Japan gets official on plans and details for world's fastest maglev

We'd already heard about Central Japan Railway Company's not-so-near-term intentions to deploy a speedy new maglev system in the country, but it looks like it's just now getting official with things, and it's still promising to have it up and running no soo... full story

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Renault teams up with Nokia for Twingo Nokia special edition

How appropriate that a car not much bigger than a cellphone (okay, that's an exaggeration, but this thing's pretty tiny) would get slapped with Nokia branding, right? Sadly, the integration between the automot...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Google slams Verizon over 700MHz auction rules

For something as incredibly boring as the FCC's 700MHz spectrum auction -- look, large corporations battling it out over arcane regulations! -- Google and Verizon have somehow managed to hold our interest. They...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Sony BMG's head lawyer says ripping CDs is "stealing"

There's one of them RIAA lawsuits going down in Duluth this week, and Jammie Thomas, the single mother charged with sharing 26 songs on Kazaa, isn't going down without a fight. Yesterday her attorneys called Je...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Energy Sistem intros Ingenio 4000, 5000 PMPs

Energy Sistem may not exactly be the most household name, but its latest pair of PMPs looks to be decent enough to garner it a bit of notice, at least from those willing to tread in less-familiar waters. Of th...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Symantec redefines viral marketing with costumed Norton Fighter

So we've heard of viral marketing before, but marketing with anthropomorphic viruses? Well sure enough, Symantec's latest Japanese campaign for its 360 antivirus software pits costumed "trojan horses" and "wor...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Gateway intros 30-inch XHD3000 quad HD LCD display

Following in the footsteps of so many others that have come before it, Gateway is finally introducing a 30-inch display of its own, and it's tooting its own horn all the while. Notably, the firm claims that its...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Help Engadget Energize Education in the DonorsChoose blogger challenge

We like to have a lot of fun around here, but we also know that there are times to get serious and use our semi-prominent position to rally our readers around a good cause. Or in the case of the 2007 DonorsCho...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Symbian to support ARM SMP multicore technology

Ever so shortly after hearing that next-generation cellphones could boast some pretty powerful onboard graphics processing, Symbian has just announced that these same phones could support the ARM Symmetric Mul...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

iPhone coming to Canadian retailer Holt Renfrew?

According to wild rumors (and we do mean wild), Canadian "luxury retailer" Holt Renfrew -- the Barney's of the Great White North -- will begin carrying a Canuck version of the beloved iPhone in about two weeks...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

GE rolls out pink and black H855 digital cameras

GE hasn't exactly impressed us (or others) with its digital cameras in the past, but it looks those taking a chance on the company's new H855 model will at least be supporting a good cause in the process, as a...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Post A Phone: the no-frills, mailable landline

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Send in your pics and video from the Engadget Tokyo event!

Tokyo: thanks for coming out! Over 200 people came to hang out Engadget style tonight -- so it's probably not too much to expect you'd have documented something, eh? Send in your pictures and video, we'll thro...

updated Fri October 05, 2007

Uruguay reportedly set to buy 100,000 OLPC XO laptops

It looks like students in Uruguay could soon have plenty more to get wildly excited about, as it seems that the country's LATU organization is now set to buy 100,000 OLPC XO laptops, with an option to buy 50,...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

SkyCaddie's SG5 Pro does everything but make your eagles

SkyCaddie's SG5 Pro definitely isn't the first of its kind, but this programmable GPS range finder provides instant relief when your caddy calls in sick. Specs wise, you'll find a 220 x 176 resolution color sc...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Toshiba crams a fuel cell into PMP concept

A far cry from the concepts of yesteryear, Toshiba is really getting serious about its fuel cell PMP concepts, and this year's model makes the all-important move of integrating the fuel cell power plant into t...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Palm's Ed Colligan confirms: no new Palm OS till end of 2008

Just in case you missed the mention in our post about Palm's Q1 FY08 conference call, or the earlier report about the company's new OS getting more delays, take notice: Ed Colligan did indeed confirm that we wo...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Canon issues recall on PowerShot A650 IS for China, US to follow?

Getting some nasty light in your PowerShot A650 IS pictures? Finding that no amount of Photoshop retouching can make your family photos look decent? Well, take heart -- in might not be your fault. Canon has is...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

Garmin's Mobile XT turns your phone into a GPS superstar

Garmin -- your favorite GPS team ever -- are about to drop some serious map-styles all over your mobile phone. The company today announced a new set of microSD cards preloaded with its navigation software and s...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

CSIRO throws 802.11n ratification a curve

CSIRO and aggravation tend to go hand in hand, so it's no real shock to learn that the organization is playing hard ball in a recent push to get 802.11n closer to ratification. Reportedly, CSIRO "refused to pro...

updated Thu October 04, 2007

J Allard says no Zune Phone on the horizon, Zune tattoo guy weeps

The funkiest and freshest dude in Redmond, J Allard, has once again reached out to the people and dropped straight-up knowledge in regards to Zune Phone rumors. According to the report, during an interview with...