YouTube has upgraded its viewer demographics and video tracking tools and changed the name from Insight to Analytics. The changes should be rolling out to “everyone with a modern browser” today, though you can still access Insight if you want to do a little comparison of capabilities. The changes are non-destructive; some existing features have [...]
Archive for November, 2011
YouTube Analytics Slakes Your Thirst For Your Channel’s Viewing Stats
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Analytics, Capabilities, Insight, Jockey, New Tools, Thirst, Tracking Tools, Viewer Demographics, Youtube
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Infinity Blade 2 launches tonight, into world of Deathless tyrants and legion of Titans (video)
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4s, 9to5 Mac, A5, Blade 2, Eastern Time, Engadget, Hand To Hand Combat, Infinity, Ipad, Iphone, Launches, Lighting Effects, Limited Time, Optimizations, Promises, Shading Effects, Spells, Titans, Tyrants, Warriors
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In the realm of brutal hand-to-hand combat, Infinity Blade 2 promises to be without peer. The game will launch tonight on the App Store, and while its said to run just fine on the original iPad, iPhone 3GS / 4, it packs special optimizations for the A5 chip found in every iPad 2 and iPhone [...]
3D Mark is coming to Android phones near you in 2012
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: 3d Mark, 3dmark, Amd, Benchmark, Benchmarking Software, Dell, Engadget, Google, Handset Makers, Hp, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Nbsp, Newest Software, Nvidia, Pcmark, Physics, S Yard, Testing Tools
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Futuremark, father of 3DMark and PCMark, has begun work on an Android edition of its benchmarking software. Wittily titled 3DMark for Android, it’ll bring the industry-standard testing tools to all the phones in Google’s yard. When finished, users will be able to measure performance by pushing the phone’s CPU, rendering, openGL and physics engines to [...]
Lenovo will launch a Windows Phone in the second half of 2012, says LePhone product manager
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Chen Yue, China, Engadget, Happy Days, Head Start, Launch, Lenovo, Lumia, Nbsp, Nokia, S 300, Second Half, Windows Phone
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We’ve already been teased by a LePhone S2 moonlighting as a Windows Phone last month, but it was only yesterday that Lenovo confirmed an upcoming product featuring said OS. While boasting a mere total of 700,000 phone units sold since the original LePhone debuted in May last year (which is rather mundane compared to the [...]
Verizon Wireless and Cricket handshake over spectrum, anticipate FCC nod of approval
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: 700mhz, Aws, Cricket, Eagle Eye, Engadget, Fcc, Fcc Approval, Fcc Filing, Fierce Wireless, Handshake, Nationwide Network, Nod, Pcs Licenses, Radio Waves, Red Flags, Second City, Spectrum, Subscriber Service, Verizon Wireless, Wireless Coverage
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Verizon Wireless and Cricket are looking to swap spectrum holdings, according to a recent FCC filing. The proposed license exchange would see VZW’s Block A 700MHz holdings in Chicago handed to Cricket for the purpose of LTE service in the second city. Big Red’s purported gain has less to do with its burgeoning 4G build [...]
Nokia links up with Bluetooth 4.0 for indoor positioning, because anything Google can do, it can do better
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Analytics, Antenna Arrays, Consumer Habits, Ee Times, Endgame, Engadget, Finnish Company, Google, Location Service, Main Ingredient, Malls, Nokia Bluetooth, Notion, Peek, Public Spaces, Research Labs, Retail Shops, Shopping Carts, Slew, Wireless Users
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Not to be outdone by the mobile mammoth that is Google, Nokia’s prepping its own version of indoor maps for wireless users. Rather than run the risk of being a me too! product, Espoo’s Research labs have chosen Bluetooth 4.0 as the main ingredient for its in development location service. The Finnish company’s hoping to [...]
Box.net befriends Android, will offer Sony Ericsson Xperia phones 50GB of free cloud storage
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Addiction, Android, Engadget, Ericsson Phone, Ericsson Phones, Fine Details, Floodgates, Free Cloud, Free Storage, Gigs, Handset, Internet Storage, Nbsp, Pah, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sony Phone, Sony Phones, Storage Space, Xperia
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How much cloud storage space do you need? 2GB? 5GB? Pah! Box.net scoffs at your puny storage needs, and plan to offer a substantial 50GB of free storage (again) for anyone packing a Sony Ericsson Android phone. While the plans have leaked ahead of schedule, the fine details haven’t been hammered out just yet; the [...]
That rarest of creatures, the white Nokia N9, should appear before Christmas
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Beautiful, Blog, Christmas, Creatures, Email, Engadget, Ivory, Memento, Nbsp, Nokia, Nokia N9, Poet, Sad, Storage, White Christmas
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A poet would say it’s like a piece of ivory: both beautiful and sad. Meanwhile, Nokia’s official blog says the white N9 is coming to the UK before the end of the year with a rarefied 64GB of onboard storage. We have no idea as to the price, but we suspect dedicated MeeGo memento hunters [...]
Lenovo LePhone K2 to arrive with 4.3-inch IPS display, 1.5GHz dual-core chip
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, Chinese Hands, Crouching Tiger, Display Resolution, Dual Core, Engadget, Ips, K2, Megapixel, Nbsp, Qualcomm, Release Date, S2, Sandwich, Surprise, Tiger
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Frankly speaking, the phones that Lenovo have announced so far this week haven’t been all that exciting (unless, of course, you’re somehow aroused by its 5-inch tabletphone), but it turned out the folks had a little surprise for us: the LePhone K2. What we got here is a 4.3-inch IPS display (resolution of which not [...]