Filed under: Cellphones
For those who stick to one coast or the other, you may have never even heard of Centennial Communications. Not to worry, though, as AT&T just made said company entirely more relevant. Shortly before heading out of the office on Friday, AT&T decided it fitting to acquire Centennial for a few bucks shy of a billion, or $944 million for those seeking precision. The transaction will beef up AT&T’s coverage for customers in rural areas of the Midwest and Southeast United States, not to mention in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. As always, the acquisition must first pass regulatory approval, the approval of Centennial’s stockholders and “other customary closing conditions” before the little guy’s 1.1 million subscribers officially make the shift, but we certainly don’t expect that to be an issue.
[Via The New York Times, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
AT&T picks up Centennial Communications for $944 million originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
We’re digging this classic recording studio look, which is a throwback to Blue’s history with stylized Hi-Fi microphones. These guys started to build a bridge between their old stomping grounds and the new-to-them frontier of consumer electronics with the Snowball microphone and that
Icicle USB XLR adapter we saw today, and now they’ve introduced the Eyeball ($99.99), a Super HD webcam that retracts its lens for privacy, and the Mikey iPod mic ($79.99) with a built-in speaker, three gain settings, and a positionable head. Mikey doesn’t play nice with the iPod Touch, but it works with all the other models 4G and up, as well as the 2 and 3G Nanos. Features on both are mostly the standard set, but Blue’s obviously putting an emphasis on audio quality, and we’ll give extra points for style.
Blue’s Eyeball webcam and Mikey iPod mic are made for digital crooners originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Today was another great day. The daily routine of living on juice is gradually becoming a habit, so I don’t have to think about it so much anymore.
Emotional Detox
I still had some mild emotional detox today. Unexpected feelings would surface and then subside after an hour or so. For example, I started feeling very nervous [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Diebold just can’t seem to keep its nose clean these days. The nation’s largest manufacturer of ATMs admitted not too long ago what everybody already knew: that their e-voting machines were totally bunk. Apparently in the course of that investigation it emerged that the company also thought it would be a laugh to load the open source Ghostscript Postscript interpreter software into those faulty machines without releasing its changes or paying the proprietary usage license fee — leading Aritex, its developer, to file a lawsuit. It doesn’t really instill confidence any further to hear that our nation’s terrible electronic voting machines are running on stolen software, guys — and to be honest, we’re kinda starting to wish you’d get out of the ATM business, too.
Diebold’s e-voting machines violate GPL, good taste originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Cellphones
If you had any lingering doubt that HTC’s US, GSM version of the Touch Pro (AKA the Fuze) was headed to AT&T in the near future, you can probably take a deep breath. Thanks to an eagle-eyed tipster, we’re now able to view HTC’s official page for the device, although it looks like they may not be done with all the coding, as an image of the Tilt is still being used as a placeholder. There’s no mention of release date, though we do learn that the device will sport AT&T’s Cellular Video and Mobile Music services, and a “unique AT&T defined 5 row slide out / slide away QWERTY keyboard,” which definitely means nothing at all. Hit the read link if you don’t believe us, but for goodness’ sake — you should see someone about that paranoia.
[Thanks, Wie]
HTC’s official Fuze page shows up… kinda originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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