looks like that honeymoon is over, as Amazon’s announced that as of May 4th, the Personal Document Service will be a variable fee of $0.15 per megabyte, rounding up. It’s still free of charge if you transfer the documents over via USB, and sending them to “name”@free.kindle.com will return converted files to your email address gratis. If you’re trying to be frugal, we might suggest combining all those pending transfers into one fat PDF and sending it off sometime this weekend.
[Via GearDiary]
Filed under: Handhelds
Amazon to charge per megabyte to send personal documents OTA to your Kindle originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Phone maker Ericsson says profits down by 30 pct (AFP)
AFP – The world’s leading mobile phone network equipment supplier Ericsson of Sweden on Thursday said its first-quarter net profits were down by 30 percent compared to the same period last year.
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Phone maker Ericsson says profits down by 30 pct
(AFP)
Android 1.5 already hitting T-Mobile G1s?
We’d kinda gotten used to the cold, hard reality of being teased with the promise of a Cupcake build on our retail G1s out in some distant, nondeterministic future that we may or may not be a part of — but all of a sudden, it looks like we might’ve vaulted right past Cupcake. We’ve now received multiple tips this evening suggesting that T-Mobile may have started distributing Android 1.5 as an over-the-air update to G1 owners, which would bring customizable widgets, messaging enhancements, virtual keyboards, and UI tweaks (among many other goodies) to an eager public. Anyone out there seeing this?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
P.S. – No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you: these are little green pastries baked by T-Mobile. “We heard people wanted cupcakes,” one representative told us.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Android 1.5 already hitting T-Mobile G1s? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.