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Motorola CLIQ XT hands-on

We know you’ve barely recovered from our Devour review, but Moto just threw another Blur-ified phone in our laps this afternoon – the CLIQ XT. We’ve been playing around with the Android 1.5-based, Flash Lite-supported, multitouch-capable handset for the last couple of hours — but before we grace you with our first impressions, just a fair warning: we don’t yet know the price of the new T-Mobile Android handset, though Motorola did promise us that it will hit shelves this month. With that said, hit the break for a quick rundown of our early thoughts.

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Motorola CLIQ XT hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ModisTech to commercialize cheap, flexible OLED lighting this year

ModisTech to commercialize cheap, flexible OLED lighting this year originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s Nexus One censors your voice-to-text input, we #### you not

It’d be kinda funny if someone was live-bleeping your profanity, right? Sure, but five minutes later you’d sober up to regret and lingering annoyance. Turns out the Nexus One does it for real, courtesy of Google’s speech-to-text engine — it replaces the notorious four-letter F and S words with a ‘####,’ which is a more dramatic take on the Zune HD’s now-obsolete Twitter censorship. As silly as this sounds, Google has come up with a good reason:

We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent.

Kudos for caring, but it wouldn’t hurt to have an on / off option either — after all, it’s not like we’re asking for pinch-to-zoom here, and we’ll promise to use a swear jar.

Google’s Nexus One censors your voice-to-text input, we #### you not originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kindle DX now with global wireless?

See that text up there? The part of the site that reads “Kindle DX Now with Global Wireless.” Well, the Kindle DX doesn’t have have global wireless… yet. The link is dead but it certainly looks like Amazon is about to make good on its earlier promise to bring global roaming capabilities to the DX as it did with its 6-inch Kindle. In fact, we’re expecting a press release any time now.

[Thanks, Brad]

Kindle DX now with global wireless? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bringing telemedicine to the ICU gives mixed results

Electronic medical records aren’t the only high-tech solution that many hope will revolutionize medicine. Telemedicine has been promoted as a way of letting patients receive care from specialists they might otherwise not have access to, and some studies have produced data suggesting it can live up to its promise, at least in some contexts. The latest specialty to go under the microscope is intensive care medicine (practitioners are apparently called “intensivists”). A study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that telemedicine may bring some small benefits to the ICU, but the impact is very subtle.

At first glance, an ICU might not be the obvious choice for telemedicine, given its focus on intensive care, which implies lots of hands-on intervention for a wide range of ailments. But a large portion of the work involved in an ICU is a matter of monitoring patients for changes, which doesn’t necessarily require direct intervention.

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IBM Gets Webtop From eyeOS, Eyes Google Chrome OS

IBM is teaming up with eyeOS, the maker of an open-source, web-based operating system. We’ve had our (ahem) eye on eyeOS for quite some time. It’s receiving renewed interest in the wake of the much anticipated launch of Google Chrome OS.

IBM will offer eyeOS 2.0, available in January, to all customers who buy IBM’s System Z mainframe servers. SystemZ servers are used mainly by large organizations for data processing purposes. So eyeOS will be used as a desktop in the cloud for potentially thousands of enterprise users.

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This is a huge win for eyeOS, making it one of Google’s biggest competitors in the web OS or “webtop,” space. IBM has a huge channel for distributing eyeOS, which will better position the Barcelona-based company in the enterprise market.

Questions still remain about the eyeOS platform. IBM is adopting the software for availability on its servers, which raises questions about eyeOS as a true cloud offering. The beauty of cloud computing is its ease of use, with the Web as its backbone.

As our own Sarah Perez wrote in September about eyeOS:

“Besides, offering the host-your-own solution almost misses the point of being a web OS. The promise of cloud computing is that it’s supposed to make our lives easier – our data lives on the web now and not on our fallible hard disks and CDs. We don’t have to backup, because Google (or any other cloud vendor) does that for you. We don’t have to worry with hard drive space either – we use the cloud, sometimes even for a fee, and we can get to our data from anywhere using any device. And all this is provided to you within your browser.”

Nonetheless, this is a big step forward for eyeOS and validation that this kind of “webtop” solution may have legs after all.

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iriver Story unsheathed, still looks remarkably like a Kindle

If you’re pro-ebook readers but anti-Amazon censorship, here’s a decent alternative for your cashola. The Story reader from iriver has been undressed for our entertainment and rightfully praised for its trendy eco-friendly packaging. It’s not an altogether unique device, but with an 800 x 600 E Ink display, support for ePUB, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and even Ogg / WMA file formats, it’s at least versatile enough. Hit the read link to try and spot the other differences between this and Amazon’s record-breaking piece of authoritarian hardware. Go on — it’s a real rush, we promise.

iriver Story unsheathed, still looks remarkably like a Kindle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Barnes & Noble’s Nook now sold out for the holidays

Hoping to put your hands on a Nook this holiday season? Here’s hoping you got in the door early, because bookseller Barnes & Noble claims that the Kindle-competitor has sold out for anyone hoping to gift the thing this year. According to the New York Times, B&N says pre-orders on the device have exceeded its expectations, and the well has now run dry on forthcoming stock. To make up for the loss, the seller is offering placeholder certificates for buyers, with a promise that the next round of devices will be shipping out around January 4th. Are suburban moms to blame? Only B&N knows for sure.

Barnes & Noble’s Nook now sold out for the holidays originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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