Engadget Giveaway: win an iPad mini and Nike+ FuelBand, courtesy of WalkMe!
It may be April Fool’s Day, but believe us when we say this is no joke — we would never kid you when it comes to another chance to win awesome stuff. It’s actually the second birthday of WalkMe, and the website guidance tool wants to celebrate by offering a 16GB WiFi iPad mini and Nike+ Fuelband to one lucky winner. WalkMe is a service that lets businesses offer a better user experience on their site by walking their customers each step of the way — the company refers to it as a GPS navigation system for online tasks. So head to the widget below and get your entries in!
Note: Please enter using the widget below, as comments are no longer valid methods of entry. The widget only requires your name and email address so we know how to get in touch with you if you win (your information is not given out to third parties), but you will have an option to receive an additional entry by following WalkMe on Twitter if you so desire.
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CASIS wants to send your research project into space, give Engadget readers $100 off the application fee
We already told you about the CASIS and MassChallenge startup accelerator partnership aiming to find the next great research project to send into space, and give that project over $100,000 to help bring it to fruition. Now, Engadget wants to help make it easier for you, dear reader, to get your idea into orbit by offering the chance to trim $100 off the $199 application fee.
The process is simple: you click the source link below and fill out a short form outlining your idea and providing your contact info. Then, should CASIS like what it sees, it’ll send out promo codes to ten of you to be used when submitting the full application on the MassChallenge website. Sound good? Well, hop to it folks, because CASIS is looking to deliver the promo codes by April 1st. Not that you should need much incentive to jump on the opportunity… we’re talking about sending your pet project into space, after all.
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Source: Research proposal form
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Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 8:30PM ET
It’s Monday, and you know what that means; another Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you will join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 8:30PM. If you’ll be joining us, be sure to go ahead and get ready by reviewing the list of topics after the break, then you’ll be ready to participate in the live chat.
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Ask Engadget: best Bluetooth headphones for audiophiles?
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Christopher, who wants to brave the world of Bluetooth cans for his daily rounds. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“Yeah, okay. ‘Audiophile’ and ‘Bluetooth’ don’t go together, but I’d really like a good pair of Bluetooth cans to use with my iPhone. Naturally, we’re talking about headphones / cans rather than earbuds, ideally with track control buttons, a microphone and noise canceling — but what I’m after is clean, beautifully reproduced audio above anything else. What can you suggest for less than £300 ($455)?”
Engadget’s resident audiophile is a Klipsch evangelist, so it’s probably best to start by talking about its Image One Bluetooth headset. It’s £199 / $249 and comes with A2DP and aptX for high-quality audio, and we’re fairly sure the company wouldn’t put its name to a headset unless it was sure it was half-decent. Still, if you’re sure you want to max out that headphone budget, then for £259 / $399, you can get Parrot’s Phillippe Stark-designed Zik cans, which come with noise cancellation, jawbone microphone and touch-sensitive controls. Then again, we can only offer you so many suggestions before we open this question up to the folks in the peanut gallery — so what do you peeps down there think?
Filed under: Portable Audio/Video
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The Engadget Interview: Jolla CEO Marc Dillon at MWC 2013
Jolla launched its Sailfish SDK at MWC 2013 and we got the chance to chat with CEO Marc Dillon about the company’s history and find out how things have been coming along with Sailfish OS since our hands-on late last year. We also discussed the time frame for Jolla handsets (still on track for H2 2013) and what the Sailfish SDK brings to the table for developers today. You’ll find a full transcript of the interview along with our video after the break.
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The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!
Do you feel that? Love is in the air, here at the Engadget Lovecast. And it’s the purest love of all — the love between bloggers and gadget news. Join us in the chat, after the break. We’ve got plenty of love to give.
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Ask Engadget: best video baby camera?
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Berry2Droid, who wants to geek-up monitoring his first-born. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“My wife and I are having a baby soon and need a video monitor. We’d like it to be compatible with our Android phones, rather than having a separate screen in the package. We’d also like some sort of visual aid as my wife is deaf so she would need some sort of other signal. If there was any ability to add additional cameras, that’d also be great. Thanks for your help!”
We could certainly point you in the direction of Samsung Techwin’s Video Baby Monitor or Y-Cam’s offering, both of which are infrared-and-internet capable cameras that pump the picture straight to your mobile device. We came a little unstuck on the visual warning element for your wife, however, but that’s why we’ll turn this question over to our faithful group of commenters to see if their knowledge stretches further than our own. Dear friends, help out a lovely couple as they embark upon the majestic (albeit fraught) journey of parenthood and provide some wisdom in the comments below.
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Engadget Podcast 328 – 01.24.13
We swear, CES is officially behind us. Yay! Wait, it’s earnings season. In this episode, Darren reunites joins the crew to pound through the numbers. Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Logitech and Netflix are all in the scope of Engadget’s analyzing eye. Beyond that, D explains the perils of the NYSE, Tim gets really stoked about an upcoming McLaren supercar and Brian finds similarities between the Pebble smartwatch and Bluetooth earpieces. Naturally, we delve deeper deeper into some of the big news in tech as well. Catch in audio form below, with video after the break.
Hosts: Tim Stevens, Darren Murph, Brian Heater
Producer: Joe Pollicino
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Earnings
01:17 – Apple announces Q1 2013 earnings: record $54.5 billion in revenue, 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads sold
03:05 – Apple’s Q1 2013 earnings reveal Mac and iPod sales down year-over-year
11:18 – Google announces Q4 2012 earnings: impressive revenues of $14.42 billion, excluding Motorola Home
15:00 – Microsoft reports Q2 2013 earnings: posts record revenue of $21.5 billion
19:57 – Nokia makes a 2012 Q4 profit of $585 million, sells 4.4 million Lumia handsets
22:22 - Netflix Q4 earnings show 2 million new customers streaming in the US, 6 million total internationally
24:53 – Logitech Q3 earnings reveal plans to sell off Harmony remote, video security divisions
Other topics
28:46 – Mozilla reveals Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone
31:24 – Microsoft Surface Pro on sale February 9th in the US and Canada, starts at $899
43:40 - Atari files for bankruptcy, hopes to survive by selling off Pong and other assets
45:38 – Pebble smartwatches begin shipping to backers this afternoon, iOS app still pending (update: app ready)
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Engadget Mobile Podcast 166 – 1.16.2013
Yeah, we had a two podcasts during CES, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with it just yet. Still sleep-deprived and filled with excitement from the show floor, it’s time to catch up on the tech we didn’t get a chance to discuss — and the stuff we couldn’t get enough of. Is octa-core really CPU related or a villain from the world of Batman? Is Samsung’s Youm a new dessert or some exciting flexible display technology? Is T-Mobile poised to conquer the mobile realm this year? Most importantly, is everything that happened prior to CES officially a blur for Myriam and Brad? You’ll just have to tune in after the break to find out!
Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen
Producer: Joe Pollicino
Music: Tycho – Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)
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00:08:43 – Intel Lexington-based phones
00:16:51 – Samsung Youm flexible display tech
00:20:17 – Tactus morphing touchscreen keyboard
00:23:29 – Wysips solar-cell display hands-on
00:27:02 – Samsung ATIV Odyssey for Verizon
00:29:11 – Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for Verizon
00:29:28 – Engadget CES interview with Verizon’s Praveen Atreya
00:42:24 – T-Mobile’s Las Vegas LTE launch
00:42:24 – HTC One SV for Cricket hands-on
00:46:05 – HTC design: Hits & misses
00:52:29 – iPhone on T-Mobile, maybe, soon?
00:52:51 – T-mobile HD Voice launch
00:53:13 – T-mobile contract-free unlimited data plans
00:54:53 – T-Mobile Tap Tag NFC app for Android hands-on
00:56:30 – A4WP wireless charging
01:01:55 – CES 2013 smartphone roundup
01:08:15 – Pebble smartwatch hands-on
01:26:37 – Twitter question: Motorola Droid M vs. Verizon Nexus?
01:30:18 – Extended thoughts on octa-core
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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with ARM’s Simon Segars
Want to know more about what goes into that smartphone you’re carrying around all the time? This one’s worth checking out. We’ll be sitting down with Simon Segars, the president of ARM Inc. about the technologies that power many of our mobile devices.
Check out our full CES 2013 stage schedule here!
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