Filed under: Cellphones We haven’t heard any confirmations of that just yet, but PalmInfocenter has it that a number of Palm employees have already been shown the door and asked not to come back. Citing “reliable sources,” it goes on to mention that the layoffs could reach beyond North America and could affect “hundreds” of [...]

Filed under: Handhelds We knew the Kindle‘s DRM would be cracked the minute we heard about it, and it looks like the first chink in the armor is here courtesy of Igor Skochinsky: he’s discovered the algorithm the Kindle uses to turn regular Mobipocket books into Amazon’s proprietary .azw format. The hack involves replacing a [...]

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS Maybe they were just full of holiday cheer, or perhaps they just felt like the match really was made in heaven, but whatever the case, NAVTEQ shareholders “overwhelmingly” voted to approve the Nokia acquisition announced in October. The affirmation will reportedly pave the way for the $8.1 billion deal to go [...]

Filed under: Portable Audio Though not what we’d deem “common,” outages extending beyond a few hours have been known to happen to the services we love so dearly, and it seems that some Rhapsody users have become the latest to fall victim to an inexplicable lapse in service. by at the Real forums, a number [...]

Filed under: Portable Audio Portable speakers always bring with them a few compromises — namely, they either aren’t very portable or they don’t sound very good. Korea’s Xenics now looks to have come up with a solution to that first problem, however, with its new Music Cube speakers able to be disassembled in order to [...]

Filed under: Announcements Our gadgets may be getting slowly greener, but consumer technology is still one of the world’s dirtier, more pollutant industries, and it’s about duration we all rounded up some electronics heavyweights and had a chit chat. Thankfully, Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat (disclaimer: as many of you know, Jill is wife to Engadget [...]

Filed under: Robots iRobot has unleashed yet another semi-autonomous robot ready to take on whatever the battlefield throws at it, but that one’s got a much better feel of where it’s headed. The PackBot with Mapping Kit ups the ante by “creating a real-time two-dimensional structural map for the soldier while on the move in [...]

Filed under: Home Entertainment It’s just been a few short weeks since Revo trotted out its Blik WiFi Web radio, but it looks like the company has already outdone itself, with it now introducing the new and improved Blik RadioStation, which packs the same WiFi and FM radio as before, with some DAB functionality thrown [...]